Dr. Reed Tuckson

Dr. Reed Tuckson, author of The Doctor in the Mirror, is the former Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs for UnitedHealth Group and is now the Managing Director of Tuckson Health Connections, LLC, a health and medical care consulting business that brings people and ideas together to promote optimal health outcomes.

Throughout his career, Dr. Tuckson has been recognized as a leader in public health, academic medicine, organized medicine and private sector health organizations. He has committed himself to a vision of “comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, and integrated health care.”

He is the Immediate Past President of the American Telemedicine Association. He also serves on a variety of boards including the National Academy of Medicine’s Health Sciences Policy Board, the Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care, and the Digital Learning Collaborative; the American Telemedicine Association; Cell Therapeutics Inc.; and LifePoint Health. He’s on the Board of Trustees of Howard University, and he is the Senior Clinical Advisor to United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings epidemiology reports.