Description

Check-in & Networking 11:30AM-12:00PM
Program 12:00-1:00PM

In today’s fast-paced environment, executive leadership goes beyond strategy and decision-making—it requires resilience, emotional intelligence, and a deep commitment to personal and team well-being. Join us for an enlightening session that explores how prioritizing mental health and balance can elevate leadership performance and workplace culture.

Speaker

Naakesh A. Dewan, MD, CPE, DLFAPA - Vice President of Behavioral Health
Florida Blue and Guidewell

Naakesh A. Dewan, M.D. serves as Vice President, Behavioral Health. In this role, he is responsible for creating a cross-functional team that designs and implements the enterprise’s behavioral health strategy for all insurance segments. This includes creating new value-based reimbursement models and new roles in the care delivery system, as well as a broad view of health services across demographics and specific points of care.

Dr. Dewan is an accomplished physician and executive with a proven track record in health systems operations. Prior to joining GuideWell and Florida Blue, he was Chief Medical Officer for behavioral health for a multi-hospital regional health system. Previous roles included being a medical director for a substance use and eating disorder treatment facility, a skilled nursing facility, and leading an applied quality improvement services company.

In his more than 30 years of experience, Dr. Dewan has been an innovator in behavioral health and healthcare quality. He has published three books in behavioral health technology and pioneered the use of digital patient support tools in primary care. Dr. Dewan is a leader in the field of outcomes measurement and payment models in behavioral health and served as an advisor to the AMA RBRVS Review Panel.  He was recently chair of the expert panel for CMS developing cost measures for hospital and outpatient behavioral health.  Internationally, he has served as the chair of mental health section of the International Medical Informatics Association in Geneva.

Additionally, Dr. Dewan played and coached tennis at the collegiate level and has worked with amateur and professional athletes around the world in multiple sports including tennis, golf, football, baseball, basketball and soccer.

Dr. Dewan holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Wright State University, and a Doctor of Medicine from Medical College of Ohio at Toledo. He spent three years in psychiatric residency at the University of Southern California and completed his residency and fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at the University of California, San Diego. He is a certified physician executive and is board-certified in psychiatry, sports psychiatry  and addiction medicine.