# Ryan Gallagher

> Ryan Gallagher is a Stanford- and Harvard-trained physician turned founder who runs Clarion, the AI communication layer for healthcare. After helping build two breakout digital-health companies, Two Chairs and Ophelia, to $100M+ valuations, he started Clarion in 2024 to fix the unglamorous problem that swallows clinics whole: the phone. Clarion's AI agents answer the calls, texts and web chats that overwhelm front desks, handling scheduling, billing, refills and referrals end to end across 84+ EHR systems. Backed by Accel, Y Combinator and Sequoia scouts, the New York company already serves tens of thousands of patients a month.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-founder at Clarion
- **Organizations:** Clarion, Ophelia, Two Chairs
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MD (physician training), Stanford University School of Medicine, Harvard (medical training), Internal medicine internship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Yale University
- **Known for:** Helped build Two Chairs and Ophelia to $100M+ valuations as a founding-team member, Co-founded Clarion and raised $5.4M from Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia scouts and notable healthcare founders, Got into Y Combinator's W24 batch

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Worked across finance and consulting including RBC Capital Markets, Boston Consulting Group and Canaan Partners
- **2020** — Joined the founding team at Ophelia (YC W20), a telehealth company for opioid use recovery
- **Pre-2024** — On the founding team at Two Chairs, a mental-health care company
- **2024** — Co-founded Clarion with Jeffrey Lamothe; joined Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch
- **2024** — Publicly launched Clarion's AI agents, already live in clinics handling tens of thousands of patient interactions monthly
- **2025** — Clarion scales to 84+ EHR integrations and a growing New York team

## Achievements

- Helped build Two Chairs and Ophelia to $100M+ valuations as a founding-team member
- Co-founded Clarion and raised $5.4M from Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia scouts and notable healthcare founders
- Got into Y Combinator's W24 batch
- Built Clarion's first AI agents in roughly six months and put them live in real clinics
- Stanford- and Harvard-trained physician who completed an internal medicine internship at Beth Israel Deaconess

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Introduced Clarion publicly, with AI agents already live in multiple clinics processing tens of thousands of monthly interactions
- **2025-01** — Clarion expands EHR coverage to 84+ systems including Epic and Cerner and grows its NYC team

## Links

- Website: https://www.clarionhealth.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryangallaghermd/

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Last updated: 2026-06-21