Chief Medical Officer

Value Care Alliance

Kirsten Anderson is the Chief Medical Officer at the Value Care Alliance where she leads efforts across statewide VCA member health systems to advance new models of care in risk-based contracts. She oversees the quality of care and total cost of care for an alliance of four health systems with six hospitals and 1800 physicians. During her tenure at the VCA, shared savings were achieved in all contracts with an accompanying improvement in quality. Previously, as Chief Medical Officer for Accountable Care Solutions at Aetna, she led the clinical design of novel payment and service delivery models. Kirsten has led the development of alternative payment models in accountable and managed care and helped launch the clinical focus for Accountable Care Solutions at Aetna. She was instrumental in the development of Aetna Oncology Solutions, a new payment and support structure for oncologists. Through the VCA, she directs grants creating new models for integrating Community Health Workers into clinical teams and for establishing relationships with Community Based Organizations. She has also done work in standardizing care management functions. Kirsten is a guest lecturer at Yale New Haven Hospital on accountable care and non-clinical careers in medicine. She completed an MPH at the Columbia School of Public Health in epidemiology and is comfortable using data analytics to provide strategic direction to projects. Kirsten provides board-level direction to a nonprofit charitable medical clinic that provides care to the uninsured. Kirsten did an internal medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and is Board Certified in internal medicine. She concurrently earned her MD and MPH in epidemiology from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Columbia School of Public Health. She graduated with Honors from Harvard College.