RISE

Kevin Vigilante, MD, MPH

Co-Founder, RISE | President, Telos Advisors

Dr. Kevin Vigilante is a co-founder of RISE, a Rhode Island–based non-profit that provides scholarships, mentorship, and services to children of incarcerated parents.

Earlier in his career, he served on the clinical faculty at Brown University, where he was Director of Emergency and Ambulatory Services at The Miriam Hospital. At Brown, he developed innovative programs for vulnerable populations, including incarcerated women with HIV — experiences that shaped his long-term commitment to expanding opportunity for at-risk families and led to the creation of RISE.

Kevin is currently President of Telos Advisors, a strategic advisory firm providing guidance to companies and government agencies across healthcare, education, and defense. The firm focuses on artificial intelligence reliability, functional robotics, and other advanced technologies.  

Prior to that served as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he helped build and scale a $2B+ health, technology, and analytics enterprise over two decades. In this role he provided services and guidance to senior leaders at the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Veterans Administration, and the Military Health System. He founded and led the Booz Allen’s Health Futures Group.

He has published widely including the New York Times, Health Affairs, JAMA, Forbes.com, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, his M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College, and his M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his internal medicine residency at Yale New Haven Hospital.