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Dr. Rita F. Redberg is a cardiologist who practices general and preventive cardiology. She is passionate about helping her patients adopt healthful lifestyle behaviors to reduce their heart disease risk and stay healthy. She also has an interest in promoting high-value health care, an approach that emphasizes delivering appropriate treatments while avoiding tests or therapies with no known benefits.
In her research, Redberg looks at how the assessment of medical technology's safety and effectiveness influences – and is influenced by – public health policy. In particular, she studies high-risk medical devices and women's inclusion in clinical trials for such devices.
As editor of JAMA Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association, from 2009 to 2023, she spearheaded the publication's new focus on health care reform and less-is-more medicine, a movement to reduce unnecessary interventions.
Redberg earned her medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center. She completed a fellowship in noninvasive cardiology at the Mount Sinai Health System. She also has a master's degree in health policy and administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
London School of Economics, MS, Health Policy and Administration, 1981
University of Pennsylvania, MD, 1982
Columbia University Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 1985
Columbia University Medical Center, Cardiology, 1987
Mount Sinai Health System, Noninvasive Cardiology, 1988
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
Cardiovascular Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine
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