Arta Bakshandeh, DO, is Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Alignment Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage insurance company focused on senior care and headquartered in Southern California. Dr. Bakshandeh – or Dr. B. – began his career as a hospitalist and quickly became a medical director building care models for patients with Medicare and Medicaid. He joined the Alignment family in 2014 to help build Alignment's clinical model and command center. He works side-by-side with data scientists to develop and implement Alignment’s clinical data analytics platforms and home monitoring programs for patients with chronic illnesses. To date, he has been instrumental in developing and operationalizing over 170 ML/AI models across the Alignment Health business and clinical ecosystem. Outside of Alignment, he is an assistant clinical professor of internal medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). In addition, he continues to work on the front lines treating patients statewide both in the hospital and virtual settings.
