Edward Guadagnoli, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Health Care Policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Guadagnoli received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in experimental psychology from the University of Rhode Island. He is a past Picker/Commonwealth Scholar and is a Fellow of the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy.

Dr. Guadagnoli’s research focuses on evaluating the quality and outcomes of health care, examining access to health care, examining the influence of managed care on quality of care, and evaluating health care interventions. He is currently leading federally-funded studies that examine how well publicly available data such as Medicare billing data and hospital discharge data can characterize the quality of care; whether features of managed care are associated with the quality of care; and whether characteristics of health care markets are related to quality of care. He is also working with colleagues to evaluate the cardiac care program of the Veterans Health Administration, to study the quality of care for patients with colorectal and prostate cancer, and to evaluate an intervention to improve the care of stroke patients.