Joshua B. Rager, MD

Bio

Joshua Rager, MD, MS, MA, is interested in developing evidence-based ways to help patients and clinicians make better medical decisions about preventive services. He is particularly interested in ways to estimate and integrate individualized risk and benefit to identify patients for whom the clinical evidence may not clearly support one medical option over another, and thus decisions need to consider patient preferences and values. Within these areas, he is interested in ways to improve shared decision-making and enhance policies and guidelines that seek to promote more personalized, patient-centered care.

Rager is originally from Crawfordsville, Indiana, and he attended college at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where he studied religion. He completed both a master’s degree in bioethics and a medical degree at Indiana University and remained at IU for his internal medicine residency. He completed a health services research fellowship through the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Michigan and currently practices adult outpatient medicine at IU Health University Hospital.