Dr. Kate Goodrich serves as Executive in Residence at Optum, where she serves as a mentor and advisor to medical professionals across the organization. In this role, she supports clinician enablement, continuous clinical learning and helps to uphold the highest standards of clinical excellence in the delivery of care to patients. 

Dr. Goodrich was previously the Chief Medical Officer at Humana, where she provided executive clinical leadership across the enterprise. She led clinician engagement and retention, healthcare clinical and health services research and efforts to advance the Company’s value-based care and integrated senior care strategies. 

Prior to Humana, she held several leadership roles at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), including CMS Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality.

Earlier in her career, Kate served on the faculty at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GW), where she served as the Director of Hospital Medicine and chaired the Institutional Review Board. She continues to practice as a hospitalist and clinical professor of medicine at GWU.

Kate earned her medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine and her master’s in health services research from Yale University through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. She completed her residency in internal medicine and served as a Chief Medical Resident at GWU. 

She currently serves on the boards of Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, the National Quality Forum, the Institute for Accountable Care and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Parity Center at the University of Pennsylvania and Otter Health.