SelectQuote, Inc. announced that Dr. Kavita Patel, M.D., will join the company’s Board as an independent director effective immediately. Patel brings deep and varied experience in public health and policy, having worked on healthcare reform under President Barack Obama and serving as a Scholar at the Brookings Institution, one of the nation’s premier research groups. Dr. Patel has also served as deputy director on health to the late Senator Edward Kennedy. In addition to her health policy work, she is also a practicing primary care physician at Mary’s Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Washington D.C. Dr. Patel will succeed Donald “Butch” Britton, who is retiring from the Board after six years of service, five of which were as Chair of the Compensation Committee.