Leonard D'Avolio

About

Dr. Leonard D’Avolio, Ph.D. has spent the last 20 years in government, academia, philanthropy, and industry working to build value-based healthcare programs and organizations that prioritize continuous learning & improvement. He’s the CEO of Blue Circle Health, a philanthropically-funded virtual T1D healthcare system for people in under-resourced communities. Prior to that he was the co-founder of the for-profit Cyft, a company dedicated to helping serious illness care providers succeed in value-based care. Prior to founding Cyft, he led informatics at Ariadne Labs where he helped improve childbirth across 70 clinics in India. Prior to that he created the infrastructure for the world’s largest genomic medicine cohort and embedded the first clinical trial within an electronic medical record system while working for the Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

He is an Assistant Professor at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School. He is an advisor to several healthcare startups, and is on the Board of Youth Development Organization in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

His work has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, National Library of Medicine, the Helmsley Charitable Trust Foundation.