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Vidhya Sivakumaran, PhD

Vice President, Clinical Informatics and Terminology Data Engineering
Dr. Vidhya Sivakumaran is Vice President of Clinical Informatics and Terminology Data Engineering at IMO Health, a company she’s now been with for a decade. She has grown to lead and continually evolve the foundational department tasked with the multifaceted ownership and application of IMO Health’s terminology data — including the launch and ongoing development of IMO Health’s clinical knowledge graph, a critical modernization for the organization. Her work sits at the intersection of clinical medicine and data modeling, ensuring that medical knowledge is structured, organized, and enriched so that it’s accurate, consistent, and meaningful in real-world health tech applications. She is passionate about the role that clinically validated knowledge plays in making AI trustworthy and scalable in healthcare. Dr. Sivakumaran holds a PhD in Biochemistry specializing in Cardiac Membrane Biophysics from Virginia Tech, and completed a fellowship in cardiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

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