Improving for Patients and Families with Alpa Vyas & Dr. Justin Ko

Dr. Ko joined Stanford Medicine

in 2012 and serves as Director and Chief of Medical Dermatology for Stanford

Health Care (SHC) while also spearheading the dermatology department's efforts

around network development, digital health, quality/safety/performance

improvement, and value-based care. He is active in a number of leadership roles

within the organization including as an Associate Chief Quality Officer and

physician dyadic partner to the Chief Experience Offer, as well as co-chair of

the Clinic Advisory Council, a forum of medical and executive leaders of

Stanford Health Care’s Ambulatory clinics. His passion for melanoma, early

cancer detection, and improving care delivery drives his efforts and research

around leveraging advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence to

increase the breadth of populations that can be reached. He developed and runs

a digital care delivery program at SHC, providing virtual visits for patients

and remote consultations for referring clinicians. He conducts research on and

engages in collaborations around interventions that layer advances in machine

learning on digital health capabilities to enhance access, quality and value of

dermatologic care and is a founder and leader of the Stanford Translational AI

in Dermatology (TRAIND) group. He chairs the American Academy of Dermatology's

Committee on Augmented Intelligence. Dr. Ko has also been driven to find new

treatments for alopecia areata, an immune-mediated condition that can progress

to total hair loss through various clinical trials and translational research

efforts. He sits on the clinical research advisory board of the National

Alopecia Areata Foundation and is a founder and co-director of the Skin

Innovation and Interventional Research Group (SIIRG) which conducts clinical

and translational research on skin disease. He graduated magna cum laude from

Harvard University and worked in investment banking; mergers and acquisitions

at JP Morgan before going on to earn a combined medical and business degree at

Tufts University. During medical school, he was a member of the Alpha Omega

Alpha honor society. Dr. Ko then performed his residency at the Harvard

Dermatology Residency Training Program where he served as chief resident.

Alpa is the Vice

President and Chief Patient Experience Officer at Stanford Health Care. She is

responsible for developing and driving core patient and family centered

programs, services and patient satisfaction reporting/analytics to support the

goals of the organization. In addition, Alpa has led the Design Thinking

efforts and developing new services to advance leading edge and coordinated

care. Alpa also previously served as the Administrative Director for Performance

Excellence at Stanford Health Care.  Prior to joining Stanford, Alpa was a

healthcare strategy and operations consultant with Deloitte Consulting for over

eight years. Alpa has had the opportunity to work with academic medical

centers, physician group practices, and multi-hospital health systems across

the country. Her experience includes assisting provider organizations in

mergers and acquisitions, financial turnarounds, performance improvement

initiatives, regulatory reviews, strategic planning as well as large-scale

electronic medical record implementations.  Alpa has a Bachelor’s degree

in Public Health from the University of South Carolina and a Master’s in

Healthcare Administration from the Medical University of South Carolina.

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