B. Price Kerfoot is an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He holds degrees from Harvard (MD and EdM), Oxford (MA), and Princeton (AB). Kerfoot is the recipient of a Rising Star Award from the American Urological Association Foundation and was honored by President Obama with the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) for his work on education technology research. The Presidential Early Career Award is the “highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.”

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