YIDING YU

Dr. YiDing Yu is a practicing physician, published researcher, and serial entrepreneur. YiDing is the founder of Twiage, a life-saving early response platform for first responders and emergency departments.

Leading the company as CEO, YiDing scaled Twiage to 911 first responders across the United States, and was named the Cartier Women's Initiative Awardee for North America in 2018. Her groundbreaking work has been recognized by top innovation prizes from the American Medical Association, the American Heart Association, and the Cleveland Clinic.

After Twiage, YiDing led Verata Health as Chief Medical Officer, where she oversaw marketing, customer operations, and product strategy across the organization. Verata Health, founded in 2017 and acquired by Olive in 2020, was a leading venture-backed, healthcare AI company that automated prior authorization so that patients receive better, faster care. After the acquisition, YiDing served as General Manager and Chief Medical Officer at Olive, where she led Olive’s largest product line serving both provider and payer markets. She was later named Chief Product Officer and spearheaded major acquisitions by Availity, Waystar and Humata Health. For her ground-breaking work, she was named one of Modern Healthcare’s Top Ten Women to Watch in 2022.

Today, YiDing leads her own consulting practice at Yu & Company, where she partners with leading companies in digital health and life sciences backed by venture capital or private equity investors.

Prior to her entrepreneurial journey, YiDing served as Chief Innovation Engineer at Atrius Health, where she led the development and delivery of innovative healthcare models for the $2 billion healthcare practice. Under her tenure, YiDing launched telemedicine services across an organization with 700 physicians and 650,000 covered lives. Today, YiDing continues to see patients, providing care to veterans through the Boston VA Medical Center.

An inspirational and eloquent speaker, YiDing has spoken at numerous national and international conferences with the American Medical Association, American Heart Association, Elle Magazine, and the Aspen Institute. She was published in peer-reviewed medical journals by age 30 and the recipient of numerous awards in medical research and innovation, including the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania, the Diane Becker Award for Clinical Epidemiology Research from Johns Hopkins University, and the President’s Prize for Value-Based Healthcare from Partners HealthCare.