Laura Bauer, MPH
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
The Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group (QSRG)
Laura Bauer has 5 years of experience in health services research and evaluation. Specifically, Ms. Bauer's previous experience includes contributing to the implementation and evaluation of initiatives with the objectives of preventing, identifying, and treating childhood obesity; coordinating a study that examined mental health care disparities in an urban, impoverished population; and managing a study that assessed the extent of collaborative care occurring in regards to the treatment of childhood ADHD. Her areas of interest include the evaluation and improvement of health outcomes through collaborative efforts, the IRB process and protection of human subjects, and data collection, management and reporting.
Currently, Ms. Bauer is providing support, constructing materials, and compiling information for an interdisciplinary observational study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of team process measures in cardiac operating rooms. For the On the CUSP: STOP BSI project, Ms. Bauer will be coordinating project implementation with frontline caregivers, state hospital associations, and QSRG state leads to ensure that participating states successfully navigate through the quality improvement initiative. In this role, she will act as the liaison between site participants and the QSRG research office. Ms. Bauer is also participating in the development of tools to aid collaborative participants in improving their unit’s culture and eliminating central line-associated blood stream infections and will participate in the evaluation of outcomes.
