Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, SFHM, FACP

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, social determinants of health, 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 social drivers of health, genomic discoveries, and predictive models into clinical practice. Dr. Kripalani co-leads VUMC’s Health Systems Implementation Initiative and Learning Health System 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 previously founded the Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research, and he was founding Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine at VUMC. He has been named a Master in Hospital Medicine (MHM) by the Society of Hospital Medicine.