Board Member Biography

Jay Krakovitz, MD

President

Jay is presently completing his second year as President of the board of the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative (CCGC). Dr. Krakovitz also serves as Chief Medical Officer for Physician Health Partners, a large primary care IPA in Denver, Colorado. Prior to that, he served as a Medical Director for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue shield for Colorado and Nevada.

Dr. Krakovitz is a board-certified internist who received his undergraduate and medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing an internal medicine residency at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia, he started a private practice in internal medicine. He ultimately developed a three-person practice and concurrently, served as Chairman of Medicine of Jeanes Hospital in Philadelphia.

Jay was one of the first internists to participate in U.S. Healthcare’s network in Philadelphia and was featured in one of the company’s first television commercials. He was recruited as a medical director after 14 years of private practice in internal medicine. After Aetna merged with U.S. Healthcare, Jay was ultimately named its’ interim Chief Medical Officer in 2000. In mid-2001, he left Aetna to pursue his interest in the growing Hospitalist movement and subsequently worked with two emerging companies.

In addition to his business duties, Dr. Krakovitz served as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2002. Six years ago, Jay and his wife Shelley departed Philadelphia and moved to Boulder to take full advantage of the Colorado outdoor lifestyle. They have a daughter, who currently works and resides in New York City.