IMPACT Team
Ali Khan, MD, MPP, FACP
Chief Policy Officer, Co-Founder
Ali Khan, MD, MPP, FACP is a practicing general internist and Executive Medical Director at Oak Street Health, a value-based healthcare company focused on the delivery of transformative primary care to vulnerable Medicare and Medicare-Medicaid enrollees across the United States. At Oak Street, Ali serves as chief medical officer over Oak Street's largest division, leading the clinical and operational performance of a 30+-center, 100+-clinician and 750+-employee delivery system over three states. He also serves on the clinical faculty of the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine.
Ali works at the intersection of medicine, entrepreneurship, translational health policy, population health and public service to help transform American healthcare delivery and achieve the quadruple aim. He is an experienced leader of mission-driven teams through periods of growth, uncertainty and high-stakes challenges. On the basis of that work at frontier delivery systems across the United States, he was named a National Minority Quality Forum 40 Under 40 Leader in Health, a MedTech Boston 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovator and a California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) Health Leadership Fellow.
Prior to Oak Street, he served as CareMore Health's Clinical Design Officer, where he directed national clinical product and program design, implementation and iterative innovation for CareMore's work with high need, complex and vulnerable populations across the United States.
During his prior work at Iora Health, Ali served on the national clinical operations leadership team as Director of Physician Engagement and a clinical innovator, where he led the strategic design and implementation of a variety of initiatives in population health, clinical quality improvement, clinical application product development and workforce development.
A board-certified internist, Ali practices general internal medicine in both the primary care and inpatient settings, focused on the care of medically complex, highly vulnerable and high-need populations. His particular focus: the care for the super-utilizer urban underserved (in Richmond, Boston, New Haven, Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Jose and Chicago) in high-performing frontier healthcare delivery systems, drawing on experiences within leading academic medical centers, the Veterans Healthcare Administration, Kaiser Permanente and the private sector.
Beyond the clinic, Ali maintains an active public leadership portfolio, including recent service on the national boards of Doctors for America, the American College of Physicians, Physicians for Human Rights, the California Healthcare Foundation Leadership Program and Virginia Commonwealth University. As a member of the 2008 and 2012 National Health Policy Advisory Committees for Obama for America, Ali led, managed and trained physicians from around the country in political organizing, health policy education, messaging strategy and media cultivation. He previously managed field operations as National Deputy Field Director of Doctors for America and served as a health policy fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress under the former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General. He currently serves on national advisory boards for both Primary Care Progress and Costs of Care.
Ali completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he served on the clinical faculty. He is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and VCU’s Medical College of Virginia, earning joint MD and MPP degrees as a Harvard Public Service Fellow.