Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA
Special Assistant to the National Coordinator  for Health IT
Name, role and bio added to ONC site by March 5, 2010:

Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA

“Sachin H. Jain is special assistant to the National Coordinator for HealthInformation Technology in the Obama Administration.  In this role, he works closely with Dr. Blumenthal in executing his health IT agenda.  Prior to joining the administration, he was a member of the faculty at Harvard Business School and a resident physician in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 

“Dr. Jain holds his bachelor’s degree (AB), his medical degree (MD), and MBA from Harvard University.  A Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, Dr. Jain has worked previously at McKinsey and Co, WellPoint, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.  Dr. Jain was principal investigator on three Commonwealth Fund grants used to found and support ImproveHealthCare.org, an organization that aims to educate physicians about health care systems.  He has served as a guest instructor at the MIT-Sloan School of Management, and the Darden School at the University of Virginia. He has served as a reviewer for JAMA and the European Management Journal.  

“While he was faculty at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, Dr. Jain worked closely with strategy professor Michael Porter on case studies on innovative health care delivery models.  Dr. Jain was a founding member and associate director of the Global Health Delivery Project housed at the Institute and Harvard Medical School.  He consulted for a variety of companies across the health care sector, including several small health information technology companies.

“Dr. Jain’s writings have appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Boston Globe, Healthcare Financial Management, American Journal of Managed Care, Modern Healthcare, and the Harvard Health Policy Review.  The book he co-edited (with Susan Pories and Gordon Harper) The Soul of A Doctor (Algonquin Press: Chapel Hill) was published in 2006 and has been translated into Chinese (2008).  

“A native of Bergen County, NJ, Dr. Jain now resides in Washington, DC.”