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Final Program

Chloe Slocum, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor and Associate Chair for Quality
Harvard Medical School Department of PM&R

Dr. Slocum is a physiatrist and spinal cord injury medicine specialist who serves as Associate Chair for Quality and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and as the Director of Health Policy for Spaulding Rehabilitation. Dr. Slocum leads the Spaulding New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center (SNERSCIC) Model System, one of 18 federally funded centers around the U.S. dedicated to the highest quality of clinical care, translational research, and education of health professionals and the greater community for SCI. Dr. Slocum is a national expert in health policy and is passionate about achieving the best long-term health outcomes for individuals with spinal cord injury and ensuring access to high-quality primary and specialty care for individuals with disability. She completed residency training in PM&R and served as chief resident at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, followed by a fellowship in spinal cord injury (SCI) medicine at the Boston VA Health System. In 2016-2017, she was named one of four physicians nationally to serve as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Health Policy and completed her Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a specialization in health policy and management. Her clinical work centers around optimizing health for individuals with paralysis and her research is focused on assessing outcomes following rehabilitation and systems of health care delivery across the post-acute care continuum. Dr. Slocum also spearheads numerous projects at Mass General Brigham-Spaulding Rehabilitation focused on improving organizational workflows, cultivating physician well-being, and ensuring equitable access to high-quality inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services. Dr. Slocum has published research on functional outcomes following traumatic spinal cord injury and has lectured nationally and internationally on topics ranging from spinal cord injury outcomes to health policy and payment reform to clinician well-being.

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