Dr. Suresh Pavuluri

Biography

Suresh K. Pavuluri is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, where he also serves as the Associate Director of Quality and Patient Safety for the Department of Emergency Medicine. He joined the faculty at Yale in 2022 after completing his residency at Mount Sinai Hospital. His interests in quality and safety emerged from early experiences reviewing safety events and collaborating with frontline clinicians and operational leaders to understand how system design, communication patterns, and workflow pressures affect everyday patient care. Dr. Pavuluri focuses on practical, systems-based approaches to improving diagnostic safety and operational reliability in emergency departments. His research includes studies on diagnostic error detection using disease-specific look-back tools, conceptual models of diagnostic decision-making, and early-warning systems for identifying deterioration in emergency department patients. He is building a research portfolio supported by both internal and external funding, including industry grants, and is developing expertise in mixed-methods research and safety science to support future independent investigations. His work has been published in prominent journals, and he actively collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to implement initiatives aimed at enhancing care quality and patient safety while reducing healthcare costs.

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