Meet the Founders

James M. Levett, MD, is an expert in patient safety and high-risk procedures. He has performed over 10,000 cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgeries; and has authored or co-authored over 100 original articles, books, and scientific abstracts. Dr. Levett is a former Chair of Surgery at AH Lutheran General Hospital in Chicago, Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Universities of Chicago and Iowa, and Chief Medical Officer at Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa. He is also an expert in quality/reliability techniques, having co-authored a book on the use of ISO 9001 in healthcare and served as a former Healthcare Division Chair for the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and Baldrige National Quality Award National Examiner for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Travis Mathison, MSc, is a cognitive scientist who has guided the creation/marketing of 40+ apps for clinicians. He has consulted for large international companies on digital healthcare product development/marketing and has published research examining medical errors. Mathison completed his master's degree at University College Dublin, where he graduated first in his class. He then spent two years as a medical student at Vanderbilt University before pivoting into Health Tech entrepreneurship. Mathison holds professional certificates in: AI in healthcare (MIT), medical software (Yale), health informatics & data science (Johns Hopkins), AI strategy (UPenn), human-system interaction (UChicago), human factors (Duke), decision support (Dartmouth), generative AI (Vanderbilt), and more.