Uday Kumar

Fellowship Director, Global Programs
Lecturer in Bioengineering, Stanford University
Founder & Chief Medical Officer, iRhythm Technologies, Inc.

Dr. Uday N. Kumar received his B.A. magna cum laude in Biochemistry from Harvard College in 1994 and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1998.  In his last year of medical school, he started working on an entrepreneurial project looking at the use of physical models in medicine.  After this project reached the semi-finals of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's $50K Entrepreneurship Competition in 1998, he spent the next year helping start Biomedical Modeling Inc., a company which focused on the use of rapid prototyping techniques to create models from CT, MRI, and three-dimensional echocardiography for use in presurgical planning, prosthetic creation, medical education, and health law.  He has performed research in the area of cardiac resynchronization therapy, leading to numerous articles and abstracts and a North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology Award.  He completed an internal medicine residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University in New York City in 2001, a cardiology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in June 2003 and cardiac electrophysiology training in June 2005.  During his time at UCSF, he has continued to pursue research projects focusing on cardiac electrophysiology devices and radiofrequency ablation. 

In 2006 he joined the Biodesign Innovation Fellowship and is now working on a company that has been started from research work he did there with his Fellowship team.