Erica Spatz

Following her residency, Spatz was referred to the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at Yale School of Medicine, run by Harlan Krumholz.^[3] During her time with NCSP, Spatz co-founded Project Access-New Haven, a nonprofit community-based organization whose mission is to improve access to care for patients in New Haven.^[1]

Spatz' research focuses on individual- and community-based strategies to prevent cardiovascular disease and advance health equity. She is a principal investigator of Pressure Check,^[4] a study comparing strategies to address disparities in hypertension control. Funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the study is built on community partnerships - screening for hypertension in community organizations and connecting people with remote monitoring and telehealth care for hypertension. She is testing whether adding a community health worker to this model of care improves outcomes.

Spatz's research also focuses on women's cardiovascular health. She was a co-Investigator on VIRGO, a study of sex differences in young adults with myocardial infarction. She published a study sponsored by Women's Health Research at Yale which showed that a sex-specific classification system could define and group types of heart attacks that were more common for women.^[5] During the COVID-19 pandemic in North America, Spatz's Project Access-New Haven helped launch a mHealth platform to assist low-income communities with accessing their health records and increase their participation in clinical studies.^[6]

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