Alexy D. Arauz Boudreau MD

Dr Arauz Boudreau is an academic community paediatrician improving the health of vulnerable children through primary care re-design, research and community initiatives. As Director for Pediatric Population Health at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children (MGHfC), she has taken a lead role in transforming MGHfC pediatric primary care practices into patient-centred medical homes implementing population health management and quality improvement efforts to develop a holistic system for promoting child development and addressing health disparities. Under her leadership, the pediatric population health coordinators program has been established meeting quality metrics in risk contracts and setting the stage for proactive population health management.

She is also an innovative leader at MGH promoting diversity and inclusion. As the Associate Director of the MGH Center for Diversity and Inclusion, she has adopted a team communication course to address dynamics in multicultural health care teams to improve team communication and thus health care quality. Her research has focused on addressing health disparities and studying medical home implementation to enhance child development. Her research has assessed the association of cultural competence with the quality of well-child care, the addition of health coaches as an approach to obesity prevention, and most recently, understanding how practices transform into a medical home and its benefits.

Dr Arauz Boudreau is a member at the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of General Pediatrics and practices as a primary care paediatrician at MGH Chelsea HealthCare Center. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a Masters in Public Health from Harvard School Public Health. She has completed the Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship and the Mongan Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy.