Medical Director, Post-Acute Care And Palliative Care At Home
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Physician Advisor | Care at Home | Digital Biomarkers and RPM | Brain Health, Aging and Serious illness | Population Health Management | Global Health Equity
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Physician Advisor | Care at Home | Digital Biomarkers and RPM | Brain Health, Aging and Serious illness | Population Health Management | Global Health Equity
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Carmel, California, United States
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Ankur Bharija, Md is listed as Physician Advisor | Care at Home | Digital Biomarkers and RPM | Brain Health, Aging and Serious illness | Population Health Management | Global Health Equity at CareCentrix, based in Carmel, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at intersections.com, phone signal with area code 937, 703, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Ankur Bharija, Md.
Ankur Bharija, Md previously worked as Medical Director, Post-Acute Care and Palliative Care at Home at Carecentrix and Healthcare Consultant at Self-Employed. Ankur Bharija, Md holds Clinical Effectiveness Leadership Training (Celt), Health System Improvement from Stanford University School Of Medicine.
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About Ankur Bharija, Md
Ankur Bharija, MD is a physician executive with over 15 years of experience in clinical care & health system leadership, digital health innovation & product-market integration, and global health equity & social entrepreneurship. As a healthcare and life sciences leader, Dr. Bharija has driven digital health product innovation and rapid adoption in the US and emerging markets globally. As Vice President at a Venture-funded startup, developing digital biomarkers for brain health, he successfully co-led product ideation, design, enhancements, go-to-market strategy, and clinical implementation, and assisted with SaMD regulatory & compliance matters. Dr. Bharija has experience advising and consulting with healthcare startup companies, and VC firms in refining GTM strategy (refining product and clinical & economic value proposition) As a health system leader, Dr. Bharija has deep experience in managed care and leading value-based care models for complex patient populations in several US health systems. As a medical director for an FQHC PACE program, he worked on improving chronic disease monitoring,care coordination, care at home, and acute-care utilization for the ‘high need, high cost’ ( High cognitive and SDOH burden) population, while integrating technology-driven & human-centric solutions. Later, at a large academic medical center, he led several ‘Age-Friendly’ initiatives for hospitalized older adults that improved quality (60% delirium, 50% polypharmacy & mortality reduction), access (length of stay, readmission rates, home discharges) and patient-provider experience. As a geriatric and palliative medicine clinician, Dr. Bharija has extensive experience in caring for older adults and family caregivers with serious medical conditions (incl Alzheimer’s Disease and rel. Dementias) and complex psycho-social situations. He is passionate about promoting functional independence and brain health (cognitive, physical, medical, and psycho-social determinants) for older adults, through scientific discovery and care delivery innovation.As an advocate for global health equity and social justice, Dr. Bharija is passionate about social entrepreneurship, scientific discovery, and clinical innovation in LMICs. As a co-founder of a digital health social enterprise, he led cross-functional teams to develop a mobile application for Stroke patients and caregivers in remote sites in over 10 LMICs and was successful in showing 50% retention rates at 6 months. Through his work and life, Dr. Bharija strives to IMPACT the most vulnerable in every community.
Listed skills include Medicine, Healthcare, Palliative Care, Medical Education, and 25 others.
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13 roles · 23 years
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Healthcare Consultant
Current
Self-Employed
Providing consultancy to companies ranging from early-stage start-ups to big pharma in the digital diagnostics and therapeutics space.Clients include: - Roche Digital Health Solutions - Neurogeneces - Neoauvra
Dec 2022 - Present
Vice President, Geriatrics And Clinical Innovation
An executive leader within a digital health company reshaping the brain health landscape by developing biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Disease, and others. Responsible for various aspects from product development, clinical implementation, and validation, to medical affairs and regulatory aspects of going to market in US and EU.- Co-led cross-functional teams from medical, product, analytics and marketing from ideation to design,and marketing to customer integration. - Helped create an effective product implementation and evaluation roadmap for the primary care market, considering the individual practice needs and goals, and generating personalized value for providers, practices, patients, and family caregivers.- Co-led the creation of training modules for internal and external (provider and patient) stakeholders from product marketing, and science (neuroscience and gerontology) perspective. - Medical point-person for the regulatory and legal compliance steps towards a successful (SaMD) FDA and EU CE mark designations. - Provided guidance on the design of clinical-trials to evaluate the digital medical device against blood biomarker and clinical data sets; and clinical validation studies with real-world customers to evaluate value-added to healthcare delivery.
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Inpatient Geriatric Med Consult Service And Faculty, Serious Illness Care Program At Stanford
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Clinical Assistant Professor, Primary Care And Population Health
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Medical Director, Inpatient Geriatrics; Clinical Assistant Professor, Geriatric Medicine
A Clinician Innovator Faculty at Stanford Medicine, focused on improving the care delivery and experience of hospitalized older adults aged 65 years and older, providing value to patients, health care providers and the health system. Medical Director, Inpatient Geriatric Medicine service at Stanford HospitalAs the founding director of the inpatient service line: • Led the launch of the inpatient geriatric medicine consult service in 2016 and the Acute Care for Elders unit at Stanford Hospital in 2017. • Led a multi-disciplinary team of the Geriatric Trauma care pathway to the successful recognition as an Age-Friendly Health System Committed to Care Excellence for Older Adults by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI); the first such recognition for Stanford in 2019. • Led several care delivery design and improvement efforts, that have reduced variation in care, improved quality (delirium and mortality reduction) and reduced cost of care (Length of stay reduction) thereby promoting high-value care, and improved health outcomes for patients. • Brought multi-disciplinary teams and patient-family volunteers together to promote human-centered care re-design for high-risk patient populations and improve patient experience. • Represented the team and presented the work, at national forums including the IHI, AHA and the AGS and others.
Oct 2015 - Jul 2020
Medical Director, Pace (Program Of All-Inclusive Care For The Elderly) Site
Medical Director for a PACE site in an FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center), a safety net health system serving a diverse population with medically complex and high psycho-social needs. • Leading a team of multi-disciplinary professionals for design and implementation of a person-centered care plan addressing medical and social needs of a high-risk population. • Coordinating care with several providers in different settings to ensure patient goals and values are central to care received. • Ensuring population health management by appropriate risk stratification and close monitoring of utilization, quality metrics. • Ensuring equitable distribution of resources, addressing diverse psycho-social and financial needs affecting health outcomes. • Co-led risk management and utilization review committees for the high-need, high-cost dual eligible population with functional needs. Performed utilization management case reviews and peer-to-peer discussions for appropriate care planning. • Co-led establishment of a palliative care program within the PACE site, strategy, process and evaluation workflows.• Co-led several quality and process improvement efforts to reduce variation in care. • Led a task force at Massachusetts Medical Society to create public awareness around end of life care choices and planning.
Jul 2012 - Jul 2015
Clinical Assistant Professor, Geriatric Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM): - Quarterly Geriatric-Palliative care didactic workshops for BUSM Geriatrics fellows. - Med Student preceptor - PACE clinical rotation for BUSM MS4 (1/month).
Jul 2012 - Jun 2015
Fellow, Geriatric Medicine & Clinical Instructor, Internal Medicine
Clinician Educator in Medicine with a focus on public health education and awareness. • Prepared and conducted various workshops and seminars for family caregivers and community social workers to educate and inform them about the needs of older adults with complex medical and social programs. • Co-led the successful implementation of a community based palliative care program in a CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community). Workshops:-- Communication-Skills Orientation Workshop - Faculty Advisor Audience: 1st year Medical and Surgical residency Interns, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati. 06/2011 -- Chief Resident Intensive Training (CRIT) Retreat - Group Leader; Inter-professional Communication Toolkit DevelopmentAudience: Chief Residents, Medical and Surgical programs, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati. 05/2011-- Palliative Care - A Primer for the Medical Student AGS Student chapter and Hem/Onc interest group lecture series. Audience: 1st, 2nd and 3rd year medical students, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati. 04/2011-- Palliative Care - The What, Why & When?25th Annual Forum on Aging and Annual Meeting, Council on Aging of Southwest Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio. Audience: Social workers, Nurses, Case managers (Hospice, Home-health & Nursing Home) 03/2011-- The Tough Talk - Communicating with Patients with Serious Illness26th Annual Forum on Aging and Annual Meeting, Council on Aging of Southwest Ohio, Cincinnati, OhioAudience: Social workers, Nurses, Case managers (Hospice, Home-health, Nursing Home). 03/2012
2010 - 2012
~2 yrs
Fellow, Palliative Medicine & Clinical Instructor, Internal Medicine
Presentations: -- Innovation in Transition of Care from Diagnosis to Endof Life in a Veteran population; Bharija A, Kumar G, Hayes K. Marvin R. Dunn Poster Session at the ACGME’s Annual Education Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. 03/2010 (Poster)Workshops:-- Introduction to Palliative Care- Overview & Current GuidelinesAudience: Primary Care & Sub-speciality Nurse Practitioners, Social Workers; Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), Dayton, OH. 04/2010
2009 - 2010
~1 yr
Resident Physician & Clinical Instructor, Internal Medicine
Presentations:-- Medullary Thyroid Cancer recurrence with Skeletal metastasis and the Imaging dilemma: A case reportHelen Popaway Dayton Area resident research competition. Kettering Medical Center, Dayton, OH. 05/2009-- Physician's role in confronting Health challenges: Perspectives from the Developing World; Special Grand Rounds presentation with Sula Mazimba, MD.Kettering Medical Center, Dayton, OH. 11/2007Institutional Committees:-- Ethics Committee, Kettering Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio. 2007-2009
2006 - 2009
~3 yrs
Research Assistant, Department Of Medicine
2005 - 2006
~1 yr
Emergency Medicine & Trauma, Junior Resident
2004 - 2005
~1 yr
7 education records
Ankur Bharija, Md education
Clinical Effectiveness Leadership Training (Celt), Health System Improvement
Stanford University School Of Medicine
Startup 101 Entrepreneurship Course
Ucsf Innovation Ventures
Value-Based Health Care Delivery
Harvard Business School
Fellowship, Geriatric Medicine
University Of Cincinnati
Fellowship, Palliative Medicine
Wright State University Boonshoft School Of Medicine
Residency, Internal Medicine
Kettering Medical Center / Wright State University
Bachelor Of Medicine, Bachelor Of Surgery (Mbbs), Medicine
Manipal University, Kasturba Medical College
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Ankur Bharija, Md works for CareCentrix.
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Ankur Bharija, Md is listed as Physician Advisor | Care at Home | Digital Biomarkers and RPM | Brain Health, Aging and Serious illness | Population Health Management | Global Health Equity at CareCentrix.
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Ankur Bharija, Md is based in Carmel, California, United States while working with CareCentrix.
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Ankur Bharija, Md has worked for Carecentrix, Self-Employed, Linus Health, Stanford University, and East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.
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Ankur Bharija, Md holds Clinical Effectiveness Leadership Training (Celt), Health System Improvement from Stanford University School Of Medicine.
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Ankur Bharija, Md is listed with skills including Medicine, Healthcare, Palliative Care, Medical Education, Internal Medicine, Healthcare Management, Elder Care, and Health Policy.
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