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Dr. Saranya Loehrer works at the intersection of health care, improvement, and advocacy. Her efforts focus on mobilizing health and health care leaders in service of improved health outcomes and a more just and equitable society. She is a learner, collaborator, improver, and mostly metaphorical rule breaker.
Saranya serves as the chief health equity officer at Teladoc Health, one of the largest virtual care providers in the world. She is faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and associate faculty at Ariadne Labs. She is also the co-founder of the Civic Health Alliance, a non-partisan coalition of health and civic leaders advancing America’s health through civic engagement in care settings and communities. Saranya serves on the boards of OCHIN as well as Willing Hands, a nonprofit addressing hunger and food waste.
Previously, Saranya served as a system vice president and the inaugural health equity officer at CommonSpirit Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States and spent a decade leading health care transformation efforts at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She also worked at the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization Physicians for Human Rights. Saranya received her MD from Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine, where she was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, where she was a Zuckerman Fellow.
Research, Quality, and Health Equity Committee
Serving since: 2019
Tom Andriola joined University of California, Irvine in 2019, where he passionately oversees initiatives related to technology and data to enhance the mission of education, research, health care, and community service. Prior to joining UC Irvine, Tom was vice president and chief information officer of the University of California system, overseeing the information technology function of 8,000 staff and repositioning IT strategically within the university.
Tom has many experiences as a strategic business and technology leader serving the public and private sectors and running organizations globally. Prior to joining UC Irvine, he served as vice president and chief information officer (CIO) for the University of California system working with campus and health care leaders to expand the use of technology strategically and realize operational synergies. Among his accomplishments, he created the organizational platform to support the collaboration of 8,000 IT professionals across the university, launched a nationally recognized IT leadership academy, and played a leading role in developing University of California Health’s big data strategy, which led to the creation of the University of California-wide clinical data warehouse representing 16 million patients.
Before his university service, Tom was a business leader in the health care industry. He was responsible for building software businesses to serve hospitals and health care providers, bringing experience in developing solutions globally. His businesses specialized in first-of-kind solutions that blended technology and business model innovation. Major accomplishments included enabling the first national mammography program in Europe, introducing a virtual care solution for intensive care patients in India, and collaborating with Peking University and the China Association for Cardiologists to build its first clinical data repository of cardiology patients in China. Over the course of his career, he has built innovation teams in many centers worldwide, including India, China, Israel, and Brazil.
Treasurer, Finance & Audit Committee Chair, Executive Committee
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