Atul Grover, MD, PhD, FACP, FCCP is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and founder of Academic Health, a health policy and strategy consultancy advising health systems, academic medical centers, diagnostics and digital health companies, and AI-enabled education companies on the future of clinical practice and physician training.

A general internist and health services researcher, Dr. Grover spent nearly two decades at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Public Policy Officer and founding Executive Director of the AAMC Research and Action Institute. He became the leading voice for academic medicine during passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act; and regularly advised medical school deans, teaching-hospital CEOs, and federal policymakers on health care financing, regulation, and the physician workforce. He previously served as Chief Medical Officer at HRSA’s National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, helped coordinate the federal response to Ebola, COVID-19, and Mpox, and serves as a Special Advisor for Medical Preparedness to the federal government.

His work on competency-based medical education, medical school admissions, and health care financing has appeared in JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs. He earned his MD from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and his PhD in health and public policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University and faculty in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, immediate past president of Alpha Omega Alpha, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wayne State University.