Sumbul Ahmad Desai, MD, serves as Vice President of Health at Apple, overseeing health initiatives including health product development, medical research, and partnerships. She also leads the regulatory and quality teams at Apple.

As part of Apple’s work in health, Dr. Desai and her team are deeply involved in the development of Apple’s consumer health tools. These include the new Hearing Test and Hearing Aid features on AirPods Pro 2 and sleep apnea notifications on Apple Watch, adding to the many features her team has worked on, including the ECG app, irregular rhythm notifications, retrospective ovulation estimates, Vitals app, sleep tracking and mental health features.

Dr. Desai and her team also are working with the world’s leading scientific institutions, including Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Heart Association, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the World Health Organization, to conduct landmark clinical studies and advance discovery with iPhone and Apple Watch, including a meaningful new approach to studying depression and anxiety with the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Desai recently served as Vice Chair of Strategy and Innovation in the Department of Medicine at Stanford Medicine, as well as Associate Chief Medical Officer at Stanford Healthcare. She also serves as Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine.