Reshma Gupta, M.D., M.S.H.P.M.

Chief of Population Health and Accountable Care

Dr. Reshma Gupta, M.D., M.S.H.P.M., is a practicing internist, chief of Population Health and Accountable Care at UC Davis Health, and part of the Population Health Leadership Team for strategy across all UC Health campuses. She is a creative physician-leader with executive management experience in clinical and operational strategy, quality improvement, digital health, and care model design.  

She has led over 100 clinician and care team members in population health, affordability improvement initiatives, and value analytics through her current role and previous position as the medical director for quality at the University of California Los Angeles. 

Gupta has focused on health system innovation, policy, and implementation to better define and improve the culture of delivering population health and more affordable care to patients. She worked as a senior adviser with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations' Comprehensive Primary Care program to test new models of value promoting payment reform and currently advises the U.S. Department of Defense committee on Health Delivery Systems. Her research created the first High Value Care Culture Survey, evaluated drivers of value-based decision making in medical centers across California, and examined interventions to reduce expenditures for high-cost conditions. She serves as a senior advisor of Costs of Care, where she created the first Affordability Accelerator to identify interventions that lower patient out-of-pocket costs and leads a learning community of over 500 health system managers across six countries.  

Becker's Hospital Review featured Gupta as a top executive population health leader. Gupta has consulted and speaks nationally on population health and healthcare affordability. She has published in journals such as the JAMA, Health Affairs, NEJM Catalyst, JGIM, Academic Medicine, and her media contributions have appeared across NPR, CNN, and ABC NewsRadio. 

Gupta received a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and Doctor of Medicine degree from UC San Francisco. She completed her residency and chief residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington Seattle and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship and earned a Masters in Health Policy and Management from UCLA. She is a distinguished leader of the California Health Care Foundation and Presidential Leadership Scholars programs.