About MedLink Global: Your Mental Health Experts
Mission Statement
To transform mental healthcare by connecting patients with world-class psychiatric expertise and pioneering technology-enabled solutions, ensuring comprehensive evaluation leads to accurate diagnosis and effective treatment plans. We strive to make expert mental healthcare accessible while empowering providers to deliver their best care efficiently.
Vision Statement
A world where everyone facing mental health challenges can quickly access expert psychiatric care, receive accurate diagnosis, and follow personalized treatment plans that work – ending the years of trial and error that define mental healthcare today.
Our Core Values
Clinical Excellence
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Prioritizing comprehensive evaluation before treatment
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Maintaining the highest standards of psychiatric care
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Leveraging leading experts in the field
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Innovation with Purpose
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Developing technology that enhances rather than replaces human expertise
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Creating solutions that make mental healthcare more efficient and accessible
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Pioneering new approaches to assessment and care delivery
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Patient-Centered Care
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Ensuring the right care sequence for optimal outcomes
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Matching patients with compatible providers
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Building trust-based therapeutic relationship
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Provider Empowerment
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Supporting clinicians with advanced tools and resources
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Reducing administrative burden through smart technology
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Enabling focus on meaningful patient care
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Global Impact
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Breaking down barriers to expert psychiatric care
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Standardizing comprehensive mental health evaluation
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Creating scalable solutions for complex mental healthcare challenges
The MedLink Story: Revolutionizing Mental Healthcare
​​​​The seeds of MedLink Global were planted during founder Ran Yang-Chawla's clinical psychology training at Columbia University. There, she witnessed firsthand how the mental healthcare system often trapped patients in cycles of symptom management without addressing root causes, leading to years of ineffective treatment. Frustrated by these systemic limitations and driven to make a broader impact in healthcare, Ran began exploring how to connect patients with top medical experts who could provide comprehensive evaluations and clear diagnostic direction.​
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This mission first materialized as an international medical second opinion company focused on cancer care, which she built and ran for five years, serving thousands of patients worldwide. Through this work, she discovered a universal truth in healthcare, comprehensive evaluation and expert insight before treatment leads to better outcomes.
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Yet she also observed that among all medical specialties, psychiatry faced particularly high misdiagnosis rates, with patients often spending more than five years seeking appropriate treatment. The mental healthcare system typically started with primary care physicians prescribing medications for symptoms, leading to months or years of adjustment before patients finally reached psychiatric specialists, if they found them at all.
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This realization sparked the creation of MedLink Global, incubated at UC Berkeley's Skydeck accelerator during Ran’s time achieving her MBA at Berkeley Haas. The platform revolutionizes mental healthcare through three key innovations:
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Comprehensive psychiatric evaluations
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Rapid access to world-class experts
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Sophisticated provider matching that considers both clinical expertise and therapeutic compatibility
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Led by a world-class team including renowned psychiatrist Dr. Christoph Correll, assessment specialist Dr. Mark Blais, and technical leader Alok Gupta, MedLink Global combines clinical excellence with technological innovation. MedLink Global also invests in advanced technology, including fine-tuned language models co-developed with leading psychiatrists, with the goal of making mental healthcare more affordable and efficient while maintaining the highest standards of care.
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Today, MedLink Global stands at the forefront of mental healthcare transformation, ensuring that patients receive expert evaluation and guidance from the start, potentially saving years of trial and error in their treatment journey. By bridging the gap between top psychiatric expertise and those who need it most, MedLink Global is creating a future where comprehensive mental healthcare is both effective and more affordable.​