Ravi Thadhani
Advisory Board Member Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University Executive Director, Emory Woodruff Health Sciences Center Vice Chair, Emory Healthcare Board of DirectorsRavi I. Thadhani, MD, MPH, is the executive vice president for health affairs of Emory University, executive director of Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and vice chair of the Emory Healthcare Board of Directors since January 2023. Thadhani oversees Emory’s renowned academic health sciences enterprise focused on advancing research, training, and health-care delivery innovation: The Woodruff Health Sciences Center; the Winship Cancer Institute; Emory National Primate Research Center; Emory Global Health Institute; Goizueta Institute @ Emory Brain Health; Emory Global Diabetes Research Center; and Emory Healthcare. As vice chair of the Emory Healthcare Board, Thadhani provides oversight of Emory Healthcare’s CEO and leadership team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care focused on supporting the health and well-being of patients around the state. Emory Healthcare, with more than 24,000 employees and 11 hospital campuses and 425 locations in Georgia.
Thadhani most recently served as chief academic officer and dean for faculty affairs for Mass General Brigham and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, Massachusetts. At Mass General Brigham, he was a member of the executive leadership team and oversaw graduate medical education, professional development, and a $2.3 billion research enterprise. Previously, Thadhani served as vice dean of research and graduate research education at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles (2017-2019), associate director of research at Mass General Brigham (2012-2017), and chief of nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital (2013-2017).
Thadhani earned his Doctor of Medicinedegree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1991. He received a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame. He also completed the LEAD Innovation Certificate Program in 2020 at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
