Ray Dorsey MD, MBA

Dr. Ray Dorsey holds a Bachelor of Science in biological sciences from Stanford University and a joint MD/MBA degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School. Upon graduation, Dr. Dorsey spent two years at McKinsey & Company consulting for pharmaceutical and tech companies during the dot-com boom.

Dr. Dorsey returned to medicine, completing his residency at the University of Pennsylvania after an internship in Chicago. During the neurology track, Dr. Dorsey fell in love with the intricacies of the human brain. When his residency was complete, he and his family moved to Rochester, New York, where Dr. Dorsey was a fellow in movement disorders and experimental therapeutics at the University of Rochester before going on to become Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology.

From 2010 through 2013, Dr. Dorsey served as Associate Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. There, he was the Director of the Movement Disorder (Parkinson’s disease) Division and of Neurology Telemedicine, where he created a pioneering virtual care program that reached patients across six continents.

In 2014, he returned to Rochester as the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology and Co-Director of the Center for Health and Technology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Over the next 12 years, he helped transform Rochester into a hub for telemedicine and clinical trials, developing innovative care models that bring medicine directly to patients in their homes and communities. “Most of our training as doctors is in hospitals,” he says, “but I quickly saw that most of medicine takes place in the real world.” His patient-centered approach led to virtual clinics for Parkinson’s patients and pushed health care delivery beyond traditional settings.