Sarah Matt, MD, MBA

Few people in healthcare have stood on both sides of the clinical-technology divide simultaneously. Sarah Matt trained as a surgeon, then spent a decade in the executive layer — VP at Oracle Health through the Cerner acquisition, VP at NextGen Healthcare, CSO at Sovato, and executive at ESO (acquired by Vista). She has been the physician in the boardroom and the executive on the hospital floor. That vantage point is what makes her sessions different. She doesn't explain healthcare AI from theory — she explains it from the implementation layer, where governance structures fail, where pilot programs stall, and where the gap between clinical workflow and product design becomes a patient safety issue. Her book, The Borderless Healthcare Revolution (Wiley, 2025), debuted on the USA Today bestseller list and held for two consecutive weeks. Her podcast, The Clinical Realist, reaches healthcare executives and health technology leaders weekly. Audiences leave with frameworks they can use the next morning — not a mindset shift, but a structural map.