Shantanu Nundy

Shantanu Nundy, MD, is a primary care physician, technologist, and business leader who serves as Chief Medical Officer for Accolade, which helps over 2 million people navigate the health system. In addition, he practices primary care 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.

Dr. Nundy was a senior health specialist at the World Bank Group in its Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice, where he advised developing countries across Africa, Asia, and South America on health system innovation and technology. Previously, he was Director of the Human Diagnosis Project, a healthcare AI startup backed by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and Union Square Ventures, which he successfully built into the world’s largest open medical project spanning 80 countries. Prior to that, he was Managing Director for Clinical Innovation at Evolent Health where he helped launch value-based care models and accountable care organizations around the country. He is also co-inventor of SMS-DMCare, an automated text messaging software for individuals with diabetes, one of the first mobile health interventions to demonstrate improved health and lower costs and to be adopted by the World Health Organization’s eHealth Compendium.

Dr. Nundy’s work has been recognized by the MacArthur Foundation and been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Forbes, The Atlantic, and Wired. He has been an advisor and speaks on digital health and artificial intelligence to the federal and state medical boards, the FDA, and numerous healthcare startups and investors.

Dr. Nundy received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.