Board Member, Boston Children’s Hospital, Care Academy, and Acclinate

Dr. Ivor Braden Horn is a board director, advisor, investor, physician, and technology executive with experience in entrepreneurial, venture, academic medicine, health system, and research organizations. She is an internationally recognized leader in health technology innovation having spoken to such diverse audiences as the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), FDA, the Atlantic Festival, the World Health Summit, HLTH (US & Europe), SXSW, and Cannes Lion. Most recently, she served as the founding director and fi rst Chief Health Equity Offi cer at Google, where she led the company-wide strategy to develop, launch, and scale health equity within research and product development to ensure they were diverse, fair, accessible, and inclusive. While at Google, she also led a study to develop the HEAL (Health Equity Assessment of machine Learning performance) framework to quantitatively assess the performance equity of health AI technologies. The HEAL framework is a methodology to assess whether health AI technologies prioritize performance for patient populations experiencing worse outcomes, that is complementary to existing fairness metrics.

Prior to her role at Google, Dr. Horn served as Chief Medical Offi cer at Accolade (acquired by Transcarent). Before Accolade, she served as Medical Director of the Center for Diversity and Health Equity at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She holds an MD and MPH and has authored several peer-reviewed journal publications on health communication and health equity.

Dr. Horn currently serves on the boards of Boston Children’s Hospital, Care Academy, and Acclinate.