A Yale-educated physician, Dr. Mostashari commanded attention for achieving what most thought impossible: successfully deploying an EMR system into 1,000 community and public health clinics across New York City, giving eClinical Works the sort of "nudge" founder Girish Kumar Navani could only dream of. Authored white paper, calls for more federal funding to support local "boots on the ground," so other communities may replicate his success quickly. Will join Dr. David Blumenthal's Health IT staff in Washington DC. An epidemiologist, previous work includes investigating West Nile Virus and anthrax outbreaks, and early development of electronic disease surveillance systems.

In an interview with The New York Times:

 “There’s no way small practices can effectively implement electronic health records on their own...This is not the iPhone.”