Vivian S. Lee, MD., PhD, MBA, is the author of The Long Fix: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone (Norton). She is President of Health Platforms at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company whose mission is to apply digital solutions that enable people to enjoy healthier lives. A physician and healthcare executive, Lee also serves as a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School.
Prior to joining Verily, Lee served as the Dean of the Medical School and CEO of the University of Utah Health Care, an integrated health system with a budget of $3.6 billion, including a 1,400- member physician group and health insurance plan. During her tenure, she led University of Utah Health to recognition for its healthcare delivery system innovations that enable higher quality at lower costs and with higher patient satisfaction, and superior financial performance. In 2016, University of Utah was ranked first among all university hospitals in quality and safety (Vizient). Dr. Lee previously was the inaugural Chief Scientific Officer of New York University’s Langone Medical Center.
Elected to the National Academy of Medicine with over 200 peer-reviewed publications, Lee serves on the Defense Health Board of the Department of Defense, the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Fund, and is also a director on the board of Zions Bancorporation, a publicly traded company.
Dr. Lee is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, received a DPhil in medical engineering from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earned her MD with honors from Harvard Medical School, and her MBA from NYU. She was named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives in 2020.