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“The commandant has to have complete confidence in that MHS, and in computer science, Dragomir Radev, PhD.
student in terms of ethics, ability to lead, to do the right thing,” Khera is a general cardiologist at the Yale New Haven Hos-
myrecordjournal.com quoted Vanecek as saying. “Additionally, pital, data science, health policy and outcomes researcher at the
he was a very good academic student and in my estimation was a Yale School of Medicine, and an investigator at Yale’s Center for
great image of a Norwich student. He wasn’t boisterous, he was Outcomes Research and Evaluation.
quiet. He did the job and he did it well, and people noticed.” During his internal medicine residency training at the Univer-
“Though Jeet’s life was not long, it was full. He lived a peace- sity of Iowa and his cardiology fellowship training at UT South-
ful life brimming with laughter, friendship, and boundless per- western Medical Center, Dr. Khera received the American Col-
sonal and professional accomplishments. He was kind, fun, and lege of Cardiology’s Young Investigator Award and the Francois
self-motivated,” read his obituary. “Jeet was studying criminal jus- Abboud Young Investigator Award.
tice and cybersecurity at Norwich University in the class of 2022 He was also inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical
Corps of Cadets and aspired to become a state police officer in Honor Society for his academic accomplishments.
New England. In doing so, he hoped to serve and strengthen the
community, which is a goal that perfectly reflects his character.” BaLaJi & aarTi rudrawar

roHan KHera iT professional, pregnant wife
researcher awarded found dead at new Jersey home

career development grant olice in New Jersey are in-

vestigating the deaths of
ohan Khera has re- Pan Indian IT profession-
ceived a K23 career de- al and his pregnant wife found
Rvelopment grant from dead inside their apartment in
the National Heart, Lung, and North Arlington on Wednes-
Blood Institute (NHLBI) to day. Police responded to the
develop automated tools for apartment at 5:40 p.m. after re-
better heart healthcare. An as- ceiving a 9-1-1 call from a con-
sistant professor of medicine cerned neighbor asking for a
and investigator at the Center welfare check on the residents,
for Outcomes Research and according to Bergen County
Evaluation, Khera is a gradu- prosecutor.
ate of the All-India Institute Officers forced entry into
of Medical Sciences where the apartment at 21 Garden Terrace, North Arlington and found
he was a National Young Investigator Scholarship awardee. a deceased male and female, he said but gave no other details.
The grant is for “Evaluating and Improving Utilization of Ev- However, local media reports identified the couple as Bala-
idence-Based Medical Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure us- ji Bharat Rudrawar, 32, and his wife Arati Balaji Rudrawar, 30,
ing Automated Tools in the Electronic Health Record,” accord- hailing from the temple town of Ambajogai in Maharashtra’s
ing to a Yale press release. Beed district, about 300 miles from Mumbai.
It allows, Khera a cardiologist with expertise in data science, Police was alerted after neighbors saw their four-year-old
health policy, and healthcare quality, to develop automated tools daughter crying alone in the balcony of their house. The husband
that incorporate both structured and unstructured data elements apparently stabbed and sliced his wife in the abdomen as she un-
from the electronic health record (EHR) in defining care quality. successfully tried to fight him off in their living room, one report
His work will use advanced machine learning models and nat- said. Investigators were waiting for the medical examiner to de-
ural language processing to better phenotype patients with heart termine the cause and circumstances of the death, but confirmed
failure, with the goal to personalize their care and improve their both victims had been stabbed, it added.
outcomes. Dr. Khera’s research focuses on evaluating the quality Rudrawar, an IT professional and his homemaker wife moved
of care and patient outcomes across hospitals in the United States. to the US in August 2015 after they got married in December
His work has specifically addressed the vast variation in ad- 2014. Balaji’s father Bharat Rudrawar told an Indian media
herence to evidence-based therapy, uptake of novel care practic- outlet that his daughter-in-law was seven months pregnant. His
es and treatments, and rigorous evaluation of national health pol- granddaughter was now with a friend of his son. US authorities
icies and their effects on hospital practices and patient outcomes. had also informed him that it will take at least 8-10 days for the
In his previous work, Khera indicated that both the incidence bodies to reach India after necessary formalities.
of heart failure and adverse health outcomes among patients Meanwhile, according to an Indian media report Nationalist
with heart failure continue to be major challenges, and improv- Congress Party MP Supriya Sule has appealed to India’s Exter-
ing the quality of care could improve the health of patients with nal Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to help the deceased couple’s
this disease. four-year-old daughter. “Kindly look into the matter and conduct
Mentors on the grant include Yale Cardiovascular Medicine a thorough investigation of the matter. Also requesting to help
faculty Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM, Eric Velazquez, MD, and Er- their daughter who is alone and without any help and assist in
ica Spatz, MD, MHS. Other mentors include faculty in clinical making necessary arrangement for the child to return to family in
informatics, Cynthia Brandt MD, MPH and Ted Melnick, MD, India,” she said in a tweet.

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