Michael Gillam, MD, FACEP

Michael Gillam, MD, FACEP, is Chief Digital Officer of Fountain Life, which is building an OS to connect businesses to the discretionary biotech dollar, and CEO of HealthLab, a discovery automation company for “big data” in healthcare. He helped build and sell companies to both WebMD and Microsoft and is dual board certified in emergency medicine and medical informatics. He served as a partner level executive in Microsoft and is the former founding director of the Microsoft Healthcare Innovation Lab. Dr. Gillam has served as Chair of Informatics for both the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians. He served as the chief clinical judge for the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE and as a judge on the Nokia Sensing XPRIZE and IBM AI XPRIZE. He ran innovation labs for over ten years in Microsoft and in Washington D.C. spanning projects including: big data, machine intelligence, natural language processing (NLP), gesture based interfaces, electronic and personal health records (EHRs & PHRs), augmented reality and medical robotics.