Vishaal Virani

Head of UK Health - YouTube & Co-founder - Doctorpreneurs

Vishaal Virani started his career as an NHS doctor, and subsequently transitioned into healthcare strategy consulting. He worked in strategy consulting for four years, with a particular focus on due diligence for private equity firms, and corporate strategy for hospitals and medical technology companies. He then chose to pursue a longstanding interest in leveraging digital health to improve patient outcomes - initially as business development and client success lead at Ada Health, a venture-backed AI health technology company; and then managing digital health solutions for a FTSE 100 consumer healthcare company that owns global brands such as Durex, Nurofen and Dettol. Vishaal now works at YouTube, where he is building out the brand new Health offering to support NHS organisations, clinician creators, and health charities across the UK to create high quality and engaging health content for billions of YouTube viewers globally. Vishaal is also a co-founder of Doctorpreneurs, the world’s largest community of medical innovators, governor of the Royal Free NHS Trust, visiting lecturer on digital health at the UCL Global Business School for Health, and advisor to several health tech startups. He has also previously served as a board member at the Youth Hostels Association and as a primary school governor.