Description of Research Expertise

Dr. Adusumalli is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and is a general cardiologist, echocardiographer, and assistant cardiovascular disease fellowship program director with the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as a clinical innovation manager for the Nudge Unit and the Acceleration Lab at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation.

Dr. Adusumalli spends the majority of his time caring for patients with cardiovascular disease in the clinic, inpatient wards, and cardiac intensive care unit. Outside of his clinical commitments, his interests and work focus on the utilization of health information technology to advance Penn Medicine’s tripartite academic mission of clinical care, education, and research. He is particularly interested in methods of using technology to evaluate and accelerate the adoption of evidence-based healthcare in a manner that is safe for patients and easy for clinicians. He has worked on several projects including developing an opt-out default pathway for cardiac rehabilitation referral, deploying active choice interventions directed at statin prescription within the electronic health record, designing and evaluating methods for clinicians to easily refer advanced heart failure patients for home care programs, and designing new evidence-based electronic reporting systems for cardiovascular procedures.

Dr. Adusumalli received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia where he graduated AOA in 2011. He completed his internal medicine training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2014 where he led the program’s quality and safety efforts. He then completed his cardiovascular disease fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 during which time he served as chief fellow. Simultaneously, he earned a Master of Science degree in Health Policy Research from the University of Pennsylvania with a focus in healthcare improvement, patient safety, and clinical informatics. In 2021, he earned a Master of Biomedical Informatics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and echocardiography.

Selected Publications

Choi K, Gitelman Y, Leri D, Deleener ME, Hahn L, O'Malley C, Lang E, Patel N, Jones T, Emperado K, Erickson C, Rosin R, Asch D, Hanson CW 3rd, Adusumalli S.: Insourcing and scaling a telemedicine solution in under 2 weeks: Lessons for the digital transformation of health care Healthc (Amst) 9 : 100568,2021.

Adusumalli S, Patel MS.: Statin Prescribing and Dosing-Failure Has Become an Option-Reply JAMA Cardiol 6 : 855,2021.

Hare AJ, Adusumalli S, Park S, Patel MS.: Assessment of Primary Care Appointment Times and Appropriate Prescribing of Statins for At-Risk Patients JAMA Netw Open 4 : e219050,2021.

Dayoub EJ, Eberly LA, Nathan AS, Khatana SAM, Adusumalli S, Navar AM, Giri J, Groeneveld PW.: Adoption of PCSK9 Inhibitors Among Patients With Atherosclerotic Disease J Am Heart Assoc 10 : e019331,2021.

Eberly LA, Yang L, Eneanya ND, Essien U, Julien H, Nathan AS, Khatana SAM, Dayoub EJ, Fanaroff AC, Giri J, Groeneveld PW, Adusumalli S.: Association of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status With Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor Use Among Patients With Diabetes in the US JAMA Netw Open 4 : e216139,2021.

Smith CL, Seigerman M, Adusumalli S, Giri J, Fiorilli PN, Kolansky DM, Kobayashi T.: Evolution and Outcomes of Premature Coronary Artery Disease Curr Cardiol Rep 23 : 36,2021.

Andy AU, Guntuku SC, Adusumalli S, Asch DA, Groeneveld PW, Ungar LH, Merchant RM.: Predicting Cardiovascular Risk Using Social Media Data: Performance Evaluation of Machine-Learning Models JMIR Cardio 5 : e24473,2021.

Oakes AH, Adusumalli S, Snider CK, Rareshide CAL, Patel MS.: Variation in Cardiologist Statin Prescribing by Clinic Appointment Time J Am Coll Cardiol 77 : 661-662,2021.

Adusumalli S, Jolly E, Chokshi NP, Gitelman Y, Rareshide CAL, Kolansky DM, Patel MS.: Referral Rates for Cardiac Rehabilitation Among Eligible Inpatients After Implementation of a Default Opt-Out Decision Pathway in the Electronic Medical Record JAMA Netw Open 4 : e2033472,2021.

Adusumalli S, Westover JE, Jacoby DS, Small DS, VanZandbergen C, Chen J, Cavella AM, Pepe R, Rareshide CAL, Snider CK, Volpp KG, Asch DA, Patel MS.: Effect of Passive Choice and Active Choice Interventions in the Electronic Health Record to Cardiologists on Statin Prescribing: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial JAMA Cardiol 6 : 40-48,2021.

Academic Contact Information

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Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
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