Ali Khan, MD, MPP

A Southerner by birth (thankfully) from Northern Virginia, my childhood consisted of rooting for the Redskins, Bullets/Wizards, Capitals, United, Baltimore Orioles and (a recent development) the Nationals - which is probably the basis of my high tolerance for pain and general sorrow. Thinking that I'd grow up to be the next great American writer, I naturally entered an eight-year B.S./M.D. program at Virginia Commonwealth (yes, the basketball school), where I majored in print journalism while deliberating whether medicine was the means by which I could work in meaningful public service. After taking short stints in the real world (as a freelance reporter and as a research associate at Physicians for Human Rights in Boston), I had my answer, returning to the great state of VA to start at the Medical College of Virginia. Along the way, I detoured back to Boston to complete a Master in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School - but I assure you I look far better in blue than crimson.

After three years training in internal medicine here at Yale-New Haven Hospital, I joined the Yale Medicine faculty. My focus: work at the intersection of medicine, entrepreneurship, translational health policy, population health and public service to help transform American health care delivery and achieve the quadruple aim. I have a particular focus on vanguard delivery system models, alternative payment models, super-utilizer care and cross-functional health innovation in primary care, given my years of clinical and operational leadership in frontier groups such as Iora Health and CareMore Health System.

I'm here at Yale with my lovely wife Asima, an alum of the OB/GYN residency and a reproductive endocrinologist focused on low-cost, low-complexity infertility. I'm interested in the intersection of medicine and public service, particularly from the frames of domestic health policy and health economics. When you see me around, however, feel free to ask me about my more random loves: football, public leadership, wonk-tastic politics, writing, bad photography, the best food carts outside Yale-New Haven Hospital, the "joys" of medical training and, above all, the Washington Redskins - God's gift to Washington, D.C.