Leonard D’Avolio, PhD is the CEO of Blue Circle Health, a 501(c)(3) care, education, and support program for people with type 1 diabetes. He is also an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham Hospital. Dr. D'Avolio has spent the past 20 years helping build new organizations, programs, teams, and models of care - all with an eye toward better aligning economic incentives with better outcomes. He was the co-founder and CEO of Cyft, a for-profit focused on helping healthcare provider organizations succeed in value-based contracts. He founded Ariadne Labs’ informatics team, and led their partnership strategy as well as helped to scale Better Birth, their Gates-funded neonatal care program in India from 1 pilot site to 70 birthing centers. Prior to that he created the systems that powered the Department of Veterans Affairs’ "Million Veteran Program" which recently hit its goal of enrolling 1 million Veterans to contribute their DNA and electronic health record data to support genomic research. While at the VA he also led the creation of the first clinical trial system completely embedded within an electronic medical record - closing the loop between conducting research and employing the results in real time. Dr. D'Avolio is an award winning pioneer in artificial intelligence research in healthcare, a sought after speaker at healthcare venues, and his work has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Library of Medicine, and others. He is also a proud girl dad and has served on the board of Youth Development Organization Lawrence for the past 9 years. Accessible at ldavolio at gmail dot com, Instagram: @len_davolio