Managed Healthcare Executive July 15, 2021
Romilla Batra, M.D., MBA, Vice President and Medical Director of SCAN Health, and a Professor of Medicine at University of California, Irvine, says she was drawn to working for SCAN because “its mission resonated so strongly with me.”
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When Romilla Batra, M.D., MBA, came to the United States from her native India to continue her medical training, she was “beyond amazed,” she recalls.
After working in an emergency room treating pediatric patients in inner-city Delhi, where “simple stuff could make a big difference; dehydration could kill,” Batra came to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), at age 26, to train in internal medicine. There she had access...