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Funke Pickering, M.D.

Senior Medical Director

Olufunke (Funke) Pickering, M.D., brings 18 years of experience in healthcare to ensure Inovalon’s solutions are clinically sound and reflective of real-world practice.

Her focus spans clinical specifications for payer risk to therapeutic area and ontology development for clinical trial solutions.

A pediatrician by training, she practiced full-time through 2018 and continued in a clinical capacity through 2023, while also serving as Senior Medical Advisor for the Baltimore City Health Department’s Bureau of Maternal and Child Health and on its Maternal and Infant Mortality and Child Fatality Review Board.

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Areas of Expertise

Vaccines, immunizations, and preventive care
Technology adoption in clinical practice
Data-driven healthcare innovation
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Social drivers of health (SDOH)

Current Focus at Inovalon

Funke Pickering, M.D., ensures Inovalon’s solutions are clinically sound and grounded in real-world practice, working across Inovalon’s product lines.

For our Payer business, she owns the flowchart specifications for the analytics within Inovalon’s Converged Risk™ and leads QA. For our Real-World Data & Insights solutions, she develops therapeutic areas and clinical groups for the company’s clinical trial solution and partners with the AI team on ontology development. In our Pharmacy business, she leads clinical groups and configuration for Inovalon’s DataStream® clinical intelligence engine supporting specialty pharmacy.

She also chairs Inovalon’s Clinical Collaboration Council.

Speaking Topics

Vaccines and immunizations
Technology in clinical practice
Data-driven healthcare innovation
AI adoption in healthcare
SDOH

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I originally became a pediatrician because I wanted to help set kids on the right path to becoming healthy, productive adults. But as electronic health records became the norm, I realized I could make an even bigger impact. I saw that by actually using the data we collect every day, we can rethink how we deliver care and do so much better for our patients.”
Funke Pickering

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