Speaker

Mallika L Mendu

Biography :

Mallika L. Mendu, MD, MBA, is Chief Population Health Officer for Mass General Brigham. Mallika leads the Population Health Services Organization, partnering closely with systemwide clinical and administrative leaders to set priorities and drive progress for the value-based care business. The PHSO identifies, develops, implements, and evaluates innovative care programs that improve quality, promote equity, and prevent avoidable hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and skilled nursing facility admissions or readmissions. We also provide patients with more choice in how and where they receive care. The PHSO works closely with frontline health care providers across the system, including care managers that help patients stay healthy and out of the emergency room, pharmacists that call patients to make sure they’re taking the medications they need, and population health coordinators and community health workers that help patients manage chronic conditions. Dr. Mendu completed her internal medicine residency at the BWH, her nephrology training at the BWH and MGH, and her MD and MBA degrees at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Management, respectively. She received her Bachelor’s in Science from Brown University. She serves in the Department of Medicine, Renal Division, as a practicing nephrologist, clinical researcher, and associate professor, and conducts research related to quality, population health, equity and care delivery innovation. She has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and provides mentorship to trainees conducting research in health care delivery innovation.