Product leader · Healthcare AI · Medtech

Vaishali Mittal

I build products that improve patients’ lives, and I advise the teams behind them.

Surgical robotics, clinical AI, SaMD, and cardiovascular imaging. Open to advisory, board, and product leadership conversations.

Vaishali Mittal

15 years building regulated healthcare products

IntuitiveGroup Manager, Product Management, Future Platforms & Clinical AI
Bayesian HealthHead of Product
Philips / VolcanoCardiovascular imaging & physiology
PenumbraInterventional products

Selected work

Products I’ve built and launched

Capital equipment, software, AI/ML, and consumables, carried from first customer discovery through FDA strategy, launch, and hospital adoption.

01Bayesian Health

EHR-integrated AI sepsis platform

First product hire. Built the product organization across product, design, clinical, regulatory, and quality, and led the launch of an EHR-integrated AI sepsis product at Cleveland Clinic and LifeBridge Health. Developed the FDA De Novo strategy and secured Breakthrough Device Designation.

Clinical AISaMDEHR workflow
02Intuitive

Future robotic-surgery platforms & clinical AI

Lead product for future robotic-surgery platforms and clinical AI, spanning da Vinci multiport systems, software, AI/ML, and the compute portfolio. Developed company-wide strategic planning processes built around surgeon needs, problem areas, and customer clusters.

Surgical roboticsAI/MLCapital equipment
03Philips / Volcano

iFR coronary physiology & cardiovascular imaging

Led zero-to-one cardiovascular imaging and physiology products from concept through launch. Co-inventor on an iFR coronary physiology patent that helped move the field beyond hyperemia-dependent measurement.

ImagingInterventional cardiologyZero to one
04Penumbra

Coronary mechanical thrombectomy

Launched Penumbra's first coronary mechanical thrombectomy product, taking an interventional device from development into cath-lab adoption and building the commercial launch playbook alongside clinical teams.

ConsumablesCath labLaunch
15years building regulated healthcare products
4modalities: capital equipment, software, AI/ML, and consumables
2major health systems running EHR-integrated AI I helped launch
0→1repeated zero-to-one launches across imaging, robotics, and clinical AI

Advisory focus

How I work with teams

The strongest fit is a team that needs product judgment across customer discovery, clinical workflow, AI capability, regulatory strategy, launch, and adoption.

Clinical AI product strategy

Define AI products around clinician workflows, not just model capability: evaluation loops, trust mechanisms, and adoption metrics that survive real hospital deployment.

Regulated product & SaMD

Use regulatory strategy as a product lever. Shape the roadmap around FDA, safety, evidence, and claims constraints early enough to avoid late-stage surprises.

Hospital workflow & GTM

Move from pilot enthusiasm to repeatable implementation: training, launch, value proof, and executive buyer alignment inside health systems.

Product org design

Build product functions from zero: discovery cadence, roadmap discipline, and the PM leadership founder-led teams need to scale.

Working vocabulary: EHR/EMR · DICOM · PACS · De Novo · Breakthrough Device Designation · Q-Sub · human factors · clinical evidence

The lab

Once a builder, always a builder.

Fifteen years in product hasn’t made me stop shipping. Each of these is a real product with a real user, a roadmap, and a release history. I use them daily and build them with the same discipline I bring to clinical products.

Vault

A local-first knowledge base for articles, videos, and ideas worth finding again: capture, triage, search, and synthesis over plain Markdown files that stay the source of truth. Versioned releases, with an MIT-licensed engine built for others to run.

Local-firstKnowledge baseMarkdown

Product Career Ops

An agent-first career operating system built on Claude Code: connected job-search and development loops, opportunity scorecards, and coaching modes, with a public engine kept cleanly separate from private data.

Claude CodeAgentsPython

Women Defining AI platform

Product contribution to the Women Defining AI community platform: event tooling and instructor guides that support the community's AI learning cohorts.

CommunityProductNext.js

Agentic household experiments

FamilyOS and Tradclaw: hands-on experiments running real household operations through Claude-powered agents, to understand where agentic workflows hold up and where they break.

AgentsClaude Cowork

More on GitHub →

Engagements

Ways to work together

Most engagements are advisory, board, or fractional. When the fit is unusually strong, I’m open to going deeper.

  • Advisory roles for founders and product teams
  • Board or board-observer support where clinical product judgment matters
  • Fractional CPO work for focused 0-to-1 or 1-to-10 mandates
  • Investor and portfolio-company product diligence

Strongest fit

Clinical AI and clinician decision supportSoftware as a Medical DeviceAI-enabled medtech and procedural roboticsMedical imaging AI and diagnostic workflowProvider workflow AI for health systemsSeed to Series C teams entering regulated healthcare markets

Get in touch

Useful for a founder, investor, or portfolio company?

I am open to advisory, board, and fractional CPO conversations where regulated healthcare product judgment can materially change the trajectory.

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