Chief Medical Officer & Global Head of Benefits, Morgan Stanley

David Stark is a physician, executive, and technologist with a track record of working across the life sciences and care delivery continuum to improve healthcare access, quality, experience, and affordability.

Currently he is Morgan Stanley’s Chief Medical Officer and Global Head of Benefits where he leads an organization responsible for the health and wellbeing of the Firm’s 80,000+ employees and their families in 40+ countries.

David is also a Trustee of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and serves on the Investment Committee of Morgan Stanley’s in-house accelerator, Inclusive Ventures Lab.

David joined Morgan Stanley in 2018 from Mount Sinai Health System, where he was the founder and director of Lab100, Medical Director of the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare, and an Assistant Professor of Health System Design and Global Health.

David serves on the Board of the Business Group on Health and is on the Advisory Board of Employer Health Innovation Roundtable. David also serves on the Board of HealthRight International, a global nonprofit that addresses health and human rights issues in marginalized populations.

David is a licensed physician, board certified in pediatric neurology and clinical informatics. He received his B.S. in biology from Yale University, his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and his M.S. in biomedical informatics from Stanford. He lives in New York City with his husband and their three children.