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BWH PHARMACOPEDIMIOLOGY AND PHARMAECONOMICS
FELLOWSHIP DIRECTORS

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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.

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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

Jerry Avorn, M.D.

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

Rishi Desai, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical school

 

William B. Feldman, MD, DPhil, MPH

Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 

Nancy Haff, MD, MPH

Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 

Timothy Savage, MD, MPH, MSc

Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Julie Lauffenburger, PharmD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Shirley Wang, PhD, ScM

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

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