Vinod K. Sahney PhD

Vinod K. Sahney, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Northeastern University, Boston; Senior Fellow at The Institute for HealthCare Improvement (IHI) and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.Prior positions include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer from 2006 – 2010.

Prior to joining Blue Cross and Blue Shield, he served as Senior Vice President at Henry Ford Health System for 25 years, including responsibilities for Strategic Planning, Marketing, Government Relations, Public Relations, Community Affairs, Quality Resource Group, Special Events, Management Services, Information Services, New Enterprise Development Corporation, the Center for Health Services Research, the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and as Project Manager for building a new 300 bed, $300M hospital in West Bloomfield, MI for Henry Ford Health System from 2003 to 2006.