Healthcare: Value-Based Care Systems

Dr. LeChauncy Woodard serves as Clinical Professor and Founding Director of the Humana Integrated Health Systems Sciences Institute at the University of Houston College of Medicine, where she has earned prestigious recognition including Mastership in the American College of Physicians (awarded to only 1-2% of 161,000 members) and the 2020 Laureate Award from the Texas Chapter of ACP. Her extensive career combines clinical expertise as a general internist with groundbreaking research in healthcare quality improvement, particularly focusing on serving ethnically diverse patients and understanding socioeconomic factors affecting health outcomes. After earning her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and completing her internal medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine, she has led numerous initiatives including the Houston VA Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education and served as Associate Director of the VA Quality Scholars Coordinating Center. Her research portfolio includes principal investigator roles on several federally funded grants, with over 40 publications in medical journals, while her educational impact extends through her leadership of interprofessional training programs and the development of contact tracing courses that have reached over 20,000 learners during the COVID-19 pandemic. As director of the Humana Institute, she continues to advance healthcare innovation through research, education, and community engagement, particularly focusing on improving care for chronically ill, multimorbid adults through team-based behavioral health interventions