The Front Door Newsletter

For the first episode of Season 3 of ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ CEO, Sohum Shah interviews health plan leader, Karen Nelson, on how the largest payer in the country manages digital health and thinks about integrated care. As Vice President of Strategic Partnerships Employer & Individual, Karen is pivotal in advancing innovation and vendor relation...

For the second episode of Season 2 of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠⁠⁠ Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews health care transformation advocate and social impact leader, Shruti Kothari, on industry-wide collaboration, the importance of data-sharing, and the evolution of digital health. Shruti leads Industry Initiatives for Blue Shield of California, where...

To kickoff Season 2 of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠⁠ Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews healthcare M&A expert, Ian Wijaya, on M&A trends, digital health and value creation in 2025. Ian Wijaya is Co-Head of North America Healthcare at Lazard, and also leads Lazard’s North America Healthcare Services practice, which he cofounded. Ian’s practice fo...

On our twelfth episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠ Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews health plan executive and healthcare thought leader, Dr. Sachin Jain, on toxic positivity in healthcare, the reality of digital health post-pandemic, and SCAN's historic lawsuit against the CMS. Dr. Sachin Jain is CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, where he is cha...

On our eleventh episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠Architect Health⁠ Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews Oliver Wyman alum and former Chief Strategy Officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Sukanya Soderland on digital health partnerships, opportunities for innovation, and strategic insights on payer trends. Sukanya Soderland is the former Senior Vice President an...

On our tenth episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ , Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews Jonathan (Jon) Blum, Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this dual role, Jon oversees CMS’s program policy planning and implementation and day-to-day operations of the entire agency. CMS’s progr...

On our ninth episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ and first-ever in-person podcast panel, Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah hosts an exclusive interview on healthcare innovation with five incredible healthcare leaders in Chicago. Rushil Desai is the CEO of Aetna Better Health of Illinois and manages over 370,000 Medicaid members. Ryan Fukushima is the COO of Tempus Labs, a...

On our eighth episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠, Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews physician and health plan executive, Alice Hm Chen, MD, MPH. Dr. Chen serves as Chief Health Officer for Centene Corporation and is responsible for Centene's strategies, policies and programs in support of improving population health for Centene's members. Prior to joini...

On our seventh episode of ⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠ , Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews health tech entrepreneur and health plan executive, Rick Abbott. As Senior Vice President of Employer Solutions at Priority Health, Rick Abbott leads benefit options that serve small and large companies across Michigan. He oversees product innovation, wellness, underwriting, sal...

On our sixth episode of ⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠ , Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews health plan executive and physician, Dr. Darren Wethers. Darren Wethers, MD, CPE, is Chief Medical Officer of Atrio Health Plans. He oversees the plan's utilization management, care management and pharmacy services and is the clinical liaison to the provider community. Prior to...

On our fifth episode of ⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠ , Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews digital health entrepreneur, investor, and behavioral epidemiologist, Dr. Kate Wolin. Dr. Kate Wolin is a behavioral epidemiologist, digital health entrepreneur, investor and professor. Following her academic medicine career at Washington University School of Medicine and Loyola Unive...

On our fourth episode of The Front Door Newsletter , Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews Andy Dunn. Andy Dunn is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Dunn co-founded the menswear ecommerce brand Bonobos in 2007, and served as the company’s CEO for its first ten years, pioneering the digitally native brand movement. Bonobos was the first American brand launched to scale u...

On our third episode of The Front Door Newsletter, Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews Rebecca D'Amico. Rebecca serves as Chief of Staff to the CEO and Vice President of Strategy for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), a national federation of independent, community-based and locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) companies. D’Amico helps drive...

On our second episode of The Front Door Newsletter, Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews Brad Wilson. J. Bradley Wilson is CEO emeritus of Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina. After a successful career as a practicing attorney and service as General Counsel to former Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. Brad joined BCBSNC as General Counsel in 1996. During his 22 year career at Bl...

On the inaugural episode of The Front Door Newsletter, Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews Demetri Karagas. Demetri is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of ⁠Thirty Madison⁠ , the healthcare company focused on delivering personalized treatments to specific chronic condition areas and creating exceptional outcomes for all. He drives strategy and execution across Thi...