Dave Chokshi, MD, MSc, is Director of Population Health Improvement and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center. He is a practicing primary care (internal medicine) doctor. Dr. Chokshi served as a 2012-13 White House Fellow at the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, where he was the principal health and medical advisor to Secretary Eric Shinseki. Dr. Chokshi has written extensively on medicine and public health in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Lancet, Health Affairs, and Nature. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, where he was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School.
A Threefold Plan for a New Preventive Medicine
“So…do I have diabetes or not, doc?” my patient asked me, one eyebrow raised skeptically. Juan was a mechanic with a calm gaze; we had first met in the emergency room a few months earlier, when I treated him for high blood pressure.Now I explained how his blood tests indicated that he had prediabetes, a [...]