Joe  received is MD/PhD in June 2008 from the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Joe has spent his summers conducting laboratory research with the North Carolina State Chemical Engineering Department in a project directed at identifying environmentally friendly solvents for industrial deposits, and at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, where his research addressed DNA repair efficiency and led to a publication. During his second year of medical school, he renovated the recycling program in a residential medical school building and went on to improve the recycling infrastructure at both the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Faulkner Hospital. He also conducted research with the Center for Biopreparedness at Children's Hospital Boston, where he used Bayesian methods to classify emergency room chief complaints into syndrome classes for AEGIS (Automated Epidemiologic Geotemporal Integrated Surveillance), a system designed to detect emerging infections, epidemics, and bioterrorism.

In the dissertation phase of his PhD, Joseph focused on medical technology evaluation, hospital decision-making regarding the acquisition of medical technologies, and institutional willingness to trade health gains for profit. He developed a cost-effectiveness model to evaluate walking and jogging modalities of exercise as general health promoting activities. In the aggregate, this work reflects his commitment to preventive health decision-making, especially in segments of the population whose health needs have been underserved. He is a former recipient of traineeships from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Library of Medicine, and has also been awarded the Helmut Schumann Fellowship from the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at HMS, along with second cycle funding for medical school through the MD/PhD Social Sciences Track and the Medical Sciences Training Program (MSTP).

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