Thadhani Appointed Emory’s New EVP for Health Affairs

Following an extensive international search, Emory University announced that Ravi I. Thadhani has been appointed executive vice president for health affairs (EVPHA). Thadhani also will serve as executive director of Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center and vice chair of the Emory Healthcare Board of Directors. He will begin his tenure at Emory on January 1, 2023.

Thadhani has most recently served as chief academic officer and dean for faculty affairs for Mass General Brigham and as a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, Massachuse s. At Mass General Brigham, he is a member of the executive leadership team and oversees graduate medical education, professional development, and a $2.3 billion research enterprise.

“I LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING THE TRIPARTITE MISSION OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH, AND CLINICAL CARE OF THE WOODRUFF HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER AND ADVANCING ITS COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND JUSTICE.”

RAVI I. THADHANI APPOINTED EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR HEALTH AFFAIRS

“I am excited to be coming to Emory University and honored to be joining its outstanding leadership team,” says Thadhani. “Emory’s commitment to serving the Georgia community is impressive and is the driver for its international reputation as a leader in health care delivery and health sciences research, discovery, and innovation.”

As EVPHA, Thadhani will oversee Emory’s academic health sciences center, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC), and in this position will shape the next era of research, training, and healthcare delivery innovation. WHSC includes Emory’s schools of medicine, public health, and nursing; Winship Cancer Institute; Emory National Primate Research Center; Emory Global Health Institute; Goizueta Institute @ Emory Brain Health; and the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center. Notably, it also includes Emory Healthcare and its twenty-four thousand employees, eleven hospital campuses, and 425 locations, which makes it the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia.

With more than thirty years as a general and specialized internal medicine physician, Thadhani has extensive experience in patient care, research, and clinical trials. He has led a successful research lab with continuous federal funding for more than twenty-five years, with a focus on kidney disease and developing diagnostics and therapeutics for patients with preeclampsia. He is the author or co-author of more than three hundred scientific manuscripts and has published in top-tier journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Journal of the American Medical Association. Thadhani has been inducted into several honor societies, including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the American Clinical and Climatological Association.

“This is an exciting time at Emory. I look forward to supporting the tripartite mission of education, research, and clinical care of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and advancing its commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice,” he says. “There is no limit to what we can accomplish with the remarkable faculty, staff, and students at Emory.”

—Nikki Troxclair