Our team
Patient-led, and co-founded with Dr. David Kaufman.
Vindara Health is patient-led, and co-founded with Dr. David Kaufman, a leading clinician in complex illness. Around him we have built a team of specialists, clinicians, and patients who shape how care works here.
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
David Kaufman, MD
Dr. Kaufman is a leading ME/CFS and complex illness specialist and Medical Director at the Center for Complex Diseases. As Chief Medical Officer, he is closely involved in care day to day — supervising and mentoring our clinicians, and joining case rounds to talk through the most complex cases with the team — while setting the clinical strategy, training, and standards the whole team works to.
When you join Vindara Health, you get the benefit of our whole team working together to move your care forward.
Clinicians & advisors
Meet the Vindara Health team.
Our team brings together founders, clinicians, and advisors with deep experience in complex, multi-system illness, and the lived experience to keep care honest.
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Paddy Monahan
Co-Founder & CEO
Paddy has lived with Long COVID since 2020. He knows the lack of access to informed care, the isolation, and the burden of coordinating complex illness largely on your own. He leads Vindara Health's vision and strategy, building the clinic he wished had existed.
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Barry Rafferty-Lynam
Co-Founder & CTO
Barry leads engineering. He has spent more than ten years building scalable healthcare systems, and brings a personal understanding of long, complex recoveries to how we design Vindara Health's care tools.
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Victoria Towers, PhD, DNP
Clinical Product Lead & Nurse Practitioner
Victoria leads clinical product at Vindara Health, designing the clinical platform that helps the practice run — and she's also a practicing clinician on our team. She brings deep experience in virtual care, patient education, and complex disease management.
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Brayden Yellman, MD
Physician, Complex Chronic Illness
Dr. Yellman is a leading ME/CFS and complex illness specialist, previously Medical Director of the Bateman Horne Center, one of the country's foremost ME/CFS and Long COVID clinics. Board-certified in internal medicine and rheumatology, he has spent his career treating — and teaching other clinicians to treat — ME/CFS, Long COVID, dysautonomia, MCAS, and hypermobility. At Vindara Health, he cares for patients and helps shape how we deliver care.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Patient advisory board
The patients who shaped Vindara Health.
Some of the patients who keep Vindara Health grounded in real experience. They keep our clinical and product decisions grounded in real experience, not assumptions.
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Mateo Salazar Long COVID patient -
Michelle Funk Complex illness patient -
Joanne Webb Long COVID, ME, POTS, MCAS patient -
Nita Jain Complex illness patient - Adrianne Trovato Long COVID patient
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