Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA, is a tech executive, physician leader, and author of The Long Fix: Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone. An Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, she focuses on the intersections of tech and AI, sustainability, and health, seeking a stronger, healthier future for all. Here recent articles include “Designing a Successful Agentic AI System” (Harvard Business Review, Oct 2025) and “Sustainably Advancing Health AI” (NEJM Catalyst Sep 2025).
Dr. Lee served as the founding President of Health Platforms at Verily (Google), where she built several successful health-tech businesses, including digital health, precision risk insurance, and a COVID-19 testing and management program for employers and universities. Previously, Lee was Dean and CEO of the University of Utah Health, which was ranked #1 in quality among university health systems (Vizient), and before that, Chief Scientific Officer at NYU. Lee was an NIH-funded investigator for over two decades and received the Gold Medal of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the highest honor in her field. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Fund, Boston Children’s Hospital, the Joint Commission, Association of American Rhodes Scholars, and Zions Bancorporation and is a Visiting Fellow at Reuben College, Oxford. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, Lee received a D.Phil in medical engineering from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earned her M.D. with honors from Harvard, and her MBA from NYU.