Safiya Richardson, M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Safiya Richardson received both her M.D. and M.P.H. from Columbia University. In June of 2015, she completed her residency in internal medicine at North Shore - Long Island Jewish, and currently practices primary care as a clinician educator within the health system. During her medical and public health training she published research focused on cardiovascular and behavioral health. During Internal Medicine residency she developed a growing interest in health informatics and led a system wide project evaluating health care provider perceptions of clinical prediction rules. She is currently involved in a variety of projects within the health system, including deriving and validating a new clinical prediction rule, integrating a well validated clinical prediction rule into the health system’s electronic medical records, and usability testing of two electronically integrated clinical prediction rules. Dr. Richardson hopes to become a leader in the development of electronically integrated, evidence-based, clinical decision support tools and, as a result, to broadly impact provider behavior, reduce over utilization and improve patient outcomes.

Dr. Richardson was a 2015 AcademyHealth Delivery System Science Fellow. Her host site was Hofstra North Shore – LIJ School of Medicine.