Jerry Avorn

Jerry Avorn, MD, is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior internist in the Mass General Brigham health-care system. He built a leading research center at Harvard to study medication use, outcomes, costs, and policies and developed the educational outreach approach known as "academic detailing," providing evidence-based information about medications to prescribers. One of the nation's most highly cited researchers, Dr. Avorn is the author of Powerful Medicines: The...See more

Jerry Avorn, MD, is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior internist in the Mass General Brigham health-care system. He built a leading research center at Harvard to study medication use, outcomes, costs, and policies and developed the educational outreach approach known as "academic detailing," providing evidence-based information about medications to prescribers. One of the nation's most highly cited researchers, Dr. Avorn is the author of Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs , and he has written or cowritten over six hundred papers in the medical literature as well as opinion pieces in The New York Times , The Washington Post , JAMA , and The New England Journal of Medicine . See less