Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM

Dr. Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM is a healthcare executive dedicated to innovation in population health, affordability, and social justice. With expertise in clinical and operational transformation, digital strategy, and policy, she has consistently driven high impact initiatives. Dr. Gupta works alongside all University of California campuses to align population health strategy. She has been featured as a Top Executive Population Health Leader in Becker's Hospital Review and recognized by the Presidential Leadership Scholars program. As Chief of Population Health and Accountable Care, Dr. Gupta has led enterprise-wide innovations to streamline care pathways across inpatient and outpatient settings that reduced hospitalizations, stood up new quality improvement systems with increased ratings, developed new partnerships across the region, and reduced financial losses in accountable care contracts. Her teams have launched patient remote monitoring, new AI platforms, inequity reduction efforts for chronic conditions, and aligned system-wide care management and care at home services. Dr. Gupta also focuses upstream in co-creating partnerships to develop a sustainable, regional food system with improvement of health, environment, and community resilience outcomes. Dr. Gupta previously worked as a senior adviser with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations' Comprehensive Primary Care program and currently advises the California Office of Health Care Affordability, the Department of Defense Subcommittee on Health System Delivery, and Costs of Care Inc. Her research created the first High Value Care Culture Survey and evaluated drivers of value-based care in medical centers across California.

Lorin M. Scher, MD

Lorin Scher is a professor and vice-chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Roy T. Brophy endowed chair at the UC Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Scher specializes in trauma-related illness, emergency psychiatry, primary care psychiatry, integrated behavioral health models of care, neuropsychiatry, and hospital- based psychiatry. Dr. Scher directs behavioral health integration services across the university’s ambulatory care network and affiliates. Dr. Scher also serves as the medical director for Government and Community Relations at UC Davis Health. He also serves as co-director of the Huntington’s Disease Center of Excellence at UC Davis. Dr. Scher treats patients suffering from medical and surgical illnesses in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, and he believes in an empathic and compassionate approach to patient care. Since 2012, Dr. Scher has collaborated with the UC Davis ambulatory care leadership team to integrate behavioral health programs into primary care and specialty services. This team has implemented validated screening measures and a stepped-treatment model to improve patient outcomes. The stepped program includes electronic consultations, ambulatory case management services, the collaborative care model (CoCM) for common psychiatric conditions, telepsychiatry services and embedded psychiatric consultants. Dr. Scher is the principal investigator for four studies related to mental health integration within primary care (funded by the California Healthcare Foundation, the Archstone Foundation and the UC Davis Practice Management Board), and he serves as a co-PI or co-investigator on a number of research and implementation grants related to service integration and neuropsychiatry (funded by UCOP, AHRQ, CDC, CIRM). Dr. Scher has over 38 publications in peer-reviewed journals and academic textbooks.

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