Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, SFHM, FACP

Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, SFHM, FACP, is Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Kripalani directs the Center for Health Services Research and, as Vice President for Health System Sciences, is active in developing VUMC’s growing learning health system. He is an applied implementation scientist whose research interests include health communication, medication safety, care transitions, health-related social needs, implementation of evidence-based practice, and de-implementation of low-value care. His research has been funded by the NIH, AHRQ, PCORI, and CMS. He is PI on three NIH-funded studies to implement health-related social needs, genomic discoveries, and predictive models into clinical practice. Dr. Kripalani co-leads VUMC’s Health Systems Implementation Initiative and Learning Health Systems Embedded Scientist Training and Research Center (RAPID-LHS), supports implementation science activities for the Vanderbilt CTSA and Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, and leads the research committee of the STAR Clinical Research Network. He has served as the PI or lead implementation science mentor on several postdoctoral research fellowships and faculty career development programs. Dr. Kripalani serves on the AHRQ National Advisory Council and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hospital Medicine.    

Dr. Kripalani graduated from Rice University, received his MD from Baylor College of Medicine, and trained in Internal Medicine at Emory University, where he also completed a Hospital Medicine Fellowship and a Master of Science in Clinical Research.