Primary Job Title Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Primary Organization 
Broadlane
Gender Male
Charles E. Saunders, M.D., currently heads Aetna’s Strategic Diversification efforts and is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Broadlane.
Prior to joining Broadlane, Dr. Saunders served as president of the Healthcare Global Industry Solutions division of EDS, where he was responsible for leadership of EDS’ global healthcare
solutions, including strategy, thought leadership, business development and sales.
Prior to EDS, Dr. Saunders served as chief medical officer for Healtheon/WebMD, where he was a key member of the senior management team responsible for growing the company from a start-up to the largest IPO in healthcare history. Prior to that, Dr. Saunders served as a principal of AT Kearney/EDS, where he headed the healthcare practice for the western United States.
During his career, Dr. Saunders also has served as executive director for San Francisco General Hospital’s managed care programs, as medical director for the emergency medical services of the City and County of San Francisco and as director of the emergency department for the University of Colorado Health Sciences division. He has been and active practitioner and serviced on the faculty in Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Vanderbilt University and the University of Colorado.
Dr. Saunders received his doctorate in medicine from Johns Hopkins University and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California. He is board certified in internal medicine and in emergency medicine and is a fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Emergency Physicians.
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