Executive Vice President, Chief Health Officer, and Chief Transformation Officer
The Cigna Group
Dr. David Brailer is Executive Vice President, Chief Health Officer, and Chief Transformation Officer of The Cigna GroupSM. As Chief Health Officer, he has oversight over all clinical and health functions and the company’s health products, technologies, and services. As Chief Transformation Officer, he has oversight over the transformation of the company and its products and services into the future through the Office of Excellence and Transformation. Dr. Brailer leads the company’s 20,000 clinicians and health professionals as they support the 190 million people the company serves. He is a member of the Enterprise Leadership Team for The Cigna Group.
Dr. Brailer, who joined The Cigna Group in 2022, is a physician recognized for his pioneering leadership in health care, particularly in the use of technology to enhance care. Over the past three decades, Dr. Brailer has built a variety of private and public-sector organizations that have broadened access and improved the quality of health care.
In 2011, he founded Health Evolution, an organization that convenes health care leaders as they navigate rapidly changing forces in the industry. Dr. Brailer serves as chairman of Health Evolution.
In 2002, President George W. Bush hired Dr. Brailer as a health policy advisor, then appointed him in 2004 as the nation’s first national coordinator for health information technology. In that role, Dr. Brailer oversaw development of the nation's strategy for electronic records, information sharing, and consumer empowerment. Those efforts set the foundation for the rapid adoption of digital health technologies that is underway today and that contributes to better outcomes for individuals.
In 1996, Dr. Brailer founded CareScience, a health care information management company. Under his leadership as CEO, CareScience developed one of the nation’s earliest health care cloud solutions, which served more than 25 million patients in 500 major health care systems, health plans, and physician groups across the United States.
Dr. Brailer holds doctoral degrees in medicine and economics. He earned his M.D. from West Virginia University and his Ph.D. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He became board certified in internal medicine after internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he focused on treating infectious diseases and HIV. Dr. Brailer was a Charles A. Dana Fellow and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught for a decade at the Wharton School, where he founded the Wharton School health information technology program.
Dr. Brailer is vice chairman of the Duke Margolis Health Policy Center and has served on the boards of directors or as advisor for numerous health care companies, including Walgreens Boots Alliance, VillageMD, Censeo Health, and Prolacta Biosciences.
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