Helen Knight, MD, MPH

Helen Knight, MD is a palliative care physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Knight graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed Internal Medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she also served as a Chief Resident, and clinical fellowship training in the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Program. She also completed the DFCI Research Fellowship in Supportive Oncology and received an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She studies the relationship between federal health policy and variation in care quality, particularly among Medicare beneficiaries.