Accomplished and driven physician and healthcare executive with the clinical, strategic, data analytic, and communication skills to motivate policy and practice change in the government and private sector. Over 10 years of experience in vanguard policy and healthcare organizations, including 5 years leading successful initiatives at the intersection of health policy and system change. Served 1-year as a special advisor on health policy at the White House Office of Management and Budget during the formulation of the Affordable Care Act.
Interim Associate Medical Director for Outpatient Services @ Medical Director with oversight over all outpatient clinical operations including primary and specialty care services at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Responsibilities include deploying new patient-centered medical home model in primary care, improving productivity in specialty care service lines,and implementing stronger managed care operations at the facility.
Concurrently performing Director of System Planning, Improvement, and Data Analytics role at health system level. From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Director of System Planning, Improvement & Data Analytics @ With an annual budget of over $3.5 Billion, the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) is the country’s second largest public health care system and provides services to over 600,000 individuals each year within its directly operated hospitals and ambulatory care centers. As Director of System Planning, Improvement, and Data Analytics, help lead organizational transformation under the Affordable Care Act and oversee multiple system-wide units including the Office of Planning & Data Analytics, Enterprise Health Information Management Division, and Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver performance improvement initiatives. In previous years at DHS, also had direct responsibility for Supply Chain Operations (Oct 2013 - Dec 2014), Audit & Compliance Division (Oct 2013 - Dec 2014), and representing the DHS Director at County Board of Supervisor meetings (Nov 2012 - Nov 2013). From January 2012 to Present (4 years) Greater Los Angeles AreaAssistant Professor in Residence, Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research @ Competitively obtained this tenure-track position as part of a national search. Conducted health services research, provided outpatient and inpatient internal medicine services, and performed clinical and public health teaching at the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health.
*Was on leave September 2009 through August 2010 to serve as a White House Fellow.
**Since January 2012, serve as Adjunct Assistant Professor. From July 2009 to December 2011 (2 years 6 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaWhite House Fellow @ Selected by the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships (http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/fellows). Upon selection, was recruited by OMB Director Peter Orszag to function as a special advisor on health policy. Worked alongside Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel in providing health system and policy expertise to the OMB Divisions including Health, International Affairs, and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Worked on health reform, the President’s Global Health Initiative, and other health policy strategy and regulation. From September 2009 to August 2010 (1 year) Washington D.C. Metro AreaRobert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar @ Completed graduate-level research and training in health policy. Published articles in premier academic journals on the role of state law on HIV testing policy, high deductible health plans, and other topics.
http://rwjcsp.unc.edu/index.html From June 2006 to June 2009 (3 years 1 month) Greater Los Angeles Area
M.S., Health Services @ University of California, Los Angeles - Fielding School of Public Health From 2006 to 2009 MD @ Brown Medical School From 1997 to 2003 MPH, International Health @ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health From 2001 to 2002 BA, Public Policy & American Institutions @ Brown University From 1992 to 1996 Anish Mahajan is skilled in: Health Services Research, Health, Policy Analysis, Global Health, Stata, Program Development, Internal Medicine, Research, Hospitals, Informatics, Health Policy, Clinical Research, Policy, Epidemiology, Healthcare, Public Health, Qualitative Research, Medicine, Health Economics