Description

“The healthcare system is complex, and we enter into this challenge open-eyed about the
degree of difficulty. Hard as it might be, reducing healthcare’s burden on the economy while
improving outcomes for employees and their families would be worth the effort. Success is
going to require talented experts, a beginner’s mind, and a long-term orientation.” - Jeff Bezos,
Amazon founder and CEO.
 
Amazon Healthcare combines the selection, convenience, and value customers have come to
know and love from Amazon, with new features and benefits tailored to the health sector.
Whether you are part of a community hospital or a global pharmaceutical company, Amazon
strives to be the most customer-centric health company to find and build the best future,
together.
 
What unites Amazonians across teams and geographies is that we are all striving to delight our
customers and make their lives easier. The scope and scale of our mission drives us to seek
diverse perspectives, be resourceful, and navigate through ambiguity. Inventing and delivering
things that were never thought possible isn't easy, but we embrace this challenge every day. By
working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product,
service, and idea at a time.

Speaker Umang Desai will be joining us to discuss:

• How Amazon Approaches Innovation
• How Amazon intends to innovate within healthcare globally and disrupt the status
  quo
• How Amazon healthcare structured
• How executives, administrators, clinicians, and caregivers can replicate Amazon’s
  models to provide the best patient and family experiences

Speaker

Umang Desai, MHA, Head of Doctors and Dentists, Global Healthcare at Amazon

Umang Desai (pronounced OO-mong de-SY) is currently the Head of Doctors and Dentists for
Global Healthcare at Amazon, responsible for general management of clinician products and
services, as well as marketing and customer engagement activities for Amazon’s healthcare
teams.

Umang brings extensive experience to the Amazon team. He began his career in physician and
clinical practice management, nurse consulting, and advising health care policy makers while at
Johns Hopkins. He then joined University of California at San Francisco where he led union
negotiations, patient satisfaction improvement efforts, business development, and formalized
their Administrative Fellowship program. Umang has extensive operations and business
development experience in healthcare having led operation project management and
subsequently serving as Senior Clinic Administrator over the pediatric primary care network for
Swedish Medical Group, part of Providence St. Joseph’s Health. Prior to joining Amazon’s
healthcare initiative, he led vendor management as a buyer of consumer electronics products
and services, where he oversaw billions in retail consumer sales.

Umang has served as a Board Director to several non-profit organizations whose missions
cover education, animal wellness, as well as mental and behavioral health services.

He earned a B.S. in Combined Sciences focusing or natural and social sciences with a minor in
Sociology from Santa Clara University, in the Bay Area, and graduated with a Master of Health
Administration (MHA) from Johns Hopkins University. Umang and his wife, Lesli, live in Seattle,
Washington with their rescue dog.  He enjoys bicycle commuting (17 miles), cooking foods from
scratch and reasoning his cast iron skillets, as well as investing and learning more about
personal finance.

Meeting Details

6:00-6:30pm Networking 
6:30-7:30pm Program

Location

1717 Innovation Center
1717 E Cary St. Richmond, VA 23223

Registration

Registration is open until October 18th, 2019 at 5:00pm, EST.
To register, click "Register Now." For further instructions, see the "How to Register for Events" Quick Link on the website.

Please note that this event has limited seating. Registration is required to attend the event and will be on a first come, first served basis. Registration will close when all seats are filled.

This program has been developed to be presented locally by Central Virginia Healthcare Executives Group.  This event will provide 1.0 qualified credits.

For questions, contact us via the "Contact" page on our website.

Tickets

$25.00 CVHEG Members

$25.00 ACHE Member (Non-CVHEG)

$15.00 Student

$35.00 Non-Members