Sheri Slaughter California

Sheri Slaughter is a California healthcare executive with over twenty years in operations, network strategy, and value-based care. She is Senior VP of National Network Strategy and Operations at Optum, leading initiatives designed to build, manage and optimize the provider network. Additionally, she heads institutional, ancillary, and provider contracting for
California, overseeing more than 15,000 contracted entities, while advancing initiatives that improve access and strengthen risk adjusted coding. 

Her background spans fee for service, academic medicine, and payor operations across ten specialties and twenty states, with experience in M&A integration, contract negotiation, lean process improvement, and physician engagement. Her education includes a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University, and her professional contributions include speaking with America’s Physician Groups and mentoring emerging healthcare leaders.