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Andrey Ostrovsky

Managing Partner
Social Innovation Ventures

Andrey was the former Chief Medical Officer of the US Medicaid program. He is Managing Partner at Social Innovation Ventures, investing in companies & nonprofits dedicated to eliminating disparities. He advises regulators on how to incorporate human-centered design into policymaking and has operated methadone clinics in Baltimore. He also was Chief Medical Officer for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, the nation's largest health insurer, where he protected the program against several efforts to dismantle it. Before leading the Medicaid program, he co-founded Care at Hand, an evidence-based predictive analytics platform. Dr. Ostrovsky has led teams at the World Health Organization, US Senate, and San Francisco Health Department toward health system strengthening.

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