Dr. Sowmya Sanapala is the Associate Director of Innovation and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM). She joined WCM as a Healthcare Leadership and Management (HLM) fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine where she concurrently completed Cornell’s Executive MBA and MS degrees and was the Dr. Lorna Breen Scholar. During her fellowship, Dr. Sanapala focused on health care innovation, particularly in advancing the adoption of digital health platforms and augmented reality. Currently, her team is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing telemedicine and remote patient monitoring to advance patient care. She is passionate about fostering leadership in healthcare and serves as Co-Director of the HLM Elective and HLM Scholars’ Summer Program, and as an Associate Director for the HLM Fellowship. Dr. Sanapala earned her MD from Stony Brook and completed her residency at Montefiore-Jacobi, where she was a Chief Resident.