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==Education==
He graduated from [https://stanford.edu/ Stanford University] in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts with membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He remained at Stanford to do doctoral study in economics and attend the Stanford University School of Medicine, receiving an M.D. in 1997 and a Ph.D in 2000.
==Academic career==
Dr. Bhattachaya has been a professor in the [https://medicine.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Department of Medicine] from 2001 until the present. In addition, he has also been a professor in the [https://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/ Department of Health Research and Policy] from 2001 until 2020.
==Director of the National Institutes of Health==
President-elect Donald J. Trump appointed Dr. Bhattacharya on 26 November 2024 to succeed Francis Collins as Director of the [https://www.nih.gov/ National Institutes of Health]. He will report to [[Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.]], Secretary of Health and Human Services and oversee 27 institutes and centers.<ref>{{REFnews
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==Personal life==
Dr. Bhattachaya has three children.