Bhavik Patel

Bhavik Patel, MD is a fellow in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in studying and characterizing underlying mechanisms of health disparities in respiratory diseases and critical illness, focusing on health-related social needs (HRSNs). He is also interested in studying behavioral economics interventions to improve representativeness in clinical trial recruitment.

Dr. Patel is originally from Chicago and earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois and subsequently completed internal medicine residency at Duke University Hospital. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Health Policy Research (MSHP) at the Perelman School of Medicine.