Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

He led the development of a scalable treatment algorithm to support the digital transformation of blood pressure control across the University of California, the nation’s largest academic health system. Previously, he modernized the Essential Medicines List for the WHO by adding a dozen treatments for chronic diseases to promote access to crucial medications and provided technical guidance to Resolve to Save Lives targeting the prevention of 100 million deaths through improved cardiovascular health. He founded the world’s first and largest network of early career health professionals focused on chronic disease control (Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network).

He has authored 70 articles in esteemed medical journals as well as in popular publications such as Scientific American, and has spoken at TEDMED and the United Nations. His honors include the Sarber Award for top PhD student in microbiology at the American Society of Microbiology, selection as an Emerging Leader at the National Academy of Medicine, as a Fellow at the MIT Dalai Lama Center, and as a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. He completed his MD-PhD at Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering, master’s at Oxford as the Usher Cunningham Scholar and clinical training internal medicine at Yale and at Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

• Cardiovascular equity and health center funding: Associations of unmet hypertension and diabetes need by race/ethnicity and federal grants at federally qualified health centers, 2014-2019.
  PloS one 2024 Kishore S, Kishore SP, Clark C, Sommers BD
• Bringing Generalists to Global Health: a Missed Opportunity and Call to Action.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Heller DJ, Hudspeth JC, Kishore SP, Mercer T, Schwartz JI, Rabin TL
• Global NCD policy implementation stalls in the modern era.
  The Lancet. Global health 2023 Kishore SP
• Essential medicines for cardiovascular diseases in India: Rapid appraisal of policies and processes at the subnational level.
  The National medical journal of India 2022 Garg A, Murphy A, Krishna A, Sahoo SK, Huffman MD, Kishore SP, Shivashankar R
• Access to Heart Failure Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Analysis of Essential Medicines Lists, Availability, Price, and Affordability.
  Circulation. Heart failure 2022 Agarwal A, Husain MJ, Datta B, Kishore SP, Huffman MD
• The success of behavioral economics in improving patient retention within an intensive primary care practice.
  BMC family practice 2021 Groden P, Capellini A, Levine E, Wajnberg A, Duenas M, Sow S, Ortega B, Medder N, Kishore S
• Performance of crisis standards of care guidelines in a cohort of critically ill COVID-19 patients in the United States.
  Cell reports. Medicine 2021 Jezmir JL, Bharadwaj M, Chaitoff A, Diephuis B, Crowley CP, Kishore SP, Goralnick E, Merriam LT, Milliken A, Rhee C, Sadovnikoff N, Shah SB, Gupta S, Leaf DE, Feldman WB, Kim EY, STOP-COVID …
• Empirical Assessment of U.S. Coronavirus Disease 2019 Crisis Standards of Care Guidelines.
  Critical care explorations 2021 Bharadwaj M, Jezmir JL, Kishore SP, Winkler M, Diephus B, Haider H, Crowley CP, Pinilla-Vera M, Varon J, Baron RM, Feldman WB, Kim EY
• Variation in the availability and cost of essential medicines for non-communicable diseases in Uganda: A descriptive time series analysis.
  PloS one 2020 Armstrong-Hough M, Sharma S, Kishore SP, Akiteng AR, Schwartz JI
• Correction: Prevalence of multiple chronic conditions by U.S. state and territory, 2017.
  PloS one 2020 Newman D, Tong M, Levine E, Kishore S
• Empirical Assessment of COVID-19 Crisis Standards of Care Guidelines.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Jezmir JL, Bharadwaj M, Kishore SP, Winkler M, Diephuis B, Kim EY, Feldman WB
• Prevalence of multiple chronic conditions by U.S. state and territory, 2017.
  PloS one 2020 Newman D, Tong M, Levine E, Kishore S
• Access to Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension Medicines in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Essential Medicine Lists, Price, Availability, and Affordability.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2020 Husain MJ, Datta BK, Kostova D, Joseph KT, Asma S, Richter P, Jaffe MG, Kishore SP
• An integrated intervention for chronic care management in rural Nepal: protocol of a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study.
  Trials 2020 Schwarz D, Dhungana S, Kumar A, Acharya B, Agrawal P, Aryal A, Baum A, Choudhury N, Citrin D, Dangal B, Dhimal M, Gauchan B, Gupta T, Halliday S, Karmacharya B, Kishore S, Koirala B, Kshatriya U, …
• Assessment of Barriers and Facilitators to the Delivery of Care for Noncommunicable Diseases by Nonphysician Health Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Analysis.
  JAMA network open 2019 Heller DJ, Kumar A, Kishore SP, Horowitz CR, Joshi R, Vedanthan R
• Multiple chronic conditions at a major urban health system: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of frequencies, costs and comorbidity patterns.
  BMJ open 2019 Majumdar UB, Hunt C, Doupe P, Baum AJ, Heller DJ, Levine EL, Kumar R, Futterman R, Hajat C, Kishore SP
• Efficacy and safety of dual combination therapy of blood pressure-lowering drugs as initial treatment for hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
  Journal of hypertension 2019 Salam A, Kanukula R, Atkins E, Wang X, Islam S, Kishore SP, Jaffe MG, Patel A, Rodgers A
• The AEIOU of essential diagnostics: align, expand, implement, oversee, and update.
  The Lancet. Global health 2019 von Oettingen JE, Ginsburg O, Kishore SP, Pastakia SD, Schroeder LF, Milner DA, Vedanthan R
• Designing and implementing an integrated non-communicable disease primary care intervention in rural Nepal.
  BMJ global health 2019 Kumar A, Schwarz D, Acharya B, Agrawal P, Aryal A, Choudhury N, Citrin D, Dangal B, Deukmedjian G, Dhimal M, Dhungana S, Gauchan B, Gupta T, Halliday S, Jha D, Kalaunee SP, Karmacharya B, Kishore S, …
• Prevalence of multiple chronic conditions in New York State, 2011-2016.
  PloS one 2019 Newman D, Levine E, Kishore SP
• Impacting Global Health Delivery Through Advocacy: The Case of Losartan.
  Global heart 2018 Heller DJ, Kishore SP
• Fixed-dose combination pharmacologic therapy to improve hypertension control worldwide: Clinical perspective and policy implications.
  Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 2018 DiPette DJ, Skeete J, Ridley E, Campbell NRC, Lopez-Jaramillo P, Kishore SP, Jaffe MG, Coca A, Townsend RR, Ordunez P
• The case for a global focus on multiple chronic conditions.
  BMJ global health 2018 Hajat C, Kishore SP
• Disparities in availability of essential medicines to treat non-communicable diseases in Uganda: A Poisson analysis using the Service Availability and Readiness Assessment.
  PloS one 2018 Armstrong-Hough M, Kishore SP, Byakika S, Mutungi G, Nunez-Smith M, Schwartz JI
• Beyond hypertension: integrated cardiovascular care as a path to comprehensive primary care.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2017 Kishore SP, Heller DJ, Vasan A
• Closing the blood pressure gap: an affordable proposal to save lives worldwide.
  BMJ global health 2017 Heller DJ, Kishore SP
• On Essentiality and the World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines.
  Annals of global health 2017 Marks VA, Latham SR, Kishore SP
• A Global Social Network to Catalyze Solutions for Chronic NCD: A Case Study on the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network.
  Global heart 2016 Jarvis JD, Obscherning E, Siegel K, Kishore SP
• A Platform to Accelerate Global Reductions in Chronic Diseases: Toward Action.
  Global heart 2016 Ruchman SG, Kishore SP, Singh P
• Noncommunicable Diseases: The Authors Reply.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2015 Kishore SP, Belt R, Park PH
• Noncommunicable Diseases In East Africa: Assessing The Gaps In Care And Identifying Opportunities For Improvement.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2015 Siddharthan T, Ramaiya K, Yonga G, Mutungi GN, Rabin TL, List JM, Kishore SP, Schwartz JI
• Global Noncommunicable Disease Research: Opportunities and Challenges.
  Annals of internal medicine 2015 Jaacks LM, Ali MK, Bartlett J, Bloomfield GS, Checkley W, Gaziano TA, Heimburger DC, Kishore SP, Kohler RE, Lipska KJ, Manders O, Ngaruiya C, Peck R, Pena MB, Watkins DA, Siegel KR, Narayan KM
• Envisioning a transdisciplinary university.
  The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2014 Carroll L, Ali MK, Cuff P, Huffman MD, Kelly BB, Kishore SP, Narayan KM, Siegel KR, Vedanthan R
• NCD Countdown 2025: accountability for the 25 × 25 NCD mortality reduction target.
  Lancet (London, England) 2014 Beaglehole R, Bonita R, Ezzati M, Alleyne G, Dain K, Kishore SP, Horton R
• A unified code of ethics for health professionals: insights from an IOM workshop.
  JAMA 2014 Wynia MK, Kishore SP, Belar CD
• Recruitment of PfSET2 by RNA polymerase II to variant antigen encoding loci contributes to antigenic variation in P. falciparum.
  PLoS pathogens 2014 Ukaegbu UE, Kishore SP, Kwiatkowski DL, Pandarinath C, Dahan-Pasternak N, Dzikowski R, Deitsch KW
• Young professionals for health development: the Kenyan experience in combating non-communicable diseases.
  Global health action 2013 Matheka DM, Nderitu J, Vedanthan R, Demaio AR, Murgor M, Kajana K, Loyal P, Alkizim FO, Kishore SP
• Access to cancer medicines in India.
  The Lancet. Oncology 2013 Kishore SP, Basu S, Selvaraj S
• Promotion of access to essential medicines for non-communicable diseases: practical implications of the UN political declaration.
  Lancet (London, England) 2013 Hogerzeil HV, Liberman J, Wirtz VJ, Kishore SP, Selvaraj S, Kiddell-Monroe R, Mwangi-Powell FN, von Schoen-Angerer T, Lancet NCD Action Group
• Horizontal gene transfer of epigenetic machinery and evolution of parasitism in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and other apicomplexans.
  BMC evolutionary biology 2013 Kishore SP, Stiller JW, Deitsch KW
• Homeostatic regulation of dendritic dynamics in a motor map in vivo.
  Nature communications 2013 Kishore S, Fetcho JR
• No physical health without mental health: lessons unlearned?
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2013 Kolappa K, Henderson DC, Kishore SP
• The global health curriculum of Weill Cornell Medical College: how one school developed a global health program.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2012 Francis ER, Goodsmith N, Michelow M, Kulkarni A, McKenney AS, Kishore SP, Bertelsen N, Fein O, Balsari S, Lemery J, Fitzgerald D, Johnson W, Finkel ML
• Comparative performance of private and public healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.
  PLoS medicine 2012 Basu S, Andrews J, Kishore S, Panjabi R, Stuckler D
• Regarding the prevention of global chronic disease: academic public health's new frontier.
  American journal of public health 2011 Huffman MD, Siegel KR, Kishore SP, Bitton A
• Non-communicable, chronic disease training and education needs in India.
  Global heart 2011 Khandelwal S, Huffman MD, Shah S, Kishore S, Siegel K
• Preparing the university community to respond to 21st century global public health needs.
  Global heart 2011 Kishore S, Siegel KR, Kelly B, Vedanthan R, Ali MK, Koplan J, Narayan KM, Fuster V
• Trans-Disciplinary Education and Training for NCD Prevention and Control.
  Global heart 2011 Siegel KR, Kishore SP, Huffman MD, Aitsi-Selmi A, Baker P, Bitton A, Mwatsama M, Ding EL, Feigl AB, Khandelwal S, Rapkin N, Seligman B, Vedanthan R
• Youth manifesto on non-communicable diseases.
  Global heart 2011 Kishore SP, Siegel KR, Ahmad A, Aitsi-Selmi AA, Ali MK, Baker P, Basu S, Bitton A, Bloomfield GS, Bukhman G, Emery E, Feigl AB, Grepin K, Huffman MD, Kajana K, Khandelwal S, Kolappa K, Liu C, …
• Promoting global cardiovascular health ensuring access to essential cardiovascular medicines in low- and middle-income countries.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2011 Kishore SP, Vedanthan R, Fuster V
• Misalignment between perceptions and actual global burden of disease: evidence from the US population.
  Global health action 2011 Siegel KR, Feigl AB, Kishore SP, Stuckler D
• Role of students in global health delivery.
  The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York 2011 Finch TH, Chae SR, Shafaee MN, Siegel KR, Ali MK, Tomei R, Panjabi R, Kishore SP
• Enabling access to new WHO essential medicines: the case for nicotine replacement therapies.
  Globalization and health 2010 Kishore SP, Bitton A, Cravioto A, Yach D
• Generic drugs for developing nations.
  Nature reviews. Microbiology 2010 Maciag K, Kishore SP
• The silent epidemic of exclusive university licensing policies on compounds for neglected diseases and beyond.
  PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2010 Chen CE, Gilliland CT, Purcell J, Kishore SP
• The global health crisis and our nation's research universities.
  PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2010 Kishore SP, Tavera G, Hotez PJ
• An unusual recent expansion of the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II in primate malaria parasites features a motif otherwise found only in mammalian polymerases.
  Journal of molecular evolution 2009 Kishore SP, Perkins SL, Templeton TJ, Deitsch KW
• Adding a medicine to the WHO model list of essential medicines.
  Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 2009 Kishore SP, Herbstman BJ
• A student-led campaign to help tackle neglected tropical diseases.
  PLoS medicine 2007 Kishore SP, Dhadialla PS
• Selective suppression of Toll-like receptor 4 activation by chemokine receptor 4.
  FEBS letters 2005 Kishore SP, Bungum MK, Platt JL, Brunn GJ