Doceree’s AI Health 25: A who’s who of healthcare leaders using AI

Doceree founder and CEO Harshit Jain opened the program on the 102nd floor. Jain framed the choice of venue as symbolic: a high vantage point to match attendees' expectations for AI in healthcare. Doceree's stated purpose for the awards is to highlight people using AI rather than celebrating AI as a standalone technology: "We're not awarding AI. We're naming the people who are using it to change how medicine gets made, marketed, and delivered."

The editorial team at Doceree selected 25 honorees to reflect the breadth of the healthcare industry, including marketing leaders, pharmaceutical executives and medical-technology figures. The emphasis was on individuals applying AI across development, commercialization and clinical delivery rather than on specific tools or vendors.

The complete list of 25 leaders named at the event:

• Parry Bhatia, SVP of AI transformation, Edwards Lifesciences
• Faruk Capan, Chief Innovation Officer, EVERSANA
• Oz Demir, Head of Digital Marketing, Genentech
• Deirdre Diener, Head of AI-powered Marketing, Johnson & Johnson
• Jeffrey Erb, CMO, Avalere Health
• Tala Fakhouri, Chief AI and Regulatory Strategy Officer, Parexel
• Paul Kallukaran, Chief Analytics Officer, CMI Media Group
• Sheyda Karvar, EVP of Media Strategy and Analytics, Fingerpaint
• Christina Kim, Chief Strategy and Analytics Officer, Omnicom Health
• Matt Lasmanis, Chief Digital Officer, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
• Tod Loofbourrow, CEO and Chairman, ViralGains
• John Mariano, Head of AI, Data and Engineering, Alnylam
• Girish Nadkarni, Chief AI Officer, Mount Sinai Health System
• Mangesh Patil, Chief AI Officer, HCA Healthcare
• Dereck Paul, Co-founder and CEO, Glass Health
• Brian Peterson, Chief Technology and AI Officer, Real Chemistry
• Mathew Ratnam, Senior Director, Bayer Pharmaceuticals
• Mahi Rayasam, SVP and Information Officer, Clinical and Non-Clinical Medicine Development and Commercial Platforms, Eli Lilly and Company
• Vikram Singh, VP, Global Head of Commercial IT and Enterprise AI COE, Gilead Sciences
• Eric Trepanier, Chief HCP Officer, Publicis Health Media
• Jack Vance, CEO, SOLVE(D)
• Bill Veltre, CMO, Deerfield
• Rob Vermeulen, Head of Global Commercialization Capabilities (Data, AI & Analytics), Bayer Pharmaceuticals
• Alex Villalobos, Director of AI Transformation, Boehringer Ingelheim

The awards emphasize human leadership in AI adoption. By naming individuals across industry functions and company types, Doceree highlighted varied organizational roles that shape AI work: strategy, analytics, engineering, commercialization and regulatory approaches. The selection spans health systems, big pharma, agencies and specialized startups.

• Watch roles: Many honorees hold explicit AI officer, analytics or transformation titles—useful indicators of where organizations concentrate responsibility for AI.
• Cross-functional scope: Honorees show AI work sits across marketing, commercialization, product development and clinical IT, not confined to a single team.
• Recognition as signal: Early public recognition programs like this can accelerate profile-building for leaders and make their approaches more visible to peers and partners.

Doceree's AI Health 25 is an inaugural effort to spotlight people driving AI adoption in healthcare. The list offers a snapshot of titles and organizations actively positioning AI at the center of strategy, analytics and commercialization work.