Omada Health adds Sachin Jain, M.D., MBA, Julie Klapstein and Adam Stavisky to Board of Directors
New board members provide deep clinical and commercial experience
SAN FRANCISCO--August 1, 2024– Omada Health, the virtual-first healthcare provider is proud to announce the addition of three healthcare industry veterans, Sachin Jain, M.D. MBA, Julie Klapstein, and Adam Stavisky to Omada’s Board of Directors.
“Sachin Jain, Julie Klapstein and Adam Stavisky have been at the forefront of healthcare innovation for decades and share a vision of transforming today’s models of care to serve tomorrow’s needs,” said Sean Duffy, CEO & Co-Founder, Omada Health. "Within chronic care, the explosion of GLP-1s, and emerging AI technologies are providing dynamic opportunities and challenges in the market. We believe that their diverse perspectives across payers, employers, and the healthcare IT landscape can advance our mission at a unique moment as we seek to transform between-visit care."
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Sachin Jain, M.D, MBA. is a respected and innovative leader in healthcare with a background in both medicine and healthcare management. Dr. Jain currently serves as CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, Professor of Medicine at Stanford and as a practicing Academic Hospitalist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He has had an extensive career, including roles as President and CEO of CareMore Health and Aspire Health; Chief Medical Information & Innovation Officer at Merck & Co; attending physician at the Boston VA-Boston Medical Center; and faculty member at Harvard Medical and Business Schools. Dr. Jain has also held leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he was Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and currently serves on the boards of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Advantage Healthcare Services, and The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.
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Julie Klapstein is a seasoned board member, advisor, entrepreneur. She currently serves as Partner Advisor for a16z and is the founding CEO of Availity, a healthcare IT company working to optimize the automated delivery of critical business and clinical information among healthcare stakeholders. Klapstein has over 30 years of private and corporate experience in the healthcare IT industry, having held executive roles at Phycom, Inc, Sunquest Information Systems, SMS, GTE Health Systems, and AT&T Information Systems, and having served or currently serving on the boards of directors of Amedisys, Alpha II, MultiPlan, NextGen, Oak Street Health, and HCIM.
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Adam Stavisky joins the Omada Board, having most recently served as the SVP of U.S. Benefits for Walmart, where he was responsible for Walmart’s strategic vision and for delivery of all benefits for 1.6 million associates across its U.S. businesses. During his tenure, Stavisky championed system improvements to drive better patient outcomes for Walmart employees. Earlier in his career, Stavisky spent more than 20 years building benefits consulting businesses at several national firms, including Fidelity Investments, Mercer, and Aon Hewitt (formerly Hewitt Associates).
“The rapid pace of innovation and the evolving GLP-1 market have the potential to transform chronic care management for weight health and diabetes,” said Dr. Jain. ''I am excited to leverage my experience, including experience with Medicare and government-sponsored plans, to support Omada’s efforts in expanding coverage for its evidence-based behavior change programs, which can include lines of business like Medicare Advantage. In a noisy digital health landscape, I believe Omada stands as one of the companies primed to make a real difference in the lives of patients.”
Omada’s Board also includes Omada Health Chair Jeryl Hilleman; CEO and Co-founder Sean Duffy; Co-founder Adrian James; Jonathan Root, MD, General Partner, USVP; Vijay Pande, PhD, General Partner, a16z; Casper de Clerq, General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners; and Trevor Fetter, Sr. Lecturer, Harvard Business School.
For more information on Omada’s leadership team visit: https://www.omadahealth.com/about-us/leadership-team
