Sandeep (Sunny) Kishore
Sandeep (Sunny) Kishore came to us from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he is a faculty member in the Department of Health System Design & Global Health and former Associate Director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health. He focuses on care model and policy innovations for chronic disease prevention and control in the US and globally. Over the past decade, he and his colleagues have successfully petitioned the World Health Organization to add ten treatments for chronic disease to the WHO Essential Medicines List. He has served as a civil society delegate and speaker to the United Nations General Assembly through a policy non-profit he founded — Young Professions Chronic Disease Network. Sunny is a prolific author, serves on the TEDMED Advisory Board, and the steering committee for the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being & Resilience. He received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, has been recognized as a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Inaugural Emerging Leader for the National Academy of Medicine, and a Fellow at the MIT Dalai Lama Center for Ethics & Transformative Values. Sunny graduated from Duke University with a BS in Biology, received his MD and PhD from the Weill Cornell / Rockefeller / Sloan-Kettering Institute, and earned an MSc in immunology as the Usher Cunningham Scholar at Oxford. He completed his medical internship at Yale.
Atrius Health Practice Site: Medford
Atrius Health Preceptor: Paul Feiss, MD and Steven Paskal, MD