Seema Verma

Industry and thought leader Seema Verma is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences. She is responsible for Oracle Health’s clinical and clinical trials applications portfolio.

Seema has decades of experience leading transformative initiatives across the healthcare industry. In her current role, she spearheads the development of Oracle Health’s next-generation electronic health record system, transforming it into a clinical asset to help improve care delivery. She also focuses on closing the gap between clinical research and clinical care to help improve patient outcomes.

In 2017, Seema was elected on a bipartisan basis as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this role, she developed and implemented the federal administration’s healthcare plan to advance value-based care, innovation, interoperability, and price transparency while reducing drug prices and regulations through her historic Patients over Paperwork initiative.

Prior to her role at the CMS, Seema founded and sold a national health policy consulting company and worked as Vice President of Corporate Planning for the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County. These experiences provided her with valuable insight into the challenges healthcare professionals face on the front lines of the industry. She currently serves as a member of the USC Schaeffer Center Advisory Board and a board advisor at Tapestry Health.

Seema graduated with a Bachelor of Science in life sciences from the University of Maryland. She also received her Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Administration from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.