Aaron McKethan PhD

Aaron McKethan

Core Faculty

Aaron McKethan, PhD

Degree

PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Aaron McKethan is General Manager of New Ventures at Aledade, Inc. where he oversees the establishment and management of new business lines, products, and services aligned with Aledade’s core mission supporting value-based primary care. At Duke, Aaron is Senior Policy Fellow at the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy and Adjunct Professor of Population Health Sciences in the Duke University School of Medicine. Aaron previously co-founded and led two healthcare data science and technology companies (NoviSci and RxAnte) and served in executive health care roles in both federal and state government. Aaron holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also received his undergraduate degree. Aaron's work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs. With his wife and four children, Aaron lives in Durham, NC where he also serves on several non-profit boards, including Samaritan Health Center in Durham, NC.

Skills: Policy Analysis, Health IT, Payment Reform, Healthcare Quality, State Policy

Rai AK, Chien CV, Clark J. Molecular Diagnostic Patenting after Mayo v. Prometheus: An Empirical Analysis (In preparation). 2023;

Rai AK, Sachs RE, II WN. Cryptic Patent Reform Through the Inflation Reduction Act. Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. 2023;37(1):57–104.

Rai AK. Access to Biomedical Innovation — Inside the Legal Labyrinth. New England Journal of Medicine. 2023;388(17):1537–40.