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Ashish Atreja

M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P., A.G.A.F.

Physician Executive and AI Innovation Leader |Former CIO and CDHO, UC Davis Health |Founder, GVX Venture Accelerator and GenServe.AI Dr. Ashish Atreja, widely known as “The App Doctor,” is a nationally recognized physician executive, intrapreneur, and founder of the GVX Venture Accelerator and GenServe.AI. He coined the term “evidence-based digital medicine (EBDM)” and is considered one of the leading voices in healthcare transformation through AI Centers of Excellence. As a healthcare executive, Dr. Atreja most recently served as Chief Information Officer and the inaugural Chief Digital Health Officer at UC Davis Health, where he unified and transformed enterprise IT as Innovation Technology, established revenue-generating centers of excellence, and led the institution to become the first in California to achieve Level 10 Most Wired status for both inpatient and ambulatory care in 2023. Previously, he served as Chief Innovation Officer for Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System, where he founded one of the first academic innovation hubs, AppLab, and pioneered the creation of an EHR-integrated digital health platform in 2015 that enabled clinicians for the first time to prescribe mobile apps and AI bots very much they would prescribe medications or recommend surgery. This work was featured in NPR and earned him two patents and the nickname “The App Doctor.” Dr. Atreja has been recognized with numerous national honors, including being named one of the Top Digital Health Officers by Becker’s, a Top 40 Healthcare Transformer in 2017, a Top 50 Healthcare Leader by HIMSS in 2021, a Top 30 Health IT Influencer by Health Tech Magazine in 2022, a Top 150 Business Transformer Across global industries by Constellation Research and a top 35 Digital Health officer by Beckers in 2023.