Primary Job Title CEO & Founder Primary Organization 
Athla
Location Redwood City, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Michael Gillam, MD, FACEP, is a physician executive focused on digital health who trained, practiced, and taught at Northwestern University, helped build companies acquired by WebMD and Microsoft, and served as a partner level executive in Microsoft and founding director of the Microsoft Healthcare Innovation Lab.
Dr. Gillam was a cofounding
physician director for the data aggregation solution, Azyxxi, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2006 to become one of their flagship products for healthcare, renamed Amalga™. He is a board certified emergency medicine physician who trained, practiced, and taught for Northwestern University Medical School through Evanston Northwestern Healthcare for eleven years. He has served as Chair of Informatics for both the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Gillam has published over fifty conference abstracts and articles in peer-reviewed journals and has eleven health IT patents awarded or in submission. He has advised or conducted IT projects with governmental and non-governmental organizations on health information technology including Fortune 500 companies, China’s leading hospitals in Shanghai and Beijing, Dubai’s Ministry of Health, startups in Silicon Valley, and the X-Prize Foundation. Dr. Gillam served as Research Director for National Institute for Medical Informatics at MedStar Health in Washington D.C. and has led projects spanning an array of technologies including: “Big Data” in healthcare and analytic predictions; bioterrorism and emerging disease surveillance; natural language processing (NLP); electronic documentation; gesture-based control systems; data visualization; anomalous event detection; RFID tracking; automated patient image capture; enterprise search in healthcare; automated identity protection; unified communications; Surface computing; personal health records (PHRs); virtual and augmented reality; and medical robotics.
