Biosketch
Kaveh Safavi, is a healthcare strategist with extensive experience in digital health, growth strategies and international expansion. He is a partner with Guidon Partners, a firm that advises and co-invests in healthcare services companies and a Health Senior Advisor with Accenture. He is also an adjunct lecturer of Health Enterprise Management at Kellogg School of Management-Northwestern University.
He recently retired as a Senior Managing Director at Accenture for Global Health, where he helped providers, health insurers, and public health systems in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. harness the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Prior to Accenture he served in leadership roles at Cisco, Thompson Reuters and United Healthcare and Alexian Brother’s Health System
Dr. Safavi brings more than three decades of leadership experience. Among his many accomplishments was establishing one of the Midwest’s first electronic-health-record-enabled primary care practices. IT Services Report named him in the top 5 healthcare IT executives for 2020 and 2025.
Dr. Safavi has published numerous papers and is often quoted on healthcare issues in various media publications, including The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, The New York Times, Consumer Reports, US News and World Report, Harvard Business Review and The Economist.
Dr. Safavi earned an M.D. from Loyola University School of Medicine and a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law. He is board-certified in internal medicine and pediatrics and completed his medical residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center., Dr. Safavi also serves on the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’ Board of Visitors–Northwestern University and is a member of the Easterseals National Board of Directors.
