Orly Ardon

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ABOUT ORLY ARDON

Orly Ardon, PhD, MBA, serves as Director of Digital Pathology Operations at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she is an associate member of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a member of the Warren Alpert Center for Digital & Computational Pathology. She serves as a secretary on the Executive Board of Directors of the Digital Pathology Association (DPA) and contributes to multiple committees.Under her leadership, MSK’s digital pathology program has expanded from a small retrospective scanning effort into a comprehensive 24/7 enterprise‑level operation that now supports prospective digitization of the majority of the institution’s pathology slides. This robust infrastructure enables broad access to high‑quality digital images for education, research, and clinical care, and provides a foundation for developing advanced computational decision‑support tools in pathology.Prior to joining MSK, Dr. Ardon led the development of novel computer‑assisted diagnostic technologies and advanced digital pathology collaborations at ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City, Utah, while also serving as an adjunct associate professor at the University of Utah.Dr. Ardon brings rare, real-world perspective to healthcare innovation. She has spent more than three decades across laboratory diagnostics, operations, digital health, and commercialization. She is leading in innovation and in scaling laboratory operations, and connecting the dots between basic, translational and clinical science. She brings extensive expertise in laboratory automation, strategic planning, healthcare operations, and innovation. Her academic research focuses on digital health solutions, operational optimization and laboratory stewardship, healthcare economics, and the human dimensions of AI‑driven transformation.Dr. Ardon earned her BSc, MSc, and PhD in Microbiology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, followed by postdoctoral training in cell biology and virology at the University of Utah. She later completed an Executive MBA at the University of Utah.