Ms. Boynton leads the development and implementation of strategies to support alternative payment models for UC Davis Health, leading the development and implementation of a comprehensive payer and employer integration strategy. In addition, she leads population health management strategies, utilization management, and ambulatory care management services, including intensive case management, patient care management, and patient education.

She served as Deputy Executive Officer of Benefit Programs, Policy and Planning for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, providing executive leadership for the health benefit program, including health plan benefit design and development, and health plan negotiations. She served as Undersecretary at the California Health and Human Services Agency and was Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Chief Deputy Cabinet Secretary.

Her experience includes almost twenty years as a management consultant in the private sector, including employment with IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and owning her own management consulting business.

Jennifer is the Vice President of Primary Care and Population Health for Wake Forest Baptist Health focused on operational and financial performance in value-based arrangements, engagement with community partners, and serving as a liaison with Public Health Sciences to lead and support the journey to high value care.

Previous to joining Wake Forest Jennifer was responsible for leading the University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network’s transformation to value through improving quality and lowering costs. In this role she implemented an interdisciplinary collaborative leadership model for quality in partnership with the CMO, CNO and Chief Experience Officer to support quality accountability and improvement at the patient care unit level, launched a Transitions of Care and Care Management initiative to align the Network’s population health and performance goals under Vermont’s All Payer CMS Waiver; and led the development of an integrated network-wide quality and population health strategy to support full transformation into a shared service.

With 20+ years as an experienced healthcare leader in both payer and provider environments, Jennifer’s role is to understand and connect the healthcare continuum, data and operations which includes the development of organizational capabilities needed to implement and sustain population health management along with community engagement to minimize care fragmentation and reduce costs.

Jennifer earned a Master's in Planning from Florida State University with an emphasis in Health Policy and a Master’s Certificate of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University.