Atlas Home Health Leadership Team
Aaron Starfire
CEO and Administrator
Aaron Starfire is the CEO and Administrator at Atlas Home Health. With over two decades of leadership in healthcare operations, Aaron launched Atlas with a vision to elevate home-based care for private clients and individuals with long-term disabilities. Drawing on deep expertise in both medical and non-medical care models, he oversees clinical, administrative, and strategic functions to ensure Atlas delivers exceptional, dignified, and personalized support for every client.
Prior to founding Atlas, Aaron served as Lead Director of Government Services for Aetna Better Health of California, where he managed Medi-Cal policy initiatives and client operations, representing the health plan in negotiations with state agencies and legislative stakeholders. He also built a distinguished career at Maxim Healthcare, where he led government business development and managed more than $60 million in federal healthcare contracts across 14 states. His track record includes consistent growth, pioneering new care delivery models, and driving access to care for vulnerable populations.
Aaron holds a Juris Doctor with a concentration in Health Law and Policy from UC Law San Francisco and a Bachelor of Science in Management from the University of San Francisco. He has served as a technical advisor to the California Department of Healthcare Services and was honored with multiple industry awards for leadership and performance. At Atlas Home Health, he blends legal insight, operational excellence, and a deeply personal commitment to care—shaping a new standard for home-based services in Northern California.
Robert Okin, MD
Co-founder
Robert L. Okin, MD, was born in the Bronx, New York. He attended college and medical school at the University of Chicago, and completed psychiatric residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.
Early in his career he worked at the National Institute of Mental Health where he developed his passion for community psychiatry. He was later appointed Commissioner of Mental Health for the state of Vermont and then the state of Massachusetts.
Dr. Okin was Chief of Service of the San Francisco General Hospital Department of Psychiatry; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco; and Vice Chair of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, where he oversaw the development of services for San Francisco’s mentally ill patients, including the SFGH Department of Psychiatry’s Emergency Department Case Management Program (which received the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems’ Safety Net Award in 1999).
A leading psychiatrist and internationally known expert on mental health service reform, Dr. Okin is a founding member of the board of advisors of Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI).
Dr. Okin has been quoted numerous times in the New York Times, featured on ABC’s 20/20, and has published numerous papers. In 2009, he received the American Psychiatric Association’s prestigious Human Rights Award.