Yuvo Health Welcomes Dave A. Chokshi to its Board

Renowned public health leader Dave A. Chokshi, M.D., has joined Yuvo Health as an independent board member.

Since launching less than three years ago, Yuvo Health has grown from four co-founders to a remote team of more than 50 employees with locations in the United States, England, and India. Most recently, the company hired Ami Patel, M.D., as its chief population health officer and Jorge Stevenson as its chief financial officer.
 
“We are honored to have Dr. Chokshi lend his voice to our board, enabling us to tap into his clinical and operational experience as we scale,” Yuvo Health CEO Cesar Herrera said. “His career-long dedication to advocating for health equity and community-based primary care will strengthen our deep commitment to the communities we currently and hope to serve.”
 
Throughout his career, Chokshi has held successive senior leadership roles that span the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Previously, he was the 43rd Commissioner of Health for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2020-2022), during which time he led the city’s COVID-19 pandemic response, including its historic campaign to vaccinate more than 6 million New Yorkers. Earlier, Chokshi was the inaugural chief population health officer at NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest public healthcare system, where he also served as CEO of the H+H Accountable Care Organization. A Rhodes Scholar and White House Fellow, he is nationally recognized as a transformational leader, a clinical innovator, a policy expert, and an advocate for a stronger and more equitable health system. Chokshi is a practicing primary care physician, and Sternberg Family Professor of leadership at the City College of New York,
 
Chokshi trained in internal medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, where he received the Dunne Award for Compassionate Care, and the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center, and also served as a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. During his training, he performed clinical work in Guatemala, Peru, Botswana, Ghana, and India. He received a medical degree with Alpha Omega Alpha distinction from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and was elected by his peers to win the Joel Gordon Miller Prize. Additionally, Chokshi earned an MSc in global public health at the University of Oxford, and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry and public policy studies from Duke University.

“I’m honored to join the Yuvo Health team as an independent board member,” Chokshi stated. “I learned how to practice primary care at a community health center—and have seen throughout my career how empowering them advances health equity and strengthens our communities.”
 
Last year, Yuvo Health announced a $20.2 million Series A round of financing, enabling the company to further scale from New York to Ohio, while transitioning to accept full-risk arrangements on behalf of its Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) partners. In conjunction with their funding news, Yuvo Health added several new FQHCs, doubling their original number announced last year, which now reaches more than 150,000 patients.
 
Launched in January 2021, Yuvo Health was founded in New York City by a fully BIPOC team with shared first-hand experiences of the power of quality care, and a common goal to bring fair, quality care to underserved communities. Yuvo Health is a partner to health centers, helping them gain an advantage in the world of value-based care. Currently, the company serves community health centers and independent physician associations (IPAs) in the Northeast and Midwest, with plans to expand to more markets soon.