Our Experts

As a leading health system technology, health information, consulting, and outsourcing solutions company, OptumInsight is known as an innovative leader with valuable ideas for improving performance. It's where leading experts choose to work, because it's where they can make the biggest difference.

Optum Fellows

The Optum Fellows program is designed to honor and highlight some of the most accomplished scientific, clinical, and technical professionals in our organization. The program mission is to:

  • Innovate around the greatest challenges facing the health system today
  • Collaborate across the company and the industry in order to see possibilities and solutions others may not and achieve what may seem otherwise inconceivable
  • Educate, share what we've learned and help others advance the full potential of their ideas
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Arnold Chan, Sc.D., M.D.
Dan Dunn, Ph.D.
David Anderson
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Mark Morsh
Michele Kohli, Ph.D.
Mike Jacobs
William Crown, Ph.D.
K. Arnold Chan, Sc.D., M.D.

Chief Scientist, Epidemiology

Dr. K. Arnold Chan is a pharmacoepidemiologist. He researches medical product use and safety, in particular studying large, linked and automated health care databases.

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Dan Dunn, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President, Business Solutions, Distinguished Fellow

Dr. Dan Dunn is responsible for the design and development of our company’s breakthrough predictive modeling and information tools, including Impact and Symmetry suite of products.

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David Anderson

Senior Director, Innovation Lab

Markets:

David Anderson developed the analytical models that predict and model the spread of diseases. He is currently working with longitudinal data sets, investigating the clinical and financial aspects of the Natural History of Disease and its application to the challenges of today.

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Henry (Joe) Henk, Ph.D.

Vice President and Principal Consultant North America, HEOR

Dr. Henry (Joe) Henk specializes in health economics, econometrics and health outcomes with particular focus on research in oncology and the use of biologics. Since joining Optum in 2004, his research has spanned a variety of disease and drug areas and has focused on therapy compliance, burden of illness and cost comparisons.

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Mark Morsch

Vice President of Technology

As Vice President of Technology, Mark is the co-inventor of the LifeCode Natural Language Processing (NLP) Engine with two patents on NLP technology for computer-assisted coding (CAC).

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Michele Kohli, Ph.D.

Director LifeSciences, Health Economics

Dr. Michele Kohli has more than 13 years of experience conducting economic evaluations for new pharmaceutical products. Her expertise spans a variety of methodological areas related to health economics and health outcomes.

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Mike Jacobs

Technology Fellow and Principal Architect

Mike Jacobs is the Chief Architect for the Optum Care Suite, which marries insightful data from electronic medical records with related health claims, patient-reported outcomes and powerful analytics.

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William H. Crown, Ph.D.

Group President, Health Economics & Outcomes Research and Late Phase Research

Dr. Bill Crown is group president of health economics and outcomes research and late phase research for Optum.

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