Dr. Sedrakyan serves as Associate Professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Prior to coming to Cornell, he was a Senior Adviser at FDA (from 2008) and had a simultaneous appointment as Senior Service Officer/Senior Advisor at the Agency for healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) from 2005 to 2009. He was a lead adviser on interventions (including surgery), implantable devices and cardiovascular content area. He initiated the Effective Healthcare CV Consortium that conducted and funded some of the first linkages of national cardiovascular and administrative databases and collaborative outcomes studies. He supervised two centers for Education and Research in Therapeutics (CERTS); Cardiovascular CERT and Device CERT.