Tulane Research, Innovation, and Creativity Summit 2025

Greg Buchert, MD, MPH is the CEO for Makani Science, a company making an innovative wireless wearable continuous respiratory monitor. He has been an innovator and entrepreneur throughout his professional career. Greg supports healthcare innovation as an active investor through several angel investing groups and funds. He has over 25 years of C-Suite experience in health plan leadership roles and leverages that in his roles as a consultant and advisor to other startup companies. He is the former President and CEO of Blue Shield of California’s Promise Health Plan that serves over 500,000 Medicaid, Medicare and Dual Eligible members. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer that launched Centene’s first Medicaid Managed Care Plan in California and later as Chief Medical Officer of HealthNet after its acquisition by Centene. Greg was a founding executive for CalOptima, a public managed care organization where he served as Chief Operating Officer and Medical Director.

His other positions include work as a Principal Consultant with Health Management Associates, a national healthcare consulting firm. Greg began his professional career as a pioneer in Pediatric Emergency Medicine serving in leadership positions at two children’s hospitals and as administrative director of a medical group. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and American Academy of Pediatrics. Greg has a passion for innovation, the expanded use of technology in healthcare, improving quality of care and health equity.

He lives in Southern California with his wife, Dr. Arline Tsuchiya another Tulane MD/MPH graduate, where he enjoys fitness activities and eating with passion.