Adam Schaffer, MD, MPH, is a Senior Clinical Analytics Specialist, working with the data analytics team in the Patient Safety Department at CRICO. Dr. Schaffer continues to practice as a member of the Hospital Medicine Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he serves as an attending physician on the inpatient general medicine services.

An Instructor at Harvard Medical School, his academic interests include research using large medical malpractice databases to examine temporal trends in medical malpractice.

Dr. Schaffer received a BA from Yale College and an MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Adam also received an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.


Adam Schaffer

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