Rajesh Vedanthan, MD, MPH graduated with distinction from Swarthmore College, where he was awarded the Ivy Award for top male student in the graduating class. He subsequently won a Marshall Scholarship and studied towards a degree in Human Sciences at Oxford University. He earned his Master of Public Health degree in 2000 from the University of California, Berkeley, and his medical degree in 2002 from the University of California, San Francisco, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha society and the Gold-Headed Cane society. He won a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship during this time and now serves in the leadership of the Soros Fellowship Alumni Association. After completing his residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he spent one year in Eldoret, Kenya, as the Team Leader of the Indiana University-Kenya Partnership. He subsequently completed his Fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Vedanthan is currently Associate Professor in Medicine (Cardiology) at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His area of research interest is global cardiology, global health delivery, capacity-building, and the intersection of health and development. In addition to his hospital practice, Dr. Vedanthan treats ambulatory patients with a broad spectrum of cardiac conditions, including hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, valvular heart disease, and heart rhythm abnormalities. Dr. Vedanthan is Associate Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation for the Mount Sinai Heart Hospital. Dr. Vedanthan is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease, and he is also Board Certified in Nuclear Cardiology.

Education & experience

Education

Medical School - University of California, San Francisco, Doctor of Medicine

Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Residency in Internal Medicine

The Mount Sinai Hospital, Fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine

University of California, Berkeley, Master's in Public Health

Practice

Mount Sinai Cardiology

Certifications

Cardiovascular Disease (Internal Medicine)

Professional memberships

American Heart Association

American College of Cardiology

American Medical Association

Awards and publications

Excellence in Teaching Award, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2013

Bloomfield GS, Vedanthan R, Vasudevan L, Kithei A, Were M, Velazquez EJ. Mobile health for non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the literature and strategic framework for research. Globalization and health 2014; 10.

Vedanthan R, Seligman B, Fuster V. Global perspective on acute coronary syndrome: a burden on the young and poor. Circulation research 2014 Jun; 114(12).

Vedanthan R, Kamano JH, Naanyu V, Delong AK, Were MC, Finkelstein EA, Menya D, Akwanalo CO, Bloomfield GS, Binanay CA, Velazquez EJ, Hogan JW, Horowitz CR, Inui TS, Kimaiyo S, Fuster V. Optimizing linkage and retention to hypertension care in rural Kenya (LARK hypertension study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 2014; 15.

Vedanthan R, Kamano JH, Horowitz CR, Ascheim D, Velazquez EJ, Kimaiyo S, Fuster V. Nurse management of hypertension in rural Western kenya: implementation research to optimize delivery. Annals of global health; 80(1).

Background

Languages spoken

English

Spanish

Gender

Male

NPI number

#1861650608

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