Sandeep Kishore

Associate Professor

Sandeep (Sunny) P. Kishore is a physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) who has dedicated his career to addressing the urgent global epidemic of chronic diseases. He is focusing on the interface between digital innovation and population health to address cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity which increasingly are driving death, disability, and cost.

He led the development of a scalable treatment algorithm to support the digital transformation of blood pressure control across the University of California, the nation’s largest academic health system. Previously, he modernized the Essential Medicines List for the WHO by adding a dozen treatments for chronic diseases to promote access to crucial medications and provided technical guidance to Resolve to Save Lives targeting the prevention of 100 million deaths through improved cardiovascular health. He founded the world’s first and largest network of early career health professionals focused on chronic disease control (Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network).

He has authored 70 articles in esteemed medical journals as well as in popular publications such as Scientific American, and has spoken at TEDMED and the United Nations. His honors include the Sarber Award for top PhD student in microbiology at the American Society of Microbiology, selection as an Emerging Leader at the National Academy of Medicine, as a Fellow at the MIT Dalai Lama Center, and as a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. He completed his MD-PhD at Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering, master’s at Oxford as the Usher Cunningham Scholar and clinical training internal medicine at Yale and at Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital.
Education
06/2021 - Residency, Brigham & Women's Hospital
06/2015 - Internship, Yale School of Medicine/Yale New Haven
MD-PhD, 05/2014 - Medicine, Weill Cornell/ Rockefeller/ Sloan-Kettering Institute
M.Sc, 08/2006 - Immunology, University of Oxford
B.S., 05/2004 - Biology, Duke University
Websites
  • Breaking the Culture of Silence on Physician Suicide
Publications

  1. Heller DJ, Hudspeth JC, Kishore SP, Mercer T, Schwartz JI, Rabin TL. Bringing Generalists to Global Health: a Missed Opportunity and Call to Action. Journal of general internal medicine. 2023. PMID: 38135777


  2. Kishore SP. Global NCD policy implementation stalls in the modern era. The Lancet. Global health. 2023. PMID: 36925158


  3. Garg A, Murphy A, Krishna A, Sahoo SK, Huffman MD, Kishore SP, Shivashankar R. Essential medicines for cardiovascular diseases in India: Rapid appraisal of policies and processes at the subnational level. The National medical journal of India. 2023. PMID: 37167513


  4. Agarwal A, Husain MJ, Datta B, Kishore SP, Huffman MD. Access to Heart Failure Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Analysis of Essential Medicines Lists, Availability, Price, and Affordability. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2022. PMID: 35249355


  5. Groden P, Capellini A, Levine E, Wajnberg A, Duenas M, Sow S, Ortega B, Medder N, Kishore S. The success of behavioral economics in improving patient retention within an intensive primary care practice. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2021. PMID: 34937551


  6. Jezmir JL, Bharadwaj M, Chaitoff A, Diephuis B, Crowley CP, Kishore SP, Goralnick E, Merriam LT, Milliken A, Rhee C, Sadovnikoff N, Shah SB, Gupta S, Leaf DE, Feldman WB, Kim EY, STOP-COVID Investigators. Performance of crisis standards of care guidelines in a cohort of critically ill COVID-19 patients in the United States. Cell reports. Medicine. 2021. PMID: 34337554


  7. Bharadwaj M, Jezmir JL, Kishore SP, Winkler M, Diephus B, Haider H, Crowley CP, Pinilla-Vera M, Varon J, Baron RM, Feldman WB, Kim EY. Empirical Assessment of U.S. Coronavirus Disease 2019 Crisis Standards of Care Guidelines. Critical care explorations. 2021. PMID: 34286282


  8. Armstrong-Hough M, Sharma S, Kishore SP, Akiteng AR, Schwartz JI. Variation in the availability and cost of essential medicines for non-communicable diseases in Uganda: A descriptive time series analysis. PloS one. 2020. PMID: 33362249


  9. Newman D, Tong M, Levine E, Kishore S. Correction: Prevalence of multiple chronic conditions by U.S. state and territory, 2017. PloS one. 2020. PMID: 32970771


  10. Salam A, Huffman MD, Kanukula R, Hari Prasad E, Sharma A, Heller DJ, Vedanthan R, Agarwal A, Rodgers A, Jaffe MG, R Frieden T, Kishore SP. Two-drug fixed-dose combinations of blood pressure-lowering drugs as WHO essential medicines: An overview of efficacy, safety, and cost. Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2020. PMID: 32815663


  11. Jezmir JL, Bharadwaj M, Kishore SP, Winkler M, Diephuis B, Kim EY, Feldman WB. Empirical Assessment of COVID-19 Crisis Standards of Care Guidelines. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. 2020. PMID: 32511478


  12. Newman D, Tong M, Levine E, Kishore S. Prevalence of multiple chronic conditions by U.S. state and territory, 2017. PloS one. 2020. PMID: 32369509


  13. Husain MJ, Datta BK, Kostova D, Joseph KT, Asma S, Richter P, Jaffe MG, Kishore SP. Access to Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension Medicines in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Essential Medicine Lists, Price, Availability, and Affordability. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2020. PMID: 32338557


  14. Schwarz D, Dhungana S, Kumar A, Acharya B, Agrawal P, Aryal A, Baum A, Choudhury N, Citrin D, Dangal B, Dhimal M, Gauchan B, Gupta T, Halliday S, Karmacharya B, Kishore S, Koirala B, Kshatriya U, Levine E, Maru S, Rimal P, Sapkota S, Schwarz R, Shrestha A, Thapa A, Maru D. An integrated intervention for chronic care management in rural Nepal: protocol of a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study. Trials. 2020. PMID: 31996250


  15. Kishore SP, Majumdar UB. Learning from progress: global NCD policy implementation at national level. The Lancet. Global health. 2019. PMID: 31813789


  17. Majumdar UB, Hunt C, Doupe P, Baum AJ, Heller DJ, Levine EL, Kumar R, Futterman R, Hajat C, Kishore SP. Multiple chronic conditions at a major urban health system: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of frequencies, costs and comorbidity patterns. BMJ open. 2019. PMID: 31619421


  18. Frieden TR, Varghese CV, Kishore SP, Campbell NRC, Moran AE, Padwal R, Jaffe MG. Scaling up effective treatment of hypertension-A pathfinder for universal health coverage. Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2019. PMID: 31544349


  19. Salam A, Kanukula R, Atkins E, Wang X, Islam S, Kishore SP, Jaffe MG, Patel A, Rodgers A. Efficacy and safety of dual combination therapy of blood pressure-lowering drugs as initial treatment for hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of hypertension. 2019. PMID: 30986788


  20. von Oettingen JE, Ginsburg O, Kishore SP, Pastakia SD, Schroeder LF, Milner DA, Vedanthan R. The AEIOU of essential diagnostics: align, expand, implement, oversee, and update. The Lancet. Global health. 2019. PMID: 31097269


  21. Kumar A, Schwarz D, Acharya B, Agrawal P, Aryal A, Choudhury N, Citrin D, Dangal B, Deukmedjian G, Dhimal M, Dhungana S, Gauchan B, Gupta T, Halliday S, Jha D, Kalaunee SP, Karmacharya B, Kishore S, Koirala B, Kunwar L, Mahar R, Maru S, Mehanni S, Nirola I, Pandey S, Pant B, Pathak M, Poudel S, Rajbhandari I, Raut A, Rimal P, Schwarz R, Shrestha A, Thapa A, Thapa P, Thapa R, Wong L, Maru D. Designing and implementing an integrated non-communicable disease primary care intervention in rural Nepal. BMJ global health. 2019. PMID: 31139453


  22. Newman D, Levine E, Kishore SP. Prevalence of multiple chronic conditions in New York State, 2011-2016. PloS one. 2019. PMID: 30730970


  23. Heller DJ, Kishore SP. Impacting Global Health Delivery Through Advocacy: The Case of Losartan. Global heart. 2018. PMID: 30584029


  24. DiPette DJ, Skeete J, Ridley E, Campbell NRC, Lopez-Jaramillo P, Kishore SP, Jaffe MG, Coca A, Townsend RR, Ordunez P. Fixed-dose combination pharmacologic therapy to improve hypertension control worldwide: Clinical perspective and policy implications. Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.). 2018. PMID: 30480368


  25. Kishore SP, Salam A, Rodgers A, Jaffe MG, Frieden T. Fixed-dose combinations for hypertension. Lancet (London, England). 2018. PMID: 30215377


  26. Hajat C, Kishore SP. The case for a global focus on multiple chronic conditions. BMJ global health. 2018. PMID: 29989034


  28. Kishore SP, Blank E, Heller DJ, Patel A, Peters A, Price M, Vidula M, Fuster V, Onuma O, Huffman MD, Vedanthan R. Modernizing the World Health Organization List of Essential Medicines for Preventing and Controlling Cardiovascular Diseases. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2018. PMID: 29406862


  29. Kishore SP, Heller DJ, Vasan A. Beyond hypertension: integrated cardiovascular care as a path to comprehensive primary care. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2017. PMID: 29531421


  30. Heller DJ, Kishore SP. Closing the blood pressure gap: an affordable proposal to save lives worldwide. BMJ global health. 2017. PMID: 29018587


  31. Marks VA, Latham SR, Kishore SP. On Essentiality and the World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines. Annals of global health. 2017. PMID: 29221540


  32. Jarvis JD, Obscherning E, Siegel K, Kishore SP. A Global Social Network to Catalyze Solutions for Chronic NCD: A Case Study on the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network. Global heart. 2016. PMID: 27938843


  33. Ruchman SG, Kishore SP, Singh P. A Platform to Accelerate Global Reductions in Chronic Diseases: Toward Action. Global heart. 2016. PMID: 27938830


  34. Kishore SP, Belt R, Park PH. Noncommunicable Diseases: The Authors Reply. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2015. PMID: 26526266


  35. Siddharthan T, Ramaiya K, Yonga G, Mutungi GN, Rabin TL, List JM, Kishore SP, Schwartz JI. Noncommunicable Diseases In East Africa: Assessing The Gaps In Care And Identifying Opportunities For Improvement. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2015. PMID: 26355052


  36. Kishore SP, Kolappa K, Jarvis JD, Park PH, Belt R, Balasubramaniam T, Kiddell-Monroe R. Overcoming Obstacles To Enable Access To Medicines For Noncommunicable Diseases In Poor Countries. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2015. PMID: 26355060


  37. Jaacks LM, Ali MK, Bartlett J, Bloomfield GS, Checkley W, Gaziano TA, Heimburger DC, Kishore SP, Kohler RE, Lipska KJ, Manders O, Ngaruiya C, Peck R, Pena MB, Watkins DA, Siegel KR, Narayan KM. Global Noncommunicable Disease Research: Opportunities and Challenges. Annals of internal medicine. 2015. PMID: 26301624


  38. Carroll L, Ali MK, Cuff P, Huffman MD, Kelly BB, Kishore SP, Narayan KM, Siegel KR, Vedanthan R. Envisioning a transdisciplinary university. The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 2014. PMID: 25564706


  39. Beaglehole R, Bonita R, Ezzati M, Alleyne G, Dain K, Kishore SP, Horton R. NCD Countdown 2025: accountability for the 25 × 25 NCD mortality reduction target. Lancet (London, England). 2014. PMID: 25012115


  40. Wynia MK, Kishore SP, Belar CD. A unified code of ethics for health professionals: insights from an IOM workshop. JAMA. 2014. PMID: 24570240


  41. Ukaegbu UE, Kishore SP, Kwiatkowski DL, Pandarinath C, Dahan-Pasternak N, Dzikowski R, Deitsch KW. Recruitment of PfSET2 by RNA polymerase II to variant antigen encoding loci contributes to antigenic variation in P. falciparum. PLoS pathogens. 2014. PMID: 24391504


  42. Matheka DM, Nderitu J, Vedanthan R, Demaio AR, Murgor M, Kajana K, Loyal P, Alkizim FO, Kishore SP. Young professionals for health development: the Kenyan experience in combating non-communicable diseases. Global health action. 2013. PMID: 24262308


  43. Kishore SP, Basu S, Selvaraj S. Access to cancer medicines in India. The Lancet. Oncology. 2013. PMID: 23561744


  44. Hogerzeil HV, Liberman J, Wirtz VJ, Kishore SP, Selvaraj S, Kiddell-Monroe R, Mwangi-Powell FN, von Schoen-Angerer T, Lancet NCD Action Group. Promotion of access to essential medicines for non-communicable diseases: practical implications of the UN political declaration. Lancet (London, England). 2013. PMID: 23410612


  46. Kishore S, Fetcho JR. Homeostatic regulation of dendritic dynamics in a motor map in vivo. Nature communications. 2013. PMID: 23803587


  47. Kolappa K, Henderson DC, Kishore SP. No physical health without mental health: lessons unlearned? Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2013. PMID: 23397342


  48. Francis ER, Goodsmith N, Michelow M, Kulkarni A, McKenney AS, Kishore SP, Bertelsen N, Fein O, Balsari S, Lemery J, Fitzgerald D, Johnson W, Finkel ML. The global health curriculum of Weill Cornell Medical College: how one school developed a global health program. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 2012. PMID: 22929431


  49. Basu S, Andrews J, Kishore S, Panjabi R, Stuckler D. Comparative performance of private and public healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. PLoS medicine. 2012. PMID: 22723748


  50. Huffman MD, Siegel KR, Kishore SP, Bitton A. Regarding the prevention of global chronic disease: academic public health's new frontier. American journal of public health. 2011. PMID: 22021284


  51. Khandelwal S, Huffman MD, Shah S, Kishore S, Siegel K. Non-communicable, chronic disease training and education needs in India. Global heart. 2011. PMID: 25691045


  52. Kishore S, Siegel KR, Kelly B, Vedanthan R, Ali MK, Koplan J, Narayan KM, Fuster V. Preparing the university community to respond to 21st century global public health needs. Global heart. 2011. PMID: 25691043


  53. Siegel KR, Kishore SP, Huffman MD, Aitsi-Selmi A, Baker P, Bitton A, Mwatsama M, Ding EL, Feigl AB, Khandelwal S, Rapkin N, Seligman B, Vedanthan R. Trans-Disciplinary Education and Training for NCD Prevention and Control. Global heart. 2011. PMID: 25691044


  54. Kishore SP, Siegel KR, Ahmad A, Aitsi-Selmi AA, Ali MK, Baker P, Basu S, Bitton A, Bloomfield GS, Bukhman G, Emery E, Feigl AB, Grepin K, Huffman MD, Kajana K, Khandelwal S, Kolappa K, Liu C, Lokhandwala N, Marwah V, Mwatsama M, Novak N, Nundy S, Park PH, Perez CP, Price MR, Rapkin N, Rice H, Seligman B, Shah S, Silva Jd, Sridhar D, Stuckler D, Vedanthan R, Zaman J, Young Professionals’ Chronic Disease Network. Youth manifesto on non-communicable diseases. Global heart. 2011. PMID: 25691046


  55. Kishore SP, Vedanthan R, Fuster V. Promoting global cardiovascular health ensuring access to essential cardiovascular medicines in low- and middle-income countries. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2011. PMID: 21565635


  56. Siegel KR, Feigl AB, Kishore SP, Stuckler D. Misalignment between perceptions and actual global burden of disease: evidence from the US population. Global health action. 2011. PMID: 21562634


  57. Finch TH, Chae SR, Shafaee MN, Siegel KR, Ali MK, Tomei R, Panjabi R, Kishore SP. Role of students in global health delivery. The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York. 2011. PMID: 21598264


  58. Kishore SP, Bitton A, Cravioto A, Yach D. Enabling access to new WHO essential medicines: the case for nicotine replacement therapies. Globalization and health. 2010. PMID: 21092092


  59. Maciag K, Kishore SP. Generic drugs for developing nations. Nature reviews. Microbiology. 2010. PMID: 20531275


  60. Chen CE, Gilliland CT, Purcell J, Kishore SP. The silent epidemic of exclusive university licensing policies on compounds for neglected diseases and beyond. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 2010. PMID: 20361025


  61. Kishore SP, Tavera G, Hotez PJ. The global health crisis and our nation's research universities. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 2010. PMID: 20186327


  63. Kishore SP, Herbstman BJ. Adding a medicine to the WHO model list of essential medicines. Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. 2009. PMID: 19223877


  64. Kishore SP, Dhadialla PS. A student-led campaign to help tackle neglected tropical diseases. PLoS medicine. 2007. PMID: 17676947


  65. Kishore SP, Bungum MK, Platt JL, Brunn GJ. Selective suppression of Toll-like receptor 4 activation by chemokine receptor 4. FEBS letters. 2005. PMID: 15670831