Tania S. Malik

Tania S. Malik, J.D. is an entrepreneur and a lawyer whose focus for the last 23 years has been in healthcare. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer for the Center for Digital Health, Innovation, and Telehealth at Optum. For the last 20 years, she expanded her attention to telemedicine solutions and founded or co-founded five healthcare IT companies to facilitate online patient-provider interactions for primary care, mental health treatment, and naturopathic and integrated medicine. In 2007, she started COPE Today, a telemental health company which was acquired in 2013 by MindCare Solutions Group. She sold Medical Web in 2014.

Tania serves as the Chair of the Telemental Special Interest Group for the American Telemedicine Association; Managing partner and Investor Relations Chief for Bluedoor Health, CEO of Virtual Medical Group, Strategic Board of Advisors for OmnySense (remote patient monitoring) and InnovaTel (tele-psychiatry), Chair of the Board for In-Kind Friends, and Vice-President for the Board of Trustees for the Montessori School of Raleigh. She graduated from UNC at Chapel Hill and Georgia State University School of Law and is a member of the bar in North Carolina and Georgia.