Dominic King, MD, PhD

Dominic King is Vice President of Health at Microsoft AI, where he leads work to bring cutting-edge AI into consumer and clinical health experiences. A surgeon and health-tech founder by training, he’s focused on evidence-based ways to apply AI that improve patient outcomes and safety at scale.

He previously led health teams at DeepMind and then Google Health (UK) after co-founding Hark, a clinical task-management app developed at Imperial College London and later acquired by DeepMind; he subsequently held executive roles at UnitedHealth Group/Optum building clinical technology products.

Dominic trained as a surgeon at Imperial College London, where he remains an honorary lecturer, and completed a PhD in behavioural economics (and an MEd in surgical education). He earned medical/undergraduate degrees at the Universities of St Andrews, Manchester and Imperial. He is also a trustee at The King’s Fund.