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Mehmet Saluvan
PhD
Administrative Manager, Sr. Staff Scientist
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Research Overview
Dr. Saluvan’s work focuses on healthcare quality, patient safety, health informatics, and research operations within large academic health systems. His research examines how organizational structures, quality management systems, and hospital information technologies influence healthcare performance, patient outcomes, and operational effectiveness. He has contributed to national and international initiatives involving healthcare quality improvement, accreditation, and performance measurement, including the European DUQuE (Deepening our Understanding of Quality Improvement in Europe) consortium and the NIH-funded IMPACC (Immunophenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort) study.
At Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Saluvan supports complex NIH- and industry-funded translational research programs within the Precision Vaccines Program. His work focuses on strengthening research infrastructure, operational coordination, regulatory compliance, and collaborative engagement across multi-site studies. Dr. Saluvan’s current scholarly interests include research administration science, laboratory operations and safety, health system performance, and the application of organizational research principles to academic and translational research environments.
Research Background
Dr. Saluvan is a Research Associate in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Staff Scientist in the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children's Hospital. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Health Administration and Health Care Management from Hacettepe University, where his doctoral research focused on the relationship between hospital information systems and healthcare quality. He subsequently completed postdoctoral training in patient safety and quality at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Prior to joining Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Saluvan held leadership positions in Türkiye, including Administrative Director and Chief Quality Officer at Hacettepe University Hospitals, one of the country’s largest academic medical centers. He also served at the Turkish Ministry of Health, contributing to the development of national healthcare quality and patient safety standards and participating in large-scale healthcare quality initiatives.
At Boston Children’s Hospital, he contributed to the NIH-funded IMPACC study during the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting Clinical and Data Coordinating Center operations, cross-site coordination, and collaborative research activities. His scholarly work includes publications in healthcare quality, health informatics, patient safety, and collaborative research operations, with ongoing interests in advancing operational excellence and interdisciplinary collaboration within academic healthcare and translational research programs.
Selected Publications
- Saluvan M, Ozonoff A. Functionality of hospital information systems: results from a survey of quality directors at Turkish hospitals. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018 Jan 12;18(1):6. doi:10.1186/s12911-018-0581-2.
- Saluvan M, Milliren CE, Graham DA, Simsekler MCE, Babacan Akin M, Kocatakan P, Goren M, Ozonoff A. Variation in hospital performance measures from the Turkey Ministry of Health. Int J Qual Health Care. 2021 Jun 23;33(3):mzab109. doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzab109.
- Ozonoff A, Milliren CE, Fournier K, Welcher J, Landschaft A, Samnaliev M, Saluvan M, Waltzman M, Kimia AA. Electronic surveillance of patient safety events using natural language processing. Health Informatics J. 2022 Dec;28(4):14604582221146046. doi: 10.1177/14604582221132429.