about

Rena Xu, MD, MBA, serves as Advisor to Health Affairs at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and is an NIH-funded researcher studying mental health and trajectories of care. She is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Affiliate Faculty in the BCH Computational Health Informatics Program.

Dr. Xu earned her MD degree from Harvard Medical School and MBA degree from Harvard Business School. She has written about health care, including the structural and operational challenges of care delivery, for professional and general audiences nationally. Her work has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Yale Review, among other publications. She is writing a book about health care with MIT Press.