Community Socioeconomic Status, Acute Cardiovascular Hospitalizations, and Mortality in Medicare, 2003 to 2019.
Wadhera RK, Secemsky EA, Xu J, Yeh RW, Song Y, Goldhaber SZ.
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2024 Apr 10. e010090. PMID: 38597091
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 an R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and is also a co-investigator on several other R01s. Dr. Wadhera has authored >160 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 Senior Associate Editor for Health Services Research Journal and is on the Editorial Board of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
M.D., 05/2011, Medicine
Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
M.P.P., 5/2018, Healthy Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
M.Phil., 6/2009, Public Health
University of Cambridge
6/2014, Internal Medicine Residency
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
6/2019, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School Excellence in Mentoring Award
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School Program Award for Culture of Excellence in Mentoring
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Kennedy School Jerome Grossman Health Policy Fellowship
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Medical School Resident Teaching Excellence Award
Harvard Medical School
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
University of Cambridge
Mayo Clinic Merit Scholarship
Mayo Clinic
Wadhera RK, Secemsky EA, Xu J, Yeh RW, Song Y, Goldhaber SZ.
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2024 Apr 10. e010090. PMID: 38597091
Liu M, Sandhu S, Joynt Maddox KE, Wadhera RK.
JAMA. 2024 Mar 27. PMID: 38536161
Henry CM, Oseran AS, Zheng Z, Dong H, Wadhera RK.
Eur Heart J. 2024 Mar 27. 45(12):1017-1026. PMID: 37952173
Oddleifson DA, Holmes DN, Alhanti B, Xu X, Heidenreich PA, Wadhera RK, Allen LA, Greene SJ, Fonarow GC, Spatz ES, Desai NR.
JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Mar 01. 9(3):222-232. PMID: 38170516
Perera S, Zheng Z, Wadhera RK.
Am J Cardiol. 2024 Apr 01. 216:77-86. PMID: 38369173
Oddleifson DA, Zheng Z, Wadhera RK.
Am Heart J. 2024 Feb 15. 271:20-27. PMID: 38365072
Alba C, Zheng Z, Wadhera RK.
JAMA Health Forum. 2024 Feb 02. 5(2):e235058. PMID: 38306093
Liu M, Patel VR, Salas RN, Rice MB, Kazi DS, Zheng Z, Wadhera RK.
JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Feb 01. 9(2):153-163. PMID: 37955891
Sterling MR, Wadhera RK.
Ann Intern Med. 2024 02. 177(2):249-250. PMID: 38252941
Gondi S, Joynt Maddox K, Wadhera RK.
N Engl J Med. 2024 Jan 18. 390(3):197-199. PMID: 38226845