AHA's Bhatt named to Crain's Chicago Business '40 Under 40'

Crain’s Chicago Business today named AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., one of 40 Chicagoans under age 40 at the top of their field. Bhatt, who joined the AHA in September, oversees the association’s clinical leadership and health activities and serves as president and CEO of its Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate. He previously served as chief health officer for the Illinois Health and Hospital Association and as managing deputy commissioner at the Chicago Department of Public Health, where he “showed a talent for spearheading Big Data projects,” the magazine notes. It also notes Bhatt’s interest in helping the field journey towards higher reliability. Besides policy work, the authors add, Bhatt “loves dancing – he gave lessons to patients and has been known to use dance in team-building exercises in front of hospital CEOs and their staffs.”