James Talcott, MD

James Talcott, MD., is a Senior Medical Director, Oncology for Eviti at NantHealth. Talcott is a medical oncologist, outcomes researcher, and former Oncology Care Model Medical Director. At NantHealth, he develops strategies and tactics for improving the quality and efficiency of cancer care, helping oncology practitioners deliver evidence-based cancer care. Dr. Talcott’s experience ranges from research methodology, outcomes research, and multidisciplinary collaboration. He is an NIH-funded investigator, peer reviewer and teacher, including 25 years teaching clinical research design and data analysis at Harvard Medical School, where he served as Assistant Professor at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and as Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Outcomes Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, subsequently Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein and Mount Sinai medical schools. Talcott earned his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine, a Masters in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and a B.S. in Biology from Stanford. He resides in New York with his wife, a documentary filmmaker.