Rishi Wadhera
Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management
Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Departments
Department of Health Policy and Management
Other Positions
Associate Professor of Medicine
;Medicine-Beth Israel Deaconess, Harvard Medical School
Biography
Rishi K. Wadhera, M.D., M.P.P., M.Phil. is a cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Associate Program Director of the Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship. He is also the Associate Director of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Wadhera received his M.D. from the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine as well as a Masters (M.Phil.) in Public Health as a Gates Cambridge Scholar from the University of Cambridge. He completed both his Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he received the Harvard Medical School Resident Teaching Excellence Award. During this time, he also received a Master’s in Public Policy (M.P.P.) as a Jerome H. Grossman Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, with a focus on health policy.
Dr. Wadhera's research combines the use of real-world data with advanced statistical, econometric, and epidemiological methods to answer questions related to healthcare access, quality and value, and population health, with a focus on cardiovascular outcomes. His work has explored how state and federal health policies - particularly those enacted under the Affordable Care Act - impact care delivery, clinical outcomes, and health equity. Dr. Wadhera's research program is funded by by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other extramural grants. He is the PI of 3 R01 grants from NIH, a co-investigator on several other R01s, and a recipient of the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award. Dr. Wadhera has authored >190 peer-reviewed publications, many of which have appeared in leading medical journals (New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal). He has also mentored numerous medical students, residents, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty across the Harvard system and nationally, and is a recipient of the Harvard Medical School Excellence in Mentoring Award (2023). Dr. Wadhera serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), Senior Associate Editor for Health Services Research Journal, and is on the Editorial Board of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Education and Training
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M.D., Medicine
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine -
M.P.P., Healthy Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government -
M.Phil., Public Health
University of Cambridge -
, Internal Medicine Residency
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School -
, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Awards and Honors
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Harvard Medical School Excellence in Mentoring Award, 2023
Harvard Medical School -
Harvard Medical School Program Award for Culture of Excellence in Mentoring, 2022
Harvard Medical School -
Harvard Kennedy School Jerome Grossman Health Policy Fellowship, 2016
Harvard Kennedy School -
Harvard Medical School Resident Teaching Excellence Award, 2014
Harvard Medical School -
Gates Cambridge Scholarship, 2008
University of Cambridge -
Mayo Clinic Merit Scholarship, 2006
Mayo Clinic