Chief Population Health Officer
Inland Empire Foundation for Medical Care

Barry Bittman, MD is a neurologist, author, international 
speaker and researcher. As Senior Vice President, Chief Population Health Officer – Allegheny Health Network and Board Chairman – Chief Executive Officer of Physicians Accountable Care Solutions ACO (one of our nation’s largest Accountable Care Organizations), Dr. Bittman leads teams that have pioneered a new paradigm for comprehensive integrative strategies - engaging patients and communities in the active pursuit of health and well-being. Through numerous innovative risk stratification and disease-based projects/programs, a novel series of comprehensive coordinated continuous care inpatient and outpatient models have been developed and are successful in terms of Triple Aim outcomes.

Based upon his commitment to shaping the future of healthcare, Dr. Bittman serves as a Senior Fellow in the Estes Park Institute where he focuses on Population Health Management, innovation, maximizing care coordination, optimizing the patient experience and enabling physicians to assume executive leadership roles in healthcare.

With the goal of extending outreach to the community, Dr. Bittman has developed the first of its kind interdisciplinary Community Health Coach curriculum. Presented by a faculty that includes key members of the hospital medical staff, counselors, nutritionists, an ethicist and an attorney, this unprecedented credit-based program prepares pre-med students for an internship in which they serve as Health Coaches in the hospital's coordinated Community Care Network. This program has been extended to multiple hospitals and colleges/universities in several states and now includes nursing, pharmacology and medical students in addition to community volunteers.

Dr. Bittman's medical perspectives have been presented in his book, Reprogramming Pain, written to help individuals transform pain and suffering into health and success. His book, Maze of Life is a soul-searching parable about restoring hope, meaning and purpose amidst life’s challenges.

As the former host of the first nationally-syndicated integrative medicine weekly Public Radio program, Mind-Body Matters, Dr. Bittman interviewed 115 of the world's leading visionaries. His program featured cutting-edge in-depth perspectives that scientifically substantiate the utilization of integrative strategies within conventional healthcare. Dr. Bittman's more than 250 articles on a host of integrative medical topics have been published in his newspaper column, Mind Over Matter.

His work has been featured on CNN Headline News and in numerous leading publications throughout the world, including USA Today, Business Week, Time, Prevention, Discover, O (Oprah Magazine), the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Men's Fitness and others.

Dr. Bittman also serves as CEO of the Yamaha Music & Wellness Institute, a non-profit organization that is actively engaged in education and research. His multiple peer-reviewed published scientific research focuses on stress reduction from psychosocial to genomic levels utilizing novel creative music expression strategies.