Health Care Policy Research Section

Rishi K. Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil

Rishi K. Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil is the Associate Director of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also a practicing cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. As the Associate Director of the Smith Center, Dr. Wadhera oversees a large research program focused on health care policy, population health, and cardiovascular outcomes. Dr. Wadhera has authored >200 peer-reviewed publications to date, many of which have appeared in leading journals (New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, BMJ, Circulation, JACC). He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of three R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health NIH), including 2 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and another from the National Institute of Nursing Research. He is also the PI of grants from the American Heart Association (Established Investigator Award), Donaghue Foundation, and other extramural sources. Dr. Wadhera has mentored >30 medical students, residents, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty and is a recipient of the Harvard Medical School Excellence in Mentoring Award. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of American College of Cardiology (JACC), as well as on standing expert advisory panels for the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), the National Committee of Quality Assurance, and American Heart Association (AHA) Policy Statements focused on value-based care.