Dr. Thomas Pangburn is Wellpath’s Chief Clinical Officer. His primary responsibility is ensuring the organization provides its patients with quality healthcare. He also works as a liaison between medical staff and administration to support positive channels of communication while ensuring appropriate care to all patients. Dr. Pangburn, a board certified emergency medicine physician, was previously the Chief Innovation Officer for MedExpress and served more than a decade as the Director of Emergency Services at Heritage Valley Health Systems. In addition, he has led clinical initiatives for UnitedHealth Group and Optum that addressed quality and total cost of care. Dr. Pangburn’s work tackled some of the toughest challenges facing healthcare today including chronic disease management, value-based payment innovation for providers and hospital systems, and community-based programs that focused on the consumer centric experience, affordability, and valued based medicine.
October, 2019 - present