Devdutta Sangvai, MD, MBA, FAAFP

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President, Duke Regional Hospital

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Dr. Sangvai is vice president for population health management at Duke University Health System.  He is professor of family medicine, pediatrics, and psychiatry at the Duke University School of Medicine and professor in the Program in Education at Duke University. 

In his current roles, he leads the Population Health Management Office (PHMO)--the central entity at Duke guiding care transformation for value based care, including care management programs and deployment of related data & analytics programs; and fostering relationships with payers, community resources, and physicians within the service area.  Complementing the work of the PHMO, Dr. Sangvai is executive director of Duke Connected Care (DCC), Duke’s accountable care organization/clinically integrated network.  As a member of the executive payer strategy team, he provides clinical and strategic perspective in discussions with commercial and government payers.  Dev has been at Duke since 2001 and has previously served in multiple roles including director of medical services for Student Health and chief of Family Medicine.

As faculty he has led courses in the Master in Clinical Leadership Program (finance, strategy), the Primary Care Leadership Track, and helped develop the Management & Leadership Pathway for Residents (a residency program for MD-MBAs). Each fall he teaches a popular undergraduate writing course, Leadership and the Changing Landscape of Healthcare.  Dr. Sangvai is core faculty at the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy and Faculty Affiliate at the Fuqua School of Business.  His clinical practice focuses on primary care and the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders.

In addition to his work at Duke, Dev is significantly involved in leadership and organized medicine both locally and nationally. He is Past-President of the North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) and served as the chair of the young physicians section of the American Medical Association (AMA). Dr. Sangvai has also served in national roles with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).  He has been a member of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission and currently serves on the North Carolina Medical Board.

Dr. Sangvai graduated from the Ohio State University and received his M.D. from the Medical College of Ohio, where he also completed his family medicine training and chief residency. He earned his M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business. He is a certified physician executive with the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) and fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).  In 2015 he was named Presidential Leadership Scholar by libraries/foundations of Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton.