John Edmund Mayer Jr., MD

John Mayer, MD, received his MD from Yale Medical School, and trained in general and cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Minnesota. He is a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and the first Tommy Kaplan Chair in Cardiovascular Studies at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is interested health policy and has served as a Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) representative to the AMA Relative Value Update Committee and the STS Health Policy Workforce. He is the past president of the STS, past chair of the STS Finance Committee, and continues to serve on the STS Health Policy Council and on the STS Standards and Ethics Committee.