Brett Anderson, MD

Brett Anderson, MD, MBA, MS, is the Director of the Center for Child Health Services Research in the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Anderson is an Associate Professor and pediatric cardiologist in the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Population Health Science and Policy.

Dr. Anderson is an NIH-funded health services researcher, who blends her medical, business, and statistical backgrounds to bring together interdisciplinary investigators and data for the purposes of identifying modifiable drivers of outcomes, value, and health inequities, with a particular focus on children with cardiac disease. She has examined the effects of provider characteristics, surgical timing, social determinants of health, and various measures of healthcare access.

She is the founder and Director of the New York State Congenital Heart Surgery Collaborative for Longitudinal Outcomes and Utilization of Resources (CHS-COLOUR), an interdisciplinary collaborative that brings together leadership and data from all congenital heart surgical centers in New York State, health services researchers, and the Department of Health, to examine etiologies of health inequities and to plan for programmatic interventions.