Dr. Thomas Tsang currently serves as CEO and co-founder of Valera Health, a newly VC funded digital behavioral healthcare start-up focused on helping payers and providers deliver optimized behavioral healthcare services. The platform leverages mobile digital technology and machine learning to recognize changes in a patient’s conditions and enables support tools and connections to service providers. He was the former Chief Medical Officer at Healthcare Services and Solutions, a Merck wholly-owned subsidiary focused on evidenced based solutions. He worked on the Affordable Care Act as a Congressional staff member for the Committee on Ways and Means. Dr. Tsang also contributed to the development of ACO regulations along with the development of a national framework for the use of health information technology and electronic health records to improve coordination and quality when he joined Health and Hospital Services as a Federal regulator. He continued his civil service working on Medicaid reform for the Governor of Hawaii in 2011. His prior community-based work include running a Federal Qualified Community Health Center and served as co-Principal Investigator on several NIH and CDC grants in the areas of Hepatitis B and Health Disparities Research.