Primary Job Title Chief, Division of General Pediatrics Primary Organization 
Boston Children's Hospital
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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Christopher Landrigan, MD, MPH is Director of the Sleep and Patient Safety Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Research Director of Inpatient Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing pediatric hospitalist.
A major focus of his work has been
evaluating the effects of health care provider sleep deprivation on patient and provider safety, and the effects of interventions to reduce these risks. Along with other members of the Harvard Work Hours, Health, and Safety Group, he has also evaluated sleep deprivation in police officers, firefighters, and others, and has studied the effects of Massachusetts legislation for junior operators on rates of MVCs due to drowsy driving and other factors.
In addition to his work on sleep deprivation and safety, Dr. Landrigan has led a series of projects rigorously evaluating the effects of handoff interventions designed to improve physician and nurse transitions of care (handoffs). He has studied quality and efficiency of care in pediatric hospitalist vs. traditional care systems; variation in the use of evidence-based therapies in hospitals; statewide temporal trends in rates of medical errors and adverse events; the effects of the ACGME duty hour standards on safety, education, and resident physician quality of life; the effects of computerized order entry systems on patient safety; and the relationship between house staff depression, burn out, and patient safety. From this research, he has authored or co-authored over 100 articles in the medical literature, including publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, BMJ, Pediatrics, JAMA Pediatrics, and other leading journals.
In addition, Landrigan was the founding chair and is currently an Executive Council Member of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network, a collaboration of over 100 pediatric hospitals studying quality and variation in the care of hospitalized children, with the goal of developing and disseminating improvements.
