Divvy Upadhyay

Divvy K. Upadhyay, MD, MPH, CPHRM, CPPS leads diagnostic safety efforts at Geisinger- a large integrated, mostly rural, health system in Pennsylvania. Dr. Upadhyay’s major focus is on establishing and learning from a system-wide program to identify and address diagnostic errors. He first started working on diagnostic errors more than a decade ago exploring health policy and diagnostic errors.

For the last 7 years, he has worked full time on diagnostic safety at Geisinger managing a multi-disciplinary committee to improve clinical diagnosis and working closely with the organization’s patient safety, clinical risk management and grievance teams. He has collaborated with leading researchers and worked with local operations teams and clinical leaders to implement diagnostic safety in practice. In 2021, he was appointed to the 12-member national advisory panel for The Leapfrog Group’s “Recognizing Excellence in Diagnosis” - a new national initiative to publicly report and recognize hospitals for preventing patient harm due to diagnostic errors.

He Co-Chairs SIDM’s Practice Improvement Committee and has been on expert/advisory panels at NQF (Project HARM and Diagnostic Excellence), IHI, ECRI and RAND. Prior to working with Geisinger, he was a health care policy analyst in Washington D.C. where he analyzed physician payment policy, primary care, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act among other health care policy issues.