Robert Fields, MD, is a family medicine physician and serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Population Health Officer at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. In this role, Dr. Fields leads a network of hospitals and physicians managing $3.5 billion of medical spending for more than 450,000 patients in the New York metropolitan region. Dr. Fields also leads system strategy and operations for managed care and value-based contracting and population health analytics. Dr. Fields came to Mount Sinai in March of 2018 as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Population Health and oversaw the redesign of clinical operations for value including care management, provider engagement, quality programs, remote monitoring and condition management, social determinants, and other aspects of the system’s population health strategy. (Mount Sinai is a 2022 Festival Underwriter)
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