Ami Parekh MD and Robin Glass: A Dynamic Duo on the Alchemy of Teams
Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande
Release Date: 08/08/2024
Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande
Dr. Neel Shah, MD, MPP, FACOG, is Chief Medical Officer of Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, and visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School. He is also the co-founder of the March for Moms Association, a coalition of more than 20 leading organizations dedicated to increasing public and private investment in the well-being of mothers, and the founder of Costs of Care, an NGO that curates insights from clinicians and patients to help delivery systems provide better care. His work to build equitable, trustworthy systems of care is featured in the...
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We’re thrilled to announce that Reena's podcast is relaunching under a new name: Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande! You can expect the same great host, just with a new name and fresh look. Each month, Reena will explore lessons of exceptional healthcare leaders through candid conversations with outstanding clinician executives who are catalyzing change across our industry. Stay tuned! We'll be dropping our first monthly episode is dropping May 14th.
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Dr. Matt Patterson is the President of WelbeHealth, an organization that provides high quality, integrated, clinical and social care for vulnerable seniors through their PACE program. In his role as President, he oversees all operations for the business. He has long been dedicated to improving the value, accessibility, and experience of healthcare for all people and their caregivers. He’s led market changing innovation across clinical, operational, and technology domains with AirStrip, McKinsey & C
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Erika Pabo, MD MBA is a physician, executive leader, and entrepreneur with deep experience building, operating, and transforming businesses across the value-based healthcare ecosystem. She currently serves as Chief Transformation Officer & Operations Leader for Humana’s Primary Care Organization, the largest senior focused primary care business in the country that operates in market as Centerwell, Conviva and Elite. Erika previously served Co-President at Author, a company she helped incubate and o
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For this next episode of #ConversationsWithClinicians, I really wanted to highlight a duo, a great clinician executive alongside their non-clinician partner-in-crime, to shine a spotlight on how a partnership across disciplines can flourish and thrive and be a cornerstone for a company’s success. Today's guests are Ami Parekh, MD JD, Chief Health Officer at Included Health and Robin Glass, President at Included Health. In this wonderful conversation, we cover:
- How they and their teams work
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Dr. Minal Patel is the currently the founder and CEO of Abacus Insights. After beginning his career as a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, he served as consultant at McKinsey, and held several roles at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey including Chief Strategy Officer. His former company Care Management International was acquired by iHealth Technologies.In this fun and wide-ranging conversation, Minal and I discuss his decision to pursue business and entrepreneurship, the role of
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This Virtual Roundtable hosted live on May 14, 2024 highlighted the experiences of three clinician CEOs leading early stage, venture-backed healthcare companies:
- Jess Gaulton, MD, CEO of FamilyWell Health
- Nicki Tessler, PsyD, MBA, CEO of BeMe Health
- Rachel McCrickard, LMFT, CEO of Motivo Health
In this episode, we explore lessons learned at the intersection of business and clinical disciplines. Hear about their experiences moving from clinical care to entrepreneurship, found
info_outlineFor this next episode of #ConversationsWithClinicians, I really wanted to highlight a duo, a great clinician executive alongside their non-clinician partner-in-crime, to shine a spotlight on how a partnership across disciplines can flourish and thrive and be a cornerstone for a company’s success. Today's guests are Ami Parekh, MD JD, Chief Health Officer at Included Health and Robin Glass, President at Included Health. In this wonderful conversation, we cover:
- How they and their teams work with one another
- The importance of the clinical voice at the executive table- Knowing your "why" and why it's important to care about the business as a clinical executive
- About prioritizing relationships, having a growth mindset, and understanding how to evolve your leadership approach as you ascend in your career
- The hard stuff... Managing difficult moments together, navigating ambiguity
- The tangible skills and intangible qualities that make a clinical leader (or any leader) great.
- On "getting" to work with clinicians vs. "having" to work with clinicians
- And some final advice you have to listen to!
About Ami: Ami Parekh, MD, JD, is the Chief Health Officer at Included Health where she leads the strategy, operations and quality for their national primary care, urgent care, behavioral health, clinical navigation and population health management practices. She also currently serves on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Board of Directors. Prior to Included Health, she was Chief Medical Officer for Population Health and Clinical Integration for UCSF Health. She previously worked as a consultant for McKinsey and Company and worked on Capitol Hill serving as the co-convenor for Obama’s 2008 campaign Health Policy Committee. Ami completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She attended Yale Medical School and Yale Law School, and graduated Phi Beta kappa from Williams College majoring in political science and biology.
About Robin: Robin Glass leads the sales, marketing, client success, growth strategy, channel partnership, and GTM operations teams, responsible for growing our number of clients and members, company growth and strategy, and the retention and success of partnerships with our clients. She has over 20 years of experience building and scaling growth organizations for innovative healthcare companies. Prior, she was Chief Customer Officer at Evolent Health, a publicly-traded value-based care company. Robin has a BA in Public Policy from Duke University and an MBA and Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three daughters.
About Included Health: Included Health partners with leading organizations, health plans, and employers to provide high-quality care for their employees and members — no matter where they are in their health journey or what type of care they need, from acute to chronic, behavioral to physical. More at: https://includedhealth.com/
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