Community Health Meeting

Description

Speaker: Dr. Jim Geracci, Chief Medical Officer - VillageMD
Topic: Population Health and its impact to our local communities


James Geracci is a senior physician executive with extensive leadership experience in both civilian and military healthcare. He currently serves as the Market Chief Medical Officer for Village Medical in Houston, Texas.  Most recently was Chief Clinical Officer for Calibrate Health providing strategic and operational leadership over solution design, development, and delivery of digitally-enabled obesity management and metabolic healthcare as the startup changed the way the world treats weight. Prior to that he was Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Digital Health and Innovation/CEO of the Virtual Medical Group for UHG?s Optum Health leading design, development, delivery, and scaling of value-based telehealth and virtual healthcare solutions and services. He was Market CMO with Ascension Healthcare Texas through the COVID-19 pandemic. And previously he served in various senior leadership roles in one of the world?s largest and most complex healthcare enterprises (the US Army). He retired as a Colonel having led healthcare teams at all levels including as CMO for the military?s largest primary care department and in CMO roles at the Army Brigade, Division, and Corps levels.

Jim is a proven effects-oriented leader experienced in successfully building, developing, empowering, and leading high performance multidisciplinary teams capable of designing and executing exceptional healthcare in the most complex environments, including combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the COVID-19 pandemic.   

A disruptive innovator, Jim has driven and led transformation bottom up and top down in the largest and most matrixed civilian and military organizations. As Prehospital Director for the Department of Defense?s Trauma System, Senior Capability Developer for Army Medicine, Consultant to the Surgeon General for Operational Medicine, and as a member of the Department of Defense?s Tactical Combat Casualty Care Committee, he helped transform military medicine into a true learning healthcare system ensuring hard-learned lessons of two decades of war were not lost but rather codified in doctrine and policy. Instrumental throughout his military career in designing, developing, and implementing value-based primary care and digital/telehealth innovations (including telebehavioral, virtual specialty, teletrauma care, etc.), Jim has continued this work in his professional roles and as an SME consultant and board advisor in the civilian sector.

His education includes degrees/certifications from Arizona State University, Uniformed
Services University School of Medicine, Army Command and General Staff College, and both University of Pennsylvania/Wharton and University of Texas/ McCombs Schools of Business. Jim is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He has authored numerous scholarly articles and book chapters and presented lectures both nationally and internationally on various professional topics. He and his wife, Kristie, have been married for more than 25 years and have three sons. After living and working around the world, home is Austin, Texas.