Chief Innovation Officer
American College of Cardiology
Dr. Ami B. Bhatt | American College of Cardiology | Chief Innovation Officer
Ami B. Bhatt, MD, FACC, is the chief innovation officer (CIO) at the American College of Cardiology. She most recently served as Director of Outpatient and TeleCardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and as an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Her interest in digital health strategy and the digital transformation of the cardiovascular field stems from the belief that state of the art, personalized care can be delivered to individuals in the community, empowering patients and creating stronger clinician-patient partnerships for sustainable health outcomes. The ACC Innovation Program has a robust platform to transform digital patient care and advance technologies that are reshaping medicine. There, her focus is on creating the AI-enabled clinician, collaborating with technology companies to ensure implementation and scale of high-quality cost-effective systems, and recommending transformational healthcare companies for investment.
Dr. Bhatt has 20 years of experience as a clinician, investigator and educator with a decade of experience in telemedicine and digital health. She founded her first program in cardiovascular virtual care in 2013 at the Massachusetts General Hospital and continues to work on creating culturally relevant personalized virtual cardiovascular care delivery models. Her research has centered on identifying and implementing solutions to overcoming access barriers to cardiovascular and telemedicine care. She served as the President of the Greater Boston American Heart Association raising awareness of cardiovascular disease and patient empowerment.
A graduate from Harvard College and the Yale School of Medicine, Bhatt completed her medicine and pediatrics residency at Harvard, her adult cardiology fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and her adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) and pulmonary hypertension fellowship at the Boston Children's Hospital. She was the inaugural Richard Liberthson Endowed Scholar in ACHD at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Bhatt co-designed and now serves as an educator for the MGH Elevate Leadership Program aimed at transforming leaders for tomorrow’s healthcare challenges. As part of MGH Elevate, Dr Bhatt is focused on fostering agility, communication, and creativity to develop the next generation of impactful leaders in medicine.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM CT
