Dr. Keerthi Bandi is an internal medicine trained primary care physician passionate about primary care and its central role in building sustainable patient-focused healthcare systems. She was born in India and grew up in Missouri prior to attending Rice University, where she majored in Sociology with a focus on refugee health and experiences of migration. After college, she researched value-based payment innovation within the post-acute care space at Advisory Board, a D.C-based healthcare research firm. She attended medical school at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she conducted projects addressing quality and access-related issues within area federally qualified health centers (FQHC's). After graduation, she moved to Boston for Internal Medicine residency and chief residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. During her time there, she conducted research on practice-level primary care access and care provision and, through her clinical work, strengthened her interests in migrant health and community health centers. As a National Clinician Scholar, Keerthi plans to examine primary care payment models as part of her broader interest in population-based payment models and single payer healthcare and build her health services research skillset.
Research Interests: Examining how novel models for primary care payment can improve quality and flexibility of care provision while reducing cost, particularly for complex patient populations.