Sandeep Kishore

About Sandeep Kishore

Sandeep (Sunny) P. Kishore is an Associate Professor and physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) who has dedicated his career to addressing the urgent epidemic of chronic diseases. He is focusing on the interface between digital innovation and population health to address cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity which increasingly are driving death, disability, and cost.

At UCSF, he serves as the clinical lead for JupyterHealth, heading a cross-functional team focused on data exchange and interpretation, particularly in wearables, digital biomarkers, and personalized care for metabolic conditions like hypertension and diabetes. He co-led the development of a scalable treatment algorithm to drive the digital transformation of blood pressure control across the University of California, the nation’s largest academic health system, encompassing 10 hospitals and 1,000 care delivery sites.

Previously, he modernized the Essential Medicines List for the World Health Organization by adding a dozen treatments for chronic diseases to promote access to crucial medications and provided technical guidance to Resolve to Save Lives targeting the prevention of 100 million deaths through improved cardiovascular health. He founded the world’s first and largest network of early career health professionals focused on chronic disease control (Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network).

He has authored over 70 articles in esteemed medical journals as well as in popular publications such as Scientific American, and has spoken at TEDMED and the United Nations. His honors include the Sarber Award for the top PhD student in microbiology at the American Society of Microbiology, selection as an Emerging Leader at the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow at the MIT Dalai Lama Center, and as a term member with the Council on Foreign Relations. He completed his MD-PhD at Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering, master’s at Oxford as the Usher Cunningham Scholar and clinical training in internal medicine at Yale and at Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

Sandeep was born in Pittsburgh and grew up primarily in Arkansas and Virginia; his parents are naturalized US citizens from India and his brother Sanjay is also a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow.