Priya Joshi, MD
2022, 2023 Entrepreneur in Residence
Health System Specialist
San Francisco VA Medical Center
Project: Ensuring Veteran Food Security
Dr. Priya Joshi is a clinician and informaticist who practices general medicine in the inpatient and outpatient setting. She serves as the Chief Health Informatics Officer and physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Joshi centers her career on leveraging digital innovation, human-centered design, and clinical interventions to synergistically improve clinical workflow and equitable patient outcomes.
Dr. Joshi designs preventive care algorithms to more equitably identify patient needs and creates corresponding clinical interventions in partnership with so that they may prescribe novel medications with the highest likelihood of improving a Veteran's mortality, morbidity and quality of life. She joined the VHA Innovation Ecosystem as a 2022 Entrepreneur in Residence Fellow to advance how VHA can utilize digital and clinical innovation to prevent adverse outcomes and remediate inequities in care. Currently, Dr. Joshi is leading the strategy to identify and manage root causes of Veteran food insecurity and implement enterprise-wide solutions to improve Veteran access to food within their communities.
Their Work
Dr. Priya Joshi Discusses Clinical Standards Behind Adoption of New Tech at VA
Dr. Priya Joshi discusses how VA is developing rigorous clinical standards to ensure technology is adopted in a safe, effective way.
Innovation Revolutionary: Inclusion and equity in kidney disease treatment
New biomarker more equitably treats kidney issues
A new Cohort of Innovation Fellows are leading VA care into the future
Three new VA employee innovators are joining their fellow Trailblazers as Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem (VHA IE) Innovation Fellows (Fellows)
Innovation Revolutionary: Priya Joshi
Priya Joshi has been working on addressing a new biomarker for more equity in treating kidney disease.