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Tara Bishop
Founder of Black Opal Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Tara Bishop is the Founder of Black Opal Ventures and a former Chief Clinical Officer at Bind Benefits and Medical Director at McKinsey & Company. She is also a Clinical Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, specializing in healthcare policy, research, and quality improvement.
Highlights of Tara Bishop's career include founding Black Opal Ventures, a successful venture capital firm, and holding leadership positions at prestigious organizations such as Bind Benefits and McKinsey & Company. She is currently a respected Clinical Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, focusing on healthcare policy and research.
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Director
2021 - Current
At Black Opal Ventures, we’re bringing rare, everlasting value to future technologies. Our deep background of expertise, unique perspectives, and radiant positivity will enable a diverse spectrum of tomorrow’s doers, thinkers, and changers.
Black Opal is a venture capital investment firm.
Board Observer
2022
Clinical Associate Professor Of Population Health (Courtesy)
2016
Associate Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research
2010 - 2016
Nationally recognized academic general internist and expert on cost and quality of healthcare in the U.S. Accomplishments: •Published almost 50 peer-reviewed research articles on health services and systems including articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Health Affairs •Work been cited by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Associated Press, Reuters, and others •Presented at numerous conferences and medical schools including Stanford, Yale, and the University of Michigan •Developed and led medical school curriculum on Evidence-based Medicine and Health Policy •Recipient of numerous grants from the NIH, Commonwealth Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Fund, and others •Busy primary care physicians with top-rated Press-Ganey scores •Teaching attending in the inpatient and outpatient settings •Recipient of the New Investigator Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine •Finalist for RWJs Pioneer Pitch Day
Director of Quality Improvement Operations
2012 - 2015
Responsible for portfolio of quality improvement project •Oversaw over 15 quality improvement projects including projects to improve transitions in care, patient safety, and reduction in readmissions •Led and advised multidisciplinary teams of physicians, nurses, QI specialists, research specialists, and data scientists
Weill Cornell Medicine is an academic medical institution that offers health care services.
Raised $53,500,000.00 from National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, UnitedHealthcare and National Institutes of Health.
Member, Senior Advisory Board
2021
Through 25m Health, entrepreneurs partner with experienced business builders who know what it takes to create thriving companies, and with healthcare leaders who deeply understand the challenges of the healthcare industry and the evolving needs of patients.
Strategic Advisor
2021
Marani is dedicated to improving the experience & outcomes of mothers & their babies by improving access to care and empower expectant mothers & providers with insights into each individual pregnancy.
Marani develops a prenatal care platform which includes a wearable, textile-based product to measure key vital statistics of women.
Raised $16,404,148.00 from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Science Foundation.
Chief Clinical Officer
2018 - 2021
Bind was founded by veteran insurance innovators passionate about making health insurance personal. They envisioned health insurance that works like the other helpful, clear and useful services of our modern daily lives. Health insurance that gives us immediate answers and clear costs before the point of care. Benefits that allow us to shape our health plan to our changing health needs—our own daily conditions and preferences. As Chief Medical Officer, I had the opportunity to lead all clinical operations, be accountable for the cost and quality of our Bind member population, and roll up my sleeves to build the one of the fastest growing health insurance company from the ground up.
Surest is a healthcare insurance company that provides healthcare insurance plans, benefits, and solutions, as well as consulting services.
Medical Director and Senior Expert
2016 - 2018
Responsible for providing clinical oversight to all of McKinsey's healthcare analytics consulting projects and leader of client engagements staffed by multidisciplinary teams of consultants, data scientists, data engineers, and clinicians Accomplishments: •Built and lead the Clinical Center of Excellence to oversee all clinical aspects of McKinsey's analytic deliverables and products •Built a network of 30+ external clinicians to provide clinical expertise and •Led the design of 20+ episodes of care •Designed a medical cost benchmarking diagnostic used by multiple national and large regional payors •Developed numerous relationships as a trusted advisor to CMOs and senior clinical leaders •Created a taxonomy asset to be the backbone of numerous McKinsey analytic engines •Served as a panelist and speaker on value-based insurance design
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Editorial Board Member - Journal of General Internal Medicine
2014 - 2017
Member of the Editorial Board responsible for providing oversight of the content and strategy of the Journal.
Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), an American medical society of physicians.
Fellow in General Internal Medicine
2008 - 2010
Fellow in General Internal Medicine responsible for health services research development, resident education, and clinical care in the outpatient and inpatient settings Accomplishments: •Published several research articles on malpractice and overuse in healthcare •Created EBM module on the critical appraisal of guidelines
Fellow in Palliative Care
2005 - 2006
Fellow in Palliative Care •Trained in palliative care in the inpatient and outpatient settings •Trained in geriatrics in the inpatient and outpatient settings •Published several articles on pain management and end of life care
Resident
2002 - 2005
Resident physician in Internal Medicine •Led teams of interns and medical students •Recipient of the Richard A. Gorlin award for humanity in medicine