Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP, is Managing Director of Tuckson Health Connections, LLC, a vehicle to advance initiatives that support optimal health and wellbeing through the intersection of individual and community health promotion and disease prevention; applied data and analytics; enhanced quality and e?ciency in care delivery; and the application of telehealth and biotech innovations.
Previously, he enjoyed a long tenure as Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical A?airs for UnitedHealth Group, a Fortune 20 health and wellbeing company, which includes the nation’s largest health insurer and the industry’s most comprehensive health services company. A Section 16 o?cer of the company, Dr. Tuckson was a member of the Executive Operating Committee and responsible for oversight of the company’s Foundation.
A recognized leader in his ?eld, Dr. Tuckson is honored to have been appointed to leadership roles at the National Institutes of Health; National Academy of Medicine; numerous Federal Advisory Committees; and corporate, non-pro?t and academic boards.
At the National Institutes of Health, he currently serves on the Clinical Center Research Hospital Board. Previous service includes the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health, and Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Director’s Working Group on Diversity.
Dr. Tuckson is an elected member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, currently serving in leadership positions on the Health Sciences Policy Board; the Leadership Consortium for a Value & ScienceDriven Health System; Co-Chair of the Digital Learning Collaborative; and a member of the Arti?cial Intelligence/Machine Learning Working Group and their Business Action Collaborative. His previous leadership roles at the NAM include Chair of the Committee on Post-Disaster Recovery of a Community's Public Health, Medical and Social Services; a member of the Committee on Ensuring Patient Access to A?ordable Drug Therapies; the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events; and the Committee on the Consequence of Uninsurance, among others.
Dr. Tuckson has experience as a member of corporate boards, currently serving on the Board of Directors of Cell Therapeutics, Inc., a public corporation concerned with the development of cancer pharmaceuticals. Previously, he has served on the Board of Lifepoint Health, a multi-state for pro?t hospital system focusing on rural communities’ health enhancement; as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Telehealth company, ViTel Net, LLC; a member of the Board of Inform Genomics, an early stage data and analytic company; and as a member of the Board of Directors of Baxter International.
Currently, Dr. Tuckson is Chairman of the Board for the Alliance for Health Policy; chairman of Verily’s “Project Baseline” Advisory Board; a member of the Boards of AcademyHealth, the People-Centered Research Foundation, and EVERMORE, a foundation focused on parents who have experienced a child death. He is also a member of the Advisory Boards of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and for the federal government consultant organization MITRE.
He has served in Federal Advisory roles as a former Chairman of the Secretary of Health’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society; as well as several U.S. Government cabinet level health advisory committees concerned with health reform, infant mortality, children’s health, violence, and radiation testing.
Dr. Tuckson’s engagement on academic boards include his current service on the Board of Trustees at Howard University, where he Chairs the Health Sciences Committee; and is a former member of the Board of Trustees at the medical research intensive Rockefeller University.
Dr. Tuckson is the author of “The Doctor in the Mirror”, an ongoing book and online senior patient activation and education project. He has been recognized several times by Modern Healthcare Magazine within its listing of the “50 Most Powerful Physician Executives” in healthcare and by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of the “Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America”. Additionally, Dr. Tuckson is a former President and member of the Board of the American Telemedicine Association.
Dr. Tuckson’s career accomplishments include serving as the Senior Vice President for Professional Standards of the American Medical Association; President of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; Senior Vice President of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation; and Commissioner of Public Health for the District of Columbia;
He is a graduate of Howard University, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s General Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship Programs, where he was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar studying at the Wharton School of Business.