Population Health Management
AI Safety, Equity & Model Oversight in Healthcare
Value-Based Care and Medicare Advantage
Quality Improvement, Utilization Management & Care Redesign
Care Managment Models for Complex Chronic Conditions
Whole-Person Health & Integrative Approaches in Population Health
Adjunct Instructor
Research and Practice Interests
Education
Fellowship, Integrative Medicine, Andrew Weil Center of Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
Internal Medicine Residency, Baptist Health Systems
MMM, Master of Medical Management, Carnegie Mellon University
MSBME, Master of Science in Biomedical Enginerring, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Certifications
Board Certified in Internal Medicine; Lifestyle Medicine; and Integrative Medicine
Teaching
Population Health
Biography
Dr. Manasi Kekan is a triple board-certified physician in Internal, Lifestyle, and Integrative Medicine. Her systems-level approach to population health is rooted in her background in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Management. She specializes in population health strategy and care redesign across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and ACO models by triangulating clinical reality, financial sustainability, and operational execution to move programs from theory to real-world impact.
Dr. Kekan has mentored hundreds of clinicians on value-based care performance and led program implementations in care transitions, palliative and post-acute care settings on both the payer and provider sides. She has advised investment firms and healthcare startups on market fit, clinical use cases, and identifying product roadmap gaps. She serves on the board of the Texas American College of Physicians and participates in healthcare advocacy. Currently, she is advancing her expertise in AI governance, focusing on the safe, equitable, and effective integration of AI models into population health.
Dr. Kekan's teaching philosophy centers on preparing graduate students to translate complex healthcare data into actionable strategies using real-world cases. She focuses on building competencies that matter in actual clinical environments: designing accountable programs, navigating operational constraints, and centering the experiences of patients, caregivers, and care teams. Her goal is to develop healthcare leaders who can execute—not just theorize.