Raina Merchant
Raina is a physician executive and serves as the vice president and chief transformation officer for Penn Medicine. She is also a tenured professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and has secondary appointments in the Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, and Division of Health Policy.
Much of her research and operations work bridges new technologies in the fields of cardiovascular health, mental health, cancer care, disaster medicine, public health, health equity, and resuscitation science. Raina has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2011, and her work has been published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Circulation, and Health Affairs. She is a member of the editorial board of JAMA.
Raina is an Aspen Health Innovators fellow and was recognized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as one of 10 investigators likely to have a significant impact on the future of health and health care in the United States. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Education
MSHP
University of Pennsylvania
MD
University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
BA
Yale University
Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Associate Vice President
Digital Health
Chief Transformation Officer & Vice President
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Senior Fellow
Institute for Biomedical Informatics; Penn Center for Public Health Initiatives; Leonard Davis Institute of Behavioral Economics
Member
National Academy of Medicine