Jerry Avorn — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior internist in the Mass General Brigham health-care system
Founding Chief Emeritus of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics (DoPE) in 1998 at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Developed the "academic detailing" approach to provide evidence-based information about medications to prescribers
Author of "RETHINKING MEDICATIONS: Truth, Power and the Drugs You Take" and "POWERFUL MEDICINES: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs"
Authored or co-authored over 600 papers in the medical literature
Holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School (1974) and a B.A. from Columbia University (1969)

Biography

Jerry Avorn is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior internist in the Mass General Brigham health-care system. He is the Founding Chief Emeritus of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a division he founded in 1998. His work focuses on studying medication use, outcomes, costs, and policies, leading to the establishment of a leading research center at Harvard for this purpose.

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