Our Research Team

  

  

Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Rishi K. Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil

Rishi K. Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil is the associate director and section head of the Health Care Policy Research Group at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research, an associate program director in cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an associate professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health. His research uses claims, registry, and survey data to understand health care disparities and health inequities, evaluates cardiovascular disease epidemiology, care quality, and outcomes, looks into the effects of state and federal health policies on cardiovascular care, and links diverse datasets to examine the relationship between different populations and enhance clinical, socioeconomic, and community phenotyping.

 

Andrew S. Oseran, MD, MBA, MSc

Andrew S. Oseran, MD, MBA, MSc is an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist and an investigator at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research. He received his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine as well as a master’s in business administration (MBA) from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He completed his internal medicine residency, cardiology fellowship, and advanced heart failure and transplant fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. During this time, he also received a Master of Science (MSc) in Epidemiology from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. His research interests include questions related to the delivery of health care and understanding how domestic policy initiatives impact health care outcomes and cost.

 

Staff 

ZhaoNian Zheng, MSc

 

​ZhaoNian is a Lead Biostatistician for the Health Care Policy section at the Smith Center for Outcomes Research. Specializing in biostatistics and machine learning, ZhaoNian has focused his research on evaluating treatment effects for cardiovascular diseases, studying both short- and long-term outcomes, and provided key methodological guidance for work that aims to understand healthcare disparities and inequities in the United States using survey, claims, and registry data.

 

Archana Tale, MPH

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​Archana is a Biostatistician II in the Health Care Policy section at the Smith Center for Outcomes Research. An expert in complex survey data analysis, she also works with claims and ​registry data and takes on a data management role. Her primary responsibility is in the Health Care Policy section, but she also serves as a shared resource for other sections to assist with their research needs. Archana is keen on working with various types of data and learning and applying new techniques.
 

 

Jiacheng Zu, MS

 

​Jiacheng is a Biostatistician I in the Health Care Policy section at the Smith Center for ​Outcomes Research. He holds an MS in Biostatistics from Yale University. His expertise lies in biostatistics and statistical programming. Jiacheng has worked extensively with survey, claims, and registry data, providing methodological support for research on healthcare disparities and treatment outcomes. He is particularly interested in applying advanced statistical modeling techniques to evaluate interventions and improve patient care.

 

Camilla Bjorck-Posson, MPH, MS

 
Camilla is the Program Administrator, Research, for the Health Care Policy section. She has an interest in both health and food policy on a national level, and provides administrative support to Dr. Wadhera as well as the research section. She completed her MPH in Health Policy at Tufts University Medical Center, and her MS in Agriculture, Food, and the Environment at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts. Prior to that, she completed her BS in Public Health at Northern Arizona University and AS-T from Cuesta College.

 

Elizabeth Dixon, BA

 

Elizabeth is the Clinical Research Writing Assistant for the Health Care Policy section at the Smith Center for Outcomes Research. She provides support to Dr. Wadhera, as well as the program administrator and the research section. Elizabeth completed her Bachelor of Arts in Government & Law and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Lafayette College, where she studied intersectional approaches to research design and policy analysis.


 

   

Trainees

Current Trainees

Stephen Mein, MD

T32 Research Fellow
Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 

 

Lucas Marinacci, MD

T32 Research Fellow
Cardiology Fellow 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 

 

Azariah Boyd, MS

     2024-2025 Zimetbaum Fellow
 
 
 

 

Daniel Johnson, BA

2024-2025 Sarnoff Fellow
Medical Student
University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Medicine

 

Nicholas Chiu, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

 

Prihatha Narasimmaraj, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Darshali Vyas, MD

Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

 

Prabhu Sasankan, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

 

August Oddleifson, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 

 

Rahul Aggarwal, MD

Cardiology Fellow
Brigham and Women's Hospital
 

 

Eméfah Loccoh, MD

2019-2021 Sarnoff Fellow
Internal Medicine Resident
Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

Sukruth Shashikumar, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Brigham and Women's Hospital
 

 

Rachel Gardner, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

Eden Engel-Rebitzer, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

Koby Amankwah, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

Victoria Bartlett, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

Jingyi Gong, MD 

Cardiology Fellow 
Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Aaron Troy, MD

Cardiology Fellow
Johns Hopkins University

 

Sudheesha Perera, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Yale School of Medicine

 

Anjali Bhatla, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Johns Hopkins Hospital

 

Michael Liu, MPhil

Medical Student
Harvard Medical School

 

Christopher Alba, BS

Medical Student
Harvard Medical School

 

Cindy Won, BSc

Medical Student
Harvard Medical School

 

Past Trainees

Suhas Gondi, MD

Internal Medicine Resident
Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

Jelani Grant, MD

Cardiology Disease Fellow
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 

Enrico Ferro, MD

Cardiology Fellow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

 

Chantal Henry, MD

Zimetbaum/Sarnoff Fellow 2022-2023
Emergency Medicine Resident

 

Ashley Kyalwazi, MD

Zimetbaum/Sarnoff Fellow 2021-2022
Resident Physician
University of California

 

Zachary Hermes, MD

Cardiology Fellow
Brigham and Women's Hospital
 

 

Colin O'Brien, MD

Cardiologist
Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Institute

 

Andrew Anderson, PhD

Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

 

Ave Kludze

Medical Student
Morehouse School of Medicine
 

 

Frederikke Held Berg, MPs

Special Consultant
Ministry of Social Affairs, Housing, and the Elderly

 

Sahil Sandhu, BS

Medical Student
Harvard Medical School
 

 

Ahmed Ahmed