Description of Research Expertise

Since February 2010, Dr. Luberti has been actively involved in the “QUICKSTEPS: Quality Improvement and Care for KidS Through Electronic Programs” funded through CHIPRA (U.S. HHS/CMS). In conjunction with this program Dr. Luberti was instrumental in the development and deployment of various pediatric electronic screening tools (including M-CHAT, SWYC Milestones, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC-17), Patient Health Questionnaire Modified for Teens (PHQ-9)) within the Epic EHR at CHOP. Using this technology, parents/patients are enabled to easily complete age-appropriate electronic screening questionnaires using tablet devices while in the waiting room, with scored results to providers immediately available in the exam room. Computerized decision support tools were also developed to assist providers with care coordination and quick access to educational and early intervention resources.
In addition, most Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were originally designed prior to the 2000’s to capture data related to the care of adults primarily in hospitalized settings. Dr. Luberti's work has been to assist in the design, development and implementation of various EHR systems and measurement of patient outcomes, specifically in the pediatric population and in ambulatory settings.

Dole, TR and Luberti, AA, The Evolution of an Ambulatory Clinical Information System. Ambulatory Outreach (for the Society of Ambulatory Care Professionals) Winter 1997: 13-16.

Fiks AG, Alessandrini EA, Luberti AA, Ostapenko S, Zhang X, Silber JH. Identifying Factors Predicting Immunization Delay for Children Followed in an Urban Primary Care Network Using an Electronic Health Record. Pediatrics. 118(6): e1680-e1686, Dec 2006.

Fiks AG, Hunter KF, Localio AR, Grundmeier RW, Bryant-Stephens T, Luberti AA, Bell LM, Alessandrini EA. Impact of electronic health record-based alerts on influenza vaccination for children with asthma. Pediatrics. 124(1):159-69, July 2009.

Dalrymple PW, Rogers M, Zach L, Luberti A, Understanding Internet access and use to facilitate patient portal adoption, Health Informatics Journal, Nov 29, 2016.

Description of Clinical Expertise

Dr. Luberti is board-certified in Pediatrics and is a primary care pediatrician in the CHOP Care Network, with a focus and expertise in resident and medical student education.
Dr. Luberti's area of clinical expertise has been in the field of pediatric nurse triage. In the 1990’s, determination of best location of care of children after-hours was increasingly performed by nurses using standardized protocols. Dr. Luberti's research and operational expertise has been to determine the efficacy of this non-physician driven system of pediatric care management.

Kempe A., Luberti A., Hertz A., Sherman H., Amin D., Dempsey C., Chandramouli V., MacKenzie T., and Hegarty T., Delivery of Pediatric After-Hours Care by Call Centers: A Multicenter Study of Parental Perceptions and Compliance. Pediatrics 2001 108: e111.

Kempe A, Luberti A, Belman S, Hertz A, Sherman H, Amin D, Dempsey C, Chandramouli U, MacKenzie T. Outcomes associated with pediatric after-hours care by call centers: a multicenter study. Ambul Pediatr. 3(4):211-7, Jul-Aug 2003.

Scarfone, RJ., Luberti, AA., Mistry, RD. Outcomes of Children Referred to an Emergency Department by an After-Hours Call Center. Pediatric Emergency Care. 20(6):367-372, June 2004.

Fishe JN, Luberti AA, Master CL, Robinson RL, Grady MF, Arbogast KB, Zonfrillo MR., After-Hours Call Center Triage of Pediatric Head Injury: Outcomes After a Concussion Initiative. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2016 Mar;32(3):149-53.

Description of Other Expertise

Since 2009, in conjunction with the Botswana UPenn Partnership (BUP), Dr. Luberti has been involved in informatics capacity building in developing countries, specifically Botswana, through support of the "PEPFAR2" grant through the CDC (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). The goal is to provide mentoring and in-service technical assistance to improve capacity and sustainability of health care workers in Botswana in the areas of complications of HIV, HIV-TB co-infection, MDR-TB, and cervical cancer screening in HIV infected women. Specifically Dr. Luberti is involved in informatics curriculum development and faculty capacity building. Some of these efforts have resulted in research and mentored collaborations, specifically related to mobile telemedicine initiatives.
More recently, Dr. Luberti has been the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist Program Scholarship (2013-2018) from the US State Department, with the focus of "Capacity Building in Health Informatics at the University of Botswana". The goal is to increase the capacity of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at the University of Botswana (UB) to deliver the Health Informatics undergraduate courses independently. The program empowers graduates across disciplines to utilize technology and data in the management of patients and health information. Projects include: Faculty Development workshops/sessions in Health Informatics for FHS faculty and instructors; Collaborative curriculum design/development/implementation of the first Health Informatics Course for the School of Health Sciences at UB; Delivery of lectures/labs to students in the Introduction to Health Informatics course.

Littman-Quinn R, Luberti AA, Kovarik C. mHealth to revolutionize information retrieval in low and middle income countries: introduction and proposed solutions using Botswana as reference point. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:894-8.
Ha YP, Tesfalul MA, Littman-Quinn R, Antwi C, Green RS, Mapila TO, Bellamy SL, Ncube RT, Mugisha K, Ho-Foster AR, Luberti AA, Holmes JH, Steenhoff AP, Kovarik CL., Evaluation of a Mobile Health Approach to Tuberculosis Contact Tracing in Botswana, Journal of Health Communication 00: 1–7, 2016.
Handy LK, Maroudi S, Powell M, Nfila B, Moser C, Japa I, Monyatsi N, Tzortzi E, Kouzeli I, Luberti A, et al. The impact of access to immunization information on vaccine acceptance in three countries. PLoS One. 2017 Aug 3.