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Jason H. Wasfy is Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Quality and Outcomes Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center. He is also a Medical Director of the Mass General physicians organization, where he directs all activities in population health management. A clinical cardiologist, he sees a broad range of patients with heart disease and cares for patients in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Wasfy’s research interests include evaluation of the patient impact of changes in health policy, variation analyses, novel forms of care delivery, and population health management. Dr. Wasfy completed his cardiology fellowship and residency at the MGH, where he was the Roman DeSanctis clinical scholar in cardiology. He received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds his MPhil from Oxford University, and both the SM and MD degrees from Harvard.
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