Company leader
Michael Gao
Co-Founder and CEO
SmarterDx
Michael Gao is a physician and co-founder and chief executive of SmarterDx, which reads a hospital chart for diagnoses and quality gaps the billing team missed.
Medicine at the University of Michigan
He earned a bachelor of science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a medical degree from the University of Michigan. He completed an internal medicine residency and the Silverman Fellowship for Healthcare Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
Leading AI at NewYork-Presbyterian
He was an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell and medical director for transformation at NewYork-Presbyterian, where he led applied artificial intelligence for the health system. In 2020 he founded SmarterDx because that work showed him hospitals were missing diagnoses and quality gaps in their charts.
In 2025 SmarterDx was acquired and Smarter Technologies was launched to take the same chart review to more health systems. He is president of Smarter Technologies and remains chief executive of SmarterDx.