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Neel Shah MD, Executive Director  Neel is the founder and executive director of Costs of Care. As a medical student working in some of the best academic medical centers in the country, he became convinced that even the best doctors sometimes neglect something critical—the bill. He has published commentary onthis topic and contributed scholarship on the impact of health IT on medical practice through fellowship appointments at Harvard Law School and the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium.
Neel is a Harvard-affiliated resident at Brigham & Women's Hospital. He completed joint degrees in medicine and public policy at Brown Medical School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Mary Zarkhina, VP Research  Before joining Costs of Care, Mary spent two years working for the Health and Life Sciences consulting practice at Accenture, where she helped payers and providers implement health information technologies. From these experiences she saw the power of IT to improve quality of healthcare first hand. Mary also has experience conducting utilization and profitability analyses for an academic emergency department.
Mary graduated from UC Berkeley with double major in Economics and Political Science and completed her Master’s in Healthcare Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Devin DeCiantis, VP Strategy
 Before joining Costs of Care, Devin held numerous strategy and finance positions, including strategic consulting for McKinsey & Co., investment banking at UBS, and managing digital media for the Walrus Foundation. Devin is also an avid blogger on economics and world affairs, and is committed to bringing his management experience to bear on pressing public problems.
Devin completed his business degree at York University in Canada and his Masters in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Jeff La Fave MBA, VP Finance  Before joining Costs of Care, Jeff spent one year working for a Community Development Finance Institution and one year running a citywide education campaign focused on consumer credit. In addition, Jeff has worked as a cost analyst for the Congressional Budget Office, where he recognized lowering healthcare costs is one of the most important challenges of his generation.
Jeff holds two management degrees from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, and completed a Masters in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Ariana Green, VP Communications Before joining Costs of Care, Ariana worked as a magazine, newspaper,and network television journalist in Puerto Rico, New York, London, and Boston. An award-winning reporter whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Popular Science, and other publications, she has an insider's expertise in media relations.
A Fulbright Scholar in London and a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, Ariana has masters degrees in journalism and political science and graduated magna cum laude with honors in history from Brown University, where she organized many health-related events through the women's center. She writes regularly for the New York Times.
Divya Pamnani, Blogger Currently a master’s student in Health Management and Policy at the University Of Michigan School Of Public Health, Divya recently joined Costs of Care as a blogger. Prior to coming to the US, Divya was writing and editing for The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, and the healthcare publications division of The Indian Express. During her time at the Center for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, she was part of a research project surveying the outsourcing of clinical trials to India. Divya is eager to bring her writing and knowledge on health policy issues to Costs of Care. Divya graduated from UT Austin in Psychology and Biology, and spent a year at UPenn’s Center for Weight and Eating Disorders as a clinical research coordinator.
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