Anand Parekh

Anand Parekh, MD, a 1994 U.S. Presidential Scholar from Michigan and Chair of U.S. Presidential Scholars Foundation, serves as the chief medical advisor of the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, DC-based think tank that actively fosters bipartisanship by combining the best ideas from both parties to promote health, security, and opportunity for all Americans. Before joining BPC, he completed a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where as a HHS deputy assistant secretary for health, he developed and implemented national initiatives focused on prevention, wellness, and care management. Parekh is a board-certified internal medicine physician, a fellow of the American College of Physicians, an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and an adjunct professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.