Anjali grew up in Harlingen, a border town at the southern tip of Texas. She attended Rice University for undergrad where she studied health sciences and policy studies. Her interest in public policy and systems innovation to improve care delivery and improve patient outcomes led her to pursue a MD/MBA at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School. She completed internal medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Osler residency program. She is currently a Cardiology fellow at Johns Hopkins. She is clinically interested in preventive cardiology and is interested in a career at the intersection of population health, health policy, and digital health innovation. Outside of the hospital, she enjoys traveling, dancing, and trying out various Indian recipes.

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What is a healthcare advancement you hope to see in your lifetime?

The use of AI and big data to truly deliver personalized healthcare and personalize patient risk stratification, especially for cardiovascular disease. In addition, I hope the use of personalized data in medicine and AI in society can aid in creating a healthcare ecosystem that enhances access, improves communications, and boosts understanding of medical care for patients.

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What excites you most about working with ARTIS?

The rapid breakthroughs in artificial intelligence make the Tech Bio+Health work that ARTIS focuses on extremely exciting. From AI-driven diagnostics and clinical decision support to personalized care platforms and ambient documentation tools, we are witnessing the transformation of healthcare delivery in real time. The convergence of deep tech and medicine is creating unprecedented opportunities to invest in solutions that not only improve outcomes and access but also reduce system inefficiencies. Being at the intersection of innovation and impact makes this an extraordinary time to support and scale technologies that are redefining the future of care, such as those that ARTIS is funding.
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From your perspective, what recent innovation has had the greatest impact in tech/health?

ChatGPT has without a doubt changed the patient/provider relationship, allowing patients to have access to information at their fingertips and ask informed questions even prior to talking to their physician.