Desai has led Apple’s efforts to disrupt the healthcare market through new technologies since 2017. A physician by training, she created clinical and regulatory teams to help oversee the tech giant’s product development process, adding key features such as atrial fibrillation history, sleep stage tracking, and walking steadiness metrics to devices. She has fostered a culture of collaboration and transformation within the company, heading an investigator support program to fund dozens of research studies across the globe and working to amplify the voices of women on her leadership team.