About us
The mission of Metis Health is to create innovative solutions that harmonize healthcare and technology, promote patient safety, and generate value for our customers. Our team draws experience from various aspects of healthcare, from hospital administration to industry to academia.
Our software was born after going through countless Joint Commission surveys where hospitals were cited for having expired medications and supplies in their code carts and kits. This is a major vulnerability for all hospitals that do not have a technology safety system in their workflow. Paper documentation lacks safety double checks, is extremely difficult and tedious to go through, and lacks 100% transparency of what and where your inventory is throughout your hospital. RFID technology is a prohibitively expensive solution, especially for larger hospitals that require more inventory. In addition, proper code cart management requires coordination between multiple departments: pharmacy, supply chain, and nursing. Metis seeks to fill this gap with our cloud-based multidisciplinary software platform.
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Leadership team
David Ngo, PharmD, BCPS
Chief Executive Officer, Founder
Dr. David Ngo is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Metis Health. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Psychobiology from the University of California Los Angeles. He then traveled to the east coast to attend pharmacy school at the University of Maryland Baltimore, where he obtained his Doctorate of Pharmacy. He completed his PGY-1 residency at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He is currently practicing as the Clinical Informatics Pharmacist at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center where he employs his strengths in healthcare and technology to drive clinical practice at a health-system level. In addition, he also draws from his previous experience as the Clinical Pharmacy Manager at Holy Cross Germantown Hospital, where he managed the clinical operations of the pharmacy department. As the Clinical Pharmacy Manager, David won multiple awards, including: Star of the Quarter 3 times in the last 4 years, Stop the Line Award for patient safety, and honorable mention in Baxter's Leadership Excellence Awards in Pharmacy. David is also an assistant clinical professor at University of Maryland Baltimore School of Pharmacy, where he won the Preceptor of the Year award in 2015. He is currently on Maryland Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ Board of Directors and is treasurer of the University of Maryland Alumni Association.
At Holy Cross, David has viewed the vulnerabilities of paper documentation as it is performed through many different health systems and wanted to use his knowledge of technology to bring healthcare and patient safety forward. As the Clinical Pharmacy Manager, David identified opportunities for improved clinical outcomes and cost-effective management through implementation of pharmacy initiatives and protocols. He engaged in collaborative hospital leadership meetings to ensure regulatory compliance, quality, and patient safety. Dr. Ngo instituted education modules for clinical enhancement and continued education of pharmacy and medical staff. In addition, he collaborated with the pharmacy operations manager and pharmacy buyer to ensure compliance with the 340B program.
Dr. Ngo was highly involved in leadership and management within the health system. He represented the pharmacy department in multidisciplinary leadership committees. collaborated with hospital leadership in the implementation of patient care initiatives and optimization of workflow processes, and ensured harmonization of practices across Holy Cross Health hospitals and within Trinity Health’s 96 hospitals. He was the lead diversion officer of the controlled substances diversion committee, and was a core member of the following committees: Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Medication Safety, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Code Blue, Hospital Acquired Infection Prevention, Infection Control Champion, Clostridium Difficile Task Force, Falls, and American College of Clinical Pharmacy Critical Care PRN group. During his tenure at Holy Cross Germantown Hospital, he was able to deploy the alpha version of the software. In addition, he has been invited as a speaker for various healthcare organizations, such as the Maryland Pharmacist Association (MPhA) innovation conference.
Daniel Shu, PharmD
Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Daniel Shu is the co-founder and COO of Metis Health. Daniel has a strong passion in providing practical solutions for the healthcare field, and brings to the team experience from both the industry as well as the government. He obtained his bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and his Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. During his time in pharmacy school, Daniel completed internships at Teva, Procter & Gamble, and the Food and Drug Administration. Prior to completing school, Daniel also worked at Adventist Healthcare as a pharmacy analyst, helping to implement workflow changes involving supply chain to reduce pharmacy costs for the health system.
Following pharmacy school, Daniel completed his postdoctoral Rutgers Pharmaceutical Industry Fellowship in global regulatory affairs at AstraZeneca, where he is currently a Director of Regulatory Affairs, Oncology. Daniel leads the end to end planning, coordination, and execution of global clinical trial applications for multiple oncology and immuno-oncology development programs.
With Metis, Daniel strives to create cost-effective as well as patient-focused solutions, using technology to bridge gaps in the healthcare system.
Tony Shu
Chief Technology Officer
Serving as the Chief Technology Officer of Metis Health, Tony Shu is responsible for leading product development and cloud architecture. He is currently enrolled as a Computer Science Major at the University of Maryland, College Park. Along with classes, he has always tried to grow his skills as a developer, learning languages such as C# .NET, Python, and MS SQL Server on the side.
Having a passion for data driven research, Tony has years of experience in research in various fields such as healthcare and energy. Tony has worked at the National Institute of Health, Center for Information Technology, High Performance Computing and Informatics Office, researching bioinformatics pipelines for various sequencing techniques such as ATAC-seq and BS-seq. Tony has also worked at ExxonMobil working alongside PhD researchers in improving energy projections along with electric vehicle research. Tony utilized historical data analysis and regressions to provide support for projections relating to Natural Gas commodities. Tony has also designed simulations for electric vehicle fleet management operations and their electric demand on city grids has also broadened his horizons to always keep a vision on the future.
His passion for the mission of Metis drives him as Tony believes that more accurate software and newer technologies will improve quality of life but also patient safety. Using Amazon’s leading cloud platform to build products as a full-stack developer, he always keeps his vision on the future with scaling and growth in mind.
Dev Vadalia
Full Stack Engineer
As a lead developer of Metis, Dev Vadalia helps with the software development and quality control. He is currently enrolled as a Computer Science and Finance double major at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Having previous experience as a programmer for telecommunications company GL Communications Inc., Dev has worked with software to link communication between multiple products utilizing Google ProtoBufs. This furthered his understanding of the role that informatics plays in the technological world and aims to incorporate it into healthcare. With his business background, he is familiar with analytics and how it can be a powerful tool in any sector. As data begins to play a bigger role in the world at large, Dev aims to help manage the increase and utilize it to create more efficient, robust services. Having seen the importance of computer science in the finance sector, he aims to bring the utility that computer science affords to the field of healthcare. Additionally, with his business background, he aims to bring his valuation and cost analysis skills to the company. Working on the Metis project has lead him to understand the importance of patient safety and push to enhance the measures that are already in place.