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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, Director of Development  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, Director of Strategic Partnerships  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. Jonathan Gordon MBA, Director of Strategic Planning  As the son of an orthopedic surgeon and a nurse, Jonathan has a long-standing interest in improving healthcare delivery. He has served as Chief Operating Officer of EveryDay Medical, in the Development Office of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and currently serves in the Office of Strategy at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Over the course of his career, he has additionally worked in private equity at the Blackstone Group and served as a consultant to a wide range of organizations.
Jonathan graduated cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and obtained his MBA from Columbia University. Ariana Green, Director of Public Affairs  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.
Sibel Atasoy PhD, Director of Research 
Sibel received her Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Tech, where she studied the relationship between poverty dynamics and food stamp program participation among low-income populations in the U.S. During her graduate studies, Sibel was also employed as Economic Development Specialist at the Virginia Tech Office of Economic Development. As a social science policy researcher with a strong interest in poverty issues and economic well-being, Sibel is committed to actively apply her economics and statistics background to contribute to Costs of Care’s mission. Sibel earned her B.S. in Economics from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and also holds an M.S. in Resource Economics and Policy from the University of Maine. Divya Pamnani, Associate Director of Marketing  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. Sam Loren, Associate Director of Social Media Sam
is currently attending Harvard College, concentrating in neurobiology
and health policy while completing pre-medicine requirements. His prior
experience includes serving as a research assistant at Tiyatien Health
and as a hospital volunteer at Maine Medical Center. Sam started at
Costs of Care as our inaugural summer fellow and currently runs our
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