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Ira Klein
MD, MBA, FACP
Dr. Klein is the vice president of Medical Affairs for Payor Relations for Tempus, a data driven precision medicine company, providing a library of clinical and molecular data. Most recently, he was the chief medical officer of Health New England, leading plans efforts in medical management, contracting, network integrity, and quality and analytics. He also previously served as the leader and senior director of Healthcare Quality Strategy in the Strategic Customer Group of J&J Health Care Services for 5 years and was the National Medical Director for Clinical Thought Leadership at Aetna as well as Chief of Staff to the CMO and he founded the Oncology Solutions team that created pathways and medical home value-based arrangements. He also developed wellness and benefit design programs in the large employer segment of Aetna's National Accounts business. Dr. Klein's early roles included Assistant CMO of Bayshore Community Health Systems, CMO of Elderplan, assistant professor in Internal Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Dr. Klein is an AOA graduate of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed residency training at Brown University and RWJMS/UMDNJ. He earned his MBA from Rutgers School of Business, and remains board certified in Internal Medicine. He has a personal interest in health information technology and data security and was previously certified in the medical HIT area.