Episode 445: Dr. Bhargav Patel

Dr. Patel is a physician-leader and interdisciplinary innovator working at the forefront of healthcare transformation, AI-powered clinical tools, and science-based wellness. He is a NIMH-funded research fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Brown University, and the Founding Medical Director and Director of AI Decision Support at Sully.ai, a pioneering platform delivering intelligent clinical support tools for physicians. At Sully.ai, Dr. Patel helps guide the design and implementation of AI-powered clinician support systems that are already being used across tens of millions of patient visits. He focuses on ensuring these tools improve care quality, reduce errors, and align with real-world clinical workflows and physician trust. As a clinician and strategist, he brings a human-centered lens to healthcare technology — grounded in both evidence and empathy. Beyond AI, Dr. Patel is also the Co-Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientific Officer of myPEAK, an award-winning vegan nutrition and wellness company focused on creating high-performance, science-backed vegan supplements. Founded when he was in medical school, myPEAK has grown rapidly under his leadership, earning recognition for its clean formulations, sustainability focus, and triple-digit growth in the health optimization space. Dr. Patel earned his undergraduate degree at Vadnerbilt University where he studied philosophy, religious studies, and psychology, MD and psychiatry residency from the Medical College of Georgia, and a child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Brown University. He also completed a Healthcare MBA from the University of Arizona, and pursued advanced specializations in AI in Healthcare from Stanford and Vanderbilt and Hopkins. His work bridges the clinical, strategic, and entrepreneurial realms — with a vision for reshaping healthcare from the inside out. His forthcoming book, Trauma Transformed, explores trauma, resilience, and healing through the lens of psychiatry, neuroscience, and integrative care — offering fresh insights into how we grow through adversity. Whether discussing healthcare innovation, physician entrepreneurship, trauma recovery, or high-performance wellness, Dr. Patel brings a rare, cross-disciplinary perspective to every conversation — one rooted in lived clinical experience, system-level thinking, and a mission to humanize the future of healthcare.