Artak Khachatryan joined The King’s Fund in January 2008 to work on a research project looking at variation in performance and outcomes of primary care practices in England and its associations with achievements of QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework) indicators. He is also working towards exploring the influence of social deprivation on performance and health inequalities, within the frame of the QOF project.

Artak has a surgical and public health/epidemiology background, graduating from the Yerevan State Medical University (Armenia) where he specialised in general surgery. From 2002 to 2006 he studied at University College London for his PhD degree, working on 'The use of routine data to investigate hospital-level determinants of colorectal cancer survival in London'. Artak also worked at UCL as a researcher, moving to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a clinical research fellow in 2006.

His main research interests include performance evaluation of health care institutions; organisational determinants of cancer survival; and using administrative and clinical datasets to assess the quality and outcome of health care.