Population Health and Accountable Care - Key Levers for Delivery System Innovation

Date

June 29, 201506/29/2015 12:15pm 06/29/2015 12:15pm Population Health and Accountable Care - Key Levers for Delivery System Innovation 286 America/Los_Angeles public

Type

Grand Rounds

Time Duration

12:15PM

Location

Parnassus, Room: C309 transmitting to VAMC, China Basin, SFGH

Notes

SFGH Radiology Classroom; Benioff Children's Hospital C-1719; China Basin Landing’s Large Classroom (Rm 342);
VAMC Radiology, Building 200, Room 2A147 (the room between 2 CT scanners.

Speakers

Ami M. Parekh, MD JD
Medical Director, Health Systems Innovation
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
UCSF Health Systems

Dr. Ami Parekh is the medical director for Health Systems Innovation for UCSF Medical Center.  She is also an assistant professor of medicine in internal medicine and a hospitalist within the Division of Hospital Medicine.  She works on designing, developing and implementing interventions for the patients served through UCSF’s accountable care organization (ACO) collaborations.  Her focus is to reduce costs while improving quality and patient experience for these populations throughout the continuum of care. In order to achieve these goals, she works closely with physicians and care teams at UCSF, as well as with partners at various health plans, medical groups, and other physicians and hospitals in the ACO networks.  She also works on strategic planning and development for UCSF, particularly regarding future ACO development and strategic opportunities along the continuum of care (eg, post-acute care).

 

As a clinician, Ami sees patients within of the hospital medicine services  in the urgent care setting. She is actively involved in resident and medical student education.

 

Ami graduated phi beta kappa from Williams College majoring in political science and biology. While there she also served as student body co-president and received the only award given at graduation, the William Bradford Award for citizenship.  After college, she worked for McKinsey and Company in New York, NY.  While there, she worked on a wide range of projects for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations in the areas of strategic planning, non-labor cost cutting and revenue growth opportunity identification. Following her position at McKinsey, she worked on antiretroviral pricing negotiations with international generic pharmaceutical companies for the Clinton Foundation.  The team was able to accomplish an over 100% reduction in ARV prices.  After working, Ami returned to school and attended medical school at Yale School of Medicine and also pursued a law degree at Yale Law School.  While at law school, she spent a significant amount of time working on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign where she served as the co-convenor for the Health Policy Advisory Committee.  Upon Graduation from Yale, she joined the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard University in Boston, MA.  At Brigham and Women’s, she was selected to be a chief resident at the Faulkner Hospital and was a part of the Medical Management Leadership Track and the Partners Health Policy Program.  She worked on improving care transitions from the inpatient to outpatient setting, researched the impact of reducing co-payments on healthy patient behaviors, and developed a framework to help medical students and residents find careers in health policy, management and leadership.