BEST DOCTORS

Medical Leadership

Two Harvard Medical School physicians created Best Doctors to realize their vision of making the best medical expertise available around the world.  In our continuing effort to identify the very best that medicine has to offer, Best Doctors has assembled the Best Doctors Medical Advisory Board, which supports and guides our vision across the globe. 

Kenneth H. Falchuk, MD Founder

Kenneth H. Falchuk, MD founded Best Doctors in 1989 and has served on the Board of Directors since its inception.  A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Falchuk was Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and was an active member of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.  He was also on the affiliate teaching staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   

Jose Halperin, MD Founder

Jose Halperin, MD co-founded Best Doctors in 1989 and has served on the Board of Directors since its inception.  A cum laude graduate of the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, he joined the Faculty of the Harvard Medical School in 1984 as an Associate Professor of Medicine and is an active member of the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.  For the past 16 years, Dr. Halperin has developed a strong research program at the Laboratory of Membrane Transport.  His recent discovery of a drug with great anti-cancer potential made national news.

Lewis Levy, MD Medical Director

As the Medical Director of the U.S. Group Health Division, Dr. Lewis Levy provides medical leadership to the clinical operations team to deliver the highest quality clinical information on diagnosis and treatment to members and their treating physicians. He has over twenty years of clinical experience as an internist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston. Dr. Levy also has an extensive teaching career through his role as a Preceptor in the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and also as an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He earned his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

David Harrison, MD Associate Medical Director

David Harrison, MD, Associate Medical Director for the U.S. Group Health Division, has served with Best Doctors since 2005. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and trained in the Harvard Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program. In addition to his work with Best Doctors, Dr. Harrison maintains an active primary care practice at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Harrison works closely with our clinical staff to ensure delivery of the highest quality service to all of our members