Uday Kumar

Dr. Uday N. Kumar, a cardiac electrophysiologist (EP) by training, is the Founder, President and CEO of Element Science, Inc., a company developing innovative devices, including the Jewel® Patch Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator (P-WCD), for patients as they transition from the hospital to the home after acute cardiovascular events. Prior to this, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Third Rock Ventures and was also the Founder of iRhythm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: IRTC), where he served as a Board member and Chief Medical Officer from founding through commercialization of its Zio® Patch cardiac monitoring device and service, which has been used by over 8 million patients. Uday also co-founded and served as a Board Member of Qurious.io, Inc. (sold to Pegasystems Inc.) and Sympara Medical, Inc., has served as a Board Member of G-Tech Medical, Inc. and Madorra, Inc., and currently serves as an Advisor to Sectoral Asset Management.

He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University where he is a faculty member and senior advisor at the Mussallem Center for Biodesign. Uday was a Biodesign fellow at Stanford, a cardiac EP and cardiology fellow at UCSF, and an internal medicine resident at Columbia University. Uday received his M.D. and B.A. (magna cum laude in Biochemistry) from Harvard University.