Lauren Byrd

About

Lauren Byrd is a healthcare executive with over two decades of diverse federal health experience leading large-scale finance, human resource, managed care, operations, and care delivery teams to deliver health value to large populations. She has successfully led transformational, complex, multi-million-dollar projects with adept management of resources to yield high return on investment.  Most recently, she served as the Chief Operating Officer at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, with responsibility for outlying primary care and occupational health clinics across San Antonio, Texas serving 68,000 beneficiaries. Her experience has ranged from overseeing healthcare services for humanitarian civilian assistance in Africa and South America to combat tours in southwest Asia to her current role as a senior executive.

She is currently a business owner and consultant designing value-based care solutions to promote health equity in underserved areas, principally in federally qualified healthcare centers and minority populations, to improve health outcomes in her community.