Dr. Bhatt is currently the executive director of interventional cardiovascular programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He brings to the Board more than 20 years of research experience in acute coronary syndromes, preventive cardiology, and advanced techniques in cardiac, cerebral, and peripheral intervention. He has served as the principal or co-principal investigator for cardiovascular clinical trials focused on interventional cardiology, anti-thrombotic therapy, lipid-lowering therapy, heart failure, obesity, and diabetes, among other areas. Prior to his current position, Dr. Bhatt served as chief of cardiology at VA Boston Healthcare from 2008-2013. During 2001-2008, Dr. Bhatt held a number of roles of increasing responsibility at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to being an attending physician, he served as an associate director of the Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Coordinating Center, director of the interventional cardiology fellowship, as well as the associate director of the cardiovascular medicine fellowship. He received his medical degree from Cornell University and a masters in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and was a fellow in interventional cardiology and cerebral and peripheral vascular intervention at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Bhatt received his undergraduate degree, a bachelor of science, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.