Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, PhD

Biography

Julia Adler-Milstein is in her sixth year of the doctoral program in Health Policy at Harvard University (Management Track). Her research focuses on management and policy issues emerging from the use of information technology (IT) in health care delivery. Her dissertation, comprised of three empirical papers, examines the progress of IT adoption in the health care sector, the impact of such adoption on health care costs, and the productivity implications of work restructuring following health IT adoption.

Prior to graduate school, Julia worked as an analyst at the Center for Information Technology Leadership at Partners HealthCare. There she built models that quantified expected clinical, financial, and organizational gain from the adoption of health IT. Julia also spent two years with Accenture’s Health and Life Sciences strategy consulting practice. Julia graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with distinction from Stanford University in 2001 with a B.A. in Human Biology.