Expertise: Health Care Analytics; Health Economics; VB reimbursement; Managed Care; Health Care Innovation; Population Medicine; Health Care Quality; Clinical Programs Development. Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery, Heart Transplantation and Congenital Heart Disease.I am a CT surgeon and health care executive. I have practiced cardiac and heart transplant surgery for more than 20 years and more recently I have held executive positions in the areas of data and analytics, predictive modeling using ML, health economics and reimbursement, health insurance and population medicine. After leaving the Mayo Clinic, from 1988 to 2007, I held academic, clinical and administrative leadership positions as Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation at several Academic Hospitals in the USA, including Temple University, St Christopher’s Hospital, Thomas Jefferson Medical College and the University of Missouri. From 2007 to March 2016, I was Medical Director at Independence Blue Cross (IBC), Philadelphia, where I worked with the data analytic team to design predictive and prescriptive analytics that guided the appropriate utilization of remote monitoring, digital solutions and telemedicine for IBC members with advanced HF. From 6/2016 to 11/2017 I was Vice President of Health Services at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Boston, and responsible for managing utilization management, providers network, medical cost and medical policies, advanced disease management programs, including practice integration of behavioral health with primary care, across four markets (MA, ME, NH, CT). In Boston, I was also Council Chair and Board member of the Massachusetts Health Care Quality Partners (http://www.mhqp.org/). My teaching experience spans over 20 years plus. I held full-time academic positions in surgery and pediatrics at Temple Medical School, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, the Allegheny University (PA) and the University of Missouri (MO). I taught for the Wharton School of Business (International program), a course on “Managing Performance of HSO” and was on the Harvard Medical School Faculty as Lecturer in Population Medicine. Recently I was also CMO at Behave Care/ Upward Health) and at Springs Hills Population Health (NJ). I hold a Certificate in Health Care Innovation-Health and Health Care Administration Management (UPENN) and a Certificate in Digital Medicine. In Nov 2017, I received the Health Hero Award, in recognition of contributions to the health and welfare of the community ((www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle).