"Healthcare industry expert with 20+ years’ experience in clinical programs around Risk, Quality and Cost containment. Eleven years with UnitedHealthcare’s Optum, clinical performance solutions division, designing clinical programs for early identification of chronic illness. More recently, with Molina Healthcare working on outcomes and cost containment. Developed advanced algorithms around pharmacy, medical claims, labs and natural language processing of chart records for predictive models geared to promote pre-clinical diagnosis of chronic illness and monitoring of active disease. Algorithms are actively used on a population of over 20 million Medicare and Medicaid lives across multiple healthcare payers.

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Currently working in public healthcare sector working for both Fire Department of New York and medical affairs emergency medical services (EMS), and department of sanitation New York (DSNY) occupational health, surgical consultant for more than 15 years. Board certified in General surgery by American College of Surgeons. Selected in 2019 to subcommittee for HHS fastCures Landscape analysis to align innovation budgeting to disease total cost and to speed products to market."