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Neel Butala, MD

Co-Founder, HiLabs

Neel co-founded HiLabs with the vision to leverage advanced machine learning methods to address fundamental health care data quality issues to empower organizations to rapidly generate insights from their data. He is a physician-scientist at University of Colorado where his research focuses on using advanced analytic methods on large healthcare datasets and is a practicing interventional cardiologist. He has received numerous national awards for his innovative research, clinical acumen, and teaching ability, and his work has been published in leading medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Circulation.

Previously, Neel was on faculty at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has worked for Boston Consulting Group on healthcare engagements, and served as Executive Director of a free clinic.

Neel holds an AB magna cum laude in Economics with High Honors from Harvard College, an MD cum laude from Yale School of Medicine, and an MBA from Yale School of Management. Neel completed clinical training in internal medicine, cardiology, interventional cardiology, and structural heart disease at Massachusetts General Hospital.