Intensivist and Head, Clinical Epidemiology Section, Critical Care Medicine Department
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Kadri earned his degree in Medicine from the Seth G. S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India. He trained in Internal Medicine at the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Infectious Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital, in Critical Care at the NIH Clinical Center and in Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Kadri is a physician investigator in the Critical Care Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center. In this role, he splits his time between attending as an Intensivist in the ICU, serving as a tenure track NIH principal investigator, supervising a data lab, and training fellows. His primary research interest lies in improving outcomes in the critically ill by leveraging data science to inform clinical care and health policy.
Since the Pandemic took hold in the U.S., Dr Kadri’s lab has contributed several landmark investigations to the evidence base, including studies showcasing the detrimental impact of strain of hospital COVID-19 caseload surges on outcomes, the reliability of diagnosis coding for COVID-19, the risk of reinfection from COVID-19 and the risk factors for severe outcome in vaccine breakthrough infections. He serves as a clinical advisor and collaborator on several CDC-initiated large database studies on COVID-19.
Dr. Kadri has been awarded intramural, FDA and foundational grant funding and recently won the NIH Director’s Challenge Grant to improve antibiotic prescribing in hospital-onset sepsis. He has been a recipient of the Harvard T.H. Chan Emerging Health Care Professional award, the Ruth Kirschstein Award for Excellence in Mentoring, and is this year's recipient of the IDSA Oswal Avery Award for early achievement. His research lab was recently awarded the NHLBI Director’s award for COVID-19 Response.
Dr. Kadri has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications and held various editorial positions over the years including Associate Editor of Critical Care Medicine, the flagship journal for the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He has served on several task forces and technical expert panels.