Vishal Khetpal, M.D., M.Sc. is a preventive cardiologist, focusing on technology, systems, and policy.
He writes The Workup, a STAT News column on the promises and pitfalls of medicine, using cardiology as a lens to examine the state of American health care. 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 can be found on Twitter/X at @vishal_khetpal.