Alejandra Alvarez, Chief Innovation at Regional One Health, joins the ONE on ONE podcast to talk about how the Center for Innovation is improving the future of health care. Her team helps disruptive thinkers reach their highest potential by giving them an opportunity to validate their health care innovations in a real-world environment.
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Regional One Health Leads The Way In Health Care Innovation

Eunice Yang, PhD | Alejandra Alvarez, PMP, CPXP
Dr. Yang is the founder and CEO of OK2StandUP. She drives the company's vision, strategic planning, and execution. Her diverse background has provided the multidisciplinary bridge between physiological sensor data analysis and AI design for OK2StandUP. Prior to OK2StandUP, she was a turbo machinery engineer at Boeing, co-founder of two prior startups, and a tenured associate professorat the University of Pittsburgh.
Alejandra Alvarez, PMP, CPXP, is the Chief Innovation Officer at Regional One Health, leading the Center for Innovation’s efforts to become the launch pad and testing lab for disruptive health care innovation and guiding internal and external innovators to reach their highest potential.
Alejandra also serves as a board member of Regional One Health Solutions, LLC, a company that provides consulting services to help other organizations implement digital technology projects and build a data-driven culture.
Alejandra has a distinctive and diverse background that spans clinical and non-clinical environments and both start-up and scale-up companies. At the Center for Innovation, she uses this experience along with proven innovation methodologies to find and transform ideas into disruptive solutions, while at the same time assuring a multidisciplinary commitment to quality, people, service, finance and growth.
Mrs. Alvarez’s background includes strategic planning, business development, international marketing, provider network development, care coordination and software development. Before joining Regional One Health, she had key leadership roles in a software development company, an international hospital development organization, an international footwear retail corporation and an international material handling and spare parts company.
She is a certified Project Manager. She is fluent in English and Spanish, her native language.