What You Should Know
- Navina, the artificial intelligence-powered clinical intelligence platform designed for primary care and value-based care delivery, officially announced the appointment of Dr. Joshua Newman, MD, MSHS, as its new Chief Medical Officer (CMO).
- Dr. Newman brings nearly two decades of healthcare software leadership at global enterprise scale, having spent nearly 15 years at Salesforce, where he served as Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer and Global General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences, during which he conceived, built, and launched Salesforce Health Cloud.
- Most recently, Dr. Newman served as Chief Strategy Officer at Alleviate.care, a physician-led palliative and hospice care provider, adding post-acute operational and Medicare reimbursement expertise to his health-tech background.
Dr. Newman Executive Profile
Dr. Newman joins Navina during a period of sustained enterprise scale. The platform has expanded its clinical footprint across more than 20,000 clinicians and care team members at over 1,300 outpatient clinics nationwide, supporting the clinical management of approximately 3.5 million patient lives across prominent risk-bearing organizations, including Privia Health, agilon health, and Summit Health.
Dr. Newman spent nearly 14 years at Salesforce as Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, as well as SVP and Global General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences. During his tenure, he conceived, architected, and launched Salesforce Health Cloud, scaling it into an industry-standard customer relationship management (CRM) and patient engagement framework across leading hospital systems, academic medical centers, and national commercial health plans.
Prior to enterprise tech, Dr. Newman completed his fellowship and served as an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Most recently, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at Alleviate.care, a physician-led palliative and hospice care provider, gaining operational insight into Medicare hospice benefit structures, complex geriatric multi-morbidities, and end-of-life care coordination.
Mandate at Navina
Dr. Newman will direct Navina’s clinical vision, lead physician workflow adoption, translate real-world care team feedback into the core AI product roadmap, and partner with commercial go-to-market teams to drive enterprise health system and payer executive relationships.
Ronen Lavi, Co-founder and CEO of Navina, framed the strategic alignment: “Dr. Newman’s deep expertise and commitment to advancing technology in the healthcare industry is a perfect fit for the next phase of Navina’s growth and development. Dr. Newman knows what clinicians need from technology because he has been on every side of that exchange. As Navina grows, he will help ensure the physician perspective remains at the center of what we build and how we bring it into care delivery.”
