Farzad Mostashari

Farzad Mostashari, M.D., Sc.M. formerly served as the National Coordinator for Health IT within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He recently founded the healthcare initiative company, Aledade.

Previously, Dr. Mostashari worked at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as Assistant Commissioner for the Primary Care Information Project, where he facilitated the adoption of prevention-oriented health information technology by over 1,500 providers in underserved communities. He also led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded NYC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, and an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded project focused on quality measurement at the point of care. Prior to this he established the Bureau of Epidemiology Services at the NYC Department of Health, which is charged with providing epidemiologic and statistical expertise and data for decision making to the health department.

He did his graduate training at the Harvard School of Public Health and Yale Medical School, internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and completed the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. He was one of the lead investigators in the outbreaks of West Nile Virus and anthrax in New York City, and among the first developers of real-time electronic disease surveillance systems nationwide.