Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH
Serial Health Care Company Entrepreneur, Board Member, Chief Executive Officer, Physician Agoura Hills, California, and Scottsdale Institute Executive Committee Member
Scott is Chief Value Officer and a Board member for Vytalize Health and President of FJM Health. Vytalize is a leading value-based care provider enablement company and FJM is a large oil and gas company that is diversifying into health care. Scott is a serial health care entrepreneur who has served as the co-founder and CEO of two industry-leading health care companies. Scott has also served as an executive at Cedars-Sinai Health System, Premier, Inc, the Hearst Corporation, and Cerner.
Scott Weingarten co-founded Zynx Health, the leading digital health order set and care plan company, and served as its Chief Executive Officer for 16 years. He had 2 successful exits from Zynx Health. Scott sold Zynx to the Cerner Corporation and later to the Hearst Corporation which created significant returns for investors. In addition, he was the co-inventor of 3 software patents at Zynx.
Scott later co-founded and served as CEO of Stanson Health, a clinical decision support and analytics company that uses natural language processing and machine learning. Stanson is used by more than 700 hospitals and 400,000 health care providers in the ambulatory and telehealth setting. Stanson also automates prior authorization in electronic health records for payers. Scott sold Stanson to Premier, Inc (PINC) with a significant return for investors and served as Premier’s Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer following the acquisition.
Scott served as Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Cedars-Sinai Health System. In that capacity he helped lead the transition to value-based care across the health system. At Cedars-Sinai, Scott received the honors of Alumnus of the Year (voted on by the Cedars-Sinai Medical Staff), the Golden Apple Award (voted on by Cedars-Sinai’s medical interns and residents), and the President’s Award.
Scott currently serves on the Board of Directors of seven organizations, including Hallmark Health and Vytalize Health. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Downtown Women’s Center, an organization that feeds and provides housing to homeless women. In addition, he is on the Board of Trustees for the Charles Drew University School of Medicine and Science, which is a Historically Black Graduate Institution and the only historically black Medical School west of the Mississippi. He serves on the Executive Board of the Scottsdale Institute, which includes many of the largest health systems in the United States. He is a Board member for PAI and Synergy.
Scott was a faculty member in the Departments of Medicine at both Cedars-Sinai and UCLA. He was Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Scott has published approximately 100 papers and book chapters, many on innovative models of health care delivery. He was a New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst “Thought Leader.” Scott was a primary care physician at Kaiser Permanente and achieved partnership status.
After graduating from UCLA’s medical school, Scott completed his internship, residency and fellowship in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai. Scott also received his M.P.H. from UCLA. He later participated in a National Center for Health Services Research Fellowship at the RAND/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study. Scott is Board certified in internal medicine and a fellow of the American College of Physicians.