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Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH, MBA, serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The SCAN Foundation. The SCAN Foundation is one of the largest foundations in the United States focused on improving the quality of health and life for older adults. Its mission is to advance a coordinated and easily navigated system of high-quality services for older adults that preserve dignity and independence. 

The SCAN Foundation has been a national leader in the development and scaling of person-centered care models for vulnerable adults with complex needs, including those served by Medicare and Medicaid. The foundation has been at the forefront of policy discussions regarding health care for older adults and coordinating services both for older adults and their caregivers.

Previously, Sarita served as the Vice President of Care Coordination for Medicaid and Vulnerable Populations at Kaiser Permanente. Sarita was previously Assistant Professor of Medicine at USC; Chief Medical Officer of COPE Health Solutions, a health care management consulting company; and Senior Medical Director at L.A. Care, the largest U.S. public health plan. Sarita was recently named a National Quality Forum (NQF) Quality Policy Fellow and has served on several NQF committees related to quality measurement. 

Sarita completed her Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She earned her MD from Boston University, MPH from Harvard University, and MBA from UCLA. She completed undergraduate work at UC Berkeley. She currently is an Associate Professor at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine and is a practicing internal medicine physician with Kaiser Permanente. Sarita enjoys international travel, tennis, and spending time with her husband and three children.

 



Dr. Ridberg’s research sits at the intersection of community nutrition and health care delivery with a focus on “food is medicine” programs and policies aimed to improve food security, nutrition security and health equity. Highly collaborative, her publications dedicated to produce prescription programs include outcomes for pregnant women, children and households; within rural Tribal communities; as part of a health system’s electronic medical record keeping; and on health care providers’ clinical workflow. She will bring this expertise to the Friedman School while pursuing additional interdisciplinary collaborations across Tufts and with external institutions and organizations. Her prior research and policy advocacy focused on the scaling of regional food systems’ distribution infrastructure through institutional purchasing policies (e.g. in schools, hospitals, state agencies and prisons) as well as business development for regional food hubs.
Dr. Ridberg will aim to create new interlinkages and synergies with the Tufts School of Medicine around research and translation on Food is Medicine and nutrition security.
Dr. Ridberg serves as a member of the California Food is Medicine Coalition’s Medical Advisory Council and is an external consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Food Initiative.






Dr. Ridberg returns to the Friedman School more than a decade after receiving her Master’s degree in its Agriculture, Food and Environment program, and comes most recently from the University of California, Davis, where she earned her PhD in Nursing Science and Health Care Leadership at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. She completed postdoctoral training within the UC Davis School of Medicine as well as its Center for Healthcare Policy and Research.