Greg Koski MD, PhD

Dr. Koski is the first Director of the newly created Federal Office for Human Research Protections, having assumed his new post just after Labor Day. Formerly, he was Director of Human Research Affairs, Partners HealthCare System in Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. After receiving his education at Harvard (AB ‘71, Ph.D. ‘77, and M.D. ‘78), Dr. Koski completed his residency in anesthesia, and fellowship training at the National Institutes of Health as a Pharmacology Research Associate, before returning to join the MGH Department of Anesthesia in 1984. During his 30 years at Harvard, Dr. Koski actively participated in every aspect of academic medicine including basic research, clinical investigation, teaching, administration and patient care. He has been both an IRB Chair and a research subject. Within the Department of Anesthesia, Dr. Koski was a senior member of the Cardiac Anesthesia Group. He also served as Director of the department’s Henry K. Beecher Memorial Research Laboratories and as Director of Resident Selection and Recruitment. As Director of Human Research Affairs at Partners, Dr. Koski was responsible for the ethical and regulatory oversight of human investigation including protection of human participants in research studies. Dr. Koski’s interest in protection of human subjects and research ethics grew strongly after joining the Subcommittee on Human Studies of the Massachusetts General hospital in 1989. This Committee, established in 1963 under the leadership of Dr. Henry Beecher, became his training ground for his new role as Director of OHRP.