Dr. Anshu Vashishtha is a compassionate, board-certified internist based in Irvine, California. He has worked in internal medicine since 1996, providing care across outpatient and inpatient settings, including community clinics, long-term acute care, acute care, and ICU-level patients. His clinical background also includes work as a skilled nursing facility (SNF) internist, as well as locum tenens hospitalist coverage in community hospitals. In addition to clinical practice, Dr. Vashishtha has experience in volunteer faculty teaching within academic medicine and has participated in community and disaster-relief service.

Dr. Vashishtha completed residency training and board certification in Internal Medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York (1996). He earned a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Immunology from Rockefeller University in New York (1993). He received his medical degree equivalent as a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India (1986). He holds a physician license in California and maintains current DEA registration.

From 1996 to the present, Dr. Vashishtha has worked as a hospitalist, house physician, internist, and concierge medicine physician (part time), with responsibilities that have included the care of outpatients in community clinic settings, as well as management of long-term acute and acute care patients, including ICU patients. He has also served as volunteer faculty in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, where he performed rotations as the team attending physician within the UC Irvine residency training program.

In parallel with his clinical practice, Dr. Vashishtha has consulted and been employed (part and full time) in the pharmaceutical and clinical data management industry from 1996 to the present, including work with Allergan, Watson, Amgen, Roche-Genentech, and Aventis. His responsibilities have included authoring, reviewing, and analyzing clinical research data, protocols, and reports, as well as designing and reviewing clinical research protocols and safety data, including interaction with ethics committees and IRBs and review of grant proposals.