Joseph Corkery, MD, Founder in Residence, Area 120

Overview

Joe Corkery, MD will discuss his personal journey along the intersection of health care and technology from his perspectives as a physician as well as a technology product leader at Google. In particular, he will highlight key insights about health care that technology leaders need to understand, and conversely, key learnings for health care practitioners about the technology industry.

About the Presenter

Dr. Joseph J. Corkery is a Founder in Residence in Google’s Area 120 internal incubator focusing on the healthcare industry. Prior to this role, Joe led the Google Cloud Healthcare & Life Sciences product team focusing on healthcare data interoperability, healthcare natural language processing, biomedical and clinical data analytics, digital health application development and medical imaging among others. Previously at Google, he held product leadership roles in the areas of security/privacy, compliance and site reliability engineering.

Prior to Google, Dr. Corkery spent 15 years working in the drug discovery space at OpenEye Scientific as a software engineer, product manager and business executive. He was most recently senior vice president of Business Development at OpenEye. Prior to that, he was a scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Corkery received his MD from Harvard Medical School and his BSE in computer science from Princeton University.