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Dr. KellyAnn Light-McGroary is currently a Senior National Medical Director for the United Healthcare Community and State Line of Business. She joined United Healthcare in 2016 as the Chief Medical Officer for the Community Plan of Iowa serving there until June of 2019. A native New Yorker, she began her career in 1992 as a nurse in New York City working in cardiovascular medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, both clinically and in research. She went on to manage cardiac catheterization/electrophysiology laboratories in Brooklyn Hospital Center before pursuing medical school. Dr. Light-McGroary graduated from Georgetown School of Medicine in 2004, received her Internal Medicine residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and completed her Cardiology Fellowship in 2010 at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC), serving as the Cardiology Chief Fellow while there. She remained in clinical practice at UIHC as an Associate Clinical Professor and is boarded in Cardiolovascular Diseases, Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant/Mechanical Circulatory Support as well as Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Light-McGroary received a Masters’ in Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) from the Dartmouth-Tuck School of Business in 2016 and joined United Healthcare in the summer of 2016. Her focus clinically and academically has been in building collaborations between palliative medicine and cardiology to improve the quality of end of life care in cardiac disease as well as developing shared decision making and preparedness planning in advanced cardiac disease. She has served nationally and locally in the American College of Cardiology, the Heart Failure Society of America, the Iowa Medical Society and the Iowa Board of Medicine. She remained active clinically until late 2018, serving veterans at the Iowa City VA Medical Center. She currently resides in Solon, Iowa with her husband Timothy, a general surgeon in Iowa City, and their two children.