Working at Vindara Health

We're a small team, and you'd work closely with all of us. Here's who we are, how we work, and what one of our clinicians has to say about it.

Why we started

Our CEO, Paddy, has lived with Long COVID since 2020. He knows firsthand how hard it is to find a clinician who understands these conditions, and what it's like to coordinate a complex illness largely on your own.

Dr. Kaufman has spent years treating exactly these patients and knows what good care looks like. Vindara Health is our attempt to make that care available to many more people: one team, looking at the whole picture, over the long term.

Who you'd work with

  • David Kaufman, MD

    David Kaufman, MD

    Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer

  • Paddy Monahan

    Paddy Monahan

    Co-Founder & CEO

  • Barry Rafferty-Lynam

    Barry Rafferty-Lynam

    Co-Founder & CTO

  • Victoria Towers, PhD, DNP

    Victoria Towers, PhD, DNP

    Clinical Product Lead & NP

  • Edmundo Santos

    Edmundo Santos

    Founding Designer

We like working on hard problems together, and there's no shortage of them here: illnesses without a settled playbook, and a clinical platform we're building from scratch.

A small team with a big network

We're a small team, but we don't work alone. We're connected to leading clinicians, researchers and patient advocacy groups across the field, all working toward the same goal: better care for the millions of people living with these conditions.

Our advisors

  • Dacre Knight

    Dacre Knight, MD

    Medical Advisor, EDS Specialist

    Dr. Knight leads UVA Health's hEDS specialty center, serves as Vice Chair of AI in the Department of Medicine, and previously founded Mayo Clinic's EDS clinic.

  • Binita Kane

    Binita Kane, MD

    Medical Advisor, Long COVID Specialist

    Dr. Kane is a UK consultant respiratory physician and complex illness specialist. She founded The Long COVID Clinic to deliver dedicated care for long-term post-infectious symptoms.

  • Katie Bach

    Katie Bach

    Advisor

    Katie Bach is a Long COVID policy expert with strategy leadership experience at Amazon, McKinsey, and Starbucks, and a former board member at PolyBio Research Foundation.

  • Brad Younggren

    Brad Younggren, MD

    Healthcare Advisor

    Dr. Younggren is Co-founder of Circulate Health, focused on advancing therapies for complex disease. He previously founded 98point6, an AI-powered primary care company.

Built with patients

Our patient advisory board helps shape how the clinic works. Beyond the board, we work closely with our current patients and many people in the wider patient community, so that the care model we build fits these conditions and is built around what patients actually need.

Patient advisory board

  • Mateo Salazar, Long COVID patient

    Mateo Salazar

    Long COVID patient

  • Michelle Funk, Complex illness patient

    Michelle Funk

    Complex illness patient

  • Joanne Webb, Long COVID, ME, POTS, MCAS patient

    Joanne Webb

    Long COVID, ME, POTS, MCAS patient

  • Nita Jain, Complex illness patient

    Nita Jain

    Complex illness patient

  • Adrianne Trovato

    Long COVID patient

How we work

Case rounds
Clinicians bring their complex cases to rounds with Dr. Kaufman and the team.
Team meetings
Clinical, product and engineering meet every week, so everyone knows what's working and what isn't.
We listen
If something in the platform or the way we work gets in your way, tell us. We listen, and we work on it.
Victoria Towers

Victoria Towers, PhD, DNP

Clinical Product Lead & Nurse Practitioner

Victoria was our first clinician. She sees patients and leads the design of our clinical platform. We asked her a few questions.

What led you to Vindara Health?
“My nursing career started at the bedside in the NICU where I saw technology function as both an asset and an obstacle, sometimes within the same shift. My doctoral research focused on virtual care design and how clinicians can use and optimize telehealth in ways that respond to context rather than underutilize it.”
What are you most excited about building here?
“For patients managing complex, chronic illnesses, the administrative burden becomes a clinical problem in its own right and consumes the energy and cognitive reserve that patients need for their actual care. I've encountered this as a clinician, as a patient, and as a caregiver. Being able to offer care while also inviting patients and clinicians into the work of advancing the growing body of knowledge is a rare and meaningful opportunity for all involved.”
One thing people might not know about you?
“I'm a wholehearted advocate for animal-assisted therapy in all its many forms. I've been a longstanding volunteer at hippotherapy centers supporting individuals with various conditions including musculoskeletal diseases and PTSD, and in the training and care of therapy dogs.”

The basics

  • Fully remote, anywhere in the US
  • 45-minute visits with your own panel of patients
  • Support from the whole clinical team, with regular case rounds for mentorship and learning
  • No on-call
  • Licensing, credentialing and malpractice covered
  • 3 weeks paid time off, plus 9 federal holidays
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