Sarita Mohanty

President & CEO, The SCAN Foundation

Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH, MBA, serves as the President & CEO of The SCAN Foundation (TSF). TSF is an independent public charity that envisions a society where every older adult has the choices and opportunity to age well. Its mission is to ignite bold and equitable changes in how older adults age in both home and community. Previously, Sarita served as the VP of Care Coordination for Medicaid and Vulnerable Populations at Kaiser Permanente. Sarita was formerly an Assistant Professor of Medicine at USC, CMO of COPE Health Solutions, and Senior Medical Director at L.A. Care.

Sarita completed her Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She earned her MD from Boston University, MPH from Harvard, and MBA from UCLA. She completed undergraduate work at UC Berkeley. She is currently an associate professor at the KP Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine and a practicing internal medicine physician with KP.

In 2021, Sarita was appointed to sit on the Implementing the MPA in California Together (IMPACT) Stakeholder Committee, with membership representing diverse areas of expertise and experience in aging, disability, and racial justice programs, operations, services, and policy.

In 2023, Sarita earned a position on Forbes Women’s third annual 50 Over 50 list of women creating their greatest impact at 50 and beyond. The acknowledgment in the announcement about age being a superpower resonates deeply with the worldview The SCAN Foundation embraces and the positive impact the Foundation strives to make.