Medical Director - Hybrid, Plymouth Meeting or Houston, TX

About Accolade
Accolade (Nasdaq: ACCD) provides millions of people and their families with an exceptional healthcare experience that is personal, data driven and value based to help every person live their healthiest life. Accolade solutions combine virtual primary care, mental health support and expert medical opinion services with intelligent technology and best-in-class care navigation. Accolade’s Personalized Healthcare approach puts humanity back in healthcare by building relationships that connect people and their families to the right care at the right time to improve outcomes, lower costs and deliver consumer satisfaction. Accolade consistently receives consumer satisfaction ratings over 90%. For more information, visit accolade.com.

Accolade is currently recruiting for a Full Time Medical Director.

Applicants will be required to work a hybrid schedule with a mix of working from home and working in either our Plymouth Meeting office or Houston, TX office based upon the applicants location .

Role overview  

The Medical Director, Population Health reporting to our SVP, Chief Medical Officer is responsible for ensuring our 2 million+ advocacy members are receiving high quality, evidence-based care in alignment with the Quintuple Aim. The Medical Director works with a multidisciplinary care team, providing care plan oversight and guidance for medically complex, high-need members in our care management and population health management programs. As a member of the Advocacy team, the Medical Director works closely with clinical operations, clinical strategy and product and customer success to support care management teams, interface with customers and support innovations to help the company improve its advocacy, second opinion service and virtual primary care. 

A day in the life… 

• Provide physician direction for meeting care management goals to improve member health outcomes. 

• Participate in multi-disciplinary case rounds, providing guidance to the team on cases that require physician expertise.  

• Collaborate cross-functionally to manage the coordination and delivery of quality care and outcomes, member and provider outreach, and care management strategies across the member populations. 

• Keep current with accepted standards and professional developments in the areas of quality improvement, population health and care management. 

• Serve as a physician subject matter expert on priority product and clinical strategy and product initiatives (such as new offerings, capabilities, performance guarantees, and analytics/reporting tools). 

• Develop and maintain a good understanding of how to utilize available data and analytic resources to support population health management programs. 

• Participate in oversight and leadership to ensure outcomes, quality standards, and accreditation standards are met. 

• Represent Accolade in external accreditation and audit activities, customer relations and sales activities. 

What we are looking for…  

• Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), with an active,