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Brad Richards, MD, MBA

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Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Assistant Professor of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Brad Richards is currently the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Social Services which oversees Medicaid and CHIP for Connecticut. He received his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine, MBA from the Yale School of Management as part of the healthcare track in the executive MBA program, and completed internal medicine residency and a chief resident year in Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine training program before joining faculty in the Department of Medicine at Yale School off Medicine. He is currently an Assistant Professor Adjunct at Yale School of Medicine and Assistant Professor at Yale School of Management. He continues to practice both inpatient and outpatient medicine, co-leads a course on Population Health and Health Equity at Yale School of Management, and co-leads the Primary Care Innovations curriculum for the Yale Primary Care training program.


Education & Training

MBA
Yale School of Management, MBA (2018)
MD
Georgetown University School of Medicine (2010)

Clinical Care

Overview

Brad Richards, MD, is a primary care doctor who treats adults. When he meets a patient who is worried about a particular diagnosis, he tells them, “I understand that this might you feel nervous or scared, but we will work through this together.”

An assistant professor of medicine (general medicine) at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Richards says he is excited by the prospect of reforms in payment for primary care, “which I believe will drive primary care practice transformation for years to come.”

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