Dr. J. Mario Molina earned a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Long Beach where he was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his medical degree from the University of Southern California where he was elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha and Sigma Xi. Dr. Molina performed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital then a fellowship in endocrinology at the University of California, San Diego. He received a certificate in management from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA. He was an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine before joining Molina Healthcare.

From 1997 to 2017 he was the CEO of Molina Healthcare, a Fortune 500 company. In 2005, Dr. Molina was featured in Time magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential Hispanics in. He has an honorary doctorate from Claremont Graduate University. Modern Healthcare listed him among the one hundred most influential people in health care. He is a former president of Golden Shore Medical group, former board member for Homeboy Industries, the Aquarium of the Pacific and served on the Visiting Committee for the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Dental School. He is a trustee of the Huntington Library and Curator of the Osler Library at McGill University. He is a trustee of the Johns Hopkins Health System, a member of the board of the Johns Hopkins Health Plan, and the University of Chicago Medical Center. He is a member of the board of the National Museum of the American Latino and was appointed to the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ). He is the chair of the United States of Care, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that all Americans have access to quality and affordable health care.