50 Women to Watch Honoree
Humana
Kirkland, WA
2025 Cohort
An expert in healthcare-related AI usage, Traci currently serves as SVP of Clinical Strategy for Cohere Health, a 1,000-person MedTech company in rapid growth, focused on the use of data science, machine learning, and AI-based automation to improve prior authorization, optimize patient outcomes, and reimagine possibilities for care. In this role, and her earlier tenure as Medical Director with the organization, Traci has helped the company chart their course within this exciting new field and has worked extensively on training the needed AI models for the company's flagship Cohere Unify™ Platform. She has championed adoption of numerous new risk management, governance, and compliance frameworks within the company to minimize potential liability—leading the company to score an average 96% pass rate on all audits. This mindset stems heavily from her own 20 years of direct medical practice, where she has the distinction of never facing a single malpractice suit or inquiry....
An expert in healthcare-related AI usage, Traci currently serves as SVP of Clinical Strategy for Cohere Health, a 1,000-person MedTech company in rapid growth, focused on the use of data science, machine learning, and AI-based automation to improve prior authorization, optimize patient outcomes, and reimagine possibilities for care. In this role, and her earlier tenure as Medical Director with the organization, Traci has helped the company chart their course within this exciting new field and has worked extensively on training the needed AI models for the company's flagship Cohere Unify™ Platform. She has championed adoption of numerous new risk management, governance, and compliance frameworks within the company to minimize potential liability—leading the company to score an average 96% pass rate on all audits. This mindset stems heavily from her own 20 years of direct medical practice, where she has the distinction of never facing a single malpractice suit or inquiry. Prior to her work at Cohere,
Traci served as a Partner, Orthopedic Surgeon, and Board Member/President at Proliance Orthopedic Associates, overseeing $100M in P&L and playing an instrumental role in building/scaling the company into a profitable 175-employee operation performing over 6,300 annual surgeries. In addition to helping the practice navigate a maze of complex, ever-changing regulatory requirements, she was a consistent driver of innovation and revenue improvement. Among her many accomplishments, she was the guiding force behind the company's groundbreaking ocering of Ortho-only urgent care, transforming an abstract new product vision into a highly successful $1.6M line of business with a 32.7% profit margin.
Additionally, she serves on SullivanCotter’s board. She was first recruited for their Tech Advisory Committee and was quickly added as a non shareholder board member. She also serves on the DE&I committee and compensation committee and is now advising for Clinician Nexus (SullivanCotter portfolio company). Prior to her leadership and private practice roles, Traci began her career in pharmaceutical development, at Immunex (Amgen), in addition to working for MetroHealth LifeFlight in Cleveland, where she led trauma response teams, gained skills in cross-disciplinary collaboration, and made swift, life-saving decisions for hundreds of rescue flights.
