Physician Executive · Author · Columnist
Raja Ramaswamy, MD
Vice President and Physician Director of Health and Wellness at Indiana University Health, one of the nation's largest health systems, where I lead workforce wellness strategy and employee health at scale.
A physician's voice, in the rooms where decisions get made
Training & appointments
- Vice President & Physician Director of Health and Wellness, Indiana University Health
- Former Chairman & Medical Director of Radiology, Community Health Network
- Former faculty, Washington University in St. Louis
- Residency & fellowship, University of California San Diego
I have spent two decades treating patients and studying the system that is supposed to keep them healthy. I trained at UC San Diego, was faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, led radiology programs, built multidisciplinary clinical teams, and published extensively.
But the thing that changed how I work was simpler than any of that. It was standing at enough bedsides to understand that the system failing my patients was not an accident.
The problems are real. The solutions exist. What is missing is the will to act. That is what I am working to change.
My columns in the Indianapolis Star and the Indiana Capital Chronicle are my attempt to put a physician's voice into the rooms where those decisions get made — on Medicaid, workforce, maternal health, and the choices that determine whether people get care and whether they can afford to stay alive.
The Book
YOU Are the New Prescription
Written with Dr. Rani Ramaswamy, an OB-GYN and menopause specialist. Over thirty years of combined clinical experience distilled into a science-based guide to lasting health — sleep, stress, nutrition, movement, and mindset. It is the book I wish I could hand every patient who walks out of my office.
“The book that made me rethink everything. Empowering, honest, and deeply human.”
United States & worldwide
India edition · Jaico Publishing House
Released across India by Jaico, built around The Ramaswamy Prescription — a five-pillar framework: Nourish, Move, Recharge, Protect, Break Free.
Latest columns
All writing →Research
Peer-reviewed research across five fields
Vascular and endovascular disease, image-guided cancer therapy, metabolic and population health, and imaging technique development — plus work on training, teamwork, and quality improvement.
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Speaking
Keynotes, panels, grand rounds, and board briefings. Five talks I give most often — each can run 20 minutes or 60.
- 01
Workforce wellness at scale
What actually moves burnout, retention, and health cost in a system of 35,000 people — and what only looks like it does.
Health systems · HR · Boards - 02
Medicaid and the coverage cliff
What happens to a state's health when a hundred thousand people lose coverage, told through the clinic and the budget line.
Policy · Civic · Press - 03
The physician pipeline problem
Why excellent training programs still fail the communities that need providers most, and how incentives could be rebuilt.
Academic · Grand rounds - 04
YOU are the new prescription
Sleep, stress, nutrition, movement, mindset — the five levers, the evidence behind them, and how to actually pull them.
Corporate · Community · Patients - 05
Reading the science in the headlines
Tylenol, vaccines, food dye, measles. How to tell a real signal from a political one without a medical degree.
General · Media · Schools
Media kit
Everything a producer or event organizer needs. Copy the bio, take the headshot, use the title verbatim.
Short bio · 28 words
Raja Ramaswamy, MD is Vice President and Physician Director of Health and Wellness at Indiana University Health, a contributing columnist for the Indianapolis Star, and co-author of YOU Are the New Prescription.
Long bio
Raja Ramaswamy, MD is a physician executive working at the intersection of medicine, policy, and organizational leadership. He serves as Vice President and Physician Director of Health and Wellness at Indiana University Health, where he leads workforce wellness strategy and employee health programs at scale. Trained at UC San Diego and formerly faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, he has authored more than fifty peer-reviewed publications on vascular disease, image-guided cancer therapy, and population health. He is a contributing columnist for the Indianapolis Star and the Indiana Capital Chronicle, and co-author, with Rani Ramaswamy, MD, of YOU Are the New Prescription.
Assets
Title, verbatim: Raja Ramaswamy, MD — Vice President & Physician Director of Health and Wellness, Indiana University Health
Let's work together
If you are working on something in health, wellness, innovation, or policy — a hospital, a company, a local group, or an individual with a big idea — send a note and I will follow up.