Anjali Khakharia MS, MBBS

Anjali is Sr. Biostatistician for Georgia Gear. She is part of Coordinating Core and provides data support for the Georgia Gear Program.

When Anjali is not working on Georgia Gear matters, she is Sr. Biostatistician for various research projects at the Emory University School of Medicine Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics providing data support to gerontologists and geriatricians on their awarded research studies and quality improvement projects. She is also affiliated with VA Atlanta and provides data extraction, management, and data analytic support to the number of researchers at Atlanta VA hospital.

Anjali has been working at Emory University for almost six years. In the past, she worked as Research Associate at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and VA hospital in New Jersey for over 8 years. Her research interests are improving Diabetes care and its management, looking at the long-term complications of diabetes and its management, identifying the risk factors, and managing chronic kidney disease. Health services research related to vascular interventions for cardiovascular diseases. She is also interested in research related to the geriatric population including Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and falls.

In her free time, she likes to spend time with her family. She has two daughters 12 and 8 years old (Himanshi and Vedika) and one son 5-year-old (Rohan). She also enjoys watching movies at dine-in theaters and now tries to have movie nights with the dining option at home.