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Rishi Khakhkhar

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Chief Medical Officer at Counsel Health
📍 New York, New York, United States

Rishi Khakhkhar is the founding Chief Medical Officer at Counsel Health, an AI-driven virtual care company. An emergency medicine physician by training, he previously served as the Medical Director for Virtual Urgent Care at Mount Sinai, where he also led operations for the Hospital-at-Home program.

Outside of his executive role, Rishi maintains a strong connection to his clinical roots, expressing a fondness for the high-octane, procedural aspects of emergency medicine. He frequently uses analogies from chess to discuss and analyze the future of human-AI collaboration in healthcare.

He is a vocal proponent of "centaur medicine, " a concept focusing on hybrid human-AI collaboration for superior clinical outcomes.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Chief Medical Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
New York, New York, United States
Personality Overview

How Rishi shows up

Example Seeker
Assertive
Curious

They ask a lot of questions and rely heavily on information and collaterals. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.

Priorities

Topics Rishi cares about

Autonomous Care
His company's mission is to build toward autonomous care delivery, a topic he frequently discusses in his writing and professional activities.
Physician-AI Collaboration
He often writes about "centaur medicine, " emphasizing the power of a physician-AI alliance to enhance, not replace, clinical expertise.
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Career

Work history

5-2025
Chief Medical Officer
Counsel Health
5-2024 - 4-2025
Founding Medical Director
Counsel Health
1-2023 - 4-2024
Medical Director of Virtual Urgent Care
Mount Sinai Health System
7-2022
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Mount Sinai Health System
2021 - 2021
Value-Based Care Strategy
DispatchHealth
In the press

Media appearances

Counsel Health, Dr. Rishi Khakhkhar (CMO) – Apple Podcasts. Featured in Apple Podcasts
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Meet Dr. Rishi Khakhkhar, Chief Medical Officer - Counsel Health. Featured in Counsel Health Blog
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Education
Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Northwestern University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

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