Azra AI Appoints Oncology Expert Jessica Turgon to Board of Directors

May 19, 2026
Azra AI has appointed oncology strategist Jessica Turgon to its Board of Directors. Turgon brings decades of experience in oncology operations and strategy, including leadership roles at Siemens Healthineers and ECG Management Consultants.

Azra AI announced in a press release the appointment of oncology strategist Jessica Turgon to its Board of Directors. Turgon is a healthcare executive with decades of experience advising health systems, cancer centers, and healthcare organizations on oncology growth and operational transformation.

Before joining Azra AI, Turgon served as Global Service Line Head for Oncology at Siemens Healthineers and spent 20 years at ECG Management Consultants, where she led oncology consulting initiatives across the United States. Her work has focused on helping health systems modernize oncology operations and improve patient care delivery.

Azra AI develops an enterprise platform that uses advanced AI, multimodal data integration, and workflow automation to coordinate cancer care and clinical trial pathways. The platform supports health systems in patient identification, care coordination, research and clinical trial matching, and reporting. Deployed across hundreds of health systems, it aims to reduce time to treatment and improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

Turgon said she is joining the Board to help Azra AI expand its impact in helping health systems turn fragmented data into coordinated, actionable care.

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