Christopher Lee has over a decade experience in healthcare and life-sciences spanning digital health, drug delivery, and company creation. He is Co-Founder, CEO at Fourier Health. Prior to Fourier, Chris was Co-Founder, COO of InfiniteMD, a leading expert opinion platform with over 3,500 specialists across the US. InfiniteMD was ultimately acquired by Alight Solutions (NYSE:ALIT) via ConsumerMedical in 2021. InfiniteMD serves over 30M enterprise lives today. Chris is also Co-Founder of Despierta, a Miami-based healthcare venture studio, Co-Founder at Akita Biosciences, and an active angel investor. He holds a masters degree from Johns Hopkins, and though he holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the joint Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Chris has not donned a lab coat in quite some time.

Chris presently resides in Miami, FL. Outside of Fourier, Chris enjoys racket sports, highly disorganized vacations, cold-plunging, and losing to teenagers in all sorts of video games on Xbox Live.

James has over 16 years of experience in healthcare technology and entrepreneurial leadership. He is the CTO and Co-Founder of Fourier Health, overseeing Product, Engineering, and Security. Prior to Fourier, he was the CTO and Co-Founder of Redox, the leading healthcare data platform transacting 1 billion+ monthly patient messages across over 3,000 health systems and software partners. Prior to starting Redox, James was an engineer at Epic and was a founding board member of 100state, a community-focused coworking space in Madison, WI.

James currently lives in Fort Collins, CO with his partner Ashley and their two cats, Boris and Catyeah. Outside of Fourier, James spends time at his brewery, Purpose Brewing, and enjoys hiking, camping, woodworking, and gardening.

Andy Ellner has two decades of experience as a practicing physician, health systems expert, and entrepreneur, focused on innovations to drive access to great healthcare for everyone. At Fourier Health, he serves as CMO. Prior to Fourier, Andy was Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Clinical Officer of Firefly Health, a virtual-first advanced primary care company that cares for members and offers health plan products in 50 states. Before Firefly, Andy spent a decade on the faculty of Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he was founding Co-Director of the HMS Center for Primary Care and founding director of Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change.

Andy has an MD from Harvard Medical School and a masters degree in health policy and economics from the London School of Economics; while he continues to practice medicine on a weekly basis, he, like Chris, has not worn a white coat since his student days. Andy currently lives in Cambridge, MA. Outside of Fourier, Andy loves skiing, literature, cooking and spending half of his time watching, and shuttling his kids to various sport events.

Julie Merritt has over two decades of experience in healthcare spanning AI summarization, digital health, health plans, and EHR’s. All have had a large focus helping providers get time back. Prior to Fourier, Julie was fortunate to work in sales for several high-growth companies at early stages in either leadership roles or as an individual contributor. She has worked for companies such as Eleos Health, Teladoc/Livongo, HMS Holdings, and athenahealth.

Julie presently resides in Wellesley, MA with her wife, Amy. Outside of Fourier she enjoys traveling, welcoming senior rescue dogs into her home, and pretending to be “getting back in shape.”

Adam brings over 15 years of professional software engineering experience and nearly 25 years of self-taught web development expertise to his role as Principal Software Engineer at Fourier Health. Prior to joining Fourier Health, Adam served as Senior Director of Engineering at Unite Us, where he led the creation of the first social care payments platform in the US. He played a critical role in developing interoperability and product API strategies, working with major customers like UHG, KP, and NC DHHS, as well as industry standards groups such as HL7 and Gravity. Before Unite Us, Adam spent over 7 years between Oracle and Google, contributing to key initiatives related to virtualized and bare-metal compute provisioning, operational tooling, edge security, ads infrastructure, and serverless products.

Adam lives in Lexington, KY with his wife Chelsea and their two-year-old son, Quentin. Outside of work, he enjoys playing with Q, rewatching his favorite TV series, and collecting vintage wrestling memorabilia from his childhood.

Bill has over 15 years of professional software engineering and leadership experience upon which to base his role as Staff Software Engineer at Fourier. Prior to working at Fourier, Bill served as Engineering Director, and then Staff Software Engineer at Unite Us, where he led multiple teams, mentored other engineers, enabled EHR integration, and architected and delivered several other business-critical integrations and pipelines.

Bill currently lives in Tucson, AZ. Outside of work, he enjoys studying Japanese, hiking, cycling, and doing puzzles.

Colby is an interoperability expert who brings about a decade of healthtech experience to his role as a Senior Software Engineer at Fourier Health. Before joining Fourier Health, Colby was an Engineer and Manager at Unite Us, where he led the development and implementation of multiple interoperable solutions, including a FHIR-based bidirectional closed-loop referral integration and an HL7 v2 patient history PDF pipeline. Prior to Unite Us, Colby was an engineer at Epic, where he focused on creating infrastructure and tooling for the integration products. He also worked with experts across the industry in groups like the Argonaut Project to help advance the FHIR standard.

Colby lives in Portland, OR with his one-year-old German Shepherd, Mildred. When he is not working, Colby enjoys spending time outside running, hiking, trying new food carts, and cheering on his favorite collegiate wood bat baseball team.

Gabrielle Zurawski is the Sr. Manager of Clinical Operations at Fourier Health. Gabbie is a compact licensed registered nurse with a wealth of experience in healthcare technology and clinical operations. Gabrielle specializes in clinical program implementation, workflow development, and building successful cross-functional teams. Gabrielle cares deeply about improving healthcare quality for patients and providers using innovative technology solutions. Prior to joining our team, Gabrielle spent time as the Clinical Operations Manager at InfiniteMD, later acquired by Alight Solutions (NYSE:ALIT), and providing direct patient care as a staff nurse in various inpatient and ambulatory settings.

Gabrielle lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband, Gary, and their two daughters. Outside of work, Gabrielle can be found drinking iced coffee while chasing her kids at the playground, attempting to bake a pie, or singing along to the soundtrack of a Broadway musical.

Juan is an experienced internal medicine physician with over a decade of specialized experience in pulmonary diseases, bringing a wealth of knowledge to the medical field. With a robust research background, Juan completed a prestigious four-year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard. Juan plays a pivotal role in ensuring clinical data quality at Fourier Health. Juan also actively provides patient care in a multi-ethnic environment at the University of Miami/Jackson Health System.

Outside of his medical commitments, Juan resides in Miami, FL, with his wife and a cherished canine companion, Murphy. Juan is also an avid basketball player and enjoys playing country music and participating in various outdoor activities.

Erkin Otles is a physician-engineer hell-bent on bridging engineering and healthcare by applying artificial intelligence to challenging medical problems. He provides clinical NLP and LLM strategy for Fourier. Erkin is set to complete his joint MD-PhD training at the University of Michigan in May. He previously worked as an engineer at Epic. Erkin has over a decade of experience developing and implementing AI tools for patients, physicians, and health systems; these tools have been used over 5 million times in the care of hundreds of thousands of patients. He has authored over 20 academic papers on healthcare AI, and his work has been covered in NPR, STAT News, The Washington Post, and Wired.

Erkin lives with his spouse and daughter in Ann Arbor, MI. Outside Fourier, he enjoys exploring new cities, cooking for friends, and blasting “Let It Go.”

Emily Alsentzer is a postdoctoral fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her research develops trustworthy machine learning and natural language processing methods for healthcare, with a focus on settings with limited annotated data. Emily received her PhD from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology where she was a recipient of the Microsoft Research Fellowship. She holds degrees in computer science (BS) and biomedical informatics (MS) from Stanford University. Emily has served as General Chair for the Machine Learning for Health Symposium and founding organizer for the Conference on Health, Inference and Learning (CHIL) and the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Learning Health Systems (SAIL). Emily has published across computer science and clinical venues, including in NeurIPS, NAACL, Nature Communications, Lancet Digital Health, NPJ Digital Medicine, CHIL, and PSB. Her work has been featured in Stat News and the Washington Post. Emily provides clinical NLP and LLM strategy for Fourier.

Emily is originally from Nashville, but currently resides in Boston. Outside of work, Emily enjoys kayaking, board games, podcasts, making and eating cheese, and cheering on the Red Sox.