Chad Mather MD MBA

Dr. Richard C. "Chad" Mather III, MD, MBA, is a physician executive working at the intersection of value-based care, specialist engagement, and clinical innovation. As Chief Medical Officer of Optum Specialty Care, he works to advance specialty value based care across Optum Health and SCA Health through meaningful specialist engagement, sustainable clinical transformation, and innovative partnerships. He built his foundation on the faculty of Duke University, where he served as Vice Chairman of Practice Transformation in Orthopaedic Surgery and held appointments at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy. There he co-founded an award-winning whole person care model for osteoarthritis, led patient-preference and outcomes research, and published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles. He maintains his clinical practice in hip arthroscopy as a Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke.