Dr. James Weinstein

Dr. James N. Weinstein joined Microsoft in July 2018 as Senior Vice President, Microsoft Health, leading strategy, and innovation. Today, Dr. Weinstein leads health access and health equity, globally. He is the immediate past Chief Executive Officer and President of Dartmouth Health. Prior to being CEO/President, he was President of the Dartmouth physician group and was the inaugural Director of the Dartmouth Institute, home of the Dartmouth Atlas.

He created the first, value-based, population health, operating model locally and nationally, grounded in, the quadruple aim. He created a joint venture with Harvard-Pilgrim to create a provider/payer “health plan” for Northern New England. He worked with Congress during three Presidential administrations. He helped lead ACO population-based strategies and led the national efforts in Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM’s) and Health Equity for National Academies. In 2010, Epic EHR, adopted his real-time PROM’s. During his time as Director of TDI, Dr. Weinstein co-founded, with then Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim (past President of the World Bank), the Master of “Health Care Delivery Science” (MHCDS) program, the first hybrid residential and distance learning degree program at Dartmouth. He started the first multi-state telehealth program, across 12 states covering over 240 ICU beds and the first patient remote monitoring system, Imagincare.

Dr. Weinstein held the distinguished Peggy Y. Thomson Chair in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences while at Dartmouth. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and served on the organization’s Board for Population Health and Public Health Practice. He served as Chair of the first NAM Committee; Community Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity, which published its’ report, “Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity”, 2017. He serves on several Boards of Trustees: Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience; Intermountain Health System; Centene Health, Disparity Advisory Board; Charles Drew Medical School Advisory Board on Inequities; ARMI board, Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing (DOD funded).