Justin Bachmann, MD, MPH

Dr. Bachmann is a cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics and Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). He obtained his MD at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, followed by clinical training in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Cardiovascular Disease at University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center. Upon completion of his clinical fellowship, he pursued training in health services research as a Research Associate with Professor Michael Porter at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School (HBS). At HBS he assisted Prof. Porter with launching the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM). He subsequently completed a MPH with a concentration in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. At VUMC, Dr. Bachmann is the Medical Director of the Vanderbilt Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Program, where he uses data science methods to study national cardiac rehabilitation utilization patterns. He also has interests in operationalizing patient-reported outcomes measurement in routine clinical practice, stemming from his time at HBS and ICHOM, and is the Medical Director for Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement at VUMC. His work has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and has been published in Circulation and Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He received the American College of Cardiology Presidential Career Development Award in 2019.