Victor Guillermo Villagra BS, MD, FACP

Dr. Victor Villagra is the founder and president of Health & Technology Vector, Inc., a consulting company in population health, technology assessment and delivery system redesign. Dr. Villagra works with senior management teams of a diverse client base in the US, Europe, Japan and Latin America including managed care organizations, governments, academic institutions, foundations, large employers, pharmaceutical companies, disease management organizations, specialty professional societies, insurance companies and start-up health care ventures. Dr. Villagra is the former National Medical Director at CIGNA HealthCare and past-president of the Disease Management Association of America. He has served as an advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid in a variety of subjects including the Medicare Modernization Act Chronic Care Initiative.

Dr. Villagra received his M.D. degree from the University of Costa Rica, where he graduated at the top of his class. He trained in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. Subsequently he completed a Faculty Development Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the same institution. Dr. Villagra is boardcertified in Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center and he is a Visiting Health Policy Scholar at the Ethel Donaghue Center for Translating Research into Practice and Policy at the same institution. Dr. Villagra serves on multiple boards including ProHealth Physicians Inc., Genomas, Inc., and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.