Full Name
Rushika Fernandopulle, MD
Job Title
Practicing Physician; Co-Founder and Former CEO, Iora Health; Board Member, The Asian American Foundation
Speaker Bio
Rushika Fernandopulle is a practicing physician who is the co-founder and CEO of Liza Health, an early stage startup building a new platform for advanced primary care delivery. Before thus he was the co-founder and CEO of Iora Health, an early innovator in Primary Care redesign. Iora was acquired by One Medical, and then the combined company was acquired by Amazon. Prior to this, Rushika was the first Executive Director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement and Managing Director of the Clinical Initiatives Center at the Advisory Board Company. He is a member of the Schweitzer, Ashoka, Aspen, and Salzburg Global Fellowships, and is co-author or editor of several publications including Health Care Policy and Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity. He serves on the boards of The Asian American Foundation, Families USA, and Premera Blue Cross. He earned his A.B., M.D., and M.P.P. from Harvard University, and completed his clinical training at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Rushika Fernandopulle, MD