Garry Welch, PhD, is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Silver Fern Healthcare, a mission-driven, evidence-based, digital healthcare innovator helping employers, payors, providers, and care teams more effectively manage patient chronic conditions. Garry’s life’s work started in New Zealand and then moved to Harvard Medical School and NIH funded clinical research at Tufts University School of Medicine as a Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. He has focused on improving the quality of life and health outcomes of patients living with chronic diseases while helping front line clinicians provide better clinical solutions at lower costs. He is widely recognized as a global subject matter expert in behavior change and psychosocial issues in obesity and chronic conditions.