OverviewThe VP and Senior Medical Director, Population Health provides senior physician leadership for population health strategy, clinical program design, and performance improvement across HarmonyCares Medical Group. This role identifies patient populations that would benefit from additional clinical support, translates data and field feedback into practical interventions for home-based care teams, and helps ensure programs improve quality, outcomes, patient experience, and appropriate resource utilization. The position partners closely with the Chief Clinical Officer, SVP of Population Health, clinical leaders, operations, analytics, finance, actuarial, and technology teams to align clinical priorities with measurable population health goals and scalable care models.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Define priority patient segments using clinical need, risk, trajectory, function, and social context
- Lead physician input to a focused portfolio of interventions in assigned domains, with a clear clinical rationale and measurable goals
- Address differences in access, experience, and outcomes when designing programs
- Define eligibility, workflow, accountable owner, expected effect, leading measures, outcomes, and scale or stop criteria for each intervention
- Partner with Analytics, Finance, and Actuarial to evaluate clinical and economic results and explain limits of the evidence
- Change or retire programs that are ineffective or create excessive burden
- Design workflows with the CCO, SVP Population Health, market leaders, and front-line teams so programs fit home-based care
- Equip clinicians with practical guidance, registries, decision support, education, and escalation paths
- Monitor reach, adoption, fidelity, capacity, clinician burden, patient impact, and variation across markets
- Frame the highest-value clinical questions for Analytics and turn findings into clinical decisions
- Guide responsible use of predictive and AI tools, including calibration, bias, human oversight, and workflow fit
- Represent assigned clinical programs with executives and external partners when appropriate
- Employees will be required to perform other job-related assignments as requested
Qualifications
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) with active, unrestricted license
- Current board certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Geriatric Medicine through a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) or the American Osteopathic Association (AOA)
- 8+ years of experience in population health, complex-care management, value-based care, health-plan medical leadership, accountable care, or a comparable field
- Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and evaluate clinical interventions across a distributed organization
- Strong fluency in clinical epidemiology, risk stratification, quality measurement, utilization, and total cost of care
- Ability to work closely with analytics, actuarial, finance, technology, and operations teams and to explain limitations without losing decision velocity
- Track record of influencing field clinicians and senior executives without relying solely on formal authority
- Formal training in public health, epidemiology, health services research, informatics, quality, or business preferred
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Prior experience with frailty, serious illness, home-based care, geriatrics, transitions, pharmacy, behavioral health, or social care
- Prior experience in ACO REACH, MSSP, Medicare Advantage, or similar risk arrangements and in pragmatic program evaluation
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