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Dr. Henish Bhansali is a leader and physician executive in the Medicare Advantage (MA) sector of value- based care. He is a practicing internist and joined Duly Health and Care in 2021 as SVP and Medical Director of Medicare Advantage. Prior to Duly, Dr. Bhansali led Oak Street Health’s part B risk as the Senior Medical Director and Vice President of Care Navigation, led clinical strategy and operations for diagnostic and specialty care nationwide and the organization’s institutional partnerships across Chicago. Prior to Oak Street, Dr. Bhansali was the Associate Program Director of Internal Medicine for the University of Chicago at NorthShore University HealthSystem. He developed and directed NorthShore’s first Global Medicine and Community Health programs. Dr. Bhansali completed his internal medicine residency at Washington University-Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, member of the AOA Medical Honor Society and is board certified in both internal medicine and obesity medicine, and he is pursuing a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. Dr. Bhansali lives in Chicago with his wife, their two sons and one daughter. 

Ali Khan, MD, MPP, FACP is a practicing general internist and Chief Medical Officer, Value 
Based Care Strategy at Oak Street Health. Dr. Khan joined Oak Street Health in 2019 as Executive Medical Director, leading the clinical, strategic and operational performance of a 60+-center, 300+-clinician and 1400+-employee delivery system over eight states. He was named a Modern Healthcare Top 25 Emerging Leader, National Minority Quality Forum 40 Under 40 Leader in Health, a MedTech Boston 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovator, a Crain’s Chicago Business Health Care Hero, a VCU Alumni Star and a California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) Health Leadership Fellow. Prior to Oak Street, Dr. Khan served as CareMore Health’s Clinical Design Officer. At Iora Health, Dr. Khan was the Director of Physician Engagement and led the strategic design and implementation of a variety of initiatives in population health, clinical quality improvement, clinical application product development and workforce development. A board-certified internist, Dr. Khan practices general internal medicine and is on faculty at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. He was the National Deputy Field Director of Doctors for America and served as a health policy fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress under the former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General. He is a co-founder of Doctors for Biden, VoteHealth 2020, the Civic Health Alliance and the Illinois Medical Professional Action Collaborative Team (IMPACT). He currently serves on national advisory boards for both Primary Care Progress and Costs of Care and is a member of the American College of Physicians’ national Awards and Governance committees, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation Board of Directors and the American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine Board. Dr. Khan completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School and VCU’s Medical College of Virginia, earning joint MD and MPP degrees as a Harvard Public Service Fellow. He is an alumnus of the California Health Care Foundation Leadership Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Khan lives in Chicago with his wife and children and together, they seek out adventure wherever it may be. 

Perri Smith, MBA, is Director of Population Health at Oak Street Health, a national network of value-based primary care clinics for adults on Medicare. Perri is responsible for designing and implementing strategic initiatives related to transitions of care. Prior to joining Oak Street Health, she served as special assistant to the COO/EVP at Boston Medical Center and as a management consultant with Accenture’s Federal Services Practice, where she worked on interoperability and digital health projects. Perri is deeply passionate about improving access to health care and eliminating disparities in health outcomes.

Dr. Robinson is a passionate and committed leader in public-sector behavioral health. Dr. Robinson is a trained and practicing child and adult psychiatrist who has held clinical, academic, and administrative leadership roles before joining MassHealth in January of 2022. As Medical Director for Behavioral Health, Dr. Robinson provides a clinical perspective for MassHealth behavioral health policy reform and is a champion for clinically-driven policy solutions. Dr. Robinson graduated with a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and attained his MD degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Robinson completed training in General Psychiatry at Columbia University-New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York, NY, and completed his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship training at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, MA.

Dr. Dave is the primary clinical liaison between MassHealth (Massachusetts Medicaid) and Commonwealth Medicine, emphasizing the close working relationship between the organizations. In addition to helping guide the leadership team in the Office of Clinical Affairs, Dr. Dave is a key part of the MassHealth executive team. As chief medical officer, he provides medical, clinical, policy, and strategic oversight of all health care services for MassHealth members and represents the program on clinical matters. Previously Dr. Dave served for the New England Quality Care Alliance as a chief medical officer. He is also a consultant for the palliative care team at Tufts Medical Center and assistant clinical professor of medicine with Tufts University School of Medicine. Prior to that, Dr. Dave served as medical director of geriatrics and Senior Care Options at Tufts Health Plan and he was a primary care physician and consultant geriatrician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. After his internal medicine training at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Dr. Dave completed a general internal medicine fellowship at NYU. He completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at Harvard University and received a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Dave earned a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery at Gujarat University in Gujarat, India. 

Emily is a dynamic and accomplished behavioral health leader, with 25 years of experience in clinical service delivery and managed care. Her experience spans programs for Medicaid, Medicare, dually eligible, and commercial members in Massachusetts and nationally. As Chief of Behavioral Health at MassHealth, Emily serves on the MassHealth Executive Team and oversees behavioral health policy and programs across MassHealth. She plays a key role in the implementation of the interagency Roadmap for Behavioral Health Reform, which sets forth an ambitious agenda for the Commonwealth to strengthen behavioral health access and integration. Emily earned a B.A. in Sociology and an M.S.W. from the University of Connecticut and is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.