As UVA Health’s (“UVAH”) Chief Strategy Officer, Jason provides executive counsel and leadership for UVAH’s strategic planning efforts, service line expansion and transformation initiatives; including structuring strategic affiliations, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships. As the inaugural CSO at UVAH, Jason has rapidly built a System Strategy Office team and successfully led the development of UVAH’s first ever institutional strategic plan that spans: (i.) all four mission areas (clinical care, education, research, and community) and (ii.) all seven UVAH entities (the Schools of Medicine and Nursing, University Medical Center, University Physicians Group, the Health Sciences Library, UVA Community Health, and UVA Community Health Medical Group). Additionally, Jason has spearheaded UVAH’s statewide expansion efforts that include (i.) UVAH taking sole ownership of Culpeper, Haymarket and Prince William Medical Centers, (ii.) forming a new strategic affiliation with Riverside Health (a top ranked five-hospital health system serving Eastern Virginia) and (iii.) establishing a wide range of successful clinical collaborations with community hospitals across Virginia.
Prior to UVA Health, Jason spent two decades as a health care strategy management consultant and an entrepreneur. Most recently, Jason launched and led the consulting practice at AVIA, a Chicago-based healthcare strategy and digital innovation firm. Additionally, Jason held leadership roles at the Tiber Group (a boutique healthcare strategy firm), Navigant Consulting’s Healthcare Strategy/M&A Practice (now Guidehouse) and Deloitte.
He serves on numerous boards including: Newport News-based Riverside Health, AVIA and Co-Chairs the Fortify Children’s Health Board of Directors (Virginia’s first pediatric clinically integrated network). Jason holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Business Administration, with a certificate in Healthcare Industry Management, from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.