Dr. Budhwani holds a PhD in Medical Sociology and an MPH in Health Care Organization and Policy from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Prior to joining the ranks of faculty in 2013, Dr. Budhwani was a Senior Statistician with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and its subsidiary Cahaba Safeguard Administrators where she was part of an analytic team that identified provider fraud, waste, and abuse by applying retroactive statistical analyses and predictive models to Medicare and Medicaid claims data. While at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, Dr. Budhwani also conducted health services research examining health outcomes through the analysis of medical claims data, pharmacy data, and intervention or programmatic outcomes data.