Raj Ratwani is the vice president of Scientific Affairs, the research arm of MedStar Health. He is responsible for supporting researchers in program development, an administrative infrastructure that enables rigorous research and identifying strategic partners and funding opportunities to foster high-impact research.

Dr. Ratwani is also the director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, the largest human factors research team embedded in a healthcare system. His research focuses on patient safety, digital health, data science and artificial intelligence. He earned a doctorate in human factors and applied cognition from George Mason University and received the Fleishman dissertation award for outstanding research. He completed a National Research Council post-doctoral fellowship at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.