Associate Physician
Department of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care
Medical Director of Strategy and Innovation
Brigham and Women’s Home Hospital

David Levine, MD MPH MA, is a practicing general internist and clinician-investigator at Brigham Health and Harvard Medical School. He is active in clinical and translational research through a focus on optimizing quality time at home by shifting care home, decentralizing care, digital health technology, and measuring the quality and experience of health care. He is medical director for strategy and innovation for the Brigham Health Home Hospital and co-chair of the Hospital at Home Users Group. He sees his role as helping patients achieve the right care at the right time in the right place by designing, implementing, and evaluating innovative interaction spaces among a care team, technology, caregiver, and a patient. David received his undergraduate degree from Pomona College in biology and politics. He earned his master’s in teaching in special and secondary science education and served as a high school chemistry teacher and science department chair in Chicago Public Schools. He received his medical degree from Washington University in St Louis and completed his residency at New York University and Bellevue Hospital in internal medicine – primary care. He completed a general internal medicine fellowship at Brigham Health and Harvard Medical School and received his master’s in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Stephanie Blitzer is a Project Coordinator for the Home Hospital project at Ariadne Labs. In this role she provides programmatic, operational, and logistical support to the Home Hospital Early Adopters Accelerator, a program aimed to support Hospitals and Health Systems at varying stages of launching and running home hospital programs. Stephanie is also working on the Rural Home Hospital program which is the first North American randomized control trial of rural home hospital. Prior to her joining Ariadne Labs, Stephanie worked in community development in Rwanda. Stephanie received her BA in International Studies with a concentration in International Development and Global Health from American University.

Carme Hernández, PhD, MSc, RN, FERS (Barcelona, 1961), is the coordinator of Home Hospitalization under the Medical and Nursing Administration Council, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona. Associate professor, University of Barcelona. Member of the Home Hospitalization working group. Department of Health. Generalitat de Catalunya and member of the COPD Strategy Committee of the Spanish Ministry of Health, Spain. Research working group, Integrated Care and ICT, August Pi Sunyer, Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS).
Carme graduated from the Nursing School of the University of Barcelona (UB) in 1982 and worked in critical patient care units for 10 years in the Hospital Clinic. She has published more than 40 articles, reviews and editorials, over 15 book chapters and guidelines, and she has participated in several European projects. Dr Hernández received her PhD Degree in Medicine in 2015 (Cum Laude). Her research innovation lines focus on integrated care models, patient stratification and complex patients.

Aysha Pires is a Research Assistant working alongside the Home Hospital Team. Her primary role is to recruit patients to participate in SCH Clinic to Home, a project where a multimodal sensor platform is used to detect mobility activities. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston, holding a BS in Exercise and Health Science.

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