Deneen Vojta

Deneen Vojta, MD is Executive Vice President, Research & Development at UnitedHealth Group. Dr. Vojta is a member of the core Enterprise Research and Development leadership group, a division of UnitedHealth Group that is focused accelerating enterprise innovation solutions to improve health care quality, reduce care costs, more effectively engage consumers in their health and help modernize the health system.

Dr. Vojta previously served as Vice President of Research and Innovation for UnitedHealthcare. Before joining UnitedHealth, Dr.Vojta held several senior management positions in health care including serving as CEO of MYnetico, a company she founded to focus on the childhood obesity epidemic facing the nation. Dr. Vojta has more than 20 years of executive experience in health system and health plan administration. She has served as a board member of non-profit health care institutions, and earned numerous federal and foundation grants to investigate complex health care concerns. Recent accomplishments include a National Diabetes Prevention Program in partnership with the Y-USA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an evidence-based childhood obesity solution, and Project NOT ME, a reality TV diabetes prevention program that earned Dr. Vojta a regional Emmy for her role as an Executive Producer. She also was named a CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Best of Innovations Honoree in 2014. She is widely published and frequently invited to speak on a number of health issues.

Dr. Vojta earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh and her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. She trained in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and in 2003 was named “Top 40 under 40” by the Philadelphia Business Journal. In 2011, she was named among the “Top Women in Business” by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal. Dr. Vojta lives in Edina, Minnesota, with her husband and three children.

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