Dr. Molly Coye, Chief Innovation Officer, UCLA Health System

Dr. Molly Joel Coye is the Chief Innovation Officer of the UCLA Health System at the University of California, Los Angeles.

She was formerly a Senior Advisor to the Public Health Institute in Oakland, California, where she chaired the Advisory Board for the Center for Technology and Aging and advised domestic and international programs regarding innovation and technology.

Dr. Coye was previously the founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center (HealthTech), a non‐profit education and research organization established in 2000 that became the premier forecasting organization for emerging technologies in health care. Dr. Coye has also served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey, Director of the California Department of Health Services, and Head of the Division of Public Health Practice at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Coye is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, and Chair of the Board of Directors of PATH, a large nonprofit organization in international health. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Aetna, Inc., and a past member of the boards of the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, The California Endowment and the China Medical Board.

Dr. Coye holds M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Johns Hopkins University an MA in Chinese History from Stanford University.