Sri Lekha Tummalapalli is a Assistant Professor of Clinical Health Sciences and Nephrology. She joined the faculty at Cornell University in 2020, but still collaborates on research with KHRC. She completed her internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Hospital and MD/MBA degree at Harvard. Her background is in quality improvement, high value care, and healthcare delivery. Her research is on interventions to change physician behavior and improve evidence-based ordering practices. She was selected as an ASN Policy and Advocacy Committee intern and serves on the UCSF Quality Improvement Executive Committee.