Allen B. Kachalia BS, MD, JD

Allen Kachalia is a member of the faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. He is clinically active as an academic hospitalist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, regularly teaching and attending on the hospital wards with medical students and residents. He is also a member of the BWH leadership team as the Chief Quality Officer and Vice President for Quality and Safety for the hospital.
Allen also has a law degree, and teaches and maintains research interest in legal issues in medicine, including malpractice system reform and disclosure, and how they relate to the quality and safety of medical care.