Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Jennifer Shin, M.D. S.M. serves as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School, as well as Associate Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Surgery. She has a longstanding interest in evidence-based practice and is currently the Deputy Editor for the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery's journal, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, where she also serves as the Associate Editor for clinical epidemiology and outcomes research. She has also served as Chair of the Outcomes Research and Evidence-Based Medicine Leadership Group and Committee for the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, as well as Co-chair of the expert panel convened by the Academy to develop their national Clinical Consensus Statement on Pediatric Chronic Rhinosinusitis. She has also served as Assistant Chair of the Clinical Practice Guideline on Otitis Media with Effusion. Her first book, Evidence-Based Otolaryngology (2008), has been among the publisher’s most accessed works with over 60,000 accessions. Her second book, Otolaryngology Prep and Practice (2012) prepares specialists for daily practice.
Dr. Shin is a graduate of Harvard Radcliffe College and Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency and fellowship training in the Harvard program, and was a fellow of the National Institute of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She also holds a degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, where she continues to teach regularly in the post-graduate program.