Karen Dorsey Sheares, MD, PhD

Karen Dorsey Sheares, MD, PhD, is a pediatrician specializing in the treatment of conditions such as obesity, sleep apnea, acne, anemia, and asthma. She is the director of the Quality Measurement Program at CORE.

As an associate research scientist at Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Sheares's research has examined the effects of changes in medical documentation on lung disease mortality rates, healthcare cost predictions using Medicare data, risk model assessment, and coding-related biases in pneumonia outcomes.