Robert Kocher
Adjunct professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, nonresident senior scholar at the USC Schaeffer Institute, and partner at Venrock, with expertise in health policy and health-system strategy and co-author of the NEJM perspective on hypertension control.
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Jan 28, 2026 • 7min
NEJM Interview: Robert Kocher on strategies for improving blood-pressure control in the United States.
Robert Kocher, adjunct professor at Stanford and health-policy expert, discusses why U.S. blood-pressure control has stalled. He explores causes of low awareness, misaligned incentives, and short insurance tenures. He describes AI and EMR tools for real-time home BP monitoring and automated treatment workflows. Policy levers like payment models and copay changes are also examined.
