Medical Advisory Board

Our Medical Advisory Board’s specialist clinicians possess broad knowledge and deep experience of physical and mental health issues, and how to apply AI and other technologies to address them. The advisory board is tasked with providing advice to deliver a personalized digital care service to address the broadest set of health issues, while ensuring its guidance is of the highest accuracy. 

Panos Sechopoulos, MD

Specialist in Gastroenterology

Arleen Chung, MD

Specialist in Pediatrics. Coordinator of the Medical Advisory Board

David Vigder, MD

Specialist in Internal Medicine focusing on Direct Primary Care

Benjamin Wiseman, MD

Specialist in Mental and Behavioral Health

Yunguo Yu, PhD, MD

Specialist in Healthcare and AI/Health Data-Driven Models

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  • Your health data will not be sold or used without your consent. Ever.
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Panos Sechopoulos, MD

Specialist in Gastroenterology. Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at HealthBook+. Leader of the Medical Advisory Board.

Panos Sechopoulos, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer at HealthBook+. In this position, he concentrates on platform and product functionality to deliver the best offering to individuals, with a particular focus on the health record component, predictive analytic models, and integration of possible future applications. Additionally, he oversees the organization of the company’s Medical Board of Advisors.

Panos is currently the Director of the Endoscopy Unit at Athens Medical Center in Athens, Greece. In his practice, he integrates clinical gastroenterology with functional medicine and genetics with the goal of providing personalized medicine to improve patient outcomes.

His passion for individualized healthcare and wellness resulted in the founding of Endotherapia, a team of scientists providing ultra-personalized wellness guidance. Endotherapia collates all available clinical, family history, and social data relating to an individual and combines it with biochemical and genetic testing to determine science-based wellness recommendations.

Following his medical education and early professional experience in the U.S., Panos was appointed Assistant Director at the Henry Dunant Hospital Center in Athens, where he had responsibility for Gastroenterology patients and oversaw the Advanced Endoscopy Unit.

At Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, he was an Assistant Professor, a position he was offered following his fellowship at the institution.

In his staff role, he undertook endoscopy duties and participated in outpatient clinics.

While working in the U.S., Panos was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and was a member of several healthcare organizations, including the American College of Physicians. He has co-authored or contributed to a dozen books and publications, covering strategies for treating and evaluating a range of medical conditions.

Panos attended the University of Texas, Austin for premed and the University of Alabama, Birmingham for medical school. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, where he also served as Chief Resident. He finished his Gastroenterology fellowship at Vanderbilt UMC.

Arleen Chung, MD

Specialist in Pediatrics. Coordinator of the Medical Advisory Board

Dr. Arleen Chung founded and runs an outpatient pediatrics practice in Athens, Greece, where she offers very personalized integrative pediatrics with a focus on children and families acquiring healthy habits from infancy. She emphasizes the importance of correct nutrition, movement, avoidance of toxins including videoscreens, as well as stressing the importance of sleep habits which ensure mind and body recovery. In particular, she seeks to understand family dynamics to be able to ensure optimal health for her patients. She especiallydevotes time to talking to teenagers and their parents during this often stress-filled time of life. 

Dr. Chung trained in the U.S. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a major in molecular biology and received her MD from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She completed her pediatrics training at Northwestern University Medical Center at Children’s Memorial Hospital (currently Lurie Children’s Hospital) in Chicago. She then spent time in the hospital’s NICU, ER, and Asthma Care Units before joining a Pediatrics private practice in Nashville, TN. 

David Vigder, MD

Specialist in Internal Medicine and Direct Primary Care

Dr. David Vigder is a highly experienced, board-certified Internal Medicine specialist with more than 28 years of experience in the medical field. He earned his medical degree from Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health in 1994. Following medical school, Dr. Vigder completed his residency at Rush Medical College in 1997.  

Since then, he has been practicing in the North Shore area of Chicago, IL, and is affiliated with prestigious hospitals such as NorthShore Hospital – Highland Park and Northwestern Hospital – Lake Forest. 

Dr. Vigder’s areas of expertise include preventive care, chronic disease management, geriatrics, and diagnostic medicine. He is known for his compassionate approach to patient care and his commitment to providing the highest quality medical services. 

Benjamin Wiseman, MD

Specialist in Mental and Behavioral Health

Dr. Benjamin Wiseman is a psychiatrist in Richmond, Virginia with more than 14 years of experience in the field. He currently serves as medical director of the behavioral health programs at Retreat Doctor’s Hospital and Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents. He has been with Insight Physicians since 2014 and has extensive experience in treating Mood Disorders, Psychotic Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Addiction & Substance Abuse.

He received his medical degree in 2009 from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Prior to medical school, he earned a master’s degree in computer science from UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Wiseman is a founding partner and active member of the Allied BHI team where he used his computing experience to help develop Allied BHI’s Registry Software. His goal is to use technology and innovative models of care to improve access to behavioral health services nationwide. 

Yunguo Yu, PhD, MD

Specialist in Healthcare and AI

Dr. Yunguo Yu is a full-stack data science and healthcare leader with a proven track record of jump-starting and transforming healthcare through award-winning data-driven solutions, delivering enhanced clinical and financial outcomes for payers, providers, and patients. He has conceptualized, developed, and deployed nearly 1,000 AI/ML models in the healthcare industry, delivering significant financial results, business value, and strategic growth. 

With expertise in data governance, strategy, and analytics, Dr. Yu has a proven ability to lead large cross-functional teams to build and deploy AI/ML solutions at scale in healthcare payers, providers, life sciences, and pharmaceutical industries. Applications have included healthcare risk adjustment, claim process automation, fraud detection, AI/ML-based healthcare underwriting, healthcare cost estimation, risk stratification, preventive and personalized medicine, targeted vaccine marketing and customer churning, prioritizing claim worklists, provider-matching and entity resolution, and claim pricing and cost management, medical image processing, and retrieval-augmented generation for medical information and knowledge retrieval.

In addition to his technical expertise, Dr. Yu has experience in establishing policies and procedures for managing and securing patient health data in compliance with HIPAA regulations and has developed and executed data strategies for EHR platforms that identify sources of patient data, create data models, and implement data analytics infrastructure to support AI/ML models. He has also built predictive models and analytics tools that process patient data in real-time to provide personalized recommendations for patient care.