LDI Health Policy Seminar with Anthony V. Coletta, MD, MBA

“Transforming Healthcare: The Philadelphia Challenge”

7:00a.m. – 8:30a.m. December 5, 2014

Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

Anthony V. Coletta, M.D., M.B.A, is the President and CEO of Tandigm Health, a groundbreaking joint venture by Independence Blue Cross (Independence) and Health Care Partners, LLC that will work in tandem with primary care physicians to create a new paradigm of high-quality, affordable health care in the Philadelphia region. Dr. Coletta was previously a SVP of Independence where he served as one of the principal architects of the Tandigm Health business plan. Prior to Independence, Dr. Coletta was EVP and CMO of Holy Redeemer Health System in Huntingdon Valley, PA. He was responsible for promoting and facilitating communication among Holy Redeemer’s clinical areas. Previously, he led the creation in 2000 of Renaissance Health Alliance, a joint venture between Independence and Renaissance, a large, Philadelphia-based Independent Practice Association, where Dr. Coletta served as CEO and chairman of the board.

Dr. Coletta was an attending general surgeon for more than two decades at Bryn Mawr Hospital, and an associate clinical professor of surgery at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He was recognized by Philadelphia Magazine as a pioneer in minimally invasive surgical techniques and a Top Doctors in the Philadelphia region.

Since 2007, Dr. Coletta has volunteered as a surgical missionary to Haiti, traveling there annually with medical supplies and a team of physicians. He is a fellow in the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the Philadelphia Advisory Board of the National Youth Leadership Forum, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Coletta received his BS degree in chemistry at Georgetown University and graduated from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in 1979. He completed his Surgical Residency and a Fellowship in Organ Transplantation at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He attained his MBA from the Fox School of Business at Temple University in 2006 with the distinction of University Scholar.
 

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Sponsored by the Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture Fund