Managing Principal, Research & Engagement
Upfront Healthcare
Lindsay Zimmerman, PhD, MPH is the Managing Prinicpal of Research & Engagment at Upfront Healthcare and is an expert with over a decade of experience integrating academic research, innovative technologies, and a patient-focused care models. Lindsay's work combines research, data science, and health strategy to build tools and programs that advance public health and health equity. At Upfront, Lindsay leads the Barbara Bartosch Institute for Patient Activation Research, driving research, design, and development of evidence-based strategies to guide every patient to the care they need.
Prior to Upfront, Lindsay led projects at Northwestern Medicine, the American College of Surgeons, and the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation – each focused on optimally leveraging social factors to understand and proactively engage patients to become partners in their healthcare. Lindsay also co-founded Socium Health, a NSF-funded collaborative to research and prototype patient engagement and care coordination solutions. Lindsay started her career as the Director of Research for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Division of Family Planning at Cook County Health, Chicago's primary safety-net health system.
Lindsay has a PhD in Health and Biomedical Informatics from Northwestern University. Her dissertation, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Presidential Fellowship, investigated the relationship between social determinants of health and cardiovascular health using sequential pattern mining and machine learning techniques. She also has an MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BS in Biological Sciences from DePaul University.
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