Sara Ehsan, MBBS, MPH

Research Coordinator III

Email

sara.ehsan@bcm.edu

Positions

Research Coordinator III: Medicine
Health Services Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, US

Research Health Science Specialist: Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt)
Health Policy, Quality & Informatics Program
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC)
Houston, Texas, United States

Research Assistant: Surgical Oncology
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (UTMDACC)
Houston, Texas, United States

Resident Medical Officer: Critical Care Medicine
COVID-19 ICU & Pulmonology Medicine
Apollo Spectra Hospitals
India

Education

MBBS from The West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS): 02/2021 - Kolkata, West Bengal, India; Medicine

MPH from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Public Health: 08/2023 - Houston, Texas, United States; Epidemiology

Internship at Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy Hospital (IIMSAR & BCRHH): 01/2021 - Haldia, West Bengal, India; Medicine

Certifications

Registered Medical Practitioner, India: #86094; West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC)

Websites

Safer Dx

The Safer Dx team is a multidisciplinary team focused on the improvement of patient safety and the reduction of diagnostic errors. The team approaches this goal through several methods, ranging from the development of trigger algorithms for Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to proactively monitoring for delays in test result follow-up to the creation of guidelines for safe EHR usage in the form of the SAFER Guides.

Selected Publications

Ali KJ, Ehsan S, Tran A, Haugstetter M, Singh H.. " Diagnostic Excellence in the Context of Climate Change: A Review " Am J Med. 2024 Jun 24; 137 (11) : 1035-1041.
Pubmed PMID: 38925497.
Sittig DF, Flanagan T, Sengstack P, Cholankeril RT, Ehsan S, Heidemann A, Murphy DR, Salmasian H, Adelman JS, Singh H.. " Revisions to the Safety Assurance Factors for Electronic Health Record Resilience (SAFER) Guides to update national recommendations for safe use of electronic health records. " J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2025 Apr 1; 32 (4) : 755-760.
Pubmed PMID: 40220287.
Zoschke IN, Betancur A, Ehsan S, TenHaken JD, Rahman JR, King-Tezino K, Kramer-Najjar M, Bravo CA, Wilkerson JM. " SWOT Analysis and Recommendations for Community Health Workers and Stakeholders Responding to COVID-19 Health Inequities " Health Promot Pract. 2024 Nov ; 25 (6) : 971-984.
Pubmed PMID: 37846742.
Szabo Yamashita T, Williams-Perez SM, Ehsan S, Mulder M, Kronenfeld D, Huang CY, Zhao H, Merriman K, Peterson SK, Hu MI, Zafereo M, Sosa JA, Grubbs EG.. " The Multi-Institutional Medullary Thyroid Cancer Collaborative Registry: Can a Rare Tumor Registry Accurately Represent the Real-World Patient Population? " Thyroid. 2024 Sep ; 34 (9) : 1117-1125.
Pubmed PMID: 38984944.
Bradford A, Ehsan S, Shahid U, Blackall L, Singh H.. " Electronic Test Result Communication in the Era of the 21st Century Cures Act. " Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 2024 Jul ;

Memberships

International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE): Member (06/2025)

American Public Health Association (APHA): Member (06/2025)

Delta Omega honorary society in public health: inducted member (10/2023)