Shantanu Nundy, MD, MBA

Shantanu Nundy, MD, MBA, is a primary care physician, researcher, and healthcare leader passionate about scaling breakthrough innovations to advance health equity.

Nundy has pioneered a number of new technologies including collective intelligence (a new method for combining human and artificial intelligence that outperformed individual physicians in diagnosis), SMS-DMCare (an automated text messaging software for individuals with diabetes and one of the first mobile health interventions to demonstrate improved health and lower costs and to be adopted by the World Health Organization), and surgical checklists that have reduced post-surgical deaths and complications by over 30 percent and been scaled to over 100 countries. In addition, he has worked on basic science and translational research projects including novel MRI technologies, stem cell therapies, and clinical drug trials.

Nundy has successfully commercialized and scaled new healthcare solutions as a founder or early leader in early stage healthcare companies including mHealth Solutions (a mobile phone-based software for behavior change) Evolent Health (NYSE: EVH; a population health and accountable care platform), Human Diagnosis Project (a healthcare artificial intelligence startup backed by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and Union Square Ventures), and Accolade (NASDAQ: ACCD; a personalized healthcare solution for employers).

Nundy currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for Accolade which helps 10 million people navigate the health system. In addition, he practices primary care in a safety net clinic in the greater Washington, DC, area and serves as a senior advisor to the World Bank and a lecturer in health policy at the George Washington University Milken Institute for Public Health.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Nundy was one of the first people to advocate for at-home testing and to call for the use of hospital-at-home to increase hospital surge capacity. He also co-authored a paper in JAMA calling for a new ‘north star’ for healthcare, the Quintuple Aim, which adds advancing health equity as an explicit goal of healthcare improvement and innovation.

Nundy’s innovations has been recognized by the MacArthur Foundation and been featured in JAMA, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Rolling Stone Magazine, Forbes, The Atlantic, and Wired. He is also author of Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It and numerous research papers and op-eds on healthcare innovation and technology.

Nundy is a graduate of MIT (BS), Johns Hopkins (MD), and the University of Chicago (MBA).