Department of Emergency Medicine

Laura Burke is a practicing emergency physician and health services researcher whose work centers on measuring and understanding the factors driving the cost and quality of emergency care, particularly for older adults. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed her emergency medicine residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)–Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency. Following her training at BIDMC, Dr. Burke was awarded a Zuckerman Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership and earned a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Burke remained on faculty at BIDMC as an academic attending for 15 years, providing clinical care at BIDMC and affiliated community hospitals while pursuing a career in health services research. Her work has been funded by the Emergency Medicine Foundation, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and the National Institute on Aging. She is currently the principal investigator of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) R01 grant investigating the epidemiology of diagnostic error in emergency care.