Professional Experience

• Managing Director of Tuckson Health Connections, LLC (2013 – Present)
• Co-Founder and Convener, Black Coalition Against COVID-19
• Co-Founder and Board Chairman, Coalition For Trust in Health & Science
• Former Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs, UnitedHealth Group (2006 – 2013)

Key Skills & Qualifications

• Management and Leadership Experience: considerable experience as EVP and Chief of Medical Affairs at UnitedHealth Group in addition to serving in leadership roles at the National Institutes of Health, National Academy of Medicine, and numerous Federal Advisory Committees
• Health Care Industry Expertise: 35 years of experience as a recognized leader in the health care profession, with experience engaging with nearly every sector of the health and medical care industries
• Public Sector/Government: member of numerous federal advisory committees and corporate, non-profit, and academic boards, including service as Commissioner of Public Health for the District of Columbia
• Public Company Board and Governance Experience: service on multiple public company boards in the health care industry

Other Boards

• Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. (2021 – Present) (private)
• CTI BioPharma Corp (2011 – 2023) (Nominating and Governance Committee Chair and Audit Committee member)
• Acasti Pharma, Inc. (2013 – 2016)
• LifePoint Health, Inc. (2014 – 2018)
• Baxter International, Inc. (1996 – 1998)

Organizations

• Advisory Board Member, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
• Board of Trustees Member, Freedom House
• Board Member, The Hastings Center
• Former President, American Telemedicine Association
• Former Senior Vice President (Professional Standards), American Medical Association
• Former Commissioner of Public Health, Washington, D.C.
• Former Senior Vice President, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
• Former President, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
• Formerly appointed to various leadership roles, National Academy of Medicine
• Former Member of the Board of Trustees (Chair of the Health Sciences Committee), Howard University
• Former Member of numerous federal advisory committees and corporate, non-profit, and academic boards

Education

• Completed the University of Pennsylvania Hospital’s General Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship programs, where he was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar studying at the Wharton School of Business
• M.D., Georgetown University School of Medicine
• B.S., Howard University