Bio
Dr. Kern earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, NY. Dr. Kern completed a fellowship in health policy and research methodology through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, while earning a master’s in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Kern joined the faculty of Weill Cornell Medicine in 2002.
Distinctions:
- Fellow in the American College of Physicians (since 2011)
- Standing member (2018-2022) and chair (2021-2022) of the Mentored Clinical and Basic Science study section for the National Institutes of Health
Selected Publications:
Kern LM, Ringel JB, Rajan M, Casalino LP, Colantonio LD, Pinheiro LC, Colvin CL, Safford MM. Ambulatory Care Fragmentation, Emergency Department Visits, and Race: a Nationwide Cohort Study in the U.S. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Mar;38(4):873-880. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10039160. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-022-07888-5
Kern LM, Ringel JB, Rajan M, Colantonio LD, Casalino LP, Reshetnyak E, Pinheiro LC, Safford MM. Ambulatory Care Fragmentation and Incident Stroke. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 May 4;10(9):e019036. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8200753. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.1161/JAHA.120.019036
Kern LM, Ringel JB, Rajan M, Colantonio LD, Casalino LP, Pinheiro LC, Reshetnyak E, Safford MM. Ambulatory Care Fragmentation and Subsequent Hospitalization: Evidence From the REGARDS Study. Med Care. 2021 Apr 1;59(4):334-340. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7954814. https://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/fulltext/2021/04000/ambulatory_care_fragmentation_and_subsequent.10.aspx
Kern LM, Reshetnyak E, Colantonio LD, Muntner PM, Rhodes JD, Casalino LP, Rajan M, Pesko M, Pinheiro LC, Safford MM. Association Between Patients' Self-Reported Gaps in Care Coordination and Preventable Adverse Outcomes: a Cross-Sectional Survey. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Dec;35(12):3517-3524. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7728843. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-06047-y
Kern LM, Safford MM, Slavin MJ, Makovkina E, Fudl A, Carrillo JE, Abramson EL. Patients' and Providers' Views on Causes and Consequences of Healthcare Fragmentation in the Ambulatory