CEO, Axia Women’s Health

Dr. Gaurov Dayal is passionate about value-based care and transforming the U.S. health care system. As Chief Executive Officer of Axia Women’s Health, he is proud to be a part of leading an organization that is improving women’s health and creating a more caring, more connected, and more progressive healthcare experience for more than a half a million patients each year.

Prior to his role with Axia, Gaurov served as the President and COO of Everside/Paladina Health, the nation’s second largest direct primary care provider focusing on improving the health care of employees, retirees and their dependents.  Gaurov also served as President, New Markets and Chief Growth Officer at ChenMed, one of the nation’s leading value-based care primary care groups focusing on underserved seniors.  In this role he led ChenMed’s national expansion and new market operations.

Gaurov has over two decades of experience in population health, physician group, health plan and hospital operations. Other relevant experience includes serving as Senior Vice President at Lumeris, where he created and implemented operational solutions for large health care systems and provider groups transitioning to value-based care delivery.  Earlier, at SSM Health Care, a large multi-state Integrated Delivery system, Gaurov served as Chief Medical Officer, Interim CEO for SSM Wisconsin Hospitals and President of Health Care Delivery, Finance and Integration. Prior to SSM, Gaurov held senior leadership roles at Adventist Health Care and served as a consultant at McKinsey and Company.

Gaurov completed his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University, his medical degree from Northwestern University, and completed residency training at Washington University in St. Louis.