Farzad Mostashari (Aledade) Farzad Mostashari, MD, has spent his career at the forefront of health care policy and health information technology. He is the former National Coordinator for Health IT at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and served as a distinguished expert at the Brookings Institute’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform. Prior to his work at the Office of the National Coordinator, he founded the NYC Primary Care Information Project, which equipped 1,500 physicians in underserved communities with electronic health records. He received his MD from Yale University School of Medicine and his Masters in Population Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.