Rishi Sikka

Dr. Rishi Sikka serves as chief executive officer (CEO) for Presbyterian Healthcare Services, a private, not-for-profit integrated health care system in New Mexico and the state’s largest provider of health care. Rishi is a compassionate, innovative physician executive with deep knowledge of complex systems and more than 20 years of leadership experience across the healthcare industry—from medical group and delivery systems to health plan operations. In his most recent role as president of Village Medical, a leading provider of coordinated primary care services, he had executive and clinical oversight of more than 100 clinics in six states. Before that, he served as president of system enterprises for Sutter Health, an integrated healthcare system, where he managed ambulatory, population health, non-clinical and health plan business. Rishi earned his medical degree from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and a bachelor’s degree in economics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. After earning his medical degree, Rishi practiced as an emergency medicine physician and held clinical and executive leadership positions at Advocate Health Care in Illinois. He has also held faculty positions at Brown University, the University of Illinois and Boston University.