Ms. Wachsman has over 25 years’ experience spanning the entire ecosystem of healthcare delivery. She is the former Director of Strategy and Engagement for Enterprise Benefits for the employees and families of the Walt Disney Company. In that position, she led the strategic initiatives and designed the programs that addressed Disney’s long-term healthcare goals; she also ran operations of their large on-site clinics and Disney’s unique physician and hospital full-risk, direct, quality and outcomes-based partnerships; she was the creator of the Strategy Lab, home for innovation in healthcare delivery at Disney and of the Disney Health Zone, the source for quality health care information and engagement for employees.

Today, Ms. Wachsman sits on several Boards and serves as an advisor to multiple early-stage companies, all with the focus on providing quality health care to the self-funded employer.

Barbara currently serves as a Senior Advisor to a $11 billion growth-buyout private equity firm specializing in healthcare, and as a limited partner in two other funds focused on early-stage ventures. She sits on the Boards of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and QueensCare, a large FQHC serving the low-income population of Los Angeles. She remains a Senior Advisor and founding member of the Employer Healthcare Innovation Roundtable (EHIR), a group of select large, national employers, is a faculty member of the EHIR Academy, and founded the sister forum, The Provider Healthcare Innovation Roundtable comprised of 12 large hospital systems evaluating innovation opportunities. Barbara is a Board Member of the National Quality Forum (NQF), the UCSF Rosenman Institute and she recently completed her 7-year term of service as the Chair of the Public Member Caucus and Executive Committee Member of the American Board of Medical Specialties which Board certifies all physicians in this country.

Prior to joining Disney, Ms. Wachsman held senior management positions with two international benefit consulting firms, as well as served as a Principal with Arthur Andersen serving large employer clients regarding their health care sand overall benefits strategy.

She received her Master of Public Health and Master of City Planning degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and BA degree Phi Beta Kappa from Scripps College, Claremont, California.