Nirav Desai is Managing Director of Peak Health (a subsidiary of McGriff) and is responsible for its day-to-day operations, growth, and evolution. His experience spans 30 years in healthcare and related technologies in strategic and operational roles as a manager, consultant and executive. He has helped to advance employee/patient/member experiences and outcomes through organizations such as Florida Blue, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Baxter, General Electric, GSK, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and REACH Health (now part of Teladoc).
Nirav joined Peak Health because of his passion for health and wellness. He envisions the program as a vehicle to bring directly to employers the numerous product & service innovations he has been seeing at the forefront of healthcare so that their workforces can achieve their healthiest potential. After all, since employers are largely paying employees’ health care expenses, it would make sense to bring in health improvement strategies that could help them get better control of those costs. Under his leadership, Peak Health is bringing in new clients, leveraging customer- and data-driven insights to refresh its program, accelerating its technology strategy, and cultivating a health & wellness ecosystem that can supplement anything employers already have in place.
Today, Peak Health is a high touch, clinically-driven wellness program whose vision is to create the world’s healthiest workforce. The program began over 3 decades ago and has served nearly 100,000 participants. It deploys registered nurses to provide on-site and remote health assessments, coaching, and health navigation to help people better understand their health risks and take actionable steps to achieve their healthiest potential. Its clients have seen significant improvements in their population’s risk factors including obesity, high blood glucose, high blood pressure, and tobacco use, and inactivity. They have also seen markedly lower ER visits and admissions for issues such as heart disease, COPD, and diabetes than comparable companies in their industry.
Nirav envisions taking these results to an even higher level. Can we empower people who need to make health improvements by giving them access to innovations that could accelerate their progress? Can we help people on the cusp of physical health breakthroughs to overcome the mental and emotional hurdles that hold them back? Can we help the healthiest to achieve even higher goals than they imagined possible? Can we provide more continuous wellness to people so that they can be at their best with their work, colleagues, and families?
Most recently Nirav was Senior Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Pulse Centers where he positioned the company for 2-3x growth. He has written an eBook and over 100 blog articles on telehealth and digital health, spoken at health conferences, and participated on expert panels looking at the future of US healthcare.
Nirav earned a B.S. and M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
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