Mitesh S. Patel

Dr. Patel is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Primary Care Physician at the Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia and is on the faculty at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation and the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. His research focuses on studying innovative ways to change health behaviors and improve health outcomes by combining connected health approaches that collect patient-generated health data with engagement strategies that leverage insights from behavioral economics. Dr. Patel is also the Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, an initiative within the health care system to systematically tests ways to apply insights from behavioral science to choice environments to improve health care value and outcomes.