Dr. Mark Sendak, MD, MPP
Co-Founder and CEO
Vega Health
Mark Sendak, MD, MPP is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vega Health, a health AI platform company that facilitates the safe, effective, and responsible use of AI at scale. He also co-leads Health AI Partnership, a learning collaborative to develop and disseminate best practices and provide technical assistance to advance the safe and responsible use of AI software within healthcare delivery organizations. Prior to founding Vega Health, Mark spent over 10 years at the Duke Institute for Health Innovation (DIHI), where he led interdisciplinary teams of data scientists, clinicians, and machine learning experts to build technologies that solve real clinical problems. Together with the DIHI team, he built tools to transform chronic disease management within an Accountable Care Organization and detection and management of inpatient deterioration within hospitals. He has integrated dozens of data-driven technologies into clinical operations and is a co-inventor of software to scale machine learning applications and real-world evidence generation across health systems.
