Dr. Bhatt will discuss the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Health Research & Educational Trust’s (HRET) new strategic plans, the current perspective on repeal and replace, and opportunities for collaboration with IHPI researchers to help advance health and healthcare delivery. Furthermore, Dr. Bhatt will explore innovations and the imperative for health.
Dr. Jay Bhatt serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer of the American Hospital Association and President of the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET). Most recently, he was the first Chief Health Officer at the Illinois Health & Hospital Association. In this role he helps over 200 hospitals and 50 health systems succeed on their mission. In this role, he is leading large improvement projects including the Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) which is aimed at reducing readmissions and hospital acquired conditions. He has launched several improvement collaboratives, managed the Medical Executive Forum, led the Midwest Alliance for Patient Safety, and designed and advanced a statewide high reliability initiative.
He was Managing Deputy Commissioner and Chief Innovation Officer for the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH). There he led the implementation of Healthy Chicago - the city's public health agenda, innovations in cross-sector partnerships, predictive analytics, epidemiology and informatics. He led the department to be internationally and nationally recognized in their approach to using predictive analytics to improve food inspections, chronic disease, West-Nile, and lead inspections. He also led a groundbreaking initiative with Advocate South Asian Cardiovascular Center in developing the SAHEB (South Asian Healthy Eating Benefits program) along with a partnership to reimagine community benefit spending with Presence Health. Under his leadership, the Chicago Department of Public Health was awarded Local Health Department of the Year, and received an award from the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.
He also is a practicing internal medicine physician for Erie Family Health Center in Chicago serving vulnerable populations and is a member of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern faculty, and the University of Michigan Medical School faculty. In 2006-07 he served as the National President of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) where he led advocacy efforts around the National Health Service Corps. He has been appointed to HHS, CDC, and IOM committees. He is an appointee of Governor Rauner to the State Health Improvement Planning Council.
He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1999 with a degree in Economics. In 2008, Dr. Bhatt received both his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and his Master in Public Health degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. In 2012 he received his Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman Leadership Fellow and Mongan Commonwealth Fund/Harvard Minority Health Policy Fellow. He was a White House Fellows National Finalist in 2013. He is an American College of Physicians Walter McDonald Young Physician Awardee, 40 under 40 health innovator award recognition, and selected to the prestigious Presidential Leadership Scholars Program in 2016.
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