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Scott Gazelle

Director at Ceres Nanosciences

Scott Gazelle is a physician-scientist and academic entrepreneur who has been involved in the development and assessment of new medical technologies for more than 25 years. He received a BA from Dartmouth College and an MD from Case Western Reserve University, and then trained in General Surgery and Radiology at University Hospitals of Cleveland, where he also served as Chief Resident in Radiology. Following residency, he completed a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging and Interventional Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and then joined the faculty there. In 1996, he received an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, majoring in Health Care Management. In 1999, he received a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard University.

In his 24 years at the MGH, Scott established and directed basic science, clinical and policy-focused research programs. He was Associate Director of the MGH Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Development, where his team developed and patented agents for both CT and ultrasound. He also established and directed a multi-national collaboration that developed new techniques for radiofrequency (RF) tumor ablation. The resulting technology has now been used to treat thousands of patients. In 1997, Scott established the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment, now one of the largest and most successful academic programs for early-stage technology assessment and comparative effectiveness research.

He has served as the Director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training and the Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Associate Vice-Chair for Research in the MGH Department of Radiology. Scott has also been President of the Association of University Radiologists, the Radiology Research Alliance, the New England Roentgen Ray Society, and Chair of the American College of Radiology Commission on Research and Technology Assessment and the RSNA Research Development Committee, Director of Partners Radiology, and a member of the Radiologic Society of North America R&E Foundation Board of Trustees. He has authored more than 250 scientific articles, published two textbooks and presented numerous papers, lectures, and workshops nationally and internationally. In 2015, Scott was named “Outstanding Researcher” by the Radiology Society of North America.

In addition to co-founding GreyBird Ventures, Scott remains Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.


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