Anand Jagannath is a teaching hospitalist at the Portland VA and Associate Professor of Medicine at OHSU, where he also serves as the Undergraduate Medical Education Site Director. He earned his MD from Tufts University and completed his Internal Medicine residency and chief residency at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He began his career at UC San Diego before he was recruited to OHSU and has built his career with a consistent focus on education and mentorship in internal medicine.

A nationally recognized leader in clinical reasoning education, Anand has developed and led curricula focused on diagnostic and management reasoning for medical students and residents. His innovations span case-based workshops, integration with EBM, and the use of OSCE for assessment. He has delivered invited lectures and grand rounds at major academic centers across the country, appeared on the Clinical Problem Solvers and Curbsiders podcasts, and serves in editorial roles for clinical problem-solving series with the Journal of General Internal Medicine and Journal of Hospital Medicine. His scholarship emphasizes improving how reasoning is taught, practiced, and assessed.

Anand’s contributions have been recognized at the institutional and national level, including the CDIM Early Career Medical Student Educator Award, multiple teaching awards at OHSU and UCSD. His mentorship has supported trainees across a range of academic and clinical career paths, and hopes to continues to shaping the future of medical education through thoughtful innovation and a deep commitment to the development of thoughtful, skilled physicians.

When he’s not practicing, teaching, or thinking about medicine, Anand enjoys being a dad and husband, cooking, baking bread and pizza, getting outside, playing the violin, and spending time with friends and family.