Kelly A. Kyanko, MD

My research is in policy-relevant questions addressing health care costs, quality, and delivery system models. Using qualitative in-depth interviews, surveys, and large claims database analyses, my goal is to provide policymakers and clinicians with timely data to improve access to care and health on a population scale. Specific interests include quality measure development, network adequacy and out-of-network care in commercial insurance, implementation strategies for smoking cessation treatment, and practice transformation to improve the quality of primary care.

In addition to my research at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, I spend over half of my time teaching and providing primary care at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City and am the Director of the Bellevue Hospital Smoking Cessation Program. After graduating summa cum laude at Case Western Reserve University, I completed medical school at NYU School of Medicine, residency in internal medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, and earned a master’s degree in health sciences as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale School of Medicine.