Mark Shrime

Mark G. Shrime, MD MPH PhD FACS is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology and of Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He serves as the Research Director at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at the Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is an otolaryngologist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and associate faculty at Ariadne Labs.

His academic pursuits focus on surgical delivery in low- and middle-income countries, where he has a specific interest in the intersection of health and impoverishment. His work aims to determine optimal policies and platforms for surgical delivery that maximize health benefits while simultaneously minimizing the risk of financial catastrophe faced by patients.

Dr. Shrime graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1996 with a BA in molecular biology. He received his MD from the University of Texas in 2001, after taking a year to teach organic chemistry in Singapore. Medical school was followed by a residency in otolaryngology at the joint Columbia/Cornell program in Manhattan, followed, in turn, by a fellowship in head and neck surgical oncology at the University of Toronto in 2007. He completed a second fellowship in microvascular reconstructive surgery, also at the University of Toronto, in 2008. He was the first to identify a novel independent prognostic indicator in head and neck cancer.

To date, he has worked and taught in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Benin, Togo, Congo, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Cameroon, and Madagascar. In May, 2011, he graduated with an MPH in global health from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was a finalist for both the Albert Schweitzer award and the HSPH Student Recognition award, and in May, 2015, he received his PhD in health policy from Harvard University, with a concentration in decision science. His research is supported by the Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation and the GE Foundation's Safe Surgery 2020 project; he has previously received research support from the Steven C. and Carmella Kletjian Foundation.

When not working, he is an avid photographer and rock climber, and has competed on Seasons 8 and 9 of American Ninja Warrior.

Companies

• International Chief Medical Officer Mercy Ships (2022)
• Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School (2020)
• Staff Surgeon Mercy Ships (2008)
• Professor and O'Brien Chair of Global Surgery Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (2020 — 2022)
• Director Center for Global Surgery Evaluation (2018 — 2020)
• Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School (2016 — 2020)
• Assistant Professor Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (2011 — 2020)
• Director of Research, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change Harvard Medical School (2015 — 2018)
• Clinical Instructor Harvard Medical School (2012 — 2016)

Education

• PhD, Health Policy (Decision Sciences) Harvard University (2011 - 2016)
• MPH, Global Health Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2009 - 2011)
• Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (1996 — 2001)
• BA Princeton University (1992 — 1996)
• Cistercian Preparatory School (1986 — 1992)