Erika Pabo, MD, MBA
Erika A. Pabo, MD, MBA is an experienced physician executive, healthcare strategist and social entrepreneur with deep expertise leading primary care practice operations and growth, piloting and scaling innovative population health management programs, and building and implementing tech-enabled solutions to achieve the quadruple aim.
Dr. Pabo joined Humana in the fall of 2018 to serve as Chief Health Officer for Edge working to create a fundamentally new experience and better outcomes for seniors who need it most. In this role she oversees strategy and operations across member service, care management, utilization management, clinical pharmacy, clinical quality/STARS, social determinants of health, and supplemental virtual/in-home care delivery including behavioral health, primary care extensivist and IHWA for Edge’s members.
She continues to serve as Faculty at Harvard Medical School and Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs and to practice primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Advanced Primary Care, South Huntington a Level III Patient Centered Medical Home in Jamaica Plain. She speaks regularly at national healthcare conferences on virtual care delivery, primary care redesign, social determinants of health and population health. She has published work in venues such as Health Affairs, JAMA Internal Medicine, Clinical Cardiology and Harvard Business School Publishing.
Prior to joining Humana, she served as the Medical Director for Population Health and the Associate Director for Brigham and Women’s Hospital Primary Care Center of Excellence. In these two leadership roles, she oversaw the population health management portfolio for 210,000 patients as well as overseeing primary care patient growth, operational improvement, and care delivery innovation in areas ranging from behavioral health and substance use disorders, to risk coding and documentation, to physician compensation across 20 practices with 195 physicians, 45 advanced practice clinicians and 400 other associates.
Prior to her work at BWH, she worked at Twine Health (acquired by Fitbit), Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the Global Health Delivery Project. Erika has also provided consulting services to health care delivery and health care technology companies, incubators and investors.
Erika earned a BA in History of Medicine from Yale College, a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine in both the Primary Care and Management and Leadership tracks at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and is ABIM board certified in Internal Medicine