# Matthew Gitelis

> Matthew Gitelis is the founder and CEO of PatientIQ, a Chicago-based healthcare analytics platform that automates the collection of patient-reported outcomes and turns them into actionable insight for providers. A former BMO Capital Markets investment banking analyst who then enrolled at Rush Medical College, he founded PatientIQ in 2016 after watching clinicians extract outcomes data by hand. He left medical school in 2019 to run the company full-time. Under his leadership PatientIQ has grown into a national network reaching hundreds of healthcare organizations, thousands of care sites, and millions of patients, and raised roughly $26M in venture funding through a 2022 Series B.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at PatientIQ
- **Organizations:** PatientIQ, BMO Capital Markets, Rush Medical College, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Medical student (attended 2016-2019, did not complete), Rush Medical College
- **Known for:** Founded PatientIQ in 2016 and grew it into a national healthcare analytics network, Author on more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, Presented at global academic meetings

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Investment banking analyst at BMO Capital Markets, advising on M&A and capital raises across Chicago, New York and Toronto
- **2016** — Enrolled at Rush Medical College and founded PatientIQ while conducting outcomes research at Chicago academic medical centers
- **2016-2019** — Senior/outcomes researcher at NorthShore University HealthSystem and Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush University Medical Center
- **2019** — Left Rush Medical College to lead PatientIQ full-time as CEO
- **2022** — PatientIQ raised a $20M Series B (May 2022), bringing total funding to roughly $26M

## Achievements

- Founded PatientIQ in 2016 and grew it into a national healthcare analytics network
- Author on more than 30 peer-reviewed publications
- Presented at global academic meetings
- Built a network spanning 800+ healthcare organizations and 12,000+ sites of care
- Platform supporting 14+ million patients and 50+ million patient-reported outcomes collected
- Raised roughly $26M in venture funding including a 2022 Series B

## Latest updates

- **2022-05** — PatientIQ closed a $20M Series B round, bringing total funding to roughly $26M.

## Links

- Website: https://patientiq.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewgitelis/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/patientiq
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/PatientIQ/

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Last updated: 2026-07-01