Katherine Steinberg, is the Founder and Managing Director of Seahorn Advisors LLC. Katherine is a seasoned healthcare innovation specialist and excels at facilitating end-to-end value stream transformations and deploying innovative technological and process solutions to improve complex organizational issues. Through Seahorn Advisors, Katherine supports leading healthcare systems, technology companies and other innovators to identify and deploy differentiated solutions to deliver best practices. She has nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare market evaluation, health system project management, process improvement and strategic planning.

Before founding Seahorn Advisors, Katherine was Vice President in Avalere's Center for Payment and Delivery Innovation where she partnered with a diverse range of clients to help them understand how new policies and initiatives related to payment and delivery reform will impact their business, and supported the development of strategies and operational plans for using digital health to achieve organizational goals. Prior to joining Avalere, Katherine launched and served as the Director of UCLA Health’s Institute for Innovation where she led the Institute in identifying, piloting and deploying new technologies, products and services to support transformation across the health system. Through partnership with health system leadership Katherine identified innovations to accelerate strategic goals in the areas of access and population health and worked closely with operational partners to launch and evaluate these new models. A key component of this work included developing a novel approach to using human-centered design for value-based care clinical pathways. Some of the successful redesigns included surgical home, brain tumor IPU, and benign prostatic hyperplasia. Katherine also managed and advised on a portfolio-critical issues pertaining to a remote patient monitoring strategy, virtual access approach, and the Value-Based Care Summit. 

Prior to establishing and leading The Institute for Innovation in Health at UCLA Health, Katherine deployed Lean principles throughout UCLA’s hospitals and clinics. Katherine’s work included facilitating end-to-end value stream transformations and building Lean capabilities through coaching and training. Before joining UCLA, Katherine was the strategic planner for the Veterans Health Administration Greater Los Angeles System.