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Welcome to the personal website of Vivian S. Lee
Vivian S. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A. is a healthcare and health tech executive and scholar who is dedicated to building a more sustainable and resilient world. Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, she has been recognized as one of the 20 people transforming healthcare with AI. She is the author of The Long Fix: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone (WW Norton) and celebrated keynote speaker globally. A member of the National Academy of Medicine and author of over 200 research publications, she successfully built and led Health Platforms at Verily (Alphabet/Google) from start up to multiple businesses and partnerships with high impact and significant year-over-year revenue growth. Prior to that was the CEO and Dean at the University of Utah Health and Chief Scientific Officer at NYU. More information about Dr. Lee can be found here.
AI AND TECH
20 People Who are Transforming the Health Ecosystem Through Practical Paths to Apply AI | Medika
February 26, 2025
Fireside Chat: Rethinking Clinical Practice and Training in the Age of AI | HealthNext AI 2025 with Bob Harrington
March 4, 2025
Opening Keynote AI to advance population and planetary health | Digital Health Times Higher Education Conference
April 10, 2025
CLIMATE CHANGE AND RESILIENCE
Building for Resilience: A Plan to Drive Value and Tackle the Climate Crisis | American Medical Informatics Association Symposium Opening Keynote
March 13, 2023
Decarbonizing Health Care: Engaging Leaders in Change | New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst April 2023 (print)
April 19, 2023
Views from the Top: Climate Impact, Risk, and Sustainability in Healthcare | HIMSS 23
April 19, 2023
THE LONG FIX & TECHNOLOGY FOR BETTER HEALTH
Adapting TECH-THINK to Transform Healthcare for the Better | ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives) Keynote
March 21, 2023
The Long Fix-Lessons for Population Health from the Front Lines of Tech | Managing Health Care Delivery, Harvard Business School Executive Education
April 30, 2023
Elective Surgery and the Untapped Potential for Technology-Enabled Coproduction | New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst
May 4, 2023
Slaying the ‘Fee-for-Service Monster’ of American Healthcare | Hidden Brain (NPR) (52 min)
September 7, 2020
From Crisis to Opportunity: Solving America’s Healthcare Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone | Business Group on Health Annual Conference Opening Keynote
May 4, 2021
Vivian Lee’s Long Fix for America’s Healthcare | RadioWest (KUER/NPR) (50 min)
November 13, 2020
The Workplace Transformed: Balancing Safety and Personal Autonomy as We Return to Work and School | Medium (RM Califf with V Lee and V Washington)
July 23, 2020
How Technology Can Help Fight Future Pandemics | Yahoo! Finance (6 min)
May 26, 2020
U.S. Health Care Is in Flux. Here’s What Employers Should Do | Harvard Business Review
June 15, 2020
Lead In: Women of Impact in Health Care on Advancing Equity in the Workplace | NEJM Catalyst
September 14, 2018
RSNA Annual Oration: Driving Value through Imaging | Radiology
September 19, 2017
Addressing Disparities in Academic Medicine: Moving forward | JAMA
September 15, 2015
SELECTED PAST APPEARANCES & EVENTS
The New Prognosis for High-Tech Health Care | New York Times (with Vivek Murthy)
September 17, 2020
The Long Fix: Rethinking the Business Model of Health Care | SIEPR
February 8, 2021
Transforming Values into Action | Society of General Internal Medicine 2021 Annual Meeting
April 20-23, 2021
From Health Care to Whole Person Care | Harvard Business School Health Care Conference Keynote
February 9, 2020
Bridging Innovation to Application | Stanford AIMI Symposium
August 5, 2020
What Will It Take To Return to Work and School | HLTH Virtual 2020 Conference Keynote
October 14, 2020