Arun
Mohan

Physician Entrepreneur

33, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Arun Mohan, MD, MBA, is a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Resident Physician at Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Mohan’s work focuses on improving the quality of health care through information technology, patient-centered communication, and provider participation in health policy.

Dr. Mohan is co-founder and Partner of PictureRx, LLC, a company focused on developing tools that simplify medication information and increase patient compliance. The company recently completed a federally-funded clinical trial of its core product and is in the process of commercializing its technology.

Dr. Mohan has worked with Emory Healthcare, Kimberly Clark, and Tides Foundation in various capacities. He was Principal Investigator for grants from the National Library of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation that established HealthSTAT, a non-profit focused on engaging health professional students in policy advocacy, of which Dr. Mohan is a co-founder. His writings have appeared in Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and The Healthcare Blog.

Dr. Mohan received his MD and MBA from Emory University, where he received the Marion Luther Brittain Award, Emory University’s highest student honor, and was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. As a student he was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Medical Association foundation, the youngest-ever person named to that position. He was also selected as one of Georgia’s “40 Under 40” by Georgia Trend magazine. Dr. Mohan received his BA in sociology and anthropology with a concentration in Latin American studies from Swarthmore College where he was Editor-in-Chief of The Phoenix, the campus newspaper, and received the Dean’s Award. He later studied as a Jane Addams-Andrew Carnegie Fellow at Indiana University.