Ebrahim Barkoudah, M.D., M.P.H.

Ebrahim Barkoudah, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the inaugural Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He leads hospital medicine programs across UT Southwestern, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Texas Health Frisco, and the VA North Texas Health Care System.

Originally from Syria, Dr. Barkoudah earned his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine of Damascus University and completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where he also completed postdoctoral training in physiology and vascular biology. He holds a master's degree in clinical effectiveness from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Executive MBA from the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, St Hugh's College.

Prior to joining the faculty in 2026, Dr. Barkoudah served as system chief of hospital medicine and regional chief medical officer/chief quality officer at Baystate Health in Massachusetts. He previously held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and advanced in the academic ranks for 15 years while serving at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Barkoudah's research focuses on improving outcomes for hospitalized patients through clinical investigation, health services research and implementation science, with particular emphasis on cardiovascular disease, heart failure and complex medical comorbidities. His work includes large clinical trial analyses and cohort studies examining heart failure across the spectrum of ejection fraction, acute myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation during hospitalization and venous thromboembolism prevention, as well as renal and cardiometabolic outcomes associated with contemporary therapies. He has also published on inpatient communication, patient understanding of care teams, diagnostic reasoning and frailty, highlighting system-level factors that influence quality and safety in hospital medicine. Additional areas of scholarship address population health and equity, including rural-urban disparities, insurance status, and the use of predictive analytics and machine learning to stratify risk and guide clinical decision-making, reflecting a sustained interest in translating evidence into high-value, patient-centered inpatient care.

Dr. Barkoudah is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Healthcare Executives and is a Senior Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine. He has served as the chair and as a senior member on multiple national committees and held leadership positions in the Society of Hospital Medicine, American College of Physicians, and Society of General Internal Medicine. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the SGIM Forum, and previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management. His research focuses on clinical outcomes, cardiovascular therapeutics, and health care delivery innovation.

Personal Note

When he’s not at work, Dr. Barkoudah enjoys spending quality time with his family, traveling, and exploring the intersection of health care and business innovation through volunteer contributions on multiple advisory boards across the global medical community.