Jeffrey Katz, MD

Jeffrey N. Katz is a distinguished mentor with the Clinical and Translational (C/T) Research Academy First Grant Bootcamp at Harvard Catalyst. He is professor of medicine and orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and professor of epidemiology and environmental health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also director of the Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Katz has focused his research on the evaluation and outcomes of musculoskeletal disorders including carpal tunnel syndrome, lumbar spinal stenosis and osteoarthritis, and lower extremity joint replacement. He has developed measures of functional status and symptom severity for several conditions including carpal tunnel syndrome and lumbar spinal stenosis. Katz graduated from Princeton University, attended Yale Medical School, and received his master’s degree from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He additionally completed a medical internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a rheumatology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.