Vishal Khetpal, M.D., M.Sc. is a cardiology fellow currently training in the Brown University Cardiology Program.

His clinical interests lie in preventive cardiology, cardiac imaging, and global health. His writing, dissecting topics in medicine and society, has appeared in Slate, STAT News, Undark, VICE Health, and numerous other publications. He currently is a columnist for STAT News, writing the Work Up.

Vishal’s work has been syndicated in NPR, Daily Beast, Fast Company, and elsewhere; it has also been the subject of podcast interviews and has sparked collaborations with the American College of Physicians and the American Board of Internal Medicine. His work has been cited in Slate, Vox, the New York Times, the Week, MSNBC and other publications. He has provided expert commentary and quotes for essays in Medscape, the ACP Internist, the University of Toronto Medicine Magazine, Inverse and the New Yorker.

Vishal earned his medical degree from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2020, where he was a concentrator in the Physician as Communicator program. Prior to medical school, he graduated with a master’s degree in global health from the London School of Economics, and was the recipient of the Brian Abel-Smith Prize for Best Dissertation in his cohort. He earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. Vishal hails from Durant, Oklahoma, and is currently based in Providence, Rhode Island.

He tweets at @vishal_khetpal.