Robert Kocher

Dr. Robert Kocher is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Lyra Health. Dr. Kocher also serves as the Chief Medical Officer and Board Member at Devoted Health. He also serves as a Partner at Venrock. He serves as an Advisor at Grand Rounds. Most recently, he was a Principal at McKinsey and Company, where he led the McKinsey Center for Health Reform, as well as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Engleberg Center for Health Reform. He joined McKinsey and Brookings after serving in the Obama Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic policy at the National Economic Council. He helped shape the legislation that defined healthcare reform, focusing on cost, quality and delivery system reform. He has an experience working with all the constituencies in the healthcare ecosystem (hospitals, health systems, employers, insurers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, policy makers, and governments) to improve operating performance, clinical outcomes, operations, and patient experience. He received his MD with AOA honors from George Washington University and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.