Mohit Kaushal

Biography

Dr. Mohit Kaushal has had an extensive career within clinical medicine, health policy, academic research and investing. He’s led a number of investments including Humedica (acquired by Optum Health), Rxante (acquired by Millennium), Change Healthcare (acquired by Emdeon), goBalto, and Gravie. During his time in the Obama administration, Mohit was a member of the White House Health IT task force, a cross-agency team focusing on implementing the technology aspects of health reform, and testified to Congress on the application of beneficial technology to the Medicare population. As part of the first dedicated health care team at the Federal Communications Commission, which he led and built, Mohit initiated collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration for the regulatory streamlining of converged telecommunication and medical devices, leading to the release of the mobile medical applications guidance document. In addition, they reformed the Rural Healthcare Fund to create the Healthcare Connect Fund and produced the Health Care chapter of the National Broadband Plan. Prior to this, Mohit was an investment professional at Polaris Venture Partners, and held roles with Merrill Lynch’s Health Care Investment Banking Group and the World Health Organization. Mohit is a Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center and a Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He serves on the board of directors for George Health Enterprises and on the curation team at TEDMED. He has been appointed to the FDASIA Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee and to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, advising HHS on Data Access and Use. Mohit holds an MBA from Stanford and an MD with distinction from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.

Research Interest

Informatics