I am a physician from Germany and currently a Master of Public Health student at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA. I am also a decision analysis and cost-effectiveness ("comparative effectiveness") researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. In addition, I am the author of an UpToDate card, and a co-editor of the outcomes research journal Value in Health. I live in Somerville, Massachusetts which is close to Cambridge and Boston.