Covered California Leadership

Dr. Alice Hm Chen is chief medical officer at Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, which actively works to ensure that Californians can find affordable, high quality coverage. In this role she is responsible for health care strategy, medical policy, medical management and clinical operations to improve not only health services provided through contracted health plans, but also California’s delivery system.

Prior to joining Covered California, Dr. Chen served as deputy secretary for policy and planning and chief of clinical affairs for the California Health and Human Services Agency. She led many of the Agency’s signature health policy initiatives on affordability and access, and played a leadership role in the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the areas of strategic reopening, hospital surge planning, data analytics and therapeutics.

Previously Dr. Chen spent 15 years on the faculty of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where she served as its chief integration officer and founding director of the eConsult program. She subsequently served as inaugural chief medical officer and deputy director for the San Francisco Health Network, where she was responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership, vision, and direction for the City’s $2 billion a year publicly funded delivery system encompassing primary, specialty, mental health, substance use, acute care, trauma, long term, jail health, and homeless health care services.

Dr. Chen has published over 50 book chapters, research and peer-reviewed articles, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Health Affairs. She has served on the board of several non-profits and foundations, and currently serves as board president of The Health Initiative. In 2019, she was elected to the Harvard University Board of Overseers.

A graduate of Yale University, Stanford University Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Chen's training includes a primary care internal medicine residency and chief residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She is an alumna of the Commonwealth Fund Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy, the California Health Care Foundation Leadership Program, and the Aspen Institute’s Health Innovators Fellowship.

Proficient in Mandarin and Spanish, she maintains an active primary care practice at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and holds an appointment as clinical professor of medicine at UCSF.

Dora Mejia is a Supervisor at State of California and Chief Financial Officer at Covered California and is based in Sacramento California Area.

Doug McKeever is a Chief Deputy Executive Director at Covered California and is based in Sacramento, California. He has worked as Chief, Health Policy Research Division at Employees Retirement System; Director, Mental Health Program at California Department of Correctons and Rehabilitation; and Director, Juvenile Programs at California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation (CDCR). Doug studied at California State University Sacramento.

Dr. Lance Lang is a Chief Medical Officer at Covered California and is based in Covered, California.

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Kalani Mertyris is a Chief of Data Management and Analytics at Covered California and is based in Sacramento, California. She has worked as Business Analyst/Associate Governmental Program Analyst at Bureau Of Automotive Repair, Implementation Manager at Child Welfare Digital Services, and Data Steward / Data Conversion Business Lead at Department Of Consumer Affairs. Kalani attended Free Code Camp until 2017 and American River College between 2011 and 2014.

Karen Johnson is a Chief Deputy Executive Officer at Covered California and is based in Sacramento, California. She has worked as Chief Deputy Director at California Department of Health Care Services.

Kevin Cornish is a Chief Information Officer at Covered California and is based in San Francisco Bay Area. He has worked as Software Developer at University of California San Diego, Chief Technology Officer at ARAVO SOLUTIONS INC, and Director of Enterprise Systems at Bechtel Corporation. Kevin attended University of California San Diego between 1983 and 1988.

Lisa Lassetter is a Deputy Chief Operations Officer at Covered California and is based in Sacramento, California.