Ali Raja

Research Narrative:

Ali S. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH is the Director of Network Operations and Business Development for the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Associate Director of Trauma for Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Emergency Medicine) at Harvard Medical School, and on the faculty of the Center for Evidence-Based Imaging at BWH. He is a board-certified emergency physician who completed a residency in emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati and holds a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health as well as a Medical Degree and a Masters of Business Administration from Duke University. The author of over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, his federally-funded research focuses on improving the appropriateness of radiology utilization in the emergency department and he recently co-developed three emergency department imaging quality measures approved for national adoption by the National Quality Forum. Dr. Raja has lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally, on the management of critically ill patients in the emergency department and prehospital arenas, and has served as a civilian aeromedical flight physician, a critical care air transport team commander and flight surgeon for the United States Air Force Reserve, a tactical physician for a number of local, state, and federal agencies (he is currently the tactical physician for the Boston FBI SWAT team), and a physician with the MA-1 Disaster Management Assistance Team. Dr. Raja serves as a national faculty member of the Difficult Airway Course and has received both the BWH Outstanding Attending award from the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residents and the Exemplary Emergency Medicine Attending award from the BWH Emergency Department nurses. Dr. Raja lives in Sudbury, MA with his wife Danielle and son Chase.

Education:

• Harvard School of Public Health, 2010, MPH
• Duke University School of Medicine, 2004, MD
• Duke University Fuqua School of Business, 2004, MBA
• Duke University School of Medicine, 2004, MD
• Duke University Fuqua School of Business, 2004, MBA

Honors/Awards:

• Partners in Excellence Team Award, 2013
• BWH Outstanding Emergency Medicine Attending Award (from Emergency Medicine Residents), 2012
• BWH Exemplary Emergency Attending Award (from Emergency Department RNs), 2011
• Link to PubMed: View Raja's Publications in PubMed.

Publications (Pulled from Harvard Catalyst Profiles):

1. Bennett CL, Raja AS, Kapoor N, Kass D, Blumenthal DM, Gross N, Mills AM. Gender Differences in Faculty Rank Among Academic Emergency Physicians in the United States. Acad Emerg Med. 2019 Mar; 26(3):281-285.

2. Tran KA, Melnick ER, Raja AS, Sharp AL, Trottier MÈ, Archambault PM. Applicability of the Canadian CT Head Rule in Minimal Head Injury. Ann Emerg Med. 2019 Jan; 73(1):97-98.

3. Niforatos JD, Boas S, Hertz S, Ozgur A, Raja AS. Analysis of current financial relationships between emergency physicians and industry. Am J Emerg Med. 2019 Apr; 37(4):722-725.

4. Lee J, Rao SK, Weilburg J, Raja AS. Reducing Emergency Department Utilization by Engaging Specialists. Ann Emerg Med. 2018 Dec; 72(6):732-733.

5. Zafar HM, Ip IK, Mills AM, Raja AS, Langlotz CP, Khorasani R. Effect of Clinical Decision Support-Generated Report Cards Versus Real-Time Alerts on Primary Care Provider Guideline Adherence for Low Back Pain Outpatient Lumbar Spine MRI Orders. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2019 Feb; 212(2):386-394.

6. Raja AS, Pourjabbar S, Ip IK, Baugh CW, Sodickson AD, O'Leary M, Khorasani R. Impact of a Health Information Technology-Enabled Appropriate Use Criterion on Utilization of Emergency Department CT for Renal Colic. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2019 Jan; 212(1):142-145.

7. White BA, Bravard MA, Kobayashi KJ, Ziperstein JC, Strauss JL, Hughes M, Raja AS. Improving handoff efficiency for admitted patients: A multidisciplinary, lean-based approach. Am J Emerg Med. 2018 Nov 06.

8. Rodriguez RM, Canseco K, Baumann BM, Mower WR, Langdorf MI, Medak AJ, Anglin DR, Hendey GW, Addo N, Nishijima D, Raja AS. Pneumothorax and Hemothorax in the Era of Frequent Chest Computed Tomography for the Evaluation of Adult Patients With Blunt Trauma. Ann Emerg Med. 2019 Jan; 73(1):58-65.

9. Aaronson EL, White BA, Black L, Brown DF, Benzer T, Castagna A, Raja AS, Sonis J, Mort E. Training to Improve Communication Quality: An Efficient Interdisciplinary Experience for Emergency Department Clinicians. Am J Med Qual. 2018 Sep 21; 1062860618799936.

10. Yun BJ, Rodriguez RM, Prabhakar AM, Peak DA, Baymon DE, Raja AS. Utilization of chest CT for injured patients during visits to U.S. emergency departments: 2012-2015. Am J Emerg Med. 2018 Aug 08.