Atheendar S. Venkataramani

Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, is the R&D impact professor of medical ethics and health policy research at the University of Pennsylvania and a staff physician at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. He is the founding director of the Penn Opportunity for Health Lab, a research group that seeks to identify policies and interventions that can jointly bolster both economic opportunity and health in the United States, and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Venkataramani is a health economist who studies how social and economic factors and policies affect health and well-being throughout the life-course. His research combines insights from economics, public health, statistics, and clinical medicine.

Dr. Venkataramani completed his MD at Washington University, his PhD in health policy (Economics) and Yale University, and his BS in Biology and Economics at Duke University. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine–Global Primary Care at the Massachusetts General Hospital.