Rebecca Miksad

Biography

  Rebecca Miksad is senior medical director at Flatiron Health, where she focuses on real-world evidence generation. Rebecca’s academic research has focused on improving cancer treatment decision-making through better characterization of patient outcomes, increasing relevance of clinical trial endpoints and evaluating economic implications of cancer therapy. A nationally recognized clinician and health services researcher, Rebecca publishes in leading medical journals and serves on national clinical and research committees. Prior to joining Flatiron Health, Rebecca was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, a senior scientist at the Institute for Technology Assessment at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the director of gastrointestinal oncology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Rebecca earned a BA cum laude in economics from Harvard University and an MD with honors in research from Cornell University. She completed her internal medicine residency training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Hematology/Oncology fellowship at BIDMC. With a focus on translating between clinical trial and outcomes research, Rebecca earned a MMS from Harvard Medical School and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness. She also completed the NCI-funded post-doctoral fellowship in the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training (PCORT).

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