CEO of Optum, UnitedHealth Group
Health Evolution Leadership Committee

Dr. Conway was named CEO of Optum in 2025. Optum has 300K employee team members who serve over 127 million people with annual revenue exceeding $250 billion. It includes three main business units. Optum Health, with nearly 90,000 doctors and other clinicians, delivers clinical care and services in clinics, homes, ambulatory surgical centers, behavioral health, and other settings across the country and serves payers, large employers and the government. Optum Rx serves over 62 million people providing pharmacy care services and over 1.6 billion prescriptions per year. Optum Insight is a data and technology business that serves payers, health systems, life sciences, and others across the country. Collectively, Optum delivers health care services to help make the health system better for everyone.

Previously, Patrick served as chief executive officer of Optum Rx. In this role, he led an integrated pharmacy care services organization that is making drugs more affordable and creating a better experience for consumers, filling more than 1.6 billion retail, mail and specialty drug prescriptions annually. He joined Optum in February 2020 and previously served as the chief executive officer of Care Solutions, where he led a portfolio of care continuum businesses serving over 70 million people across acute and post-acute care, care in the home in-person and virtually, mental and behavioral care benefits and delivery, broad population and complex disease health management, specialty care and government health services.

Dr. Conway was president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina from 2017-19. From 2011 to 2017, he served as Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and as director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and the agency’s Chief Medical Officer. Before joining CMS, he oversaw clinical operations and quality improvement at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Dr. Conway is a practicing pediatric hospitalist. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014, received the President’s Senior Executive Distinguished Service Award, and was a White House Fellow from 2007 to 2008. He earned his MD with high honors from Baylor College of Medicine, residency training at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Master of Science in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania.