Shadaab Kanwal

Biography

I serve as the Executive Director of the Research Informatics, focusing on AI, Innovation, and strategic development, within the Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Health, and Yale University. Highlights of my Learning Journey: As a transformative impact leader, adept at agile change management, I have,★ Executed $500M+ mega-programs on business agility, performance excellence, and risk management for esteemed firms such as Charles Schwab, Kaiser Permanente, UCLA Health, OhioHealth, Mayo Clinic, UnitedHealth Group, and Common Spirit Health. As a digital value realization executive, I:➤ Serve as the primary driver for a business-led and AI technology-enabled capabilities portfolio that transforms clinical and biomedical research, and translational informatics, steering to better health outcomes, faster drug development, and efficient healthcare systems.➤ Lead an MD/Ph.D. level team of customer-centric AI strategists, product directors, design thinkers, and AI analytics engineers who optimize the Corporate Tech AI product life cycle and manage XAI-GenAI-driven engagements and economic value.➤ Align agile product management, digital, and analytics strategies with business objectives and integrate AI technologies that delivered fluid digital experiences and substantial expense synergies.⋈ Prior to my role at YALE, As a Business Value Accelerator, I: ➤ Digitalized and unified intelligence across the HealthTech, RegTech, and RiskTech ecosystems, which accelerated R&D and improved risk efficiency and effectiveness.▲ Strategic Alignment- Led IT governance and intelligent automation initiatives in Digital Health, and Biotech, unifying value among patients, payors, providers, and manufacturers.▲ Architect- Deployed business informatics, AI agents, and robotic process automation with product excellence, reducing complexity, simplifying workflows, and building NLP capabilities for care innovation, population health, and value-based care.▲ Intrapreneur - Shaped cross-domain digital agility in imaging, diagnostics, and genomics with hyper-intelligent systems and enterprise analytics, enhancing clinical care, medical research, and precision medicine. ➤ Converged digital infrastructure and the data ecosystem, realizing faster time to value from platforms such as MS Azure, GCP, AWS, IBM, OpenAI, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, SAP, EPIC EMR & Oracle-Cerner.★ I am an X-shaped learner, growth advisor to private equity and venture capital firms, and a noted speaker on AI, Analytics, and Digital Impact.