Dr. Kannan is a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy and a physician in the Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her Bachelor's degree in Bioengineering from MIT, her M.D. from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and an M.S. in Health Policy from Harvard University. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and her Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship at the Harvard Combined Fellowship Program. Her research focuses on the cost of providing medical care and how organizational financial incentives impact patient outcomes and care delivery.