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Preeta Chidambaran, M.B.,B.S.

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2012
HRSA Administrator's award - Outstanding Group Performance - Quality Improvement Team
2014
HRSA Senior Leader Fellow
2015
HRSA Recognition for Workforce Development
2019
CMS Special Achievement Award
2020
CMS Honor Award for COVID- 19 response
2022 - 2023
CMS Performance Achievement award

Overview
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Dr. Preeta Chidambaran is a Physician- Medical Officer in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). She is currently with the Technology, Coding and Pricing Group (TCPG) at the Center for Medicare. Her areas of expertise include Medicare coding and payment policies, clinical quality improvement, team-based care, and patient engagement.

Dr. Chidambaran has held numerous roles within HHS during the last thirteen years, serving as Physician- Medical Officer in the Center for Medicare, Chronic Care Policy Group (CCPG) at CMS/HHS (2016-2020), and as Medical Officer for Quality at Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) at the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA)/HHS (2010-2016). She has received numerous awards such as the CMS Honor Award for COVID- 19 response, CMS Special Achievement award, HRSA Administrator’s citation for outstanding group performance in quality improvement and was selected as a HRSA Senior Leader Fellow.

Dr. Chidambaran is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s hospital since 2007. She is a board-certified internal medicine physician with extensive experience in integrated healthcare delivery and community health. She currently practices internal medicine, primary care in Maryland. Previously, she worked at Harvard University Health Services in Boston, MA and Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Co-founder and Board Member of iLearningEngines – a learning technology company for corporate, patient and clinician education.

Dr. Chidambaran received her medical degree from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in India. She completed her internal medicine training at Albert Einstein Medical School, NY and Kaiser Permanente in CA. She completed a Health Policy Fellowship at Harvard Medical School and was a California Endowment Scholar in Health Policy at Harvard University. She also received an MPH in Healthcare Management and Policy from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Available: 04/29/15, Expires: 11/30/28

Project Description: Evaluate clinical quality improvement and health policy implications in key clinical areas. This will include analysis of factors impacting health care quality and performance, and developing strategies to improve clinical quality at the patient, provider and system level. Students working on the project can expect to develop expertise in health policy fundamentals and clinical quality improvement. Faculty mentor for this opportunity is Preeta Chidambaran, MD, MPH, an HMS faculty, internal medicine physician, and Medical Officer in U.S. Government for CMS/Medicare, HHS. Faculty bio in Harvard Catalyst. Past student project has been selected for HMS Honors thesis. Student role: 1. Identify specific clinical area of interest 2. Develop project proposal 3. Complete independent literature review, stakeholder input and data analysis 4. Develop recommendations for Quality Improvement and Health Policy. Mentorship will be provided throughout project via 1:1 discussions, feedback on documents and overall guidance. Office Hours and contact information available upon request. Both term-time and year-long projects are available. Contact email- Preeta.chidambaran@post.harvard.edu

Available: 11/03/20, Expires: 11/30/28

Students working on the project can expect to develop expertise in health policy fundamentals and clinical quality improvement. A past student project has been selected for HMS Honors thesis. Faculty mentor is Dr. Preeta Chidambaran, MD, MPH. She currently works in the federal government as a Physician- Medical Officer in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Center for Medicare, Technology, Coding and Pricing group. Dr. Chidambaran is a HMS faculty internal medicine physician. Student role: Identify and develop project proposal, literature review and data analysis, stakeholder input, develop recommendations for Quality Improvement and Health Policy. Mentorship will be provided throughout project via 1:1 discussions, on documents and overall guidance. Both term-time and year-long projects are available. Project available for remote learning and remote participation. Contact email- Preeta.chidambaran@post.harvard.edu


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