Tanvir Hussain, MD, MBA, MSc
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Dr. Hussain is an internist and physician executive with expertise in quality & safety, analytics, and regional multi-specialty virtual care operations. He has dedicated his career to executing innovative systems strategies that improve the quality, safety, access, experience of patient care.
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His clinical work focuses on socially and medically complex patients from underserved communities, which has inspired his results-driven, servant leadership style as a physician executive. His visionary, principled approach is grounded by a sensitivity for frontline operations, developed through his success in highly matrixed, large health systems. Beyond his nationally recognized technical expertise, his influence as a change agent is rooted in an ability to bridge ideological differences between stakeholders as a trusted advisor and to mentor agile interdisciplinary teams that are resilient, reliable, and find joy in their mission.
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 02/2022
- MBA Executive MBA University of Nebraska Omaha 12/2018
- General Internal Medicine Fellowship Johns Hopkins Hospital 06/2015
- Internal Medicine Residency Brigham & Women's Hospital 06/2012
- MD Care of the Underserved, Global Health Baylor College of Medicine 06/2009
- MSc Social Epidemiology University College London / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 08/2005
- BA Sociology, Psychology Rice University 05/2004
Publications (13)
Top publication keywords:
Patient Care TeamPatient Care ManagementAntihypertensive AgentsDelivery of Health CareColonic NeoplasmsColectomyHypertensionHealth Care ReformMedical OncologyInterdisciplinary CommunicationOrganizational ObjectivesHealth PolicyPrimary Health CareHealthcare DisparitiesCooperative Behavior
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Envisioning a Better U.S. Health Care System for All: A Call to Action by the American College of Physicians.
Annals of internal medicine 2020 Doherty R, Cooney TG, Mire RD, Engel LS, Goldman JM, Health and Public Policy Committee and Medical Practice and Quality Committee of the American Colleg -
Envisioning a Better U.S. Health Care System for All: Coverage and Cost of Care.
Annals of internal medicine 2020 Crowley R, Daniel H, Cooney TG, Engel LS, Health and Public Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians -
Envisioning a Better U.S. Health Care System for All: Health Care Delivery and Payment System Reforms.
Annals of internal medicine 2020 Erickson SM, Outland B, Joy S, Rockwern B, Serchen J, Mire RD, Goldman JM, Medical Practice and Quality Committee of the American College of Physicians -
Predictors of adequate lymph node harvest during colectomy for colon cancer.
American journal of surgery 2018 Douaiher J, Hussain T, Langenfeld SJ -
Care Management to Reduce Disparities and Control Hypertension in Primary Care: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis.
Medical care 2018 Hong JC, Padula WV, Hollin IL, Hussain T, Dietz KB, Halbert JP, Marsteller JA, Cooper LA
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The Role of Care Management as a Population Health Intervention to Address Disparities and Control Hypertension: A Quasi-Experimental Observational Study.
Ethnicity & disease 2016 Hussain T, Franz W, Brown E, Kan A, Okoye M, Dietz K, Taylor K, Carson KA, Halbert J, Dalcin A, Anderson CA, Boonyasai RT, Albert M, Marsteller JA, Cooper LA -
The Value of Continuity between Primary Care and Surgical Care in Colon Cancer.
PloS one 2016 Hussain T, Chang HY, Luu NP, Pollack CE -
Readmissions After Colon Cancer Surgery: Does It Matter Where Patients Are Readmitted?
Journal of oncology practice 2016 Luu NP, Hussain T, Chang HY, Pfoh E, Pollack CE -
The Contribution of Age and Weight to Blood Pressure Levels Among Blacks and Whites Receiving Care in Community-Based Primary Care Practices.
Preventing chronic disease 2015 Kan AW, Hussain T, Carson KA, Purnell TS, Yeh HC, Albert M, Cooper LA -
Fragmentation in specialist care and stage III colon cancer.
Cancer 2015 Hussain T, Chang HY, Veenstra CM, Pollack CE -
Collaboration Between Surgeons and Medical Oncologists and Outcomes for Patients With Stage III Colon Cancer.
Journal of oncology practice 2015 Hussain T, Chang HY, Veenstra CM, Pollack CE -
Provider perspectives on essential functions for care management in the collaborative treatment of hypertension: the P.A.R.T.N.E.R. framework.
Journal of general internal medicine 2014 Hussain T, Allen A, Halbert J, Anderson CA, Boonyasai RT, Cooper LA -
Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial evaluating community health worker-based interventions for the secondary prevention of acute coronary syndromes in India (SPREAD).
American heart journal 2014 Kamath DY, Xavier D, Gupta R, Devereaux PJ, Sigamani A, Hussain T, Umesh S, Xavier F, Girish P, George N, Thomas T, Chidambaram N, Joshi R, Pais P, Yusuf S