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Bhavika Kaul, MD, MAS
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
Houston, TX
Bhavika Kaul, MD, MAS, is a core investigator at the Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), staff physician in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. She earned her BS from Rice University, MD from Baylor College of Medicine, completed residency in internal medicine at Baylor where she served as chief resident, and fellowship at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) where she served as chief fellow. Dr. Kaul holds a Master’s in Clinical Research from UCSF and advanced training in interstitial lung disease and health services research.
Dr. Kaul’s scholarship is dedicated to improving timely access to high-quality care for Veterans with pulmonary fibrosis - a progressive and often fatal form of lung scarring that is disproportionately prevalent among Veterans and now recognized as a military service-connected condition under the PACT Act. Through her VA HSR Career Development Award, she will lead a national effort to leverage big data analytics and quantitative imaging tools (radiomics) to identify Veterans at high risk for pulmonary fibrosis development and progression, design novel risk prediction models to inform care triage, and redesign follow-up care pathways to ensure Veterans at highest risk of adverse outcomes receive access to timely specialty care.
Dr. Kaul is the inaugural Oscar Auerbach Scholar with the VA War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, a 2023 National Academy of Medicine Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence, and a 2024 recipient of the American Society of Clinical Investigation Young Physician-Scientist Award. Her long-term vision is to leverage technological innovation and implementation science to ensure that Veterans receive exceptional subspecialty care while optimizing finite healthcare system resources.
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