Thomas Lundquist is CEO and leads the team at HealthNEXT in advancing the corporate cultures of health, safety, and employee wellbeing for companies desiring competitive advantage worldwide. As the marketplace awakens to the importance of employee health & wellbeing, Lundquist is setting strategy and furthering operational capability to position HealthNEXT as the preferred partner enterprises engage with nationally and internationally to achieve results and excel in workforce productivity & wellbeing.

Lundquist has served as an innovative, transformative & results-based executive leader within health systems, health plans, and start-up technology companies across his career, always striving to improve the lives of patients, as well as create value for the true payers of healthcare and sick care, those being employers, individuals and state & federal payers. Dr Lundquist is an experienced senior executive with nearly 30 years of progressive, strategic, operational & fiscal leadership across various healthcare sectors, working successfully in venture capital-backed start-ups, growth phase early innovative companies, front line health care systems operations, integrated healthcare delivery systems, pharmacy network and distribution operations, large hospital networks, managed care organizations, large self-insured national and international employers, and state and county governmental agencies. Most recently, he has successfully served as Chief Medical Officer, Highmark Health Plans and as Chief Medical Officer for Sentara Health Plans. Through his company, Vital Insights LLC, Lundquist has also advised various innovative and disruptive point solution companies across the healthcare industry ecosystem, as well as health plan, health systems and provider groups focused on value-based care.

Lundquist received his undergrad degree at Penn State, his MD at Johns Hopkins and his master’s from Carnegie Mellon.  He served on the faculty at the Heinz School of Public Policy & Management at Carnegie Mellon teaching courses in Health Care Quality and Executive Leadership for nearly a decade at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz School. Lundquist has served and continues to serve on numerous Board of Directors. He is an avid road cyclist and swimmer, competes in occasional 70.3 triathlons and is a novice surfer.