Vin Gupta, main medical officer of Amazon Pharmacy, speaks during the event “Delivering the future” of Amazon at the company's BFI1 compliance center, Robotics Research and Development Hub in Sumner, Washington, on October 18, 2023.
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Amazon He has lost the medical director of his pharmacy division after five years in the company.
Dr. Vin Gupta, who recently served as a medical chief of Amazon Pharmacy, joined Amazon in 2020, since the company was in the early stages of an effort of several years to build a medical care business.
Gupta has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a professional services firm, as managing director to direct a portfolio dedicated to health innovation, according to a statement. Amazon did not immediately appoint a Gupta successor, whose LinkedIn profile says he left last month.
“We thank Dr. Gupta for all his contributions to Amazon Health Services and we wish him the best in his next effort,” a Amazon spokesman told CNBC in a statement on Wednesday.
Gupta said in a statement sent by email that Manatt, such as Amazon, “is deeply focused on the scaled impact to address the problems that import patients throughout the country,” including access to care and use of artificial intelligence “at the point of necessity.”
For the Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, the Gupta exit marks another high profile output in health businesses. Earlier this month, a medical CEO Trent Green announced that he would resign to lead the primary care chain in April, after less than two years on paper. Amazon acquired One Medical for $ 3.9 billion in 2023, five years after collecting online pharmacy Pillpack for around $ 750 million.
In addition to his role in the pharmacy business, Gupta held several other positions during his five years in the company, including the leader of Covid Response and the medical director of the new products in the Amazon Services and Devices Unit.
Gupta joined Amazon months before he launched his pharmacy offer, a service that was born outside the Pillpack agreement in 2018. In his role as medical director, Gupta helped implement a prescribed benefit for the members of the United States. UU. Called RxPass and extended its program for the delivery of drones.
Gupta also participated with an incubator Monshot in Amazon called Grand Challenge, which was launched under the founder Jeff Bezos as a way of developing experimental businesses, including medical care initiatives.
Disclosure: Dr. Vin Gupta contributes to NBC News as a medical analyst.
