Emily F. Boss MD, MPH, FACS

Emily F. Boss, MD, MPH, FACS (nee Rudnick) is the Director of Pediatric Surgical Quality and Safety in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Children’s Center.   She is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and core faculty within the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research and the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality.  Her clinical interests include all aspects of pediatric otolaryngology, however she has particular interest in sleep-disordered breathing (snoring and sleep apnea in children), speech and swallowing disorders in children, pediatric airway disorders, and congenital and pediatric sinusitis.

Dr. Boss’s research focus is on patient experience, health disparities, and surgical outcomes and utilization.  She is a K08 Grantee of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for patient-centered outcomes research evaluating quality of care and decision-making for elective pediatric surgery.  She is also a 2014 American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Cochrane Scholar, and is the recipient of a 2014 American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology Career Development Award to explore shared decision-making in pediatric surgery and otolaryngology.   She is the author or co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters.

Dr. Boss is active in the healthcare quality landscape.  Along with her role as Director of Pediatric Surgical Quality and Safety, she is the physician champion for patient satisfaction in the Johns Hopkins Otolaryngology Department.  She is the surgeon champion for the American College of Surgeon’s National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Pediatric (NSQIP-P) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  She also chairs the NSQIP-P Otolaryngology taskforce and participates on the national steering committee representing pediatric otolaryngology.  She is an active member of the AAO-HNSF Patient Safety and Quality Improvement committee, ASPO Safety and Quality and Research committees, AAO-HNSF Guidelines Taskforce, and a quality liaison to the AAO-HNSF Physician, Payment, and Policy advisory workgroup.

In addition to her medical training, Dr. Boss received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, and her Master’s in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.