Daphne Bascom, MD, PhD
Vice President, Population Health, Saint Luke's Health System
Bio
Dr. Bascom is the Vice President of Population Health for St. Luke’s Health System in Kansas City. Daphne partners with payors to support managed care contracts with multi-million-dollar performance-based incentive opportunities. Daphne leads a team of 3 Directors, 17 RN Care Coordinators, 3 Social Work Coordinators, 3 Outreach Specialists, 3 Health Enhancement Coordinators and 2 Community Health Workers and provides oversight for 10 health system retail Convenient Care Clinics, two Urgent Care Clinics and two Walk-In Clinics staffed by a team of >50 Advanced Practice Practitioners and Clinic Navigators.
Prior to this role, Daphne was a senior vice president and the medical director at the YMCA of Greater Kansas City. In 2018, Dr. Bascom also served as Y-USA’s Chief Health Officer. In this role, she helped local Ys define and operationalize local clinical integration strategies while leveraging existing evidence-based health programs.
Dr. Bascom was previously a Vice President and Chief Medical Officer with Cerner Corporation. Prior to re-joining Cerner, Dr. Bascom was Chief Clinical Systems Officer for the Cleveland Clinic Health System in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Bascom completed her fellowship in microvascular and reconstructive surgery of the head and neck at Oregon Health Sciences University; and her medical degree, internship and residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She earned her PhD in physiological sciences at the University of Oxford, Laboratory of Physiology, in the United Kingdom.