Alicia Bazzano, MD, PhD, MPH, serves as the Chief Health Officer of Special Olympics Inc., providing strategic oversight of health activities around the world to ensure health services, health professional training programs, and health policies are inclusive and centered around people with intellectual disabilities. Dr. Bazzano has overseen the growth of Special Olympics Health through the expansion of Healthy Communities to 75 countries and 45 states, focusing on lifespan health beginning with early intervention, and modernizing the Healthy Athletes Screening Program.

Dr. Bazzano is a pediatrician and public health executive who has dedicated her career to improving the health of people with intellectual disabilities. Prior to joining Special Olympics in 2019, she previously served as Senior Medical Director for Health Policy at Acumen, LLC and as Chief Physician at the Westside Regional Center in Los Angeles, which provides care to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Dr. Bazzano was the founding Co-Chief Medical Officer of the Achievable Health Center, a first-of-its-kind federally qualified health center dedicated to developmental disabilities. Dr. Bazzano was a faculty member of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and she previously served as Clinical Director for Health Promotion at Special Olympics Healthy Athletes in Southern California.

Dr. Bazzano completed her medical education and pediatric residency at UCLA and was a Robert Wood Johnson UCLA Clinical Scholar. She also completed her master's degree in Public Health and her doctorate degree in Health Policy and Management at UCLA.