Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH

Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Within the Division, Aaron created and leads the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL, www.PORTALresearch.org), an interdisciplinary research center that focuses on intersections among prescription drugs and medical devices, patient health outcomes, and regulatory practices and the law. Aaron has testified before Congress on pharmaceutical policy, medical device regulation, generic drugs, and modernizing clinical trials, and has been asked to serve on select advisory committees for the FDA and National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Aaron also serves as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he teaches a yearly course on Food and Drug Administration Law, and as a faculty member at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. He is the author of over 250 articles in the peer-reviewed medical and health policy literature and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.