Tim Fitzpatrick

Tim Fitzpatrick is the co-founder and CEO of IKONA Health, a company that combines neuroscience, psychology, and storytelling to improve how patients learn about their health. His interest in the field resulted from his own experience as a patient while serving in the US Navy. After eighteen months filled with several back surgeries and hTim Fitzpatrick is the co-founder and CEO of IKONA Health, a company that combines neuroscience, psychology, and storytelling to improve how patients learn about their health. His interest in the field resulted from his own experience as a patient while serving in the US Navy. After eighteen months filled with several back surgeries and hundreds of painful wound care treatments, Tim became deeply aware of health literacy and accessibility barriers faced by patients across care settings. Following his recovery, Tim spent two years as an institutional equities trader for a bank in New York, where he covered the technology and media sectors. It was in this role that he began to see the potential of emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality in shaping the future of information delivery, particularly in healthcare settings. Building on his co-founders’ research on clinical applications of virtual reality, Tim launched IKONA Health in 2017 to help tackle the uncertainties he once faced in the Navy. He currently serves as Principal Investigator on research grants from the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense, is a member of StartUp Health’s Health Transformer portfolio, and was a Fellow in the inaugural cohort of On Deck Health Fellows that launch in April 2021.