He is a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science and Ariadne Labs at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research combines insights from clinical medicine with methods from biostatistics, computer science, and econometrics, to translate large observational datasets into meaningful inferences at the patient and provider levels. He holds an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard and an M.Phil. from Cambridge, where he was a Frank Knox fellow in the history and philosophy of science. He also holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, and completed a residency in emergency medicine at the Brigham & Women's, Massachusetts General, and Boston Children’s Hospitals.