Prakash Jayakumar MD PhD

Prakash Jayakumar, MD, PhD is a surgeon-scientist and healthcare innovator focused on advancing decision intelligence and value-based healthcare. He serves as Senior Medical Director and Head of Clinical Strategy & Intelligence at Optum Insight (UnitedHealth Group) and is professorial faculty at Dell Medical School, UT Austin. His work combines data science, AI, behavioral science and person-generated health data to improve clinical decision-making, shared decision-making and patient outcomes. His expertise spans orthopaedic and trauma surgery, human-centred design, systems innovation and health policy. Dr Jayakumar earned his PhD from the University of Oxford and was the first orthopaedic surgeon to receive the Commonwealth Fund’s Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy & Practice Innovation. He also holds a Master’s in Health Care Design from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London and contributes to national and international healthcare policy and innovation.