Dr. Karl Laskowski Joins Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts as Vice President & Medical Director of Clinical Programs and Strategy

BOSTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Dr. Karl Laskowski has joined Blue Cross Blue Defend of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) as vice chairman and medical director of scientific applications and technique. In his new position, Laskowski is answerable for working collaboratively to advance the corporate’s technique to offer high quality, reasonably priced and equitable well being care with an unparalleled client expertise.

“All through my profession, my major purpose has been to make it simple to get the kind of well being care we might all need for our family members,” Laskowski stated. “Too typically, getting wonderful care requires superhuman effort by physicians, pharmacists, nurses, sufferers and their households as they wrestle with a sophisticated and fragmented well being care system. We have to make it simpler to ship the care and the outcomes all of us anticipate and deserve. I am excited to affix Blue Cross Blue Defend of Massachusetts as a result of we’re a pacesetter in fascinated about what well being care might and must be.”

Laskowski beforehand served as affiliate chief medical officer for Brigham Well being/Brigham and Girls’s Hospital (BWH) in addition to a practising doctor and an teacher in medication for Harvard Medical Faculty. He continues to take care of sufferers at BWH part-time.

Laskowski’s previous scientific management expertise additionally consists of roles as govt medical director of ambulatory providers at BWH, and affiliate medical director for innovation and course of enchancment at Brigham and Girls’s Doctor Group.

“Karl’s deep expertise introducing innovation into scientific apply shall be instrumental in creating new approaches that guarantee our members get the suitable care, on the proper time, in the suitable setting, serving to us to attain our imaginative and prescient of being our members’ trusted ally,” stated Dr. Sandhya Rao, chief medical officer and senior vice chairman at Blue Cross.

Laskowski obtained his MD and his Grasp of Well being Science from Yale College Faculty of Medication and accomplished his residency at Brigham and Girls’s Hospital. He earned his MBA from Harvard Enterprise Faculty.  

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SOURCE Blue Cross Blue Defend of Massachusetts