Dr. Kahlon is a behavioral neuroscientist and pioneering health tech leader transforming how human connection and AI can be harnessed to improve member health outcomes at scale. As CEO of Beheld, she leads the development of a novel, virtual-first model that blends regular, empathetic phone-based conversations with members and AI-driven insights, thus unlocking critical behavioral and social data traditional systems often miss. Her model, grounded in National Institutes of Health-funded research and published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, has demonstrated clinically significant health improvements and redefined how trust-based data can drive early intervention and care personalization. Previously, she served as founding vice dean of University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and executive director of San Francisco-based UCSF’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute, where she led award-winning innovations in collaborative data systems and researcher networks.
