Assistant Professor
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Lin is a Pharmacoepidemiologist in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a practicing hospitalist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical school and the Executive Director of the Mass General Brigham (MGB) Center for Integrated Healthcare Data Research. He has led an initiative to link the multiple administrative claims data with EHR of the Accessible Research Commons for Health (ARCH), a clinical data research network (CDRN) of the Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) comprising 11 major medical centers across the U.S. He is the Principal Investigator of four NIH R01 research projects aiming to integrate insurance claims data with EHR data to improve the validity of comparative effectiveness research in vulnerable populations, including people living with dementia and older adults with high frailty or multiple co-morbidities. His long-term career goal is to establish a rigorous and generalizable framework to optimize causal treatment effect estimation based on EHR and claims data to inform personalized prescribing.