Seema Verma

Seema Verma is the executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, where she’s responsible for Oracle’s clinical and clinical trials applications portfolio.

Seema has more than 25 years of experience leading transformative initiatives across the healthcare industry. In her current role, she’s spearheading the development of Oracle’s next-generation electronic health record system, transforming it into a clinical asset to help improve care delivery. She’s also focused on closing the gap between clinical research and clinical care to help improve patient outcomes.

Seema was the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2017 to 2021. In this role, she developed and implemented the federal administration’s healthcare plan to advance value-based care, innovation, interoperability, and price transparency while reducing drug prices and regulations through her historic Patients over Paperwork initiative.

Prior to her role at CMS, Seema founded and sold a national health policy consulting company and worked as a vice president for policy and planning for a public hospital, public health department, and health system. These experiences provided her with invaluable insight into the challenges healthcare professionals face on the front lines of the industry.

She is currently a director on the board of LifeStance, a behavioral health company, and serves on the USC Price School Board of Councilors. She holds degrees from the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.