PORTAL brings together researchers, analysts, and trainees from the fields of medicine, law, epidemiology, economics, ethics, health policy, and beyond to tackle challenges in prescription drug policy using a multidisciplinary lens.

In doing so, our group is committed to cultivating the next generation of investigators seeking to provide meaningful insights to support an optimal prescription drug landscape. To assure independence, no members of PORTAL have any personal financial relationships with pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturers. Click on the images below to read faculty and researcher biographies.

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Faculty

Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH
PORTAL Director
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jerry Avorn, MD
PORTAL Co-Director
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Kelly E. Anderson, PhD, MPP
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School

Jason B. Gibbons, PhD
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School

Benjamin N. Rome, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

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Research Fellows and Staff

Christopher Cai, MD
General Medicine Fellow

Advaita Krishnan
Research Assistant

Leah Rand, DPhil
Staff Scientist & Ethics Specialist

Joseph Daval, JD
Research Scientist

Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, PhD, MSc
Postdoctoral Fellow

Adam Raymakers, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Alexander Egilman
Senior Research Assistant

Matthew Martin, MA
Program Coordinator

Maitreyi Sahu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Sarah Gabriele, JD, LLM, MBE
Research Specialist

Helen Mooney, MPH
Research Assistant

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Collaborators and Affiliates

Reed F. Beall, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor
University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine

Daniel B. Kramer, MD, MPH
Cardiac Electrophysiologist, BIDMC; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

William B. Feldman, MD, DPhil, MPH
Faculty Member
UCLA Geffen School of Medicine

Guanqiao Li, MD
Associate Professor
Vanke School of Public Health Tsinghua University

Janet Freilich, JD
Professor of Law
Boston University

Kevin Outterson, JD, LLM
Austin Fletcher Professor of Law
Executive Director, CARB-X
Boston University

Bishal Gyawali, MD, PhD
Medical Oncologist &
Associate Professor
Queen's University

Bhaven Sampat, MPhil, PhD
Professor, Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society & School of Public Affairs

Ameet Sarpatwari, PhD, JD
Assistant Professor
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

S. Sean Tu, PhD, JD
Professor of Law
University of Alabama

Ariadna Tibau, MD, PhD
Medical Oncologist
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Kerstin N. Vokinger, JD, MD,
PhD, LLM
Professor of Law and Medicine
Universität Zürich

Olivier J. Wouters, PhD
Associate Professor
Brown University School of Public Health

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Affiliate Students and Trainees

Fellows & Residents

Matthew Crane, MD  |  Internal Medicine Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Thomas Hwang, MD  |  Urologic Surgery Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Jeremy Martinez, MD  |  Internal Medicine Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital

Mike Zhai, MD  |  Gastroenterology Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Tianna Zhou, MD | Neurology Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Graduate & Professional Students

Shria Bucha | MD Student, Harvard Medical School

Madeleine Bullen | MBE Student, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics

Julia Etkin | MBE Student, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics

John Kim  |  MD Student, Harvard Medical School

Narendra Kuber  |  MPH Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Jonathan McCabe | MBE Student, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics

Sarosh Nagar | Marshall Scholar

Jin Park  |  MD/JD Candidate, Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School

Anastasia Sahu  |  MD Candidate, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Harry Shanmugam  |  MD Candidate, Harvard Medical School

Jelle Stoelinga, PharmD | PhD Candidate, Utrecht University

Anirudh Sudarshan | Research Technician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Max Yates | MD Student, Harvard Medical School

David Zhu | MD-PhD Student, Virginia Commonwealth University

Undergraduate Students

Timothy Bonis | Dartmouth College

Sonya Kulkarni ​| Harvard College

Sahil Sood  |  Harvard College

Theodore Teng  |  Harvard College

Stephanie Wang  |  Harvard College

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