About Tandem
Better care happens when people and solutions are synced.
Clinicians and patients, clinical intelligence and human intuition, screening and treatment. Mental health care works best when everyone can support each other.
Our Values
Committed to care.
Everything we build starts here.
Mental Healthcare Access
Treatment at the point of screening. Insurance covered and affordable. No waitlists. No gaps. No excuses.
Community
Care belongs where trust already exists: in primary care, in your neighborhood, with your provider.
Diversity within Diversity
Built for the differences that patients experience in their communities, including language, culture, family context, faith, identity, and lived experience. Each patient’s care reflects who they actually are, not surface-level assumptions.
Personalized Care
Your care plan reflects your life, not a generic protocol. Culture, context, value, and clinical needs, working together to improve your health and wellbeing.
Clinician Prioritized Design
Built around the workflows clinicians already trust: evidence-based tools, continuous training, and modern healthcare safety standards. Better mental health care reaches patients without disrupting the visit.
Accessible Innovation
Technology that fits into the systems already in place, so that better care doesn’t require starting over.
Our Team
A team dedicated to innovation.
Clinicians, technologists, and care designers building the next generation of mental health infrastructure for primary care.
Why we built Tandem
Tandem was founded by Sheila Pande, MPH, after years of seeing the same gap from two sides. As a patient moving between OB/GYN and primary care visits, she encountered the same anxiety screeners again and again, but a different clinician each time, each with a different idea of what to do with the score in front of them. Some named what they saw and offered a clear next step. Others noted it and moved on. The unevenness was easy to miss in a routine visit and impossible to miss as her own care grew more complex. At home, her parent, a primary care physician, was meeting the same problem from the opposite side of the exam room: a screen flags a need, and the only next step is a referral that may take months to materialize, if at all. Her first-generation Indian American background added one more lens: how culture shapes whether a person feels safe enough to ask for help. Tandem is built on the principle that follows: the point of screening should be the point of care.
Sheila Pande, MPH · Founder & CEO