Michael S. Sherman, MD, MBA, MS Biography Dr. Michael Sherman serves as chief medical officer and senior vice president for health services for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. He is a pioneer in developing outcomes-based payment agreements with pharmaceutical companies that go beyond the historical "pay for pill" approach and tie reimbursement to patient outcomes. Dr. Sherman serves as chair of the Board of Managers of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, which encompasses the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School, on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), and on the board of directors for the Personalized Medicine Coalition. He holds a B.A. and an M.S. in biomedical anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and received his M.D. from Yale and M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.