Kavita Patel

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Managing Director for Clinical Transformation and Delivery, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform | Fellow, Economic Studies

Kavita Patel speaks on a panel about payment reform

Kavita Patel is a fellow in the Economic Studies program and managing director for clinical transformation and delivery at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform. Dr. Patel is also a practicing primary care internist at Johns Hopkins Medicine and served in the Obama administration as director of policy for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement in the White House. | View Full Bio

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Expertise

  • Health care payment and delivery system innovation and reform
  • health care economics and biostatistics
  • patient-centered care and quality improvement.

Experience

Current Positions

  • Fellow, Economic Studies program
  • Managing Director for Clinical Transformation and Delivery, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform.

Past Positions

  • Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation
  • Director of Policy, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement
  • Deputy Staff Director for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee under chairman Senator Edward Kennedy.

Education

  • MD, University of Texas Health Science Center
  • MS, University of California Los Angeles.

Language Fluency

  • English

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