Panelists

Collin M. Stultz, MD, PhD

Dr. Collin M. Stultz is the Nina T. and Robert H. Rubin Professor in Medical Engineering and Science, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Co-Director of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, a member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and an associate member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is also a practicing cardiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Stultz received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Harvard University; a PhD in Biophysics from Harvard University; and a MD from Harvard Medical School. He did his internship, residency, and fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. His scientific contributions have spanned multiple fields including computational chemistry, biophysics, and machine learning for cardiovascular risk stratification. He is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and he is a past recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences. Currently research in his group is focused on the development of machine learning tools that can guide clinical decision making.

Wyatt Decker, MD, MBA

Executive Vice President, UnitedHealth Group

Chief Physician

Value Based Care

Wyatt Decker, M.D., MBA, is UnitedHealth Group’s executive vice president and chief physician value-based care. In this role, Dr. Decker serves as the company’s lead ambassador working across the enterprise and externally with key stakeholders to further enable and advance accountable models of care.

Dr. Decker previously served as chief executive officer of Optum Health, UnitedHealth Group’s national integrated care delivery platform. During his nearly five-year tenure, he played a vital role in building out and accelerating Optum Health’s value-based care delivery capabilities and helping over 100,000 employed and contracted physicians achieve lower costs and deliver better outcomes for more than 100 million people – including the nearly 4 million people Optum now serves in fully accountable, value-based arrangements. Under his leadership, Optum Health established national platforms for care delivery, home and community care, behavioral care, benefits chronic disease management solutions, and the Center for Advanced Clinical Solutions, applying cutting-edge technologies to solve some of health care’s toughest problems.

Prior to joining Optum, Dr. Decker served as CEO of Mayo Clinic in Arizona. In that role he established Mayo Clinic in Arizona as the safest hospital in the United States, launched a state-of-the-art cancer center, the second campus of Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and was acknowledged by U.S. News & World Report among the nation’s top 20 hospitals. At Mayo Clinic, Dr. Decker pioneered the use of digital technologies, including telemedicine and artificial intelligence, to deliver health care expertise to affiliated care providers nationwide, as well as led the digital strategy around engaging and empowering patients. Dr. Decker also served as the founding chair and professor of emergency medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine where he established and directed the emergency medicine residency training program.

Dr. Decker holds an M.D. from Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science from University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published numerous scientific articles and is recognized among the nation's top 100 health care leaders by Modern Healthcare.

Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf, PhD

Head of Amazon Health Science

Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf is the Head of Amazon Health Science. His team collaborates with groups across Amazon Health Services—including Amazon Pharmacy, Amazon Clinic, and One Medical—to deliver advanced machine learning and economics solutions. His team’s portfolio includes: 1) delivery of safe and scalable large language models (LLMs) to support customer, patient, and practitioner applications; and 2) programs and initiatives fueled by insights from behavioral economics and health economics. Wilko recently returned to Amazon from Wayfair, where spearheaded the company’s generative AI strategy and led Wayfair’s pricing and marketing data science organizations. Prior to Wayfair, in his initial tenure at Amazon, Wilko played a key role in launching Amazon’s Economics Practice. He led interdisciplinary data science teams across Amazon’s retail, logistics, and video and music departments to develop production ML systems powered by economic insights. Wilko holds a PhD in Economics from UCLA, as well as graduate and undergraduate degrees in economics and mathematics from Duke University.

Gaye Bok

Partner, AI and Digital Innovation Fund

Mass General Brigham

Gaye leads Mass General Brigham’s $30M AI and Digital Innovation Venture Fund (AIDIF) investing in commercial stage digital health companies working with the Mass General Brigham system. Prior to joining Mass General Brigham, Gaye was a venture partner at an institutional venture fund where she was an integral part of the investment team and served as board director on several portfolio companies. Prior to venture investing, Gaye was an experienced commercial and business development executive, focused mainly on developing products and strategic partnerships across several verticals: chemicals, genomics, biobased energy and biobased products. Gaye received an MBA in Finance and International management from MIT’s Sloan School and an AB from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges.

Moderator

Samy Sidhom, MD, MPH

Associate Chair of Specialties & Chief of Pulmonary Medicine, Atrius Health

Executive MBA class of 2024, MIT Sloan School of Management

Samy Sidhom is a physician leader and innovator, currently serving as the Associate Chair of Specialties and Chief of Pulmonary Medicine at Atrius Health, part of Optum, which is one of the largest primary care and specialty practices in Massachusetts. He is part of the Executive MBA class of 2024 at MIT's Sloan School of Management with a focus on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability. Dr. Sidhom holds a Masters of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences. Dr. Sidhom holds academic appointments as a Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.

With a deep focus on innovative management of chronic conditions, population health, value-based care, telehealth, and healthcare ventures. Dr. Sidhom has been at the forefront of advancing medical practice and healthcare delivery. Dr. Sidhom mentors aspiring entrepreneurs through participation in the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund and has mentored at the MIT Hacking Medicine events.

Prior to his tenure at Atrius, Dr. Sidhom played a pivotal role in developing pulmonary outpatient practices and services, and served as Chief of Pulmonary Medicine at Holy Family Hospitals in Massachusetts where he also cofounded the Center for Advanced Thoracic and Pulmonary Care. Dr. Sidhom has also contributed to public health policy and is a former member of the Board of Respiratory Care for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.