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Sachin H. Jain is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Director of Diabetes Prevention at the Joslin Diabetes Center; and Senior Institute Associate at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness.  In June 2011, he stepped down as senior advisor to Donald M. Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

At CMS, Jain was involved in the launch of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation that was chartered by Section 3021 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, briefly serving as its first Acting Deputy Director for Policy and Programs.  As a senior advisor to Berwick, Jain has advocated for speedier translation of health care delivery research into practice and an expanded use of clinical registries.

Previously, Jain was Special Assistant to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).  At the ONC, Jain worked with David Blumenthal to implement the HITECH Provisions of the Recovery Act and to achieve broader alignment between health plans and federal meaningful use policies and enhance electronic health record usability; he led private sector engagement efforts on behalf of ONC.

Jain received his undergraduate degree in government from Harvard College; his medical degree from Harvard Medical School; and his master’s degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School. At Harvard Business School, he was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship and the Dean’s Award.

He is a founder of several non-profit health care ventures including the Homeless Health Clinic at UniLu; the Harvard Bone Marrow Initiative; and ImproveHealthCare.org. He worked with DaVita-Bridge of Life to bring charity dialysis care to rural Rajasthan, India and Medical Missions for Children to bring cleft lip and palate surgery to the region.

While in residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he previously maintained an appointment as a faculty member at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and worked with strategy professor Michael Porter on his global health agenda and on a new case literature on health care delivery innovation.  Jain has worked previously at WellPoint, McKinsey & Co, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He has also served as an expert consultant to the World Health Organization.

Jain has authored over 40 publications on health care delivery innovation and health care reform in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and HealthAffairs. The book he co-edited with Susan Pories and Gordon Harper, ”The Soul of a Doctor” has been translated into Chinese.

A native of Bergen County, New Jersey, he now resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

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