
BWH PHARMACOPEDIMIOLOGY AND PHARMAECONOMICS
FELLOWSHIP DIRECTORS

Fellowship Site Director
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Aaron S. Kesselheim, M.D, J.D, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine at HMS, leader of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (www.PORTALresearch.org), and a general internist. He leads an interdisciplinary research center focusing on clinical, societal, and other factors that affect the value and evidence based use of prescription drugs and medical devices and how to optimize policies affecting those issues to improve patient health outcomes. He has testified before Congress on pharmaceutical policy, medical device regulation, generic drugs, and modernizing clinical trials, and is a member of the FDA Peripheral and Central Nervous System Advisory Committee. His work has been funded by the Arnold Ventures, Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics Program, the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the FDA, and AHRQ, among others. In recognition of his dedication to mentorship, Dr. Kesselheim received HMS’s Young Mentor Award in 2015-2016. He recently developed a massive open online course called Prescription Drug Regulation, Cost, and Access: Current Controversies in Context disseminated via the HarvardX platform to over 80,000 participants world-wide. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and a member of the Perspectives advisory board for the New England Journal of Medicine. In the fall of 2020, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Fellowship Site Director
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Benjamin N. Rome, MD, MPH is a general internist and health policy researcher at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Division of Pharmacology and Pharmacoeconomics in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Within the Division, Dr. Rome works within the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), where he studies how federal and state policies influence the regulation, use, and cost of prescription drugs and the resulting effects on patient access, affordability, and clinical outcomes. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs, and BMJ. His research has also been featured in a Congressional report about rising prescription drug prices and he has testified about the regulation and cost of medications in front of the US House of Representatives. In 2022, he was selected as an Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Rome trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is a practicing primary care physician at the Phyllis Jen Center for Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as the Site Co-Director for the HMS Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care and the Assistant Director for the Brigham and Women's Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Management and Leadership Pathway. He received his undergraduate degree in community health from Brown University, his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and his Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FACULTY
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief Emeritus of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
Niteesh K. Choudhry, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Robert J. Glynn, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Professor of Medicine (in Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Krista F. Huybrechts, M.S., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Ameet Sarpatwari, Ph.D., J.D.
Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Sebastian Schneeweiss, M.D., Sc.D.
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School
Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical school
William B. Feldman, MD, DPhil, MPH
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Julie Lauffenburger, PharmD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Joshua Kueiyu Lin, Sc.D., M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Elisabetta Patorno, Dr.P.H., M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
* Denotes faculty who have graduated from the Fellowship Program