EFL

Role: Mentor

Tracks: Digital Health

Keerthi Vishnudas

Director, Partnerships & Innovation, GE Healthcare

Keerthi currently leads Partnerships and Innovation at GE Healthcare focused on digital and AI for the $3 billion ultrasound franchise. Over the last 15 years, she has specialized in medical imaging and image guided cancer therapy in roles ranging from R&D, product management, product marketing and strategic partnership management. Development of KOL-based marketing, clinical evidence and reimbursement strategy to launch disruptive health-tech has been the focus of her time in industry. Throughout her career she has realized the power of strategic industry/academia partnerships to innovate and successfully launch disruptive health-tech. At GE Healthcare, Keerthi is now focused on building a co-innovation and commercialization framework with startups to accelerate digital/AI innovation and support the startup ecosystem by providing access to GEHC’s commercial activation processes. She earned her PhD in biomedical engineering specializing in MRI system design and completed her post doctoral fellowship in radiology at the University of California, San Francisco.