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The Mobile Health Paradox: Why Data Isn’t Nearly Enough
Talks about Healthcare, Digital Health and Mobile Health
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Yusuf Sherwani
Founder of Pelago
New York, New York
Overview
Yusuf Sherwani is the Co-Founder & CEO of Pelago in New York, with a background in business strategy and marketing. His career highlights include founding Pelago, investing in startups like Inflow, and serving as a Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow at NHS England.
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2017 - Current
Pelago (formerly Quit Genius) is the world’s leading virtual clinic for substance use management. We are transforming substance use support—from prevention to treatment—delivering education, management skills, and opportunities for positive change to members struggling with substance use, most commonly tobacco, alcohol, or opioids. Our solution gives employers the means to offer on-demand, personalized support to workers seeking to live healthier lives.
Pelago is a virtual clinic that offers virtual substance use care for adults and teens.
Raised $151,600,000.00 from Kinnevik, Octopus Ventures, Y Combinator, Eight Roads Ventures, GreyMatter and Atomico.
Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow
2017 - 2020
Fellow at the first national level training programme for clinical entrepreneurs in partnership with NHS England and Health Education England. Read more: http://www.innovation.england.nhs.uk/en/clinical-entrepreneur
Clinical Research Scholar
2014 - 2014
Investigated how mutations in circulating DNA can be used as a diagnostic marker for hepatocellular carcinoma in West African patients. This work was funded by the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Scholarship.