Incoming Doctoral Students

Lyndon James and Karen Smith sitting together at desk and smiling at camera.

CHDS welcomes Lyndon James and Karen Smith to the PhD Program in Health Policy decision science track beginning Fall 2018.

Lyndon James is currently a Research Assistant at CHDS and Teaching Fellow for several classes in the decision science curriculum. Before moving to Boston, James served as a medical doctor in the UK in internal and emergency medicine. James holds an MPH from the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health in Quantitative Methods.

Karen Smith joins us from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she served as a Research Assistant in the Orthopedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research and the Policy and Innovation eValuation in Orthopedic Treatments (PIVOT) Center. Smith graduated from Amherst College, completing a BA in Biology and French.

Learn more: Visit the Doctoral Program page on the CHDS website.
Learn more: Meet our PhD students.

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