Olga Rodriguez

Biography

Olga Rodriguez serves as chief of staff and associate vice president of Texas A&M Health. In this role, she provides leadership and strategic counsel regarding innovation, development and oversight of the strategic health care finance and health care delivery system growth across the Texas A&M Health colleges, and oversees academic operations, campus operations and information technology.

Rodriguez has more than 20 years of experience leading change inside federal and state government as well as non-profit organizations. She has served in leadership positions at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and was a key advisor on health care policy, operations and finance. Rodriguez has also held leadership positions at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission Office of the Inspector General, the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Texas Association of Community Health Centers.

Rodriguez has extensive experience working with health care delivery stakeholders in Texas to transform health care policy and finance including managed care organizations, health care provider associations, hospitals, clinics and individual providers. In her role as deputy Medicaid and CHIP director for policy, Rodriguez designed, developed and operationalized new programs and health care delivery models while working with federal partners and state partners to develop the most cost-effective way to fund these new programs.