Bio (long)

Maximilian J. Pany is a PhD-trained health economist, clinical fellow in emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, and emergency physician in training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs, where he received the 2024–2025 Spark innovation grant (together with J. Michael McWilliams) to study how physicians' collective wisdom can be used to improve specialty referrals. 

Max completed MSTP-funded physician-scientist training at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as part of the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD program. Using tools from econometrics, biostatistics, and machine learning, Max's research centers on the organization of care delivery, health care markets, and health care quality. Max is particularly passionate about exploring how we can improve health care by refocusing on the humans delivering it.

Max has contributed to the health policy dialogue at state and national levels beyond his research. He has published his ideas on how to make health care more affordable, which have been featured in state policy proposals. He has also worked to improve health care delivery with the Massachusetts Medical Society, where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees, and the American Medical Association, where he serves as a member of the Massachusetts physician delegation.