Roberta Herman

CEO, Joslin Diabetes Center

Dr. Herman is the CEO and President of the Joslin Diabetes Center; previously she also served on their Board of Trustees. Dr. Herman has significant experience in health policy and payer sectors as well. For four years, she was the Executive Director of the Group Insurance Commission (GIC) under the Baker Administration; a quasi-independent $2B+ agency that procures and administers health insurance and other benefits for more than 450,000 employees and retirees for Commonwealth of Massachusetts and their dependents. Dr. Herman also co-led the Healthcare Value Transformation Practice at Navigant (now Guidewell). Finally, she was the Chief Medical Officer and subsequently Chief Operating Officer for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (now Point32Health), one of New England’s largest non-profit managed health care organizations, providing care and coverage to more than one million members throughout Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. During her tenure, HPHC became the #1 Health Plan in the US according to NCQA, a position it maintained for more than a decade.