Jeffrey Katz
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jeffrey N. Katz, MD, MSc is Professor of Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Katz has brought rigorous clinical research methodology to bear on pressing clinical policy issues relating to lumbar spinal stenosis, carpal tunnel syndrome, osteoarthritis, meniscal tear and surgical outcomes for orthopedic conditions. His team evaluated the outcome of total hip and total knee replacement in the US Medicare population and confirmed associations between hospital and surgeon volume and the short-term morbidity and mortality as well as patient reported outcomes following these procedures. Katz is PI of a NIH/NIAMS funded seven center randomized controlled trial of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy versus nonoperative therapy in patients with meniscal tear in knee osteoarthritis (MeTeOR) and of another multicenter NIAMS funded trial (TeMPO) of four nonoperative approaches to meniscal tear in the setting of osteoarthritis.