Michael van Duren, MD, MBA

Michael van Duren, MD, MBA has a long and varied career in the medical field. In 2008, they began working as the Chief Medical Officer for Sutter Physician Services, a Sutter Health subsidiary that provides a variety of patient access, revenue cycle, and accountable care solutions to health care provider and payer organizations. In 2012, they were promoted to Vice President of Variation Reduction for Sutter Health, a not-for-profit health care system of 24 hospitals in 100 Northern California cities. In this role, they led a team that used unblinded peer-comparison feedback to engage physicians in analyzing practice patterns to reduce variation, increase quality and lower costs. Michael was then promoted to Vice President of Clinical Transformation for Sutter Medical Network, a network of nearly 5,000 foundation and independent practice association primary care and specialty physicians affiliated with Sutter Health. In this role, they expanded Variation Reduction into a system wide affordability initiative in all medical groups and standardized performance metrics, and made this a required participation standard for Sutter Medical Network. In 2019, they became the Chief Medical Officer for Bay Area Hospital, driving transformation by increasing quality, safety, and cost savings at the region's healthcare center. Additionally, they have served as a part-time consultant for Agathos, an Epic clinical analytics start-up company creating cost savings and variation reduction by analyzing physician practice patterns and providing scalable unblinded peer comparison feedback, and Variation Consulting Group, LLC, a private consulting practice. Currently, they are the Senior Medical Director, Performance Improvement for Embold Health, a Series B startup supported by Morgan Health, creating a gold standard for physician evaluation for use in care navigation and network curation. In this role, they have led the provider engagement team to develop and implement physician evaluation strategy for large health systems nationwide, developed analytical and visualization tool suite enabling insights into primary care and specialist physician performance variation for integrated delivery networks, and assisted the sales team in tripling account volume, national expansion, and achieving $13M in annual revenue.

Michael van Duren, MD, MBA completed their Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Religion from Lebanon Valley College. Michael then attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and obtained their MD. After that, they attended the University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business and obtained their MBA in Business Administration and Management, General. Additionally, they obtained a Certified Physician Executive (CPE) from the American Association for Physician Leadership\u00ae in June 2001.