
Peter S. Cahn, PhD joined MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2012 as associate provost for academic affairs and professor of health professions education. In that role, he facilitates faculty recruitment and retention, curricular integration and assessment, and global health opportunities. Previously, he served as the inaugural director of faculty development and diversity at Boston University Department of Medicine, where he was a founding member of the New England Network on Faculty Affairs. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. His publications on faculty development, interprofessional education and practice, and antiracism have appeared in Academic Medicine, Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, Journal of Nursing Education, and Journal of Interprofessional Care, where he serves as an associate editor. He received an AB from Harvard University, MPhil from University of Cambridge, and PhD from University of California, Berkeley.