Vishal Khetpal, M.D., M.Sc. is a preventive cardiologist.
He writes The Workup, a STAT News column on the promises and pitfalls of prevention, as well as the collisions between medicine and society, shaped by forces in technology, culture, and policy. His essays have also appeared in Slate, MIT Technology Review, Undark, VICE Health, and other outlets, and have been featured by NPR, The New York Times, MSNBC, and more.
Vishal earned his M.D. from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he was a concentrator in the Physician as Communicator program, and completed his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Brown. Before that, he completed a master’s degree in global health at the London School of Economics, and studied anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.
He is currently an assistant professor of medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and holds a courtesy appointment at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.
He can be found on Twitter/X at @vishal_khetpal.