Gowtham Rao is a clinician-turned-founder and executive leader with a decade of experience building reproducible, explainable informatics and data science solutions for payers and population health. He has led deployment of production systems for member-provider attribution, risk scoring, and care management triage that combine clinical insight, social determinants, and financial forecasting. Board-certified in Preventive Medicine and Clinical Informatics with a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, he bridges rigorous research methods with engineering practice to deliver traceable, human-inspectable decisioning in regulated environments. An active collaborator in the OHDSI community, he has improved the OMOP CDM and automated large-scale reporting and surveillance pipelines that integrate claims, EHR, and SDOH. Now founding CoReason, he is focused on deterministic, explainable decision reasoning for high-stakes domains—bringing open-source scientific collaboration into enterprise settings.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Epidemiology, PhD Epidemiology at University of South Carolina
MD Medicine, MD Medicine at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore
Doctor of Medicine (MD) Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Doctor of Medicine (MD) Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Residency Program at University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine (MD) Internal Medicine Residency Program, Doctor of Medicine (MD) Internal Medicine Residency Program at University of Missouri Kansas City
Master's Degree Public Health, Master's Degree Public Health at Western Kentucky University
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