Jeffrey Rideout, M.D., M.A., F.A.C.P.

Vice President, Internet Business Solutions Group and Corporate Medical Director

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Jeffrey Rideout, M.D., M.A., FACP, is currently Vice President, Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), Healthcare Practice, for Cisco Systems.  In this role Dr. Rideout works with leading health care and public sector organizations to help them use technology to accelerate transformation of the health care industry.  Cisco's IBSG is a group of industry experts that act as a trusted business/technology advisor to business and government leaders around the world.  Working on a non-fee basis, the group helps customers use technology and business process innovation to transform their organizations, create new revenue services and drive industry-leading change.  Dr. Rideout also serves as Cisco’s Corporate Medical Director.   In this role Dr. Rideout provides strategic leadership regarding healthcare information technology policy and leads health benefit value purchasing decisions for Cisco’s 65,000 employees and dependents worldwide.

Previously, Dr. Rideout was President and CEO of Blue Shield of California's independent not for profit charitable foundation dedicated to reducing the uninsured, health care information technology improvement, improving health care access, domestic violence prevention and medical technology assessment.   Dr. Rideout was also Chief Medical Officer and SVP for Blue Shield of California.  In this role, Dr. Rideout was responsible for all clinical policy and services, including care and disease management, quality management, medical management, medical policy and pharmacy services for Blue Shield of California and its 2.2 million members.  Responsibilities also included clinical e-business/e-health programs and strategies, supporting both members and providers.  In 2001 Blue Shield of California was recognized by the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association for two "Best of Blue" innovation awards related to the use of technology for health care quality improvements.

Dr. Rideout is also currently a member of the National Advisory Council for the Robert Wood Johnson/IHI Pursuing Perfection grant program for excellence in health care delivery. Dr. Rideout also served as the Chief Medical Officer for the National Health Care Purchasing Institute, supporting the Institute's $8.8 million Rewarding Results grant program jointly underwritten by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California Health Care Foundation.  Prior to joining Blue Shield of California, Dr. Rideout served as VP, Quality Improvement, and Associate Chief Medical Officer, for UCSF Stanford Health Care and VP, Quality Management, for Blue Cross of California (now WellPoint). 

Dr. Rideout has also worked as a management consultant to several health care focused venture capital and strategic consulting firms, including BDC Advisors, APM, Booz Allen and Hamilton, and Prospect Venture Partners.  As a consultant Dr. Rideout has focused on pharmaceutical and medical device marketing, integrated delivery system development, new technology assessment, data systems development and provider system mergers.  Dr. Rideout has clinical and administrative experience within the British National Health Service, has provided advice to the SingHealth care delivery "cluster” in Singapore, and is also a volunteer physician and Board of Directors member for Northwest Medical Teams International, an international medical relief organization.

Dr. Rideout is a board certified internist, completing his residency training at University of California, San Francisco. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, is an assistant clinical professor at UCSF and a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.  He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his undergraduate degree from Stanford University. He also holds a master’s degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.