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Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD

Professor, Harvard Medical School; Chief Medical Officer, RxAnte
Harvard Medical School; RxAnte
Chestnut Hill, MA

Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Harvard University, Executive Director for the Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he also a practicing hospitalist, and Chief Medical Officer of RxAnte. He directs two National Institutes of Health-funded research centers: the Roybal Center for Therapeutic Optimization using Behavioral Science, that is the evaluating the impact of principle-driven interventions to improve medication adherence, and the Massachusetts Artificial Intelligence and Technology Center that fosters the development of AI-enhanced technologies to support healthy aging at home for older adults and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.

Much of Dr. Choudhry’s research deals with design and evaluation of novel strategies to enhance medication adherence and improve the quality of prescribing for common health care conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. He has led numerous pragmatic trials testing a variety of potential interventions to address these issues in partnership with large delivery systems and health insurers around the U.S. These include the use of financial incentives, pharmacist-led interventions, behavioral interviewing techniques, nudges, smartphone applications, reminder devices. In ongoing work, he and his colleagues are testing the use of reinforcement learning to personalize text messages, electronic health record decision support, and health information technology tools.

Dr. Choudhry attended McGill University, received his M.D. and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto and then served as Chief Medical Resident for the Toronto General and Toronto Western Hospitals. He earned his Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University with a concentration in Statistics and the Evaluative Sciences and was concurrently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Drug Policy Research at Harvard Medical School. His research has published over 300 papers in leading medical and policy journals and has won numerous awards for excellence in research, teaching and mentorship.

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