Celia Stafford

Celia Stafford is a doctoral student in Health Policy (Management). She received a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Emory University in 2017 and an MPH focused in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020. She is also affiliated with the System Dynamics Research Group at MIT. Outside of school, she has spent time as a research fellow at the FDA, a research associate at Harvard Medical School, in operations research for a cyber-security firm, and in operations and finance for multiple Contract Research Organizations (CROs).

Her research explores how the electronic medical record, a piece of technology intended only to make the lives of clinicians easier and more efficient, in effect causes more burnout and stress. Her latest project looks at whether the introduction of AI based scribe tools helps or hurts the usefulness of the EMR on the whole.