Dr. Romit Bhattacharya is a general and preventive cardiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an affiliated researcher at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and the Associate Director of the Cardiac Lifestyle Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital. 

He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania where he received his BA, and was a recipient of the Thouron Prize. He received his MD with Alpha Omega Alpha honors from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and was a recipient of the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellowship, which he completed at the University of California San Francisco’s Gladstone Institutes. Dr. Bhattacharya completed his internship and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed a research fellowship in Healthcare Delivery Innovation at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was selected as Chief Fellow and completed his clinical and research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2021.  

Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on comprehensive cardiometabolic risk profiling using a combination of genomic risk and lifestyle risk factors. He also studies novel digital technologies as tools to characterize lifestyle behaviors and to help patients manage disease and health promoting behaviors at home.