Lunch Seminar

Evan S. Fieldston, MD, MBA

Evan S. Fieldston is a faculty member at PolicyLab at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and attending physician in the Division of General Pediatrics at CHOP. He is also the Medical Director of Clinical Operations at CHOP.

Dr. Fieldston has been active in policy and advocacy work related to children for many years, with efforts at the local, regional, and national levels. His current research focuses on systems of pediatric care, notably children’s hospitals. His research focuses on issues of workload, workforce, and quality of care, including investigations and operations work on patient flow, resource utilization, healthcare finance, social determinants of workload, readmissions, and process improvement. The broad theme of his work is evidence-based management. He also has an interest in behavioral economics and application to individuals and systems.

Dr. Fieldston obtained his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, where he was in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy & International Affairs and focused on health policy and economics. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School, where he obtained his MD and MBA in 2003. He was a resident in pediatrics at CHOP and served as chief resident there. From 2007-10, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his Masters in Health Policy Research (MSHP).

Lunch will be served.

RSVP required. Email [email protected] by April 15th. 

This event is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School's Center for Health and Wellbeing.