Protected: Sarita Mohanty
Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH, MBA, serves as the president and chief executive officer of the SCAN Foundation. The SCAN Foundation is an independent public charity that envisions a society where every older adult has the choices and opportunity to age well. Its mission is to ignite bold and equitable changes in how older adults age in both home and community. Previously, Sarita served as the vice president of care coordination for Medicaid and Vulnerable Populations at Kaiser Permanente. Sarita was formerly assistant professor of medicine at USC; chief medical officer of COPE Health Solutions, a health care management consulting company; and senior medical director at L.A. Care, the largest U.S. public health plan.
Sarita completed her Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from Boston University, Master of Public Health from Harvard University, and Master of Business Administration from UCLA. She completed undergraduate work at U.C. Berkeley. She currently is an associate professor at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine and is a practicing internal medicine physician with Kaiser Permanente. Sarita enjoys international travel, tennis, and spending time with her husband, three kids, and her dog, Apollo.
In 2021, Sarita was appointed to sit on the Implementing the MPA in California Together (IMPACT) Stakeholder Committee, with membership representing diverse areas of expertise and experience in aging, disability, and racial justice programs, operations, services, and policy.
In 2023, Sarita earned a position on ForbesWomen’s third annual 50 Over 50 list, produced in partnership with Mika Brzezinski and her Know Your Value initiative, of women creating their greatest impact at 50 and beyond. The acknowledgment in the announcement about age being a superpower resonates deeply with the worldview the SCAN Foundation embraces and the positive impact the Foundation strives to make.