Michele Y. Griffith, MD (United States)
President, International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH)
Senior Primary Care Physician, Intermountain Health (Nevada, United States)
Digital Health Consultant
Board-Certified Internal Medicine & Lifestyle Medicine Physician
Dr. Michele Y. Griffith is a board-certified Internal Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and Integrative Medicine physician whose career of more than three decades spans primary care, healthcare administration, and digital health. She currently serves as President of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH) and as a Senior Primary Care Physician with Intermountain Health in Nevada, where she provides care in a rural setting, while also working as an independent digital health consultant. Her work bridges hands-on clinical practice and organizational leadership, with a consistent focus on improving access to care through technology-enabled primary care delivery.
Dr. Griffith graduated from the University of Pennsylvania before attending Yale School of Medicine and completing her Doctor of Medicine degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at Harvard Medical School–Mount Auburn Hospital and an Integrative Medicine Leadership fellowship at Duke University. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.
Over more than thirty years as a physician and healthcare administrator, Dr. Griffith has practiced across hospital systems, federally qualified health centers, community programs, corporate health programs, and virtual care organizations. She brings over fifteen years of involvement in telemedicine, including the implementation of virtual care within primary care settings, and has founded and led a direct primary care and telehealth platform as its CEO. Throughout, she has been committed to serving rural, uninsured, and underinsured populations.
Through her leadership with ISfTeH, Dr. Griffith contributes to improving access to healthcare and health outcomes globally — fostering professional collaboration in telemedicine and digital health, supporting the exchange of knowledge and best practices, and providing organizational leadership within the international digital health community. She is intentional about equitable access and closing the digital health divide.
Dr. Griffith approaches medicine with a focus on practical, patient-centered care that integrates technology as a tool to support access, continuity, and clinical decision-making. Her work emphasizes the thoughtful implementation of digital health within primary care, ensuring that innovation complements — rather than replaces — the physician–patient relationship. Across her clinical and leadership roles, she prioritizes collaboration, adaptability, and evidence-based practice, meeting patients and care teams where they are while supporting healthcare delivery models responsive to evolving clinical and community needs.