Samrong So

Samrong So

Chief Innovation Officer

Samrong believes that people living with memory loss deserve care built around who they are, and that the Companion Care Partners and Home Health Aides who provide that care deserve the same investment and respect. That focus on older adults began in 2018 at the inaugural MIT–Harvard Medical School Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp, where Samrong worked on a team project addressing the loneliness epidemic as a public health problem.

A former Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, Samrong has served as teacher and principal of Bronx Prep, co-founder and board member of Broome Street Academy, chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Renewal Memory Partners, and vice president of operations at University of Maryland Capital Region Health, overseeing 13 clinical and nonclinical departments in Prince George’s County, home to nearly a million people.

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard, Samrong is now pursuing an executive MPH at Yale while serving as a research assistant on LGBTQ+ health, a scholar in the MacMillan Center’s Program in Global Participatory Research and Ethics, and an upper-masthead editor of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics. Outside of work and school, Samrong enjoys community organizing, long-distance running, and art modeling.