Puneet Bajaj, M.D.

Biography

Puneet Bajaj, M.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and a member of its Division of Rheumatic Diseases.

Dr. Bajaj received his medical training in India and completed internal medicine residency training at the University of Alabama. His interest in autoimmune diseases led him to obtain advanced training in rheumatology through a fellowship program at Stony Brook University in New York. He has been a member of the UT Southwestern faculty since 2014.

Dr. Bajaj has a special interest in improving quality of care and over the last decade has successfully implemented several department-wide and clinic-level quality improvement projects. He now serves in the capacity of Quality Officer for the Department of Medicine, and co-directs courses for the UT Southwestern Office of Quality, Safety, and Outcomes Education, focused on teaching quality improvement methodology to medical students, trainees, faculty, and staff. In the past, he has been involved with the ACO working on several initiatives related to quality improvement, predictive modeling, and bundled payment to improve patient outcomes through population health management and value-based care.

Dr. Bajaj is an active member of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). He is the Chair of the ACR Committee on Registries and Health Information Technology (RHIT), and has chaired the ACR Research and Publications Subcommittee. He successfully integrated the ACR’s clinical registry, the RISE Registry, at UT Southwestern, one of the first academic institutions in the nation to do so.

Outside of medicine, he enjoys spending time with his family and participating in outdoor activities.