Our mission

As a physician executive for UCLA Health’s ACO, Robin developed and led the enterprise-wide care transformation infrastructure, which still includes hundreds of clinicians, all specialties and sites of care, and dozens of system redesign projects. This infrastructure enables the ACO to achieve its financial and clinical goals, has received national attention, and is a model for other delivery systems. These experiences taught Robin about the critical role of information in successful transformation, from the IT requirements necessary to synthesize data to the preparation of insights that activate clinicians and others. Robin co-founded Ursa Health with a vision that the spread of trusted information can unlock successful, authentic innovation for healthcare organizations.

Robin is a board-certified internist and has published broadly on medical home transformation, quality measurement programs, and population health delivery systems. He received his medical degree from Cornell University and completed his residency in internal medicine at UCLA Medical Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s degree in the science of health services from the UCLA School of Public Health. He also completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA/RAND.

Andy is a co-founder and chief product officer of Ursa Health. Over the course of a 20-year career in technology and healthcare, he has held positions on both the supply and demand side of data and analytics. He has worked for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the RAND Corporation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and UCLA Health, in roles ranging from software and database developer to policy analyst and health services researcher.

Andy has taught courses on improvement methods to physician and nurse leaders in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, as well as published a number of papers in the peer-reviewed literature, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. He holds a master’s degree in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University.

Before joining Ursa Health, Steve was head of development at xTuple, the world's #1 open-source ERP software company, managing a diverse development team that spanned four continents. Before that, he founded Speak Logistics, a tech startup borne out of his experience in the transportation industry, which introduced the user-friendly and modern sensibilities of the consumer Internet into the enterprise space. His professional passions include JavaScript, open-source software, continuous integration, and scalable code.

Steve holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Harvard University and an MBA from William and Mary. He is a frequent speaker on subjects such as JavaScript, modular architecture, git, open source, and asynchronous programming.

Caroline is responsible for supporting Ursa Health’s general operations and ensuring the smooth functioning of its administrative processes. She also manages the company's vendor relationships, ensuring best-in-class services so the Ursa team can work efficiently and focus on supporting clients. In addition, Caroline is responsible for the company's privacy policies and procedures, working in partnership with the security team.

Before joining Ursa, Caroline was vice president of partnerships for Aspire Health, the nation’s largest home-based palliative care company, where she was the business and operations liaison between the Aspire clinical team and health plans, provider groups, accountable care organizations, and other types of organizations. Before transitioning to a partnerships role, she was senior director of clinical operations, helping expand Aspire’s clinical care services across the country.  

Caroline’s background is in supply chain management, which aids in her role at Ursa by streamlining process improvement. She holds a BS in business administration from the University of Tennessee.

Aaron oversees the development and delivery of all services to Ursa Health customers. His entire career has been in the healthcare industry in matrixed roles spanning strategy, operations, and analytics.

Before joining Ursa, Aaron was director of operations at Contessa Health, where he worked with payers, hospital systems, and ancillary providers to deploy the clinical services and financial operations to provide patients with the essential elements of inpatient-level care directly in the home under a bundled payment. Prior to Contessa, Aaron served as the director of strategic operations at Aspire Health, a national home-based palliative care provider in the country overseeing central analytics for clinical resource planning and provider relations teams. In addition, he was on the population health team at The Advisory Board Company, where he worked with large health systems and accountable care organizations on their population health strategies surrounding data integrations and care management deployment. Aaron holds a BA in sociology from SUNY Geneseo.

Sandy has more than three decades of experience in marketing strategy, program delivery, and content development, with a focus on healthcare information technology. She formerly led marketing at Cotiviti, joining the company when it was Verisk Health and helping guide it through two major rebranding initiatives. Before Cotiviti, Sandy led communications and content marketing at Healthways, a population health and well-being company, where she helped the company gain visibility for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, a measure of global well-being in individuals and populations. She also held senior marketing positions at McKesson Health Solutions and ikaSystems. 

Sandy developed diverse marketing skills over the eight years she spent at Aria Marketing, an integrated marketing agency serving healthcare information technology clients. Before her marketing career, she focused on content development, with positions at the IT consultancies Gartner and IDC and at the research organizations Shriners Burns Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Eastern Research Group. She holds a BA in English from Amherst College and is Pragmatic Institute level 4 certified.

Dan leads the team responsible for ensuring that customers’ goals are well understood and effectively addressed by Ursa Studio and the Ursa Health team. A mission-driven healthcare IT leader with a passion for driving value-based improvements in care delivery, Dan spent eight years at athenahealth in roles spanning customer support, product development, patient access, population health, patient engagement, performance management, and network management. Most recently, he was director of client performance analysis, care delivery and value-based care for the organization, a role in which he focused on using data and analytics to drive clinical performance improvements in client organizations.

Dan has a BA degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis, as well as an MBA from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.