Dr. Mostashari is co-founder and CEO of Aledade, a healthcare services start-up based in Washington, DC. Prior to founding Aledade, he was a visiting fellow of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution.
He was previously the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In that role, Dr. Mostashari focused on information and technology in the healthcare system. Previously, Dr. Mostashari served at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as Assistant Commissioner for the Primary Care Information Project, where he facilitated the adoption of prevention-oriented health information technology by more than 1,500 providers in underserved communities. Dr. Mostashari also led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded NYC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics and an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded project focused on quality measurement at the point of care.
He conducted graduate training at the Harvard School of Public Health and Yale Medical School, served his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and completed the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service program. He was a lead investigator in the outbreaks of West Nile Virus, and anthrax in New York City, and among the first developers of real-time nationwide electronic disease surveillance systems.
