Description of Research Expertise

Dr. Adusumalli is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Management at The Wharton School.

He previously served as 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 served as a clinical innovation manager and deputy director for the Nudge Unit and the Acceleration Lab at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation.

Dr. Adusumalli 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, clinical informatics, 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.

Halaby R, Cuker A, Yui J, Matthews A, Ishaaya E, Traxler E, Domenico C, Cooper T, Tierney A, Niami P, van der Rijst N, Adusumalli S, Gutsche J, Giri J, Pugliese S, Hecht TEH, Pishko AM.: Bleeding risk by intensity of anticoagulation in critically ill patients with COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study J Thromb Haemost 19 (6): 1533-1545,2021.

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.

Panebianco N, Baston CM, Mehta M, Ferrari VA, Jagasia D, Scherrer-Crosbie M, Adusumalli S.: Collaboration during Crisis: A Novel Point-of-Care Ultrasound Alliance among Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Cardiology in the COVID-19 Era J Am Soc Echocardiogr 34 (3): 325-326,2021.

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.

Academic Contact Information

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