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About Cirrus

I’m an economist focused on healthcare, technology, and the future of work. Broadly, I’m interested in how adoption of IT affects productivity and innovation, particularly in healthcare. My dissertation focused on these themes, with particular focus on telemedicine, software innovation in medical devices, and technology-enabled remote work.

Currently, I’m a Managing Economist at Berkeley Research Group in the Economics and Damages Practice, and prior to that, was the Director of Data and Analytics for Health Affairs at Boston Children’s Hospital, where I brought an economics lens to a variety of strategic challenges facing the hospital.

One of the great joys in my life is teaching, and I’m an Instructor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where I teach Health Economics to graduate students. I’m also an Instructor in the Economics Department at Harvard, where I designed The Economics of Digitization and have taught for several years, winning a Derek C. Bok Award for Teaching Excellence.

Previously, I was an Economist at Analysis Group, where I lead teams on projects related to both causal inference in litigation, as well as HEOR and RWE generation for pharmaceutical clients. Prior to that, I helped lead advanced analytics as well COVID-19 and personalized medicine research at Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider. I also spent time at Conduit Analytics, where I helped build out an engineering team from scratch and lead development of algorithms central to Conduit’s product.

I’ve held a variety of research positions throughout my life. Highlights include a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at HBS, serving as a Visiting Scientist at Northwell Health, and a long-time affiliation at the National Bureau of Economic Research under both Amitabh Chandra and Heidi Williams.

Outside of work, I enjoy Peloton, playing jazz trumpet, and automotive engineering/tinkering (as a Dartmouth Formula SAE/Formula Hybrid alum).