Chief Operating Officer
Cedars Sinai Medical Network
Alen Voskanian is a thought leader, innovator, and transformer in healthcare, committed to three simultaneous outcomes: building a sustainable, financially thriving organization, creating an environment that supports its clinicians and staff, and delivering exceptional patient access and care.
In his current role as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Cedars-Sinai Medical Network, Alen leads operational strategy and execution, financial stewardship, and clinical integration. He has steered the organization’s growth through acquisitions of new specialty groups, achieving a 62% increase in weekly patient volume and expanding revenues to a projected $1B next year. He has also driven greater efficiencies, $10M in annual budget savings, and AI-driven innovations in the face of resource constraints. At the same time, he has implemented a robust dyad leadership structure that has fortified collaborations between clinicians and administrators and helped improve engagement, patient care, and performance across the network. He previously served as Medical Director of the multi-specialty Cedars-Sinai Medical Group, leading innovations and notable improvements in clinical and operational performance.
Prior to Cedars-Sinai, Alen was Regional Medical Director and previously Program Medical Director at VITAS Healthcare. Before that, he was an innovation advisor for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Throughout his career, he has also held faculty positions, including as Assistant Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and as Leadership Faculty for Cedars-Sinai’s Master of Science in Health Systems.
Alen serves on multiple boards of directors, including as President-Elect of the Governing Board of the California Health Care Foundation and as a member of both the Cedars-Sinai Foundation Board and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Group Board. He previously served on the boards of the CA Hospice and Palliative Care Association and the Gay and Lesbian Armenian Society.
Innovation is a core theme of Alen’s work in healthcare. He has been an Aspen Health Innovation Fellow with the Aspen Institute for nearly 8 years and frequently visits other nations to seek innovative ideas that may be applicable in the United States. He is also the author of Reclaiming the Joy of Medicine: Finding Purpose, Fulfillment, and Happiness in Today’s Medical Industry, which addresses burnout in healthcare and offers solutions to advance system reform.
Alen maintains a practice as a palliative care physician and earned the Cunniff-Dixon/Hastings Center’s Physician Award for excellence in end-of-life care. Early in his career, he was an HIV Fellow and served as the Lead Attending Physician with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Underlying much of his work is a commitment to the marginalized and underserved.
Alen earned a BA from the University of California at Berkeley, an MD from UC Irvine, and completed his residency at UCLA. He also completed an MBA in the Business of Medicine from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, where he was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. He is a frequent panelist and speaker, as well as a stand-up comedian, offering audiences moments of joy with jokes about healthcare, family chaos, and the joys of immigrant life.
From Stethoscope to Strategy: How Physician Leaders Are Redefining Healthcare Leadership
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
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