Scott R. SchellPhD · MD · MBA
Healthcare & Life Sciences Executive. Physician-Scientist and Surgeon.
Chief Medical Officer, Cognizant · Aurora, Ohio
Scott Schell is the rare healthcare leader who has been accountable at the bench, the bedside, and the boardroom, and who can therefore tell an enterprise whether its most consequential healthcare-technology decision will hold: where it will scale, where it will break, and when to stop.
Enterprise advisor / senior operating partner
Board director
Strategy & transformation leadership
Selected work 01
Now · cross-domain judgment at enterprise scale
Chief Medical Officer, Cognizant
National thought leadership, below · client work under NDA
Operating authority · recovered a failed $120M program
Architected UPMC's trans-enterprise population-health platform
Scale, and when to sell
17M lives under care management; prepared for sale to UnitedHealth
Global science, at scale
Global scientific advisor, tigecycline program, Wyeth
Corroborated by the FDA approval record and peer-reviewed cIAI publications
What was breaking
Turnaround of a molecular-diagnostics company, The KEW Group
Series B: press / Arsenal Capital Partners portfolio
Every room in the industry
Two decades advising across pharma, medtech, diagnostics, payer, and digital health
Innovatim, Inc., Ohio Secretary of State
Challenges convention when the evidence warrants
Ten years of data against a costly surgical standard
Schell, Surgery 2003, PubMedSelected thinking 02
and 25+ additional bylined placements across national healthcare and technology media, 2024 to present.
The record 03
Executive & enterprise leadership
Chief Medical Officer, Cognizant
Founder & CEO, Innovatim, Inc.
Ohio Secretary of State
CMO (enterprise) & portfolio CEO/CMO, Aspire Universal
International advisory
President & CEO, The KEW Group
EVP & Chief Medical Officer, Alere Health
Health-system leadership
Founding Chair, Population Health; Associate Chief of Staff, Cleveland Clinic
Corroborated, Huron Foundation
Consultant Staff, General & Trauma Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
Corporate Director, Integrated Cancer Programs, William Beaumont Hospital
Academic appointments
Associate Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ / Rutgers
Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Instructor & Assistant Chief of Service, Surgery, Johns Hopkins
Training & education
Fellowship, Surgical Oncology (Society of Surgical Oncology), Johns Hopkins
Surgical Residency & Fellowship, Johns Hopkins
Endocrine Surgery Fellowship, University of Oxford / John Radcliffe
Co-authored work (Schell, Toogood, Dudley)
MD; PhD, Molecular Immunology; AB, Biology, University of Chicago
MBA, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Board & governance
Peer-reviewed research
Full record, ORCID
Verification 04
Profiles 05