Dr. Arthur Southam brings over three decades of healthcare experience as a leader in health plans, integrated health systems and health industry associations.

From 2001 until his retirement in 2023, Dr. Southam served as the National Executive Vice President of Health Plan Operations and Chief Growth Officer for Kaiser Permanente, America’s largest not-for-profit health plan and health system, which has over $100 billion in annual revenue and serves 12.5 million members and patients.

Prior to Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Southam served as chief executive officer of two California-based health plans, Health Net and CareAmerica, and at Health Systems Design, a developer of software for health plans and physician groups.

Dr. Southam is a member of the RAND Corporation Social and Economic Policy Advisory Board. He has served as Board Chair of CHRISTUS Health, Easterseals of Southern California, the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), the California Association of Health Plans and the Integrated Health Care Association. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America that published the landmark reports: “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” and “Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.”

Dr. Southam received his medical degree and MPH from UCLA, and his MBA from Pepperdine University, and his B.A. in Neuroscience from Amherst College.