Sarun is a leader in McKinsey’s healthcare analytics and delivery group, focusing on healthcare-value programs that generate high-quality, affordable, and accessible care. He leads the value networks and contracting work and coleads McKinsey’s Opioids Insights.
Sarun solves for the intersection of quality, outcomes, and cost, using clinically driven, big data strategy and analytics. He leads several multidisciplinary teams of generalist consultants and data scientist to address healthcare and public-health challenges.
Through his leadership of our value networks and contracting work, Sarun helps clients improve the efficiency of health systems by directing patients to the highest-value networks and providers, improving payer-provider relationships on a value-driven basis, and building capabilities to enable lasting improvements in network and provider performance.
Through his leadership of McKinsey’s Opioids Insights, he helps clients and society combat the opioid crisis by providing insights, expertise, analytics, and technology. Sarun has counseled clients on broad opioid-response strategies and programs; developed clinically driven, advanced, and predictive big data analytics to enable providers to improve the prevention and treatment of opioid-use disorder; and advised on technology and product innovation in the pain-management space.
Sarun has supported private and public payers, states, providers, and foundations in these efforts.
Published work
“Ten insights on the US opioid crisis from claims data analysis,” McKinsey & Company, June 2018
Past experience
Massachusetts General Hospital, General Medicine Unit & Chelsea Urgent Care
Attending physician
Harvard Global Health Delivery Project
Researcher
Massachusetts General Hospital
Internal medicine residency
Health in Harmony (Indonesia)
Teaching physician
Education
Harvard University
MD
AB, history and science
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
MSc, public health administration