Speaker's Profile

Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, MD, PhD, FACEP, FAMIA, FAIM, is Vice President of Innovation at Vituity and Inflect Health, where he leads the design and deployment of technology that expands clinical capacity across one of the nation's largest physician-led acute care organizations. He is also a practicing emergency physician who still works regular shifts on the front line, which stress-tests every idea he champions against real patients and real operational constraints.Joshua works at the intersection of four perspectives that rarely sit in one person: two decades in healthcare operations, an active clinical practice, an earlier career as a software engineer, and a PhD in statistics. That combination lets him separate the problems that look like workforce shortages from the ones that are really bottlenecks in scheduling, throughput, documentation, and care-model design. In the emergency department, he has seen firsthand how behavioral health patients board for hours or days, not always because clinicians are scarce, but because the system around them is not built to move them to the right care.At Inflect Health, Vituity's innovation and venture arm, he partners with founders, health systems, and clinicians to turn promising tools into operational reality, with a consistent insistence that the patient remain a stakeholder in every design decision. His work spans applied AI, clinical workflow redesign, and the unglamorous operational changes that actually move access and outcomes.At BHT2026, Joshua moderates "Provider Shortage or Operational Bottlenecks?", a session built around a question he confronts every shift: when access breaks down, are we truly short on people, or short on the systems that let people do their best work? He brings a clinician's eye, an operator's discipline, and a builder's curiosity to a debate at the center of behavioral health's access crisis.