SciconHealth

Dr. Robert (Bob) London serves as the Chief Medical Officer for

nirvanaHealth and is also the President of SciconHealth, a boutique

consulting firm which provides services to corporations focused on

healthcare technology, biomedical, pharma, and population health

programs. SciconHealth’s clients include Semler Scientific, Hologic,

Nirvana Health, BetterNight, CareDX, and Boston Scientific.  He

has been a President, Chief Operating Officer (COO), and Chief

Medical Officer (CMO) in both private and public rapidly growing

companies and has deep expertise in payer operations, pharmacy,

managing MLR, biomedical research, healthcare technology, and

medical informatics.

 

Dr. London is a national thought leader in leveraging technology to

improve quality and reduce medical costs from the Payer perspective.  From 2014 thru 2021, he was the Chief Medical Officer for WellCare’s South Carolina Health Plans. He also worked 2020-2021 as Chief Medical Officer for the SC Centene book of business including all Medicare, Exchange and Medicaid membership.  In this role his span of control included overseeing the medical services and quality results for WellCare Medicaid and Medicare plans in the state: including medical leadership for the effective care integration of pharmacy operations, utilization/case/disease management activities and quality improvement. He reported to WellCare’s state leader for South Carolina. In addition to his market role, Dr. London led a number of corporate projects involving informatics, artificial intelligence, Obstetrics/NICU and IT related RFP’s.

 

Prior to WellCare, London was the national medical director for Walgreens and led the clinical solutions group in the health and wellness business segment. Preceding to that, he served as the general manager of ikaSystems, a leader in enterprise software for the payer sector. He has also served as the chief development officer for D2Hawkeye, a provider of medical data reporting and analytics solutions, and chief clinical officer for TriZetto, a public health care information technology company. Earlier in his career, London led health care management for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s (WellPoint) Western region. He has also served as corporate chief medical officer at CNA Insurance Company, chief operating officer for United Healthcare’s mid-Atlantic region, and chief medical officer at NYLCare Health Plans. Dr. London did his executive training while at Kaiser Permanente’s Mid-Atlantic Region and was the lead of Maternal-Child Care for the Mid-Atlantic Market.

 

London has served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the University of Colorado MBA program, and the South Carolina School of Medicine. He holds degrees from George Washington University and University of Maryland School of Medicine, is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology, and is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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                                                                 Sara London is a business news writer, satirist, author, and Manager of
                                                            Consultative Services for SciConHealth, focusing on behavioral health
                                                            and how it integrates with topical medical issues. Sara earned a Master's
                                                            degree from NYU's Gallatin School in an individualized
                                                            study focused on psychoanalysis. In 2020, she also earned a
                                                            certificate in Entrepreneurship Essentials from the Harvard
                                                            Business School.

                                                                        

                                                            Sara spent six years with Greater New York Mensa, including her
                                                            term as the President of the Board of Directors; the youngest
                                                            president in the group's history and first female in 20 years. Her
                                                            roles at Mensa ranged from board member to IT manager,

event planner, PR coordinator, HR coordinator, and general renaissance woman. She was a driving force in the reconstruction of Mphasis, the newsletter of Greater New York Mensa; she has also been published in the national Mensa  Bulletin, with op-eds and columns accessible to Mensa's 50,000 members.

 

Her blog posts, articles, whitepapers, and listicles have been featured in Ladders News, Hive, GIMME, Psychology Today, and more. She specializes in psychology, mindfulness, and the future of work, but she also writes for markets and trends, pop culture, work/life balance, and health/wellness. 

 

Sara's first book on modern therapeutic identity is available on Amazon. She also has one completed novel and one work in progress.​  She has been shortlisted for the Adelaide Literary Contest Award in Short Fiction and the Don Delillo Literary Lottery Award. For more writing samples, click here. Find Sara's Substack column here.