Atul Grover, MD, PhD, FACP, FCCP
Executive Director
AAMC Research and Action Institute
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, FACP, FCCP is the Inaugural Executive Director of the Research and Action Institute, a premier think tank focused on health policy established with his leadership at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). In his two decades with the AAMC, he has also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Public Policy Officer, and was the primary voice of academic health systems during the crafting and passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Grover was also instrumental in working with the White House and US Public Health agencies in the response to Ebola in 2014, and subsequently chaired selection and contributed to the establishment of national Ebola Training and Education Centers, Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Centers, and the Regional Disaster Health Response System. A general internist and health services researcher by training, Grover is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and is faculty of Health Policy and Management at the JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Grover has served as a board member for the National Association for Biomedical Research, the Foundation for Biomedical Research, Physicians for Peace, and Academy Health. He is a member of Delta Omega national public health Honor Society and is currently the President-Elect of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical Honor Society. He is frequently quoted in national broadcast and print publications and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, and received a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Wayne State University.
Executive Director
AAMC Research and Action Institute
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, FACP, FCCP is the Inaugural Executive Director of the Research and Action Institute, a premier think tank focused on health policy established with his leadership at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). In his two decades with the AAMC, he has also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Public Policy Officer, and was the primary voice of academic health systems during the crafting and passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Grover was also instrumental in working with the White House and US Public Health agencies in the response to Ebola in 2014, and subsequently chaired selection and contributed to the establishment of national Ebola Training and Education Centers, Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Centers, and the Regional Disaster Health Response System. A general internist and health services researcher by training, Grover is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and is faculty of Health Policy and Management at the JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Grover has served as a board member for the National Association for Biomedical Research, the Foundation for Biomedical Research, Physicians for Peace, and Academy Health. He is a member of Delta Omega national public health Honor Society and is currently the President-Elect of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical Honor Society. He is frequently quoted in national broadcast and print publications and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, and received a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Wayne State University.
