Peter R. Chai, MD, MMS

Dr. Peter R Chai is an associate professor of emergency medicine and medical toxicology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and affiliate research scholar at the Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The Fenway Institute. He is also research faculty at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Chai’s lab conducts translational research surrounding the development and implementation of technological solutions that detect and respond to changes in disease. He has been primarily interested in leveraging ingestible, injectable and smartphone-based sensors to understand medication adherence in HIV research as well as substance use disorders. These body sensor systems function as an architecture upon with Dr. Chai and his team develop context-aware, personalized behavioral support tools to improve engagement in care and medication adherence.