Chief Medical Officer Dr. Romilla Batra is responsible for the clinical strategy & operations to provide “person centric” care to SCAN members and clients. She also leads SCAN’s provider integration, pharmacy, healthcare services, geriatrics clinical delivery and digital health strategy which creates collaborative environments for SCAN and its providers to deliver on the quadruple aim “better outcomes, better member and physician experience and lower costs”. She is a member of the executive team that sets strategic direction for SCAN to deliver on its mission keeping seniors healthy & independent. 

In addition to her clinical leadership role, Dr. Batra is a valuable contributor to and leader of many other health plan activities and initiatives including SCAN’s community based organization, Independence at Home ( IAH) that serves seniors and their caregivers in the community. 

Dr. Batra is a board-certified internist with more than 20 years of experience as a medical director, clinician and educator. Immediately prior to joining SCAN in 2011 she worked for five years as the director for ambulatory internal medicine and associate program director for medicine residency at the University of California, Irvine. Her previous experience also includes serving as a medical director at Indiana University Medical Group Community Health Center in Indianapolis and clinical instructor at UCLA/West Los Angeles VA Hospital. 

Dr. Batra completed her residency in internal medicine at UCLA and earned her healthcare executive MBA at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business where she continues to teach in the executive MBA programs.