Joyce Nuesca MD, MBA, MASc, CPE

Dr. Joyce Nuesca is a board certified and licensed physician executive for 15 years who is passionate about value based health care delivery and payer-provider partnerships. She is currently a Regional Medical Director at BlueShield of California where she is accountable for the regional provider network population health strategy and performance. She leads teams in engaging providers ensuring collaborative partnerships and alignment on clinical and quality programs to support transformation and innovation and improve total cost of care. Part of her role is to ensure access of care and improve patient satisfaction. She is also involved in the development and implementation of new care models and new payments models. Dr. Nuesca is a Primary Care Physician who subspecialized in Obstetrics and Women’s Health. She worked closely with providers in the clinics and hospitals as a Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer. As a physician leader in the clinics, she executed clinical and operational improvement and transformation like behavioral health -primary care integration, expansion of clinical services, redesigned care management and quality programs and implementation of electronic healthcare record and quality management data platform. She was also the Chief Medical Officer of Oregon Health COOP and oversaw the functions of medical management, was involved in network management and provider relations and development of quality management strategy.Dr. Nuesca finished her residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City and fellowship in Obstetrics and Women’s’ Health at USC Keck School of Medicine. She also completed a Masters in Business Administration in Healthcare at UCI Paul Mirage Business School and currently completing her Masters in Applied Science in Population Health Management at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.