Christopher M. Worsham, M.D., M.P.H.

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Christopher M. Worsham, M.D., M.P.H. is a pulmonologist and critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine and researcher at Harvard Medical School, and a Teaching Associate at the HMS Department of Health Care Policy. He performs health services and large database research using econometric methods, focusing on the use of natural experiments to study physician behavior, resource utilization, and health care policy, with special interest in the intensive care unit.

Through his work, he strives to find opportunities to create higher value and more equitable health care for everyone. He completed his M.D. at Dartmouth Medical School, M.P.H. at Harvard, residency in internal medicine and chief residency in quality and safety at Boston Medical Center and VA Boston, and fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Harvard combined program before joining the faculty at MGH and HMS as a physician-scientist.

He is co-author of Random Acts of Medicine:
Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health.