Dr. Hooman Noorchashm Joins Northeastern Law as Research Professor

03.04.2025 – Northeastern Law is pleased to announce that Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, an internationally recognized medical device safety expert, has joined the Northeastern University community as a research professor. Dr. Noorchashm serves as co-director of the Amy J. Reed Medical Device Safety Collaborative, a joint initiative between Northeastern Law and Tufts University. Supported by a three-year grant from Arnold Ventures, the project analyzes data from tens of thousands of medical devices to identify safety risks and develop legal tools to address them.

“Dr. Noorchashm is an incredible addition to Northeastern—he makes the Amy J. Reed Collaborative run,” said Professor David Simon, principal investigator on the project. “His deep experience with the device regulatory process and his intimate knowledge of medicine are crucial to our project. We are excited he has decided to join our team at Northeastern.”

Since 2013, Dr. Noorchashm has focused on public health advocacy, patient safety and medical ethics, with an emphasis on medical device regulation. He utilizes a rigorous academic-activist approach to identifying anecdotes of patient harm, medical device safety failure and healthcare fraud that are part of larger systemic public health hazards to American patients. Dr. Noorchashm has studied and called attention to several high-profile patient safety failures in the medical device regulatory system. His work has led to medical device recalls and changes in the standards of care that elucidate gaps or failures in the evidence-based approach to innovation in modern healthcare.

“I'm privileged by this unique opportunity to help create a medical-legal collaborative at Northeastern University,” said Dr. Noorchashm, who also serves as president of the nonprofit advocacy group Harmed Americans for Reform of Medical-Device Safety (HARMS) Corp. “I am confident that the university’s world-class legal scholarship will allow us to promote a healthier and safer US medical device ecosystem.”

Dr. Noorchashm holds MD and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. He completed residency training in general and cardiothoracic surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women's Hospital, respectively.