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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.
==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].<ref>{{REFnews
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