Cathy A. Petti

Dr. Petti serves as Senior Advisor to Outcome Capital’s diagnostics and digital health practices. She is a health technology executive and diagnostics expert with a unique combination of clinical, scientific and operational expertise, focusing her efforts in the molecular diagnostics, genomics and digital health verticles. She serves as a strategic, interim Chief Medical Officer providing companies with top-down market perspective and an extensive thought leader network. Dr. Petti supports strategic corporate activities related to technology assessments, clinical trial and regulatory strategies, and pathways to commercialization. She has assisted numerous companies across the value-add chain, successfully facilitating private equity financings, government contracts and merger and acquisition transactions amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. She serves on the Advisory Boards for Pathogenomix, Life365, and Becton Dickinson. As an entrepreneur supporting innovative early-stage technologies, Dr. Petti founded MoDx.ai, a knowledge domain platform integrating diagnostics, digital health and Artificial Intelligence.

Among her senior executive roles, Dr. Petti served as Global Head at Novartis Diagnostics where she was responsible for expanding global markets for their core products and building R&D teams for three de novo franchises. As Chief Health Officer at Ancestry, Dr. Petti built a direct-to-consumer genetic testing portfolio and served on the executive team that led to private equity investments at enterprise value of $2.6 billion. She also led ARUP Infectious Diseases Laboratory, one of the country’s largest infectious diseases laboratories and pioneered research in DNA sequencing.

Dr. Petti shares her expertise and leadership with several global non-profit organizations and regulatory agencies, including having chaired committees for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; served as program lead for Infectious Diseases Society of America; and advised the FDA Microbiology Device Committee. Previously, Dr. Petti was a Governor Appointee and member of the Board of Directors for Utah’s Science, Technology and Research (USTAR) Initiative. Committed to underserved populations, she received the College of American Pathologists’ Humanitarian Award for her work in providing diagnostic testing in sub-Saharan Africa;was awarded the 2015 ASM-IUSSTF Indo-US Professorship in Microbiology; and served as 2019 Visiting Professor to Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda.

As a practicing infectious diseases clinician, Dr. Petti provides a critically relevant understanding of healthcare drivers for adoption of new technologies. She has held academic appointments as Professor of Medicine and Pathology at leading institutions; and is frequently invited to speak on topics in clinical diagnostics, healthtech innovations, global health, and women’s entrepreneurship. Dr. Petti holds an AB from Harvard University and MD from Duke University. She is an internist, and dual board certified in infectious diseases and medical microbiology.