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Patrick Conway

CEO

United States25 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • CEO of Optum leading 300k teammates.
  • Transformed healthcare delivery for over 130 million people.
  • Expert in healthcare management and policy.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare Executive with extensive experience in health services and policy management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Healthcare ManagementHealth PolicyPharmacy ServicesCare SolutionsClinical Research

Other Skills

Health Services ResearchMedicineHealthcareInternal MedicineEpidemiologyHealthcare Information TechnologyHospitalsPublic SpeakingManaged CareResearchPublic HealthPediatricsStrategic PlanningQuality ImprovementProgram Evaluation

Experience

25 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Optum

4 roles

Chief Executive Officer of Optum Health

Jun 2025Nov 2025 · 5 mos

  • CEO of Optum Health, an integrated care delivery platform that serves almost 100 million people across clinics, the home, behavioral health, specialty care, ambulatory surgery and payer and employer services. Ambulatory value based care delivery system with demonstrated improved quality and experience with lower total cost of care. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other clinicians serving millions of patients across the country every day.
Health Services ResearchMedicineHealth PolicyClinical ResearchHealthcareInternal Medicine+22

Chief Executive Officer

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • I am honored to begin serving as CEO of Optum with approximately 300k Optum teammates. We are dedicated to delivering care and services to over 130 million people. These services include care delivery by many thousands of dedicated physicians and other clinicians. We also provide pharmacy services serving over 62 million people with over 1.6 billion prescriptions striving to get the right medicine to the right patient at the right time, affordably. We also provide support to health systems and data and technology services to payers and employers. At Optum, we are dedicated to helping make the health system better for everyone. That is my personal mission and the mission of our team.
Health Services ResearchMedicineHealth PolicyClinical ResearchHealthcareInternal Medicine+22

CEO of Optum Rx

Jul 2023May 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Optum Rx serves more than 60 million people, processes 1.5 billion prescriptions and generates more than $110 billion of revenue annually. Pharmacy services have a major impact on people across the health care system, helping people access needed care and improving health outcomes, and the link between pharmacy and medical and behavioral care can be transformative. The businesses include pharmacy benefit management, home infusion, specialty drug management, community pharmacies, mail order, life sciences, and many other pharmacy services. I am honored to serve with over 30,000 Optum Rx colleagues working to make the health system better for everyone.
Health Services ResearchMedicineHealth PolicyClinical ResearchHealthcareInternal Medicine+23

CEO of Care Solutions at Optum

Feb 2020Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, currently serves as the CEO of Care Solutions at Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group where he leads a portfolio of care continuum businesses with over $40 billion in annual revenue serving approximately 70 million people across acute and post-acute care, care in the home in-person and virtually, mental and behavioral care benefits and delivery, broad population and complex disease health management, specialty care, and government health services.
Health Services ResearchMedicineHealth PolicyClinical ResearchHealthcareInternal Medicine+23

Alice l. walton school of medicine

Board Member

Oct 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Hopebridge

Member Board Of Directors

Feb 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Help at home

Member Board Of Directors

Mar 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Ableto inc.

Member Board Of Directors

Apr 2020May 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Self-employed

Consultant and Strategic advisor

Oct 2019Jan 2020 · 3 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Aledade, inc.

Member Board Of Directors

Sep 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

Sound physicians

Member, Board of Directors

Jun 2018Jun 2022 · 4 yrs

Duke-margolis institute for health policy

Board Member

Jan 2018Dec 2024 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Durham, North Carolina, United States

Intarcia therapeutics, inc.

Member Board Of Directors

Oct 2017Oct 2020 · 3 yrs

Blue cross nc

President and CEO

Oct 2017Oct 2019 · 2 yrs · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

  • Led BCBSNC to be a leader in value-based payment, integrating mental and physical health, investing in social drivers of health, and innovation and health transformation at a state level. BCBSNC was recognized as a model of health system transformation. Premiums decreased significantly for ACA, Medicare, and commercial insurance while quality results (e.g. Stars) and experience (e.g. NPS) improved significantly. Won Medicaid bid for state of NC and invested in health equity and population health.

Echo health ventures

Board Member

Oct 2017Sep 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

Health Services ResearchMedicineHealth PolicyClinical ResearchHealthcareInternal Medicine+22

Blue cross blue shield association

Board Member

Oct 2017Sep 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

Prime therapeutics

Board Member

Oct 2017Sep 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Centers for medicare & medicaid services

Chief Medical Officer, Deputy Administrator, and Director Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

May 2011Sep 2017 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Served as Chief Medical Officer (2011-2017), Director of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI, 2013-17), Deputy Administrator for Quality and Innovation (2013-17), Principal Deputy Administrator (2015-17), and Acting Administrator (2017).

Cincinnati childrens hospital medical center

2 roles

Director of Hospital Medicine and Associate Professor

Promoted

Mar 2010May 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Lead Hospital Medicine which provides care to approximately 25% of the patient admissions to a health care system with over $1 billion in revenue per year. Focus on improving patient outcomes and leading research, clinical care and education mission. Also Director of Evidence Based Decision-Making and Section of Anderson Center for Health Care Systems Excellence.
Health Services ResearchMedicineHealth PolicyClinical ResearchHealthcareInternal Medicine+22

Assistant Professor

Jun 2007Jun 2010 · 3 yrs

Health Services ResearchMedicineHealth PolicyClinical ResearchHealthcareInternal Medicine+22

Department of health and human services

2 roles

Chief Medical Officer

Aug 2008Mar 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Office of Secretary - Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

White House Fellow

Sep 2007Aug 2008 · 11 mos

Robert wood johnson clinical scholars program at university of pennsylvania

RWJ Clinical Scholar

Jan 2005Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

Children's hospital boston

Pediatric Resident

Jan 2002Jan 2005 · 3 yrs

Mckinsey & company

Consultant - health care

Jan 1996Jan 1998 · 2 yrs

Education

Harvard Medical School

Residency — Pediatrics

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

MSc — Health Services Research and Health Policy

Baylor College of Medicine

MD

Texas A&M University

B.S. — Genetics

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