Lakshman Swamy went to medical school at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, where he received his MD and an MBA with a focus on healthcare quality and leadership. He completed Internal Medicine Residency, Chief Residency, and Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Boston Medical Center (Boston, MA). He splits his time between clinical practice as a pulmonary/critical care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance and in an administrative role as a Medical Director focused on Payment & Care Delivery Innovation at MassHealth, the Massachusetts Medicaid agency.

Dr. Swamy holds academic appointments as an Assistant Professor of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences at UMass Medical School and as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the creator of Critical Care: The Game- a card game about ICU medicine.

Dr. Swamy is passionate about the "quintuple aim" in healthcare and believes that sustainable improvement in healthcare can only come from achieving all five aims simultaneously: care that is centered on individual patients and improves outcomes for the entire population, closes gaps in health equity and improves the experience health care providers and patients and does all of this at a lower cost. To that end, he has investigated burnout in clinicians and applied these findings to assist health systems in understanding the importance of and improving their approach to clinician wellbeing.