Ravi Kavasery, MD

Ravi Kavasery, MD, is senior vice president and chief medical officer at Blue Shield of California, a nonprofit health plan with over $25 billion in annual revenue, serving over 4.8 million members in the state's commercial, individual, and government markets. Dr. Kavasery is responsible for advancing clinical strategy, high quality care, pharmacy services, and provider performance across all Blue Shield of California’s lines of business.

An accomplished physician executive, Dr. Kavasery is a mission-driven leader known for his approach to advancing high quality, affordable, and equitable care at scale. He joined Blue Shield in 2021 as vice president, cost of health care, where he led a strategic and programmatic approach to improve healthcare affordability and deliver higher quality care at lower cost to Blue Shield’s members. Prior to Blue Shield, he served as medical director of quality and population health for AltaMed Health Services – one of the nation’s largest federally qualified health centers. Until 2018, he was medical director of clinical development and performance for Iora Health, a primary care group renowned for its innovative care delivery model. 

Dr. Kavasery serves on the executive steering committee for the California Quality Collaborative. Dr. Kavasery served for six years as associate faculty member with the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School as well as an associate faculty member with Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Kavasery is a published author in peer review and non-peer review publications and an invited guest lecturer and presenter throughout the country.

Dr. Kavasery received his undergraduate degree with honors from Johns Hopkins University, and his medical degree with honors from Yale University. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. During his clinical training, Dr. Kavasery has collaborated with Partners in Health in Rwanda and Malawi. He has also done clinical work in Uganda, the Navajo Nation, South Korea, Malaysia, and Argentina. He is a board-certified internist and continues to see patients regularly in East Los Angeles.