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ADVISOR, HEALTHCARE
Dr. Thomas Schenk joined Sandbox in 2021 and is an advisor of Sandbox Clinical Ventures and the Blue Venture Funds. Dr. Schenk is a physician and healthcare executive with significant C-suite strategic leadership and provider practice management experience. Dr. Schenk has worked as an advisor to early and commercial stage companies in sleep medicine, complex and rare diseases, cancer survivorship, and care management and navigation.
He is the former Executive Vice President of Healthcare Services and Provider Network as well as the Chief Medical Officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western New York and Blue Shield of Northeastern New York. In that role Tom led a team of more than 300 employees and oversaw strategy creation and the business operations of Healthcare Services, Pharmacy, Network Contracting, Value Based Contracting, Health Plan Quality, Provider Engagement, and Network Operations.
Dr. Schenk holds an MD from Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo and a BS in Microbiology and Biochemistry from Cornell University.
ADVISOR, HEALTHCARE
Dr. Thomas Schenk joined Sandbox in 2021 and is an advisor of Sandbox Clinical Ventures and the Blue Venture Funds. Dr. Schenk is a physician and healthcare executive with significant C-suite strategic leadership and provider practice management experience. Dr. Schenk has worked as an advisor to early and commercial stage companies in sleep medicine, complex and rare diseases, cancer survivorship, and care management and navigation.
He is the former Executive Vice President of Healthcare Services and Provider Network as well as the Chief Medical Officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western New York and Blue Shield of Northeastern New York. In that role Tom led a team of more than 300 employees and oversaw strategy creation and the business operations of Healthcare Services, Pharmacy, Network Contracting, Value Based Contracting, Health Plan Quality, Provider Engagement, and Network Operations.
Dr. Schenk holds an MD from Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo and a BS in Microbiology and Biochemistry from Cornell University.