About Me
David Heller is a practicing internist and clinician-investigator who studies how to adapt primary care health systems in developing countries for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. As an assistant professor in the Department of Health System Design and Global Health and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Dr. Heller focuses his work on cardiovascular disease control in Uganda and Ghana. As a Fogarty fellow in Mbale, Uganda, Dr. Heller conducted an evaluation of hypertension control programs associated with the SEARCH study, a randomized controlled trial of universal test-and-treat programs for HIV prevention and control. As a primary care research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Heller studied the impact of university-policymaker partnerships on implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and the comparative effectiveness of statin use guidelines for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. In addition to peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Heller’s writings have appeared in the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Lancet editorial series.
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Global Health, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal MedicineHospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
- Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
About Me
David Heller is a practicing internist and clinician-investigator who studies how to adapt primary care health systems in developing countries for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. As an assistant professor in the Department of Health System Design and Global Health and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Dr. Heller focuses his work on cardiovascular disease control in Uganda and Ghana. As a Fogarty fellow in Mbale, Uganda, Dr. Heller conducted an evaluation of hypertension control programs associated with the SEARCH study, a randomized controlled trial of universal test-and-treat programs for HIV prevention and control. As a primary care research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Heller studied the impact of university-policymaker partnerships on implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and the comparative effectiveness of statin use guidelines for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. In addition to peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Heller’s writings have appeared in the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Lancet editorial series.
Language
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Global Health, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal MedicineHospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
- Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
About Me
David Heller is a practicing internist and clinician-investigator who studies how to adapt primary care health systems in developing countries for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. As an assistant professor in the Department of Health System Design and Global Health and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Dr. Heller focuses his work on cardiovascular disease control in Uganda and Ghana. As a Fogarty fellow in Mbale, Uganda, Dr. Heller conducted an evaluation of hypertension control programs associated with the SEARCH study, a randomized controlled trial of universal test-and-treat programs for HIV prevention and control. As a primary care research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Heller studied the impact of university-policymaker partnerships on implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and the comparative effectiveness of statin use guidelines for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. In addition to peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Heller’s writings have appeared in the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Lancet editorial series.
Language
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Global Health, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal MedicineHospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
- Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
Education
AB, Brown University
MD, University of California (San Francisco)
MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Residency, Internal Medicine
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Fellowship, Primary Care
University of California (San Francisco)
Research
Design and evaluation of programs to diagnose, prevent, and treat chronic non-infectious conditions such as hypertension and diabetes.
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Industry Relationships
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Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Heller during 2022 and/or 2023. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Other activities: Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
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