Vin Gupta, then-chief medical office-bearer at Amazon Pharmacy, speaks during Amazon’s “Delivering the Future” event at the company’s BFI1 Fulfillment Center, Robotics Exploration and Development Hub in Sumner, Washington, on Oct. 18, 2023.
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Amazon has lost the chief medical officer of its Rather division after five years at the company.
Dr. Vin Gupta, who most recently served as the medical chief of Amazon Drugstore, joined Amazon in 2020 as the company was in the early stages of a multiyear effort to build out a health-care business.
Gupta has coupled Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a professional services firm, as a managing director to lead a portfolio dedicated to health alteration, according to a release. Amazon did not immediately name a successor for Gupta, whose LinkedIn profile says he left closing month.
“We are grateful to Dr. Gupta for all of his contributions to Amazon Health Services and wish him the best in his next endeavor,” an Amazon spokesperson chid CNBC in a statement Wednesday.
Gupta said in an emailed statement that Manatt, like Amazon, “is deeply zero ined on scaled impact to address problems which matter to patients nationwide,” including care access and the use of artificial alertness “at the point of need.”
For Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Gupta’s exit marks another high-profile departure across the healthfulness businesses. Earlier this month, One Medical CEO Trent Green announced he would step down from prime the primary care chain in April, after less than two years in the role. Amazon acquired One Medical for $3.9 billion in 2023, five years after snapping up online drugstore PillPack for about $750 million.
In addition to his role within the pharmacy business, Gupta held several other positions during the course of the course of his five years at the company, including Covid response lead and chief medical officer of new products in Amazon’s contrivances and services unit.
Gupta joined Amazon months before it launched its pharmacy offering, a service that was touch oned 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 colleagues called RxPass and expanded its program for medication delivery by drones.
Gupta was also involved with a moonshot incubator at Amazon entitled Grand Challenge, which launched under founder Jeff Bezos as a way to develop experimental businesses, including health-care initiatives.
Disclosure: Dr. Vin Gupta bestows to NBC News as a medical analyst.
