Don't Force It: How to Get into College without Losing Yourself in the Process

Sachin Jain: Threading Values, Interests, and Expectations


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In today's episode, I sit down with Sachin Jain, an old friend and very successful CEO of a healthcare company. We discuss how he integrated his interests in social justice and policy with his family’s encouragement to pursue medicine, his ideas on mentorship, and the arc of his career.

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Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA is CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plans, which serves more than 300,000 members across California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico.
 
Previously, Dr. Jain was President and CEO of CareMore and Aspire Health, which served 200,000 Medicare and Medicaid patients in 32 states. He also served as Chief Medical Information & Innovation Officer at Merck & Co., was Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and was the first Deputy Director for policy and programs at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).
Dr. Jain graduated from Harvard College and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and MBA from Harvard Business School. He is Adjunct Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is a member of the boards of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Omada Health, Advantage Healthcare Services, and The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Follow Sachin on LinkedIn.

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