Suresh Balu , MS, MBA

As Director of DIHI, Suresh leads a multi-disciplinary team to catalyze innovations across health, healthcare delivery, education, and research. In this role, he leads DIHI’s work in identifying, developing, and implementing novel, high-impact innovations to improve clinical outcomes, health equity and value of care. Suresh leads data science efforts to develop and integrate digital strategies, AI/ML and algorithmic clinical decision support into routine workflows to improve, safety, quality, efficiency and efficacy of care.  In his role as Associate Dean, he is responsible for creating, implementing, and sustaining innovation and strategic partnerships for the School of Medicine, specifically, to support the priorities for clinical and translational research. His expertise includes building programs to support entrepreneurship, translate innovations to real-world benefit and go-to-market strategies for new products, processes, and services. Suresh is a founding member of the Health AI Partnership (HAIP), the first multi-stakeholder collaborative exclusively focused on empowering healthcare delivery systems to adopt AI safely, effectively, and equitably. HAIP was launched in April 2022 with initial funding from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. HAIP envisions to be the trusted source of actionable, contemporary guidance for healthcare professionals seeking to use AI and advanced technologies. Suresh’s experience prior to Duke spans academia, management consulting, venture capital and private equity.