About Us
Our Team
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Lauren Armstrong, MHA, RN, BSN, PHN, CHPN
Clinical Operations Administrator
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Shelly-Anne Baker, RN, BSN
Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist
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Kim Crain, MS, SHRM-CP
Head of People and Culture
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Melinda Gong, RD, CDCES
Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist
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Kat Gonzales
Community Health Analyst
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Sievna Limpangug
Community Health Worker
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Yoseline Lopez-Mejia
Community Health Worker
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Felicity Moreno, LCSW
Behavioral Health Specialist
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Jerrica Penton
Community Health Worker
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Jen Quiring, MBA
Head of Clinical Operations
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Avni Shah, MD
Founder & President
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Virginia Valdez, MA, LMFT
Behavioral Health Specialist
Advisors and Board Members
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Veenu Aulakh, MSPH
Board Member, Secretary & Treasurer
Highly experienced advocate for adoption and advancement of innovative, tech-enabled solutions to promote more equitable and higher quality care for Medicaid enrollees, particularly to address health-related social needs.
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John Bertko, FSA, MAAA
Advisor
Senior actuarial consultant with extensive background in public and private insurance programs including Covered California, CMS, and Humana. Has significant experience in risk adjustment, insurance oversight, and public policy.
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Alan Glaseroff, MD
Advisor
Family practitioner. Designed and led Stanford Coordinated Care and Humboldt Diabetes Project, achieving significant improvement in outcomes, patient experience, patient activation, utilization, and costs. Has lived with T1D since 1983.
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David Kil, MS, MBA
Advisor
Data scientist designing and deploying SaaS analytics applications in healthcare and education with focus on predictive and causal machine learning to create real-world evidence and contribute to improved patient care.
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Rajiv Mahadevan, MBA
Advisor
Healthcare entrepreneur with corporate strategy, finance, business development, operations experience in pharma, life science and medical device industries. Founded Applied Immunology, acquired by Precision Medicine.
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Sheetal Shah, PhD
Advisor
Licensed clinical psychologist with speciality in multicultural psychology and social justice. Provides mental health services, consultation, and team trainings. Aims to be culturally responsive in services where people feel “seen”.
Our Core Values
Acting with passion and creativity.
Leading with integrity, positivity, diversity, courage, and truth.
Committing to be better and celebrate each movement forward.
Building trustworthy and honest relationships that first seek to understand.
Embracing the human struggle and demonstrating respect for differences.
Land Acknowledgment
As a mostly remote team, we live and work throughout California. Vayu Health respectfully and humbly acknowledge that we operate on the unceded land of Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge the painful history and forced removal from territories across the United States and pay our respect to the diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land.
This Native Land Digital Map provides a detailed look at traditional territories and ancestral homelands. We encourage you to explore the history of the land on which you live and work and to learn more about the Indigenous peoples from this land.