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Elissa Klinger is the assistant director of the Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health. In this role, Elissa designs and develops both research and health system-facing projects and provides oversight for operations and staff.
Prior to joining Penn Medicine, Elissa worked as a senior research project manager in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. For six years, she managed a portfolio of health services research trials that leveraged health information technology to promote risk assessment and prevention in primary care. Areas of focus included pharmacovigilance, cancer screening, and clinical decision-making. At Partners Healthcare in Boston, she was the project manager for the Center for Drug Policy. Before her work in U.S. health care, Elissa completed short-term consulting and research projects with international institutions including the World Health Organization.
Elissa completed a bachelor’s degree in growth and structure of cities at Bryn Mawr College. She also holds a master's degree with a focus on population and international health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Publications of interest include:
- Patient-Facing Mobile Apps to Treat High-Need
- High-Cost Populations: A Scoping Review
- Many Mobile Health Apps Target High-Need, High-Cost Populations, But Gaps Remain
- Cost-Effectiveness of a Health System-Based Smoking Cessation Program
- A Cluster Randomized Trial of a Personalized Multi-Condition Risk Assessment in Primary Care
- Developing a Framework for Evaluating the Patient Engagement, Quality, and Safety of Mobile Health Applications
- Accuracy of race, ethnicity, and language preference in an electronic health record
- Proactive tobacco cessation outreach to smokers of low socioeconomic status: a randomized clinical trial
- Patient-centered interventions to improve medication management and adherence: a qualitative review of research findings
- Use of practice-based research network data to measure neighborhood smoking prevalence
- Comparing electronic health record portals to obtain patient-entered family health history in primary care
- Active pharmacovigilance and healthcare utilization
- Implementation of a Center for Drug Policy across a system of hospitals