Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, is a distinguished thought leader, healthcare executive, scholar, and entrepreneur committed to innovation and public service in healthcare. Dr. Navathe’s experience includes major contributions to health policy, healthcare technology, and academia. He is an active clinician with experience in both primary care and hospital-based settings. Dr. Navathe founded Otter Health as a mission-driven company to improve the quality of health care while reducing administrative burden for patients, providers, and plans. He is a tenured Professor in the Departments of Health Policy, Healthcare Management and Economics (The Wharton School), and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Navathe recently served as the Vice Chairman and Commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a nonpartisan agency that advises the US Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Medicare policy. He previously was co-founder of Embedded Healthcare (now Clarify Health), a health care technology company that brings behavioral economics solutions to improving affordability and quality. Throughout his career, Dr. Navathe has served on several boards. He is a Director on the Boards of The SCAN Group and Hawaii Medical Services Association, The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii. He also served on the Board of the United States Multi-Payer Claims Database Initiative from 2010-2014.

Dr. Navathe is a leading scholar on payment model design and evaluation, applications of behavioral economics to clinician decision-making, and applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to health data. His thought leadership led to the founding of a disciplinary academic journal, Health Care: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation, serving as its Co-Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Navathe completed his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and his post-graduate medical training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He obtained his PhD in Health Care Management and Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.