EVP & Chief Health Officer, Kaiser Permanente

Dr. Bechara Choucair, a board-certified family physician, serves as executive vice president and chief health officer for Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest integrated health system with more than 12.5 million members.

In this role, he oversees over $4 billion in annual investments supporting the organization’s community health and social health portfolio, including the creation of the nation’s largest social health network and the organization’s philanthropic giving. This includes support to medical financial assistance and charitable health coverage programs, as well as grants to community health programs throughout the organization’s footprint.

Dr. Choucair oversees the organization’s Medicaid line of business covering 1.5 million members, and advances initiatives to increase access to care and improve health outcomes for those enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare.

In addition, his accountability includes leading enterprise clinical business development opportunities focusing on care delivery models, technologies, and products.

He also leads Kaiser Permanente’s environmental stewardship work, which resulted in the organization becoming carbon neutral in 2020, and he oversees the organization’s goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

From January through November 2021, Dr. Choucair served as the White House national COVID-19 vaccinations coordinator. During his tenure, nearly 500 million doses of the vaccine were administered nationwide.