Meet Our Advisory Board

We have aligned ourselves with a distinguished group of physician leaders from across the country to gain invaluable insight into the impact of physician scheduling on medicine now and in the future. Our advisory board members are experts in their fields, authors and New York Times contributors – all with unique perspectives on improving work-life balance and advancing care coordination.

Interested in joining this dynamic group of physician leaders focused on impacting the future of medicine? Let us know by emailing:
media@lightning-bolt.com.

Amy Andersen

Amy Andersen is vice president of North Highland with over 20 years of experience in strategic consulting, healthcare provider systems, population health and prevention, health policy, and consumer and provider engagement. She has worked with both commercial and government clients in the provider and payer sectors as a consultant at (…)

Dianne Ansari-Winn, MD, MPH

Dianne Ansari-Winn, MD, MPH is an Anesthesiologist and certified Physician Development Coach who received her Bachelor of Science, Medical Doctor, and Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Ansari-Winn’s mission is to change the healthcare system so that all physicians live with health (…)

Jennifer Dyer, MD, MPH

Jennifer Dyer, MD, MPH, is a pediatric endocrinologist in private practice in Columbus, Ohio; an accomplished behavioral researcher currently with Stanford University as a guest researcher; a mobile health entrepreneur as the creator of the award-winning EndoGoal Diabetes Rewards App; and a social media enthusiast (…)

Scott Fruhan, MD, MBA

Scott Fruhan, MD, MBA, is a clinical fellow in global health at the University of California, San Francisco and a clinical instructor in emergency medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Fruhan received his MBA from Harvard Business School, his medical degree from Columbia University, and completed his emergency medical training at the University of Wisconsin (…)

Richard Fury, MD

Dr. Fury is a Board Certified Family physician with interests in technologies which enhance access, patient engagement and affordability of healthcare. He is the former director of Kaiser Permanente’s Technology Group where he led teams developing applications to enhance physician practices as well as websites for patient access and service.(…)

Nirmal Govind

Nirmal Govind is the Director of Studio Production and Streaming Data Science at Netflix, where his team works on improving Netflix streaming quality around the world as well as scaling original content production by using advanced analytics, machine learning, and experimentation. Previously, Nirmal was the CTO at Lightning Bolt and led the (…)

Mike Hoaglin, MD

Mike Hoaglin, MD, is a practicing physician and digital health expert who is currently a medical virtualist for Oscar Health, a technology-focused insurance company. He received his medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. (…)

Sandeep Jauhar, MD

Sandeep Jauhar, MD, has written two best-selling medical memoirs – Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician – both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A practicing cardiologist, Dr. Jauhar earned a PhD in experimental physics at the University of California, Berkeley before going on to study medicine (…)

Siddhartha Nambiar

Siddhartha (Sidd) Nambiar lives in Raleigh, NC and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the field of Industrial Engineering. Sidd’s primary research interests are in the fields of Healthcare Operations Research, Social Network Analysis, and Mathematical programming.The current focus of his research is aimed at using mathematical modeling (…)

Erin Parrish Reade, MD, MPH, FAAP

Erin Parrish Reade grew up in rural eastern North Carolina. She graduated with honors in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before completing her medical education at East Carolina University. During her pediatrics residency at East Carolina University, she also graduated with a master’s degree in Public Health (…)

Hemalee Patel, MD

Dr. Hemalee Patel is board-certified in Internal Medicine and currently practices in San Francisco, CA. She speaks frequently on lifestyle medicine and population health topics that empower and educate individuals and healthcare organizations using the latest technology and scientific advances in health and wellness to prevent (…)

Robert Rowley, MD

Robert Rowley, MD, is a practicing family physician and healthcare information technology consultant. Dr. Rowley served as Chief Medical Officer for Practice Fusion from the company’s inception through 2012, having created the underlying technology in his own practice that was used as the original foundation for the web-based EHR. (…)

Maryam Shapland, MD

Maryam Beltran Shapland, MD is a board-certified Emergency Physician who is currently employed as a medical director in life insurance.  She practiced Emergency Medicine for 8 years, and during this time she was a strong advocate for physician well-being, serving on the Emergency Department Council, Peer Review Committee, and Acute Staffing Committee.  (…)

Janae Sharp

Janae Sharp is an experienced health IT executive and an expert in physician burnout and patient engagement. She is a physician suicide loss survivor and works with healthcare systems to improve physician workflow and support. Her work uses teaching principles to build strategies for healthcare IT marketing, communications, and interoperability. (…)

Dr. Kristy Taylor, DHSc, MHS

Dr. Kristy Taylor, DHSc, MHS, is an award-winning professor, veteran, speaker, and author with over 15 years of experience working in healthcare and education.  She is a former Healthcare Administrator in the United States Air Force and received her bachelor’s degree in Management and Human Resources from Park University. She holds a doctorate degree in Health Science and(…)

Jeremy Topin, MD

Jeremy Topin, MD, is a board-certified critical care specialist in the Chicagoland area. Originally trained in both internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Chicago, he went on to specialize in adult pulmonary and critical care at Northwestern Hospitals. His areas of interest include complex medical decision at the intersection of critical illness and (…)

Matthew Wetschler, MD, MPH

Dr. Matthew Wetschler lives and works in San Francisco. He is a practicing emergency physician and has a deep interest in the phenomenon of physician burnout. During residency, he helped shape a comprehensive wellness program, and he lectures on the topic of burnout and resilience nationally. Dr. Wetschler has a touring collaborative art project, At The Still Point, that encourages (…)

Sarah Zweifach

Sarah Zweifach is currently an MD candidate at New York University and has dedicated her professional life to driving better health outcomes by bridging the gap between medicine and technology. Prior to medical school, Sarah worked in a variety of digital health settings, from a life sciences-focused data analytics startup, Zephyr Health, to a seed fund for digital health, (…)