Chris Botts

Richard McCarthy, MD

Dr. McCarthy is The Permanente Medical Group’s (TPMG) associate executive director with oversight for the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (MAPMG). In this role, Dr. McCarthy leads more than 1,800 physicians and staff members who deliver superior health care to approximately 800,000 Kaiser Permanente members in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group operates approximately 35 medical centers in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and has affiliations with several top hospitals in the region. Out of thousands of health systems that submit quality data each year, Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States was the one of only five health systems in the nation to achieve a 5 out of 5 star rating for commercial health plans from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in 2024. Dr. McCarthy also serves as a member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. Dr. McCarthy, who joined The Permanente Medical Group in 1997, was a member of the original TPMG physician leadership transition team for MAPMG in 2009, and he served for nine years as the physician in chief for the largest service area of Kaiser Permanente’s Mid-Atlantic Region, the DC and Suburban Maryland service area (DCSM). As physician in chief, he created an exceptional leadership team, developed a culture of accountability, and successfully implemented innovations in clinical care and new regional clinical service lines in one of the fastest growing Kaiser Permanente service areas in the country. Under Dr. McCarthy’s leadership, DCSM membership grew by 41 percent (from 226,000 patients to 334,000 patients) and increased from 533 to 735 doctors. Additionally, the DCSM service area rapidly improved physician practice while creating new service lines despite constraints on clinical space.

Yun Boylston, MD

Yun L. Boylston, MD MBA FAAP is a primary care physician at Burlington Pediatrics/ Mebane Pediatrics, located in Alamance County, NC. She leads her practice’s care transformation team, founding and overseeing the integrated behavioral health, care management, medical nutrition, and school-based telehealth programs. As a national thought leader in integrated behavioral health and value-based care, she has been a program advisor for the American Medical Association and a featured speaker at the 2024 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference. A leader across healthcare’s continuum of care, Yun is the board chair of Cone Health System and serves as the board chair of Carolina Complete Health, a physician-led Centene company.