Jeff Gleason, MD, MBA

Jeff Gleason, MD, MBA, is an accomplished physician executive with more than 30 years of experience leading healthcare transformation across physician enterprises, health systems, clinically integrated networks, and advisory organizations. He brings deep expertise in value-based care strategy, physician engagement, quality improvement, and organizational leadership, with a proven ability to translate complex policy and payment models into scalable clinical solutions.

As Chief Medical Officer at Navvis, Dr. Gleason provides enterprise-wide physician leadership, setting standards for quality measurement and performance while driving strategies that empower physicians  and health systems to succeed in value-based care. He partners with market leaders to improve physician enterprise governance, optimize compensation models, and align clinical operations with organizational goals. His role spans advising client executives, supporting market physician executives, and advancing the clinical priorities that help health systems, physician groups, and payers achieve high performance under government and commercial risk-based arrangements.

Before joining Navvis, Dr. Gleason served as National Chief Medical Officer for Population Health Services Operations at Lumeris, where he recruited and led a team of regional medical directors supporting health systems nationwide in advancing their value-based care performance. Earlier, as Chief Medical Officer at Cookeville Regional Medical Center, he directed hospital quality improvement initiatives that reduced readmissions, improved sepsis outcomes, and strengthened clinical governance. He also served as Medical Director of Network and Clinical Operations at Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, where he helped design and optimize clinically integrated networks serving more than 200,000 covered lives.

Dr. Gleason has also advised health systems, payers, and startups as CEO and Managing Partner of H2V Advisors and as a Director at Guidehouse, where he helped organizations develop and implement value-based strategies, ACO/CIN models, and performance improvement programs. Earlier in his career, he practiced obstetrics and gynecology for two decades, earning recognition in Tennessee for his clinical excellence and leadership.

Dr. Gleason earned his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, completed his residency and chief residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and holds an MBA with a concentration in healthcare from Auburn University. He is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and licensed in Tennessee.