Biography

Rajaie Batniji, MD, PhD, is a physician and entrepreneur passionate about improving care delivery. As co-founder and CEO at Waymark, he leads a team that is catalyzing improvement in access and outcomes for people with Medicaid benefits through technology-enabled community care. Waymark partners with leading Medicaid health plans, major health systems, and federally qualified health centers to extend care beyond the clinic with a new local care delivery workforce powered by technology to deliver interventions proven to improve outcomes in a value-enabled care model. Prior to Waymark, Dr. Batniji was co-founder of Collective Health, where he was chief health officer for eight years, growing the company to serve hundreds of thousands of members. Batniji was previously a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University, where he trained in internal medicine. He holds BA and MA degrees from Stanford University, an MD from the University of California, San Francisco, and a doctorate in politics and international relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. Batniji’s research has been published in top international medical journals, including The Lancet, Health Affairs, British Medical Journal, and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. His work has been featured in major media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, STAT, among others. Batniji lives in San Francisco with his wife and young children.