Vin Gupta, then-chief medical officer at Amazon Pharmacy, speaks during Amazon’s “Delivering the Future” event at the corporate’s BFI1 Success Center, Robotics Research and Development Hub in Sumner, Washington, on Oct. 18, 2023.
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Amazon has lost the chief medical officer of its pharmacy division after five years at the corporate.
Dr. Vin Gupta, who most recently served because the medical chief of Amazon Pharmacy, joined Amazon in 2020Â as the corporate was within the early stages of a multiyear effort to construct out a health-care business.
Gupta has joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, knowledgeable services firm, as a managing director to steer a portfolio dedicated to health innovation, based on a release. Amazon didn’t immediately name a successor for Gupta, whose LinkedIn profile says he left last month.
“We’re grateful to Dr. Gupta for all of his contributions to Amazon Health Services and want him the most effective in his next endeavor,” an Amazon spokesperson told CNBC in a press release Wednesday.
Gupta said in an emailed statement that Manatt, like Amazon, “is deeply focused on scaled impact to handle problems which matter to patients nationwide,” including care access and using artificial intelligence “at the purpose of need.”
For Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Gupta’s exit marks one other high-profile departure across the health businesses. Earlier this month, One Medical CEO Trent Green announced he would step down from leading the first care chain in April, after lower than two years within the role. Amazon acquired One Medical for $3.9 billion in 2023, five years after snapping up online pharmacy PillPack for about $750 million.
Along with his role throughout the pharmacy business, Gupta held several other positions over the course of his five years at the corporate, including Covid response lead and chief medical officer of recent products in Amazon’s devices and services unit.
Gupta joined Amazon months before it launched its pharmacy offering, a service that was born out of the PillPack deal in 2018. In his role as chief medical officer, Gupta helped roll out a prescription perk for U.S. Prime members called RxPass and expanded its program for medication delivery by drones.
Gupta was also involved with a moonshot incubator at Amazon called Grand Challenge, which launched under founder Jeff Bezos as a option to develop experimental businesses, including health-care initiatives.
Disclosure: Dr. Vin Gupta contributes to NBC News as a medical analyst.
