Nicholas Stine, M.D., is a physician and population health leader with over a decade of experience leading value-based care strategy and operations at large health systems. He is currently an executive-in-residence at the Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scholar at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center.
Dr. Stine was most recently the national senior vice president for population health at CommonSpirit, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States, where he led enterprise-wide population health strategy, care coordination, value-based clinical and operational leadership, and initiatives to serve high-risk populations. The population health team he built is accountable for 2.6 million attributed patients and leads key priorities to care for the most vulnerable and address health inequities, including national initiatives to address hepatitis C, health-related social needs, prevention, and chronic disease.
Prior to joining CommonSpirit, Dr. Stine was chief medical officer for New York City’s accountable care organization (ACO) at NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal health system in the U.S., where he led the Office of Accountable Care. Under his leadership, New York City’s public ACO became the most successful safety net ACO in the country, reducing costs by over $80 million while improving quality in each of its 10 performance years.
Dr. Stine is currently a practicing primary care and addiction medicine physician in Oakland and San Francisco, and clinical faculty at the University of California San Francisco. He was previously an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and an assistant professor of population health at the New York University School of Medicine. His prior work spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including positions with the U.S. House of Representatives, the City of Philadelphia, and the Maryland Department of Health. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. During his training, he did clinical work in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, the Indian Health Service, Botswana, and Haiti. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania as a Gamble Scholar and graduated from Dartmouth College as a Watson Scholar.