Arjun Panesar

Arjun is the founding CEO and Head of AI at DDM Health. It was during the first year of his undergraduate Master's degree in Computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Imperial College, London, in 2002 that his grandfather, Anupam, was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes after suffering a quadruple heart bypass.

Not knowing how to manage his lifestyle in a way that suited his cultural and social expectations, Anupam turned to Arjun for guidance on what to eat. It was at this point Arjun founded a global community for people with diabetes.

Fast forward to today, Arjun has two decades' experience in big data and AI and leads the development of DDM's evidence-based precision digital health solutions that harness the power of AI to provide precision medicine to patients, health services, and governments across the globe.

Arjun’s work has received international recognition featuring in the BBC, Forbes, New Scientist and The Times, been awarded an array of innovation, business, and technology awards. Most recently, a health review body rated DDM’s Gro Health app as the #1 digital health app in Europe.

Arjun is a best-selling author on the topics of healthcare and AI, authoring two editions of Machine Learning and AI in Healthcare, and contributing to the Handbook of Global Health, a major reference work.

Arjun is a leading expert in AI, healthcare and ethics; Advisor to the Information School, University of Sheffield; Visiting Lecturer in Precision Medicine at the University of Warwick; Alumni Fellow to the NHS Innovation Accelerator, and was recognized by Imperial College as an Emerging Alumni Leader for DDM’s contribution and impact to society.