10 Mayo Clinic AI and data science leaders
Executive Director - Intelligent Automation & AI (Mayo Enterprise), Director of Artificial Intelligence and Director, AI ML Engineering are among the current titles held by these Mayo Clinic AI and data science leaders, alongside leaders of departmental AI programs. A reader can learn how AI and data science leaders work at Mayo Clinic from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Adam Blaha
LinkedInExperience: Director of Automation and AI · Mayo Clinic
Adam Blaha has been Director of Automation and AI at Mayo Clinic since July 2026. Adam Blaha was Director Of Client Services - Interoperability at MEDITECH from 2021 to 2026 and Senior Client Services Manager - Interoperabililty Implementation there from 2020 to 2021.
David Thomas Jones
LinkedInExperience: Former Director of Artificial Intelligence · Mayo Clinic
David Thomas Jones is a former Director of Artificial Intelligence at Mayo Clinic, a role held from January 2019 to January 2026. David Thomas Jones has been Director of Biological Intelligence (BIT) Lab at Mayo Clinic since January 2026 and Consultant at Mayo Clinic since 2018.
Dennis H. Murphree
LinkedInExperience: Director, Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Dermatology · Mayo Clinic
Dennis H. Murphree has been Director, Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Dermatology at Mayo Clinic since June 2021, and was Co-Director, Office of Artificial Intelligence in Dermatology at Mayo Clinic from 2019 to 2021. Dennis H. Murphree has also been Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Mayo Clinic since 2016.
Jaleh Zand
LinkedInExperience: Director of Artificial Intelligence · Mayo Clinic
Jaleh Zand has been Director of Artificial Intelligence at Mayo Clinic since January 2022, and says they build production AI systems for healthcare. Jaleh Zand was a Doctoral Researcher in the Machine Learning Research Group at the University of Oxford from 2015 to 2021 and Quantitative Trader, FICC at UBS from 2007 to 2012.
Jared Staal, M.S.
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director - Intelligent Automation & AI (Mayo Enterprise) · Mayo Clinic
Jared Staal, M.S. has been Executive Director - Intelligent Automation & AI (Mayo Enterprise) at Mayo Clinic since January 2024, directing enterprise deployment of intelligent automation and generative AI across Mayo's clinical and operational landscape. Jared Staal was Senior Director - Revenue Cycle & Finance | Advanced Analytics, Intelligent Automation & AI at Mayo Clinic from 2021 to 2024.
Mark A. Lifson
LinkedInExperience: Director, AI ML Engineering · Mayo Clinic
Mark A. Lifson has been Director, AI ML Engineering at Mayo Clinic since May 2024, and was Director, AI Systems Engineering at Mayo Clinic from 2022 to 2024 and AI ML Systems Engineering Manager there from 2021 to 2022. Mark A. Lifson was Scientific Affairs Manager at Abbott from 2020 to 2021.
Mark Waddle
LinkedInExperience: Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics · Department of Radiation Oncology at Mayo Clinic
Mark Waddle has been Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Mayo Clinic since March 2024, a role the listing tags at Director level. Mark Waddle has also been Consultant in Radiation Oncology at Mayo Clinic since 2023.
Sarah Orbuch
LinkedInExperience: Director of Generative AI · Mayo Clinic
Sarah Orbuch has been Director of Generative AI at Mayo Clinic since January 2025, and was Senior Manager at Mayo Clinic from 2024 to 2025 and Manager there from 2022 to 2024. Sarah Orbuch was Director of Strategic Initiatives at UnitedHealthcare Community & State from 2021 to 2022.
Shivaram P. Arunachalam
LinkedInExperience: Director, Digital Engineering & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (DEAL) · Mayo Clinic
Shivaram P. Arunachalam has been Director, Digital Engineering & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (DEAL) at Mayo Clinic since January 2024, and was Director, AI and Informatics, Department of Medicine at Mayo Clinic from 2020 to 2023. Shivaram P. Arunachalam has also been Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic since 2019.
Srikanth Ponnapalli, MBA
LinkedInExperience: Head of Multi Cloud Product Strategy and AI Enablement · Mayo Clinic
Srikanth Ponnapalli, MBA has been Head of Multi Cloud Product Strategy and AI Enablement at Mayo Clinic since January 2025, leading the cloud services organization, which covers multi-cloud strategy, platform engineering, FinOps, observability, SRE and AI/ML operations. Srikanth Ponnapalli was Head of Venmo Data Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Venmo from 2022 to 2025.
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