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Stephen Flaherty
Assistant Research Professor, Health Sciences
Dr. Flaherty received his PhD in Population Health from Northeastern University. His dissertation focused on the scope of inappropriate medical imaging in Massachusetts for a commercially insured population. He received an MBA from the University of Redlands (CA) and completed his Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering, with honors, at the University of Colorado-Denver.
Flaherty has extensive experience in healthcare, with over 20 years in medical imaging in a variety of roles and settings. He has held management and clinical positions at leading institutions such as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and also managed the Brain Imaging Center at the California Institute of Technology. Most recently, Flaherty was an Assistant Professor in the Healthcare Administration Department at Stonehill College, and he continues work as a health outcomes researcher and data scientist at the health insurer Point32Health, evaluating population health and clinical interventions.
His research interests include healthcare utilization, cost trends, observational data analytics, propensity score matching and predictive modeling. He is proficient in SAS, SQL and has experience with R and Python.