Susmita Pati, MD, MPH

Susmita Pati, MD, MPH is a nationally recognized physician-scientist with expertise in advancing health equity and workforce development via population health analytics, innovation, and system transformation. Her leadership experience includes roles and responsibilities to develop and advance the clinical, educational, and research missions at the departmental, school, university, and health-system levels in large academic medical centers. Dr. Pati is a tenured professor of pediatrics, the division chief of primary care pediatrics, and the Chief Medical Program Advisor for the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science® at Stony Brook University. She officially joined the Alda Center in 2018 because her more than 20 years of experience has strengthened her belief that communication is fundamental to success in building strong health care delivery teams that, in turn, lead to joy and fulfillment at work. Dr. Pati earned an AB cum laude in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University, a MD from the University of Connecticut, and a MPH in Epidemiology from Columbia University. She completed her pediatric residency and a general academic post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University. She was the principal architect of the national award-winning Keeping Families Healthy program, whereby community health workers helped families achieve self-sufficiency in following clinical advice. Her leadership of the Hospital-Medical Home Demonstration project for Stony Brook Medicine achieved recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance with a focus on health equity and workforce development. Previously, she was faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for 8.5 years where she served on the Dean’s program to recruit and retain women faculty in the School of Medicine.