SMITHA RAVIPUDI
Chief Executive Officer, USC Care
Keck Medicine of USC
Smitha Ravipudi, MPH, is chief executive officer of USC Care, Keck Medicine of USC’s network of physicians who provide outpatient services and procedures. She is also CEO of Keck Medicine’s ambulatory care services. In these roles, she is responsible for health system operations in regional outpatient locations, (which span across Kern, Los Angeles and Orange Counties and Las Vegas), hospital-based clinics, Keck School of Medicine of USC department clinics and outpatient joint-venture partnerships and community practices. Ambulatory care includes approximately 720,000 annual outpatient encounters.
Ravipudi has overseen a number of recent achievements in ambulatory care, including achieving record performance in patient experience, hitting the top decile as measured by the CG-CAHPS survey. She also expanded Keck’s regional oncology footprint by opening and successfully licensing the new medical-oncology and treatment center at Henry Mayo; and successfully trained caregivers on the sensitive health exam policy, procedures and expectations.
