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Cue Health: Josh Ghaim, Sachin Jain

Nov 17, 2022

Josh Ghaim and Sachin Jain have joined Cue Health's board of directors, the company said.

Ghaim joined the board in July and is the founder and managing partner of innovation accelerator Ignite Venture Studio. He was previously chief technology officer at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health.

Jain joined the board last month and is president and CEO of Scan Group, as well as a professor of medicine at Stanford University. He previously served as CEO of CareMore and Aspire Health (subsidiaries of health insurance provider Elevance Health) and was chief medical information and innovation officer at pharmaceutical firm Merck. He was also an attending physician at Boston VA Medical Center and a faculty member at both Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. Jain has served in leadership roles at the US Department of Health and Human Services.

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