Ari Brettman, MD

Ari Brettman joined the NEC Society’s Board of Directors after his daughter, Romi, tragically died from necrotizing enterocolitis. Professionally, Dr. Brettman is a Senior Managing Director in the Blackstone Life Sciences group. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Brettman was also an NIH-sponsored post-doctoral fellow at the MGH Center for Systems Biology, where he studied the autophagy of lipid droplets and used electronic medical record-based big data analytics at Partners Healthcare to conduct clinical research and improve disease management. 

Dr. Brettman received his M.D. from Duke University and his AB in History and Science from Harvard College.