SYLVIE LEOTIN

Sylvie Leotin is a human systems architect bridging lived experience and systems engineering to advance patient safety and healthcare equity. She is the founder of Equify Health, where she draws on three decades of systems engineering and technology leadership to translate lived patient experience into system-level insight.

Her work addresses a persistent oversight in modern healthcare: the gap between institutional success metrics and the destabilization patients can experience even when care meets standards. By examining healthcare as an interacting architecture, Sylvie shows how risk and inequity can accumulate outside institutional detection—not through negligence, but through what systems are designed to perceive.

This methodology is supported by $1.75 million in innovation grant funding from Genentech and research conducted in collaboration with Emory School of Medicine. It represents a shift in how healthcare organizations detect risk, positioning lived exposure as a critical source of system-level insight not captured by conventional metrics.

Before experiencing healthcare as a cancer patient, Sylvie spent two decades in Silicon Valley working at the intersection of human needs and complex systems. She began her career at NASA and Oracle and later advised venture-backed companies on human-centered design and product strategy. She holds an M.S. in Engineering–Economic Systems from Stanford University and was a visiting scholar in Stanford’s robotics laboratory, studying intelligent sensing systems.

Sylvie serves as faculty with the Medical Education Speakers Network and lectures nationally to clinical, academic, and leadership audiences. She has delivered invited talks and keynotes at leading medical institutions, and her work has been featured in The Boston Globe, STAT, and the Journal of Patient Experience.