Jialin Mao, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor in Healthcare Policy and Research Research in the Division of Comparative Effectiveness and Outcomes Research, working with Dr. Art Sedrakyan. She works on surgical and device outcomes research, with a primary focus on population level studies. Dr. Mao earned her MD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in 2011 and completed an internship and part of her residency in General Surgery at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai, China. She earned her Master of Science in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health in 2013. Her research experience includes working at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine on a cell biology research project focusing on diabetic retinopathy, at Harvard School of Public Health on a cancer epidemiology project and a meta-analysis project on the use of probiotics to enhance the protectiveness of the influenza vaccination, and at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on studies assessing quality of life among nephrectomy patients.