Stephen Bartels MD, MS is the James J. and Jean H. Mongan Chair in Health Policy and Community Health, Director of the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The Mongan Institute serves as the academic home for 12 research centers and over 150 research faculty and research fellows at MGH dedicated to training and research in population and health care delivery team science aimed at achieving health equity and improving the lives of people with complex health needs. The Mongan Institute bridges research spanning data science to delivery science, and evaluative science to implementation and health systems science engaging team science across a broad variety of disciplines and methods such as epidemiology, predictive analytics, cost-effectiveness, health policy, decision science, health disparities, health intervention, implementation, and health systems research.  (https://www.monganinstitute.org/ )

Dr. Bartels has authored over 360 publications and has mentored over 60 early career investigators. Over the past several decades he has led productive research developing, testing, and implementing interventions focused on complex health conditions and health disparities, co-occurring physical and mental disorders, health care management, health coaching, health promotion interventions for obesity and smoking, aging and geriatrics, automated telehealth and mobile technology, population health science, applied health care delivery science, and implementation science. Before coming to MGH Dr. Bartels served in a variety of research center and leadership roles including founding Director of the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging; Director of a CDC Health Promotion and Prevention Center; PI of several T32 Research Training Programs; and Director of Research Education and Training and Co-Director of Dartmouth’s SYNERGY Clinical Translational Research Institute.