Dr. Stephen Bartels is the inaugural James J. and Jean H. Mongan Chair in Health Policy and Community Health, Director of the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The Mongan Institute serves as the academic home research faculty and research fellows at MGH dedicated to training and research in population and health care delivery team science.  The Mongan Institute spans data science to delivery science, and evaluative science to implementation science including a variety of disciplines and methods such as epidemiology, predictive analytics, cost-effectiveness, health policy, decision science, health disparities, health intervention and implementation research. Previously at Dartmouth School of Medicine he served as the Herman O West Professor of Geriatrics and established the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging, also serving as Co-Principal Investigator for Dartmouth’s SYNERGY Clinical Translational Science Institute, Principal Investigator for Dartmouth’s CDC Health Promotion Research Center, and Principal Investigator for two T32 post-doctoral research training programs.

Dr. Bartels has authored over 380 publications mentored over 50 early career investigators and over the past two decades he has led a highly productive research group developing, testing, and implementing interventions focused on complex health conditions and health disparities, co-occurring physical and mental disorders, health care management, health coaching, health promotion interventions for obesity and smoking, aging and geriatrics, automated telehealth and mobile technology, population health science, applied health care delivery science, learning health systems, and implementation science. He is a national expert on implementation research and has served as the Chair for the National Institute of Health Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (DIRH) Study Section spanning 20 NIH institutes and has been a core faculty member of three NIH national research mentoring institutes.