Michael Ham
Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Executive Officer, Michael works closely with the executive and senior leadership teams to foster a culture of innovation, growth, and kindness, while placing patients, partners, and teammates at the center of everything we do. He oversees strategic direction of the company, while ensuring that the highest level of integrated care is delivered consistently across all health system partners. A critical focus of his role is identifying and executing on innovative growth initiatives that expand the company into new health systems, service lines, disease states, and therapeutic classes.
Since starting at Shields in 2019, Michael has held many roles within the organization. Prior to becoming CEO, Michael was chief operating officer and market president leading operations and driving the highest level of patient care, operational excellence, growth acceleration, and margin enhancement for Shields’ 80+ health system partners. Prior to those two roles, Michael served as senior vice president of the New York region, where he oversaw rapid growth, impressive clinical and financial performance, and expansion of the Shields’ care model to tens of thousands of patients at some of the nation’s most prestigious academic medical centers.
Prior to joining Shields, Michael led one of the nation’s largest Independent Physician Associations (IPAs) for Optum / DaVita Medical Group. In this role, he led a large, high-performing operations team responsible for delivering value-based clinical outcomes, financial performance (risk adjustment/utilization management), and growth (partnerships and M&A) covering more than 75,000 full-risk (i.e., capitated) patients. Before that time, Michael spent three years in investment banking with JPMorgan and Wells Fargo.
Michael holds a B.S. in Finance with Honors from Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University.
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