Carmela Socolovsky, MD, MPH

Dr. Carmela Socolovsky is Medical Director for MassHealth and a Pulmonary Critical Care Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she also completed her Fellowship Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Socolovsky is interested in restructuring health care delivery to reduce the impact of social determinants of health. She aspires to develop expertise evaluating health outcomes in underserved communities to inform data-driven policy initiatives, and she has a specific interest in the impact of environmental and psychosocial exposures on pulmonary disease disparities. As a medical student, Dr. Socolovsky helped develop workshops highlighting the clinical consequences of insufficient communication with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) patients, presenting this work at the Medical Education forum at the University of Chicago and at the American Medical Association national conference. She also collaborated on the pilot implementation of Project ECHO, a “telementoring” initiative to improve subspecialty care on Chicago’s Southside, a program that persists today. During residency, Dr. Socolovsky was a founding member of the Women In Medicine Trainees Council and studied readmissions amongst ICU survivors with Medicaid insurance, work for which she was awarded Best Abstract at Resident Research Competition at MGH. Dr. Socolovsky received her medical degree from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 2014 and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2017.