Speaker Bios & Headshots

Dr. Karen DeSalvo

Dr. Karen DeSalvo is Chief Health Officer at Google where she leads the company’s health strategy and the team that provides health expertise to guide Google in creating exceptional health products and services, and discoveries and research to help everyone, everywhere live a healthy life. She and her team also provide medical leadership for employee health.


Her career has focused on improving health and eliminating disparities in leadership roles in medicine, public health, and information technology. Before joining Google, Dr. DeSalvo served as National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Assistant Secretary for Health (Acting) in the Obama Administration where she drove policy aimed at establishing a more consumer-oriented, transparent, and value-based health system. Prior to her federal service, Dr. DeSalvo was the New Orleans Health Commissioner following Hurricane Katrina. She was previously Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at the Tulane School of Medicine where she was a practicing internal medicine physician, educator, researcher, and leader. Dr. DeSalvo is co-founder of the National Alliance to Impact the Social Determinants of Health and serves on the Council of the National Academy of Medicine. She is a member of the Welltower Board of Directors. Dr. DeSalvo previously served on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the Humana Board of Directors. 

Yossi Matias 

Yossi Matias is Vice President of Engineering and Research at Google Research. He is the global lead of AI for Health, Climate and Education, and pioneering efforts in Generative AI. Yossi was previously on Google’s Search leadership for over a decade. With extensive experience in both scientific research and leadership of global product and technology innovation touching billions of people, his focus is impact-driven breakthrough research, innovation and moonshots, advancing society-centered AI to help transform products and address societal challenges with life saving and life changing technologies.

Yossi is also the founding managing director of Google’s center in Israel, supported Google’s growth in India, and oversees Google’s expanding center in Africa. A founding lead of Google’s AI for Social Good, Google for Startups Accelerator, Startups for Sustainable Development, Mind the Gap, and the Cultural Institute. He published extensively and is recipient of the Godel Prize, ACM Fellow, and the Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award.

Greg Corrado

Greg Corrado is a Distinguished Scientist and Senior Director at Google Research. He joined Google to push the frontier of biologically inspired computing, and in 2011 he co-founded the Google Brain Team, which has helped to catalyze the broad adoption of deep neural networks across technology companies worldwide. Within Google, he spearheaded teams which applied deep learning to image recognition, machine translation, search ranking, text synthesis, advertising, and recommendation systems. As an academic, he has published in a wide array of fields ranging across behavioral economics, neuromorphic device physics, systems neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and scalable machine learning. Greg has a deep and abiding passion for applying AI for social good, and presently leads the Health AI division, whose mission is to catalyze the adoption of human-centered AI in healthcare and medicine.

Shravya Shetty

Shravya Shetty is a Director and an Engineering Lead at Google Health. She leads novel and impactful applications of AI to healthcare with the goal of helping improve access, equity and accuracy in health. Her research work cuts across global health priorities like maternal and child health, cancer screening, infectious diseases like Tuberculosis, and climate effects on health. Shravya has spent over a decade working in research and applications of machine learning at scale at Google. 

Previously, she led open domain Question Answering for Google Search (queries like ‘why is the sky blue’ and ‘how did the romans tell time at night’ on Google Search). She also led efforts on evaluation, analysis and various core ranking improvements for Google Search. Prior to Google, Shravya was a researcher at the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) developing machine learning algorithms for handwriting and fingerprint analysis.

Dr. Ivor Horn

Dr. Ivor Horn is Chief Health Equity Officer at Google where she leads a cross-functional team that provides health equity leadership to ensure that health-related products, research and other initiatives are diverse, fair, accessible, and inclusive. Before joining Google, Dr. Horn served as Chief Medical Officer at Accolade. Before Accolade, she served as Medical Director of the Center for Diversity and Health Equity at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Dr. Ivor Horn is an internationally recognized leader in health equity, social determinants of health, and healthcare innovation. A pediatrician and health services researcher, her work focuses on using technology to address health inequities. She has authored several peer-reviewed journal publications on health communication and health equity. She is an active angel investor and currently serves on the Board of Care Academy and as a Trustee of the Board at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Aashima Gupta

Aashima Gupta serves as the Global Leader of Healthcare vertical at Google Cloud. 

She is passionate about collaborating with and empowering companies to elevate the strategic value delivered to their ecosystem - ranging from new models for care, revenue generation, and improved patient experiences. 

Aashima leads the Gen AI strategy for Healthcare industry at Google Cloud, by navigating the dynamic intersection of industry needs and new technologies such as the MedLM family of large language models in healthcare, to make healthcare more accessible. Her approach involves bringing together industry leaders, researchers, product managers, data engineers, and tech experts to drive impactful solutions. Aashima founded and led Healthcare vertical and interoperability efforts at Apigee and is a passionate advocate for Open Data and the use of APIs to overcome Healthcare data Silos.

Previously, Aashima was an executive overseeing Digital Health Incubations at Kaiser Permanente and brought several frame-shifting opportunities to life, including consumer focused applications. She was responsible for driving innovation through the convergence of various digital technologies.

Her key focus area was Digital Health platform and ecosystem development lifestyle integration leveraging wearables, sensors, and smart devices to reinvent care delivery for chronic condition management for the diabetic population. 

Florence Thng

Florence is a Director and Product Lead at Fitbit. She leads cross-functional teams passionate about developing health experiences and research that empower and inspire people to live a healthier, more active life. Florence has over 20 years of experience building technologies and strategies across the healthcare, consumer electronics, and semiconductor industries. Her previous roles include leadership positions at Google Health, Verily, and Google X, encompassing hardware, software, software as a medical device and AI efforts. Prior to Google, she worked at a consumer tech startup, McKinsey, and as a circuit designer at HP. Florence holds degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Wisconsin and in management science and engineering from Stanford University.

Cait O’Riordan

Cait O’Riordan is the Vice President of Product, Search Verticals at Google. She was previously the Financial Times' Chief Product and Information Officer, leading platform and product strategy, development and operations across the FT Group, at the company’s 450-person technology division. She was also on the FT executive board, responsible for the company’s global strategy and performance.

Before the FT, Cait led the BBC’s digital product development for the London 2012 Olympics and played a central role in the user and revenue growth of music app company Shazam. 

Dr. Garth Graham 

Dr. Garth Graham is the global Head of YouTube Health. A cardiologist, researcher and public health expert, Garth Graham joined Google in 2020 as Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health at YouTube. He previously served in two US administrations as US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, and was Assistant Dean for Health Policy and Chief of Health Services Research in the department of medicine at the University of Florida School of Medicine. Most recently, he served as President of the Aetna Foundation as well as Vice President & Chief Community Health Officer at CVS Health. He currently sits on several boards, including the Advisory Council to the Director of the NIH, the Institute of Medicine Board on Population Health, and the board of the National Quality Forum. 

An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Garth obtained his MD at Yale University School of Medicine, MPH at Yale School of Public Health, Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins. He holds three board certifications including internal medicine, cardiology and interventional cardiology. He also holds an honorary doctorate of laws from Regis College. In 2021, the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine inaugurated the Garth N. Graham Distinguished Lectureship Award, which spotlights trail blazers who are leading the creation and advancement of health equity.