Meet our familia

Dr. Manisha Sharma is a board certified family medicine physician, who works at the intersection of social justice, patient care, health policy, system design and clinical innovation in healthcare delivery. Dr. Sharma leads and provides strategic advisory support on multiple local, state, and national initiatives geared to dismantle structural racism in medicine and end health inequities. She appears often on several major television networks, including NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, and Fox News addressing topics such as health and racial equity, health in all policy, social justice, wellness, and health. She has organized and led numerous grassroots physician campaigns through the organization Doctors for America where she served as the National Director of Leadership Cultivation. She is a recent graduate of the California Health Care Foundation Leadership and Innovation Fellowship, founding partner of Civic Health Alliance (a non-partisan coalition of health professionals and students, committed to helping peers and patients register to vote and vote safely), and CentiVox Media Group, a social impact PR firm that transforms public health communications by elevating health care providers, scientists, health and racial equity experts as trusted messengers.

Dr. Valdivia works with mission-driven organizations in areas of system innovation, leadership, governance, corporate strategy, operations, and health equity. With three decades of diverse experience founding and building companies in health IT, provider accountability, consumer health and more, his understanding of technology’s role in complex care delivery informs his outlook which centers human health and wellbeing. As a physician at heart, Dr. Valdivia values caregiving, community service, and a deep commitment to health across all his professional endeavors.