Priya M.

Journey

Every stop on the trail taught me something about patients.

Clinical care, hospital administration, health plans, and now clinical research technology. Here's the path, and what I'm building along it.

The trail so far

I started in healthcare as a clinician, not a coder.

Four waypoints, and what I carried forward from each.

  1. 2006

    KEM Hospital, Mumbai

    Clinical care

    Bachelor of Physiotherapy, Seth G.S. Medical College & KEM Hospital

    “Assess before you treat. Every plan starts with the person in front of you.”

  2. 2016

    TISS, Mumbai

    Hospital administration

    Master of Hospital Administration, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

    “Care is a system. Workflows, staffing and data decide what a clinician can actually do.”

  3. 2018

    Optum (UnitedHealth Group)

    Product Owner

    Provider solutions and CMS Risk Adjustment

    “At scale, data quality is patient care. Millions of records, zero room for sloppiness.”

  4. 2019

    Talosix, Seattle

    Product Owner → Technical Product Manager

    Clinical trial platform, from study management to the next-generation EDC

    “Regulated doesn't have to mean painful. Compliance and delight can ship together.”

Experience

2022 — Present

Talosix

Technical Product Manager

Own product strategy and requirements for core modules of TalOS, Talosix's AI-enabled clinical trial platform, including its next-generation EDC.

  • →Leading requirements for eight platform areas of the next-gen EDC, from study setup through database lock, plus the foundational specs they share.
  • →Identified new clinical research opportunities through market research, leading to a 15% reduction in trial startup times.
  • →Shipped data capture and reporting improvements that took data entry from 50 minutes to under 10 minutes per instrument.
  • →Drive adoption of new AI features, with daily metric tracking and weekly and monthly business reviews for leadership.

2019 — 2022

Talosix

Product Owner

Ran two enterprise scrum teams building Talosix's clinical trial management platform.

  • →Managed two enterprise scrum teams (7+ members) on a platform generating $1M in annual revenue.
  • →Built the analytics dashboards and reporting layer for clinical trial management.
  • →Ran user research and usability testing with sites and sponsors to validate features before build.

2018 — 2019

Optum (UnitedHealth Group)

Product Owner

Led provider solutions and CMS Risk Adjustment teams.

  • →Ensured accurate CMS data submissions across millions of records, contributing to 20% YoY revenue growth.
  • →Drove expansion into new market segments and a cloud migration, growing customer acquisition by 10%.
  • →Raised customer satisfaction scores by 15% through tighter backlog management and user collaboration.

Work

What I've helped build

Seven years at Talosix, an AI-enabled clinical research platform used by sponsors, CROs and providers. Before that, CMS Risk Adjustment products at Optum.

Live at Talosix

  • Electronic Data Capture

    Faster data entry for sites: from 50 minutes to under 10 per instrument.

  • Patient Screening

    AI-assisted identification of eligible trial participants.

  • Patient Engagement

    ePRO and surveys that patients complete from home.

  • Study management & reporting

    Analytics dashboards and reporting for sponsors, CROs and sites.

Building now

  • Next-generation Talosix EDC

    Rebuilding study setup through database lock around AI assistance, with a human in the lead.

  • AI-assisted study startup

    Getting from protocol to a live study faster, with reviewable AI suggestions instead of blank forms.

Exploring, after SCDM 2026

  • Cutting data-cleaning burden, not moving it

    Where AI actually removes work for data managers versus shifting it upstream.

  • Risk-proportionate design

    Not every data point deserves equal scrutiny. Designing checks around what matters.

  • Fit-for-purpose data collection

    Collect what the protocol needs, not everything that's possible.

  • Continuous evidence & monitoring

    Governance designed in from the start, not assembled after the fact.

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