Vasant Kearney
Bio
Vasant Kearney is CEO of Onlay AI, where he builds agentic healthcare revenue-cycle infrastructure across claims, eligibility, attachments, payer follow-up, payment posting, and bank reconciliation. He previously co-founded and served as CTO of Retrace, an AI company in healthcare automation. Before startups, Vasant was an Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology at UCSF, completed a UCSF medical physics residency, and earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. He mentored radiation oncology residents at UCSF and machine learning students at USF. His scientific work spans a broad range of topics, including generative MRI-to-CT translation, tumor localization, anatomy segmentation, treatment-planning optimization, Nvidia CUDA programming, and dental disease classification. Vasant has published numerous peer-reviewed healthcare AI papers and served as a reviewer and associate editor for high-impact journals. His work sits at the intersection of healthcare operations, regulated workflows, multimodal AI, and production agent systems.
Session (1)
Vasant Kearney is a PhD-trained AI researcher (UCSF radiation oncology medical physics) who applied deep learning to radiation oncology and dental imaging—including as CTO at dental-AI company Retrace—before co-founding and leading Onlay AI as CEO, a company automating dental practice revenue cycle management including insurance verification and claims processing. Attending his session would offer insight into how specialized AI agents are being deployed in healthcare administration, drawing on a rare combination of academic medical AI research and hands-on startup experience in dental practice automation.
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