Dr. Partha Das
Chief Medical Officer - DaVita International

Partha Das is an honorary consultant nephrologist at King's College Hospital in London and chief medical officer of the international division of DaVita, a global provider of kidney care services. He was a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice based at Harvard University, where he led research on quality improvement and systems transformation in healthcare organisations. Dr. Das has held a variety of senior research and clinical management positions, including advisor to the national clinical director for kidney care at the UK Department of Health in London. He has led several quality improvement programmes across England in dialysis, CKD and transplantation care. More recently he has worked on the development of systems engineering as a means for delivering high-value care as a member of the Quality Improvement Faculty at the Royal College of Physicians in London and has published and presented internationally on patient safety and QI in kidney care.

Jeffery Giullian, MD MBA
Chief Medical Officer - DaVita Kidney Care

Dr. Giullian is a nephrologist from Denver and Chief Medical Officer of DaVita Kidney Care. As the clinical leader, he is engaged in developing and implementing DaVita’s clinical strategies of holistic patient care, patient-centered innovation, differentiated clinical outcomes, patient experience, physician engagement, and patient education. Dr. Giullian trained in nephrology and transplantation at Vanderbilt University, where he served as Chief Fellow in 2006.  Prior to assuming the role of Chief Medical Officer, Jeff served as the CMO for DaVita’s Hospital Services Group, providing inpatient dialysis and apheresis care in partnership with over 900 hospitals across the US. 

He has been involved in clinical research and has held several leadership positions including Chief of Nephrology and Chairman of Medicine at two community hospitals in Denver. Outside of his clinical and professional work, Dr. Giullian is active in the Renal Physician’s Association, formerly serving on the Board of Directors, past Chair of the Healthcare Payment Committee and previously as one of RPA’s advisors to the AMA RVU Utilization Committee.  He is actively involved in educating physicians on coding and billing, value-based care and practice transformation. When not involved in clinical care and oversight, Dr. Giullian enjoys traveling, running and spending time in the Colorado Mountains with his wife and daughter.