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Sachin H. Jain, MBA, MD, is president, CEO, and board director at SCAN Health Plan, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plans, serving more than 200,000 members in California. He is also an adjunct professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a contributor at Forbes. Sachin was previously president and CEO of CareMore and Aspire Health. Prior to joining CareMore, Sachin was chief medical information & innovation officer at Merck & Co. He also served as an attending physician at the Boston VA-Boston Medical Center and was on faculty at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. From 2009-2011, Sachin worked in the Obama Administration, where he was senior advisor to Donald Berwick when he led the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). He was the first deputy director for policy and programs at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and he was special assistant to David Blumenthal when he was the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Sachin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a bachelor’s degree in government and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and MBA from Harvard Business School. He trained in medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, earned his board certification from the American Board of Internal Medicine, and continues to practice medicine at the West LA VA Medical Center. He is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science & Innovation and is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and in journals such as the New England Journal, JAMA, Health Affairs, and the Harvard Business Review blogs, and he was an editor of the book, The Soul of a Doctor (Algonquin Press). He is a native of Bergen County, New Jersey, but presently resides in Los Angeles, California. Sachin is a Fellow of the second class of the Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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