Dr. Cathy Lipton is regional medical director for Complex Care Management at Optum for the northeast and east regions of the U.S., including 10 markets across 12 states and the District of Columbia. She has been affiliated with UnitedHealth Group since the original Evercare demonstration program expanded to Atlanta in the mid-1990s.
Prior to this role Lipton, a certified medical director since 1997, served as the Optum market medical director for Georgia, where she provided clinical expertise in a variety of programs including ISNPs, end-stage renal disease, and dual (community) SNPs. She earned an innovation award for a telepsychiatry pilot program in 2013.
Lipton received her medical degree from and completed her internal medicine residency and geriatric fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta. She worked at Emory’s geriatric campus in the clinical and academic arenas, including providing medical direction for the university’s skilled and intermediate care nursing facilities. She now serves in an adjunct clinical capacity.
Lipton has twice been president and is presently a long-standing board member of the Georgia Medical Directors Association. She sits on the Georgia Medical Care Foundation Nursing Home Quality Initiative Advisory Board and has served on the American Health Care Association’s Clinical Practice Committee and Professional Development Workgroup.