Elana Schrader

Dr. Elana Schrader serves as GuideWell’s senior vice president, health care services and president of GuideWell Health. In this role, Schrader leads the health care delivery business within the GuideWell family of companies. She also is responsible for the development of the overarching clinical strategy for Florida Blue and leading clinical activities including care management, health promotions and wellness, pharmacy, quality, and clinical retail health initiatives.

She currently serves as a board member for the American Heart Association, WeCare, the University of North Florida Foundation, and is a member of the Dean’s Council of the University of North Florida Brooks College of Health. Additionally, Schrader is a United Way Stein Fellowship Mentor, a longstanding member of the GenerationW advisory board, and Florida Blue’s executive leader of RESPECT, the company’s LGBT and Allies employee community. She was named a 2018 Volunteers in Medicine Woman with Heart and honored as a Woman of Influence by the Jacksonville Business Journal in 2016. She is a graduate of the 2007 class of Leadership Jacksonville and is a member of the current Leadership Florida Cornerstone Class XXXVIII.

Schrader holds a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College of Columbia University. She received her medical training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at The New York Hospital of Cornell Medical College and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian College of Medicine, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Class of 2011.