Center for Climate, Health, and Healthcare, Rutgers Health Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Dr. Aayush Visaria is a primary care physician and clinician-scientist dedicated to improving cardio-metabolic disease risk stratification. He earned his MPH in Biostatistics from the Rutgers School of Public Health in 2017, followed by his MD from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 2021. He received additional research training as a postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Institute for Health under the mentorship of Dr. Soko Setoguchi, where he published several studies examining BMI-outcome associations and racial/ethnic disparities in cardio-metabolic diseases.

Dr. Visaria completed his internal medicine residency at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, graduating with a Distinction in Research. He currently serves as an RBHS Instructor of Medicine at Rutgers RWJMS and Center for Climate, Health, and Healthcare at Rutgers IFH. His current research focuses on improving visceral adiposity estimation in the primary care setting to better identify adults at elevated cardiovascular risk, particularly those from ethnic groups with a high burden of cardiovascular disease and those with normal BMI. His work has been published in Diabetes Care, Journal of Hypertension, American Journal of Cardiology, among others, and has been featured on several news outlets including CNN, NBC, and WebMD.

Outside of his clinical and research work, Dr. Visaria leads the American Preventive Screening and Education Association (APSEA), a nonprofit organization committed to reducing the burden of hypertension and diabetes through community-based screenings and preventive lifestyle education. He also directs the lifestyle medicine curriculum for internal medicine residents at RWJMS. In his free time, he enjoys playing pickleball.