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Lauren Merz, MD, MSc

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Lauren Merz, MD, MSc

Organization

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Program

Brigham and Women’s Hospital Clinical Innovation Award

Year

2020

Named in honor of Marshall Wolf, M.D., the Rappaport Award in Clinical Innovation provides funding for projects which are designed and spearheaded by internal medicine residents to improve value in health care by improving care and/or containing costs.

Lauren Merz, MD, MSc, for “Developing a Pipeline for Removing Penicillin Allergy Labels in BMT Patients”: Identifying bone marrow transplant patients with reported penicillin allergies and building a system to refer them to an allergy clinic will create a low-cost, effective and safe pipeline for high-yield penicillin allergy de-labelling, which will improve patient care and significantly reduce health care costs.