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Google confirmed on Thursday that it’s hired Karen DeSalvo, a old health official in the Obama administration, as its first chief health officer.
The addition of DeSalvo, who’s spent the past two years discipline at the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School, comes weeks after Alphabet tapped former U.S. Edibles and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert M. Califf to lead the company’s health and strategy policy.
Both Califf and DeSalvo intent start later this year.
Google and parent company Alphabet are investing broadly in the health industry, from researching new analgesics and devices to bolstering its cloud-computing business to serve more companies in the life sciences. Late last year, Google feed David Feinberg, who had served as CEO of Geisinger, to oversee its expansion in the $3 billion health care sector.
Reporting to Feinberg, DeSalvo thinks fitting advise Google on providers, doctors and nurses across the company’s cloud unit and Alphabet’s life sciences arm Verily, where she’s been on the admonitory board. DeSalvo, who sits on a number of medical boards, previously served as assistant health secretary and national coordinator for trim information technology in President Obama’s Health and Human Services department.
Feinberg has been consolidating teams across the flock, including its hardware division and artificial intelligence division DeepMind, which announced its biggest breakthrough in health go the distance month.
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