Cardiovascular Risk Factor Prevalence, Treatment, and Control in US Adults Aged 20 to 44 Years, 2009 to March 2020.
Aggarwal R, Yeh RW, Joynt Maddox KE, Wadhera RK.
JAMA. 2023 03 21. 329(11):899-909. PMID: 36871237
Rishi K. Wadhera, M.D., M.P.P., M.Phil. is a cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Associate Program Director of the Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship at BIDMC, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Section Head of Health Policy and Equity at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research.
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, population health, and health policy, with a focus on cardiovascular outcomes. His work has explored how state and federal health policy initiatives (e.g, value-based payment models, pay-for-performance, insurance expansions) - particularly those enacted under the Affordable Care Act - effect health care delivery, spending, and outcomes, as well as the impacts of policy on healthcare disparities and equity. Dr. Wadhera's research program is funded by by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and extramural grants. He is the PI of an R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the NIH and a K23 award, and is also a co-investigator on several other R01s. Dr. Wadhera has authored >130 peer-reviewed publications, many of which have appeared in leading medical journals (New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, British Medical Journal, JAMA Internal Medicine, Circulation, JACC, and Health Affairs), and has mentored numerous medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty across the Harvard system and nationally. He serves as Senior Associate Editor for Health Services Research Journal, is on the Editorial Board of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, and has served as an expert writing group member for American Heart Association (AHA) Policy Statements focused on value-based care in cardiology.
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
Mayo Clinic Merit Scholarship
Mayo Clinic
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
University of Cambridge
Harvard Medical School Resident Teaching Excellence Award
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Kennedy School Jerome Grossman Health Policy Fellowship
Harvard Kennedy School
Aggarwal R, Yeh RW, Joynt Maddox KE, Wadhera RK.
JAMA. 2023 03 21. 329(11):899-909. PMID: 36871237
Narasimmaraj PR, Wadhera RK.
JACC Heart Fail. 2023 01. 11(1):124-125. PMID: 36599539
Sandhu S, Liu M, Wadhera RK.
N Engl J Med. 2022 12 29. 387(26):2395-2397. PMID: 36573695
Raja A, Wadhera RK, Choi E, Chen S, Shen C, Figueroa JF, Yeh RW, Secemsky EA.
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2023 01. 16(1):e009199. PMID: 36472193
Kobo O, Abramov D, Fudim M, Sharma G, Bang V, Deshpande A, Wadhera RK, Mamas MA.
Eur Heart J Qual Care Clin Outcomes. 2022 Nov 28. PMID: 36442154
Liu M, Wadhera RK.
JAMA. 2022 11 15. 328(19):1974-1977. PMID: 36378215
Figueroa JF, Wadhera RK.
JAMA Netw Open. 2022 11 01. 5(11):e2242593. PMID: 36394876
Chiu N, Aggarwal R, Hernandez I, Wadhera R, Dejong C, Tseng CW, Yeh RW, Kazi DS.
Diabetes Care. 2022 11 01. 45(11):e163-e164. PMID: 36041194
Gondi S, Joynt Maddox K, Wadhera RK.
N Engl J Med. 2022 10 06. 387(14):1340. PMID: 36198194
Aggarwal R, Yeh RW, Dahabreh IJ, Robertson SE, Wadhera RK.
PLoS Med. 2022 10. 19(10):e1004083. PMID: 36194574