Founder & Principal

Aurel Iuga, Founder and Principal

MD · MBA · MPH · CMQ · Board-Certified in Clinical Informatics

I work with healthcare investors and the operators they back - at the precise point where a clinical question, a data question, and a commercial question all need answering at once.

Most healthcare AI advisors come from one of those three sides. I've spent two decades on all three. Medicine first, with direct patient-care experience, then population health and analytics inside a national health plan, a population-health analytics platform, and a large healthcare enterprise. Pharmaceutical commercial strategy at a global consultancy in between. Translational research at Harvard Medical School and Mass General before any of it, with peer-reviewed publications and abstracts in neurobiology and dermatology.

I'm board-certified in Clinical Informatics and Preventive Medicine & Public Health, and Certified in Medical Quality. The result is a single advisor who can read a clinical algorithm, a payer P&L, and a deal model in the same conversation - and who understands how clinical evidence, coded data, and financial incentives actually align in production.

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Experience

Two decades at the intersection of clinic and code.

2013 - Present (independent since 2026)

Physician Executive

Population Health Management & Clinical Informatics · ex-Anthem · ex-CVS

✦Drove clinical strategy and informatics at the enterprise level across a national health plan, a population-health analytics platform, and a large healthcare enterprise - three organizations spanning the breadth of US managed care.
✦Architected hundreds of clinical algorithms and population-health analytics, from ICD/CPT/HCPCS/LOINC/NDC coded logic for health-status characterization to care-management program evaluations across millions of lives.
✦Partnered with data science teams at all three organizations to build production predictive models - preventing adverse drug events, monetizing care-management ROI, and operationalizing predictive capabilities from research into deployed product.
✦Championed enterprise AI/ML business cases and value-based care frameworks across emerging, commercial, state, and federal models - building financial models of projected economic impact, securing senior-leadership investment, and guiding product roadmaps for STAR ratings, HEDIS, risk adjustment, and care-management economics.
✦Served as lead clinical voice to executives, clients, and external physician review panels - across Client Advisory Boards, national RFP responses, conference keynotes, product-strategy sessions, and medical-director engagement.

2011 - 2013

Resident Physician, General Preventive Medicine & Public Health

Johns Hopkins University

✦Delivered outpatient preventive care at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians; taught Introduction to Public Health and Problem Solving in Public Health.
✦Practicums in occupational health at GlaxoSmithKline, health policy at FDA, quality programs at Booz Allen Hamilton, and public health administration at the Maryland Department of Health.
✦Basis for board certification by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.

2011 - 2013

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

✦Population health, epidemiology, and health policy training.

2009 - 2011

Healthcare Strategy Consultant

Simon-Kucher & Partners

✦Contributed to nine global consulting engagements for top-tier pharma and biotech on pricing, market access, and launch strategy; promoted to the next consultant level after 18 months.
✦Conducted qualitative interviews with KOLs and payers across the U.S. and EU-5 markets.
✦Performed statistical analysis to translate insight into commercial recommendations.

2007 - 2009

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

✦Finance concentration.

2002 - 2007

Research Fellow

Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital

✦Co-authored a Journal of Neuroscience paper identifying a novel mechanism of peripheral itch and pain signaling.
✦Contributed to two large research grant applications subsequently funded by the NIH and the Department of Defense.
✦Engineered cell-based systems to accelerate development of GPCR-targeted drugs.
✦Built image-analysis robotics to identify novel GPCR sensors for bio-agent detection.
✦Co-developed, with the U.S. Army, a cell-based product for water toxin detection.

Education & Credentials

A foundation built across three institutions and two continents.

Johns Hopkins University

Bloomberg School of Public Health · Baltimore, MD

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Epidemiology · Biostatistics · Health Policy · Clinical Trials

Duke University

The Fuqua School of Business · Durham, NC

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Merit Scholarship · Dean's List · Finance & Health Sector Management

Carol Davila University of Medicine & Pharmacy

Bucharest, Romania

Medical Doctor (MD)

Top 2% · Ranked 1st of 1,800 admitted candidates · Tempus & Constantinescu Scholarships

Certifications

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Board Certification in Clinical Informatics

American Board of Preventive Medicine · 2017

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Board Certification in General Preventive Medicine & Public Health

American Board of Preventive Medicine · 2014

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Certified in Medical Quality (CMQ)

American College of Medical Quality · 2017

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Pennsylvania State Medical License

Pennsylvania State Medical Board · 2013

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Residency, General Preventive Medicine & Public Health

Johns Hopkins University · 2011 - 2013

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Data Scientist with R Proficiency

DataCamp · 80+ hours · R, SQL, and Python for analytics

Let's Connect

Open to thoughtful collaborations.

Whether you're shaping a clinical strategy, evaluating a product roadmap, or exploring an opportunity in population health - I'd be glad to hear from you.

(919) 646-5154 Send a message

North Carolina, USA