About Primary.Health: Built by people who were in the field

Andrew Kobylinski is passionate about bringing consumer-friendly solutions to a complex health care system. This core principle led him to create a simpler, low-barrier, more accessible way to run public health initiatives including COVID-19 testing and vaccination.

In March of 2020, Andrew co-founded Primary.Health, a software platform that helps government agencies, community-based organizations, school districts, and health systems organize, streamline, and automate their testing and vaccine programs. Since then, Primary.Health has supported millions of tests and vaccines administered across 25 states.

Andrew has more than 15 years of innovative experience working with digital health start-ups as a founder, leader and driver of growth. Previously he was Head of Platform at BetterDoctor, a platform that enables health care consumers, physicians, and insurers to access accurate provider directories. BetterDoctor was acquired by Quest Analytics, where Andrew led corporate development and oversaw the integration of teams and processes to create a unified provider network management system. He has also helped launch several consumer health portals including Healthline.com as well as search engines for Aetna, Genentech, and UnitedHealthGroup.

In his free time, Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife, Andrea, and toddler, Lexi.

Chris Zhu believes that the quicker you get something built, the sooner it can be tested and improved. His engineering and product management talents were key to building the platform quickly during the pandemic response.

Before coming to Primary, Chris worked as software engineer for big tech including building algorithms for Facebook and Instagram and as a lead engineer for Airbnb where he used ML and AI to develop a chatbot platform that powered Airbnb’s customer support.

A challenge Chris would like to solve in the healthcare space is how to create a patient centric EHR that empowers people to carry their healthcare data with them and be able to transfer it seamlessly between hospitals and providers. Chris is also interested in volunteering in environments where he can teach software skills to people, as well as developing and maintaining open source software.

In his free time, Chris enjoys reading and playing multiple sports including golf, hockey, volleyball and tennis.

Jessica has more than 15 years of experience working in the healthcare industry including mergers and acquisitions, financial forecasts, integrations, process improvement, leadership solutions and as a primary driver of innovation and growth. Before joining Primary.Health, she was the Senior Director for Healthline, a top ranked health publisher, “Dedicated to making health and wellness information accessible, understandable, and actionable so that readers can make the best possible decisions about their health.”

At Healthline, Jessica created and led the Center of Excellence Department which identified challenging problems and created viable solutions. She enjoys taking on challenging projects that have historically been stuck in a rut, and deemed impossible, and turning those challenges into success stories.

Jessica is passionate about health care and empowering people with quality health information. She is particularly interested in solutions for people living with obesity and diabetes in the US.

Jessica is a world traveler who spent more than two years living in Latin America. She enjoys spending time with her family, kids, and her little “Heinz 57” dog Maddie.

Claudine Woo, PhD MPH, leads public health at Primary.Health and serves as principal investigator for our research studies.

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Prior to joining Primary.Health as a Medical Director Consultant, Aditya Chandrasekhar, MD, MPH has been at Fenway Health since 2014, first as a Primary Care Physician and as a Lead Physician since 2016. Dr. Chandrasekhar earned his MD from Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India and his MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Chandrasekhar completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is a Linde Fellow in Primary Care Leadership at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chandrasekhar’s areas of clinical interest include LGBTQIA+ health and HIV care.

Rafid Fadul, MD, MBA is a physician and health tech executive who is focused on using technology to improve care at population scale.

He is triple board certified (internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care). He completed his medicine training at Georgetown University while doing his MBA at Johns Hopkins, followed by training in pulmonary/critical care at the Cleveland Clinic. He has published extensively in clinical medicine, health economics, and digital health, and has presented nationally and internationally on the same. Dr. Fadul also serves on the Board of Directors for MedWish International and leads medical missions overseas.

Katie Kowals is a highly experienced multi-state Registered Nurse with over a decade of expertise in Emergency Room medicine and trauma services. With a deep passion for leveraging innovation and technology to provide high-quality healthcare to all, Katie moved from the bedside into telehealth nursing. Drawing on her extensive background in Emergency medicine and community health, Katie brings a wide range of skills to the tele-health space, including patient acuity prioritization, STI testing and counseling, women’s health, and above all, patient safety practices. Through her work, Katie is committed to expanding access to healthcare and improving health outcomes for individuals and communities.