Bob Kocher Biography

Bob Kocher MD is a Partner at Venrock and focuses on healthcare IT and services investments. He currently serves on the Board of Virta Jiff Aledade and Lyra Health where he is also a co-founder and is a Board Observer at Grand Rounds Stride and Doctor on Demand. He is a former Director at Castlight Health (CSLT).
Additionally he is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine Senior Fellow and Advisory Board Member at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC and Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution Engleberg Center for Health Reform. He serves on the Advisory Boards of Harvard Medical School Health Care Policy Department National Institute of Healthcare Management (NIHCM) and ChildObesity180. He is also a member of the Health Affairs Editorial Board.
Prior to Venrock Bob served in the Obama Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic Policy on the National Economic Council. In the Obama Administration Bob was one of the shapers of the Affordable Care Act focusing on cost quality and delivery system reform and health IT policy. He was one of the leaders of the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” childhood obesity initiative led the formation of the Partnership for a Healthier America and served on the Federal Advisory Panel charged with developing a national obesity strategy. He also co-founded the Health Data Initiative with Todd Park a joint effort of HHS and the Institute of Medicine to release healthcare data to spur private sector innovation to improve healthcare cost and quality. For the past five years he has served as Co-Chair of the Health Datapalooza.

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