Kevin Heath is the Medical Director leading the Education Solutions team within OptumCare Clinical Performance. Prior to his current role Dr. Heath led Clinical Chart Review Team within Clinical Performance and worked as a Management Services Organization Market Medical Director in Kansas City, KS/MO. Under Dr. Heath’s leadership, the Education Solutions team is implementing an Integrated Learning Series focused on diagnostic and documentation accuracy of the most common complex medical conditions within the senior population. Dr. Heath also serves as chair of the Clinical Performance Education Governing Board and is a member of the Atlas Governance Committee. He is a subject matter expert in the development and implementation of smart logic and suspect rules engines for Care Services. Dr. Heath is the Clinical Performance lead for the 2019 CLC initiative on screening strategies (including vascular outcomes), and he also participated in writing the clinical update for the 2020 Focus on Care. He is also partnering with the Harvard University/Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the design and implementation of a large prospective vascular screening study.

Dr. Heath is board certified in nephrology and internal medicine and worked in a private nephrology practice in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas and as a hospitalist in Lawrence, Kansas. Dr. Heath received his undergraduate (BS, biology, and philosophy), graduate (MS, Clinical Anatomy), and doctorate (MD) degrees from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He completed an internal medicine residency at Creighton University Medical Center followed by a nephrology fellowship at Stanford University Hospital. Dr. Heath also holds a Master of Healthcare Leadership degree from Brown University and is a current Master of Public Health student in the epidemiology division of Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.