Ravi Kavasery, MD

Ravi Kavasery, M.D., is the senior vice president and chief medical officer at Blue Shield of California—a nonprofit health plan with over $25 billion in annual revenue that serves nearly 6 million members in the state's commercial, individual, and government markets. Kavasery is responsible for advancing clinical strategy, high-quality care, and provider performance across all Blue Shield of California’s lines of business.

An accomplished physician executive, 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, where he led a strategic and programmatic approach to improve healthcare affordability and deliver higher quality care at a lower cost to Blue Shield’s members. Before 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 the medical director of clinical development and performance for Iora Health, a primary care group renowned for its innovative care delivery model.

Kavasery serves on the executive steering committee for the California Quality Collaborative and on the board of the Primary Care Collaborative. He served for six years as an associate faculty member with the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He was also an associate faculty member with Ariadne Labs, which is a joint center for health systems innovation, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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, Kavasery collaborated with Partners in Health in Rwanda and Malawi. He has also completed 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.