NexCare Collaborative is a three-year-old, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, organization with more than 150 years of combined managerial experience in serving the healthcare and social-services needs of individuals and organizations. We are based in Sherman Oaks, California.

Our advisory board is composed of numerous collaborators and partners from such acknowledged national and regional organizations as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine, the UCLA School of Public Health, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, and the Los Angeles County Medical Association.

NexCare Collaborative’s most recent success was a three-year project undertaken via a grant from the First 5 LA organization to create an interactive communications program to provide resources for parents with young children in Southern California. The result was a highly-lauded, extremely-successful, professional call center/Web site program entitled First 5 LA Connect. That program linked families to more than 17,000 agencies throughout Los Angeles County, served more than 100,000 Southern California children, interacted with more than 10% of all Latino families with young children in L.A. County and assisted in the enrollment of more than 18,000 children into health insurance programs.

In addition, NexCare Collaborative is involved in a variety of projects with national governmental organizations (including the National Library of Medicine, in the creation of the MedlinePlusR “Go Local” program), and with hospitals, insurers, foundations, health maintenance organizations, physician groups and other providers throughout California.

NexCare Collaborative was co-founded by its president and CEO, Dr. Pejman Salimpour and its Senior Vice President, Dr. Pedram Salimpour. Dr. Pejman Salimpour formerly served as the Clinical Chief of Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Pedram Salimpour is the only person ever to have twice received the American College of Physicians’ Research Award and is an Alpha Omega Alpha national research scholar. He is currently a practicing pediatrician and serves on a number of sub-specialty medical boards.