Notable Alums
Specialty: Infectious Disease,Internal Medicine
Graduation Year: 2005
Natasha Bagdasarian
Natasha Bagdasarian, M.D. '05, M.P.H., FIDSA, FACP, has served as the state of Michigan’s chief medical executive since September 2021.
As chief medical executive, Dr. Bagdasarian is a member of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s cabinet. She chairs Michigan’s Public Health Advisory Council, Childhood Lead Elimination Commission, the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force and the Opioid Task Force.
She previously served as a senior public health physician for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services during the COVID-19 pandemic, overseeing testing strategies and bringing rapid testing to vulnerable populations. She also worked with the World Health Organization, providing technical guidance on outbreak preparedness.
From 2015 to 2020, she led the hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship teams at two hospitals in Singapore and was on several national committees and guideline development groups in Singapore, as well as the COVID-19 leadership response group for the National University Health System.
After graduating from the WSU School of Medicine, Dr. Bagdasarian completed an Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Michigan, where she received a master’s of public health degree in hospital and molecular epidemiology. She is an adjunct professor in epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.
As chief medical executive, Dr. Bagdasarian is a member of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s cabinet. She chairs Michigan’s Public Health Advisory Council, Childhood Lead Elimination Commission, the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force and the Opioid Task Force.
She previously served as a senior public health physician for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services during the COVID-19 pandemic, overseeing testing strategies and bringing rapid testing to vulnerable populations. She also worked with the World Health Organization, providing technical guidance on outbreak preparedness.
From 2015 to 2020, she led the hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship teams at two hospitals in Singapore and was on several national committees and guideline development groups in Singapore, as well as the COVID-19 leadership response group for the National University Health System.
After graduating from the WSU School of Medicine, Dr. Bagdasarian completed an Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Michigan, where she received a master’s of public health degree in hospital and molecular epidemiology. She is an adjunct professor in epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.