Billy Oglesby, PhD, MBA, MSPH, FACHE: short bio

Billy Oglesby builds health sciences institutions that produce measurable impact for students, faculty, and the communities they serve. He is the inaugural Humana Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health, the nation's first college of its kind, and Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives at Thomas Jefferson University, where he leads AI strategy.

He founded Health AI Central, an independent intelligence hub for the health AI field that runs on 40+ agents he designed and operates, and is founding Editor in Chief of the Journal of Health AI, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal with a published AI-use policy and humans making every judgment that matters. He chairs Intelligent Teaching: AI in Health Professions Education, a national conference whose first edition drew 200 attendees to 50 sessions.

He has published 50+ journal articles, chapters, and reports, given 70+ invited talks, and helped secure $40M+ in external funding. He is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Royal Society for Public Health.

How to describe him in one line: "Billy Oglesby is a university AI strategy executive and population health dean who builds on frontier AI models himself."