Devraj Sukul
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine - Cardiology
Medicine
MD, Case Western Reserve University
MSc, Health and Healthcare Research, University of Michigan
BS, Biology, Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Sukul is an interventional cardiologist and health services researcher broadly focused on using quantitative methods to understand how health care policies, health systems, practice variation, and novel technologies affect cardiovascular quality, costs, and outcomes. As associate director of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Cardiovascular Consortium (BMC2), a statewide cardiovascular procedural quality improvement consortium, Dr. Sukul is also interested in improving care quality and outcomes for patients in Michigan undergoing cardiovascular procedures like percutaneous coronary intervention and transcatheter aortic valve replacement. He is also interested in research related to quality measurement, hospital/physician profiling, and health care disparities.
Projects:
CYP2C19 genetic testing for P2Y12 inhibitor use
University Affiliation(s)
IHPI
Research Area(s)
Clinical care | Health outcomes | Health services research
Publications
- Risk adjustment may lessen penalties on hospitals treating complex cardiac patients under Medicare's bundled payments
- Drivers of Variation in 90-Day Episode Payments After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.
- Heterogeneity of Ankle-Brachial Indices in Patients Undergoing Revascularization for Critical Limb Ischemia.
Grants
- Co-investigator of: The effects of bundled payment on acute cardiovascular outcomes on older adults
- Co-investigator of: Evaluating Treatment-Specific Recovery Patterns for Aortic Valve Disease
- Co-investigator of: Evaluating Treatment-Specific Recovery Patterns for Aortic Valve Disease