Dr. Harry Saag is a physician executive and serves as the National Medical Director of Virtual Care at Walgreens Health.
Prior to Walgreens, Harry served as CEO and Co-Founder of Roster Health, a tech-enabled services company led by Community Health Workers and supported with data analytics to improve outcomes and lower costs for underserved populations through value-based arrangements. Prior to Roster, Harry served as the Medical Director for Network Integration and Ambulatory Quality at NYU Langone Health. In this role, he led NYULH’s ambulatory quality program for over 2,000 physicians across more than 200 sites consisting of an Academic-based Faculty Group Practice as well as a Network of Federally Qualified Health Centers. He also served as the clinical lead for NYU's Clinically Integrated Network which took risks on over 300,000 lives in various value-based arrangements.
His experience serving in senior physician roles within large academic medical centers, high-growth startups, and Fortune 20 companies positions him to continue leading large-scale change across the healthcare ecosystem. He remains on faculty at The Grossman NYU School of Medicine, a leading academic medical center.
He was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and received an Economics Degree from The University of Georgia. He then returned to his native Alabama where he received his medical degree from The University of Alabama – Birmingham before moving to New York where he completed his residency training in internal medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and subsequently served as a Chief Resident. He also holds a Master's in Healthcare Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His work has been published in JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine among others.