Alyna Chien, MD, MS.
Dr. Alyna T. Chien (pronounced Ah-lee-nah Chin like Chinny Chin Chin) is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Research Director in the Division of General Pediatrics. Her research is focused on the relationship between incentives and care for vulnerable populations and she has provided most of the empirical work available on how value-based purchasing affects care for children. She has also developed novel methods like the Children with Disabilities and the Diagnosis-to-Impairment Algorithms, the former of which has been adopted by the state of California into their Whole Child Payment model and by the most widely used risk adjustment algorithm for capitated payment in Medicaid (the Chronic Illness and Disability Payment System). Through K, R01, and U award mechanisms, her research program has been continuously funded by from National Institutes of Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and numerous foundations. She regularly publishes in the peer-reviewed literature and serves on prominent national committees (e.g., the National Academies of Medicine, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, National Quality Foundation). Nationally, she is Chair of the Task Force on Child Population Health Research for the Society of Pediatric Research and an Associate Editor for Academic Pediatrics. In her communities at Boston Children’s Hospital, she can be found caring for primary care patients, creating disparities research methods workshops for the Harvard-wide Pediatric Health Services Research Program, and serving on the Advisory Board for Boston Children’s Hospital’s MassHealth Accountable Care Organization contract.