Dr. Abdul Shaikh is Global Leader for Population Health for Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is responsible for the go-to-market strategy for applying leading technologies such as generative AI and machine learning, remote patient monitoring, and cloud computing for clinical and public health. Dr. Shaikh brings more than 20 years of experience helping healthcare providers, payors, researchers, governments and nonprofits work backwards from their goals to harness data for more equitable, efficient, and person-centered care. Prior to AWS, Dr. Shaikh was the Population Health Leader for PwC and Guidehouse, leading strategy, design and organization transformation, and served as a Program Officer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and ONC. His professional activities include serving on multiple nonprofit advisories and boards, the HIMSS SDOH Committee and the National Academy of Medicine’s Digital Health Action Collaborative. Dr. Shaikh’s work has been featured in national outlets such as Becker’s Hospital Review, Wired, and the Wall Street Journal, and he is a regular speaker on AI, cloud, SDOH, and digital health in industry, government and academic settings. He trained in public health and health services research at the University of Toronto and University of Michigan, and completed his post-doc at NIH as a Cancer Prevention Fellow.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arshaikh/