Aaron P. Mitchell is a medical oncologist and health services researcher. After graduating from NYU Medical School, he completed his clinical training at Duke University Hospital (internal medicine) and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (medical oncology). He received an MPH in epidemiology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at UNC’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services research.

Dr Mitchell’s research focuses on the interaction between financial incentives and physician behavior, including financial conflicts of interest with the drug industry. He seeks to understand determinants of oncology practice, in particular the delivery of non-recommended and low-value care. He leads NCI- and DoD-funded studies of the impact of reimbursement incentives, physician-industry conflict-of-interest, and socioeconomic setting on cancer care quality. His work on physician-industry COI and delivery of low-value care has been published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, JNCI, and The BMJ.

Dr Mitchell’s clinical interests are in genitourinary malignancies; in addition to his primary appointment at MSKCC in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, he holds a co-appointment in the Genitourinary Oncology Service, treating patients with prostate and bladder cancer.