Rate My Professor Pascal Geldsetzer

Pascal Geldsetzer is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford University and, by courtesy, in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. He is also affiliated with the Phil & Penny Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, the Department of Biomedical Data Science, the Department of Health Policy, and the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences. He earned his MD from the University of Edinburgh in 2011, his MPH from Harvard University in 2012, and his PhD from Harvard University in 2018.

His research focuses on identifying and evaluating the most effective interventions for improving health at older ages. In addition to leading several randomized trials, his methodological emphasis lies in the use of natural experiments to ascertain causal effects in large observational datasets, particularly in electronic health record data. He has received an NIH New Innovator Award in 2022, a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigatorship in 2022, and three NIH R01 grants as Principal Investigator in 2023 and 2024. In 2026, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in health and medicine globally by TIME Magazine. He also received the MIND Prize from the Pershing Square Foundation for 2026-2029, the “Paper of the Year” 2025 award from the International Society for Vaccines in 2026, the 2026 Science Prize from the German Health Economics Association, and the Young Investigator Award from the American Diabetes Association in 2023. He serves as Faculty Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Global Health and Faculty Affiliate at the King Center for Global Development at Stanford University.