John Patrick T. Co, M.D., MPH

Dr. Co is the Associate Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Pediatric Residency Program and investigator in the MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy. His main research interest is in developing strategies for improving quality of care for children, particularly through the use of quality improvement strategies and improving medical education for pediatric trainees. He is interested in patient perspectives of care, and is currently a co-investigator on a project to modify the Pediatric Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Child Core Survey (CAHPS) for use in assessing health care quality at the level of the group practice. He also has published an analysis of a CAHPS like instrument for assessing pediatric inpatient care quality. He was a co-author on a recent review of pediatric quality measures. Dr. Co has co-lead workshops at national meetings on competency assessment and medical education, as well as faculty development workshops regarding competency and communication. Dr. Co is Chair of the APPD Research Task Force. As a Curtis Prout Academy Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Co is developing a system to obtain patient feedback on the MGH pediatric inpatient unit to improve communication skills of medical students and residents. Dr. Co is also an associate editor of Ambulatory Pediatrics, the official peer-reviewed journal of academic general pediatricians.