Converge2Xcelerate (ConV2X) Special Podcast Edition

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Mr. Baker heads the NYU Global Debate Fund, housed in the Business & Society Dept of the Stern Business School and is the CIO for Baker Consulting Associates (BCA) based in Dallas, Texas.  As a leading authority on debate training, strategy & operations, Will is one of the top corporate debate consultants in NYC.  He is highly, sought after by for-profit and non-profit clients for executive coaching, curriculum development and speaking engagements. 

The Global Debate Fund was the first NYU program initiative to span their entire Global Network involving over 300 students, professors and alumni in conversations about issues of current controversy. BCA is one of the oldest African American management consulting firms in Dallas specializing in workforce development, time management, strategic planning and small business transitions onto social media platforms. 

He teaches argumentation in the Steinhardt School of Education and directs the award-winning NYU debate team.  In 2003, NYU captured the National Championships making Will the first African American director to secure that title since Melvin Tolson of Wiley College in 1935.   This season's topic focuses on National Health Insurance Reform Strategies. 
He has led national and local initiatives to make debate accessible to 200,000 students in low-income communities using diverse strategies to build youth expression including poetry, mediation, hip-hop, debate, reasoned discourse and town hall meetings. He has overseen the training of 5000 students, teachers and business professionals in the transformative power of debate.  

Mr. Baker is a Past President of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the UN and former UN Representative for the International Association for Religious Freedom to ECOSOC and UNICEF.   He also held elected office as a Queens Assembly District Leader.  

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Richard Heinzl is a physician, humanitarian and entrepreneur whose current focus is technology and healthcare worldwide. He is Global Medical Director for WorldCare International, Inc. the Boston-based telemedicine company. In this role, Dr. Heinzl provides consultation and oversight on the creation and delivery of medical second opinions to WorldCare members, engages with clients worldwide, and contributes to the strategic direction of the organization.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Heinzl was the founder of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders Canada (MSF Canada), which won the Nobel Peace Prize. He has been CEO and founder of several e-health companies.

Dr. Heinzl is a graduate of McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Medicine and completed postgraduate degrees related to global health at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (LLD) from McMaster University and was named one of the “Hundred People Who Make a Difference” in Canada by Penguin Books. In 2016 he received the Alumni Award of Merit from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. His Memoir, “Cambodia Calling” is published by Harper Collins.

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In 2013, Dr. Richard Migliori was appointed executive vice president, Medical Affairs and chief medical officer for UnitedHealth Group, working with businesses across the enterprise to help improve health care quality, access and affordability. He is an active member of the company's Innovation Council, a group of key executives charged with the task of nurturing innovations in products and services and creating an environment that fosters new ideas and approaches to improving health and health care.

Previously, as executive vice president for Health Services, Dr. Migliori was responsible for the ongoing development, design, and adaptation of market leading clinical innovations aimed at ensuring clinical excellence, improving clinical and economic outcomes, and delivering robust business performance on behalf of UnitedHealth Group’s largest public and private sector clients.

Under his leadership at UnitedHealth Group, Dr. Migliori spearheaded the design, organization and management of national health care delivery networks. He has previously served on the Harvard University/Kennedy School of Government Health Care Delivery Policy Committee, and is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the Advisory Committee on Transplantation advising the Secretary of Health and Human Services on public policy for human organ transplantation. He has published more than 35 articles on topics ranging from continuous quality improvement methods in a clinical setting to surgical oncology and solid organ transplant.

Dr. Migliori holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Brown University and completed a National Health Research Fellowship in immunology, transplantation and oncology funded by the National Institutes of Health. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery.

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David Gruber, MBA is a Managing Director and Director of Research with Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group (HIG) in New York, specializing in strategy, business development, consumer engagement, innovation, new ventures, technology, analytics and health benefits.

 He is currently responsible for thought leadership and model development within HIG, co-leads A&M health benefit activities and is involved in a wide range of consulting projects.
Dr. Gruber brings 30 years of diversified healthcare experience as a consultant, corporate executive, Wall Street analyst and physician.

Before A&M, he spent three years as the Founder of Healthcare Convergence Associates, a consulting firm focused on the convergence of healthcare, technology and the consumer. Assignments included working with a multinational to explore tele-health opportunities; a medical device maker to assess the feasibility of a proposed asthma and COPD technology; a pharmacy benefit manager to define innovative approaches to medication adherence in diabetes; a national retailer exploring health and wellness; a Canadian company interested in preventing nosocomial infections; and a major Wireless Health Institute to develop its strategic plan. He was also involved in three healthcare-related IT start-ups.

Until 2008, Dr. Gruber was VP of Corporate Development and New Ventures with the Johnson & Johnson Consumer Group of Companies, focusing on dermatology / aesthetics, consumer engagement and wireless health. In 1995-2004, he worked on Wall Street as a top-ten rated medical supplies and devices analyst at Lehman Brothers, Piper Jaffray and Sanford Bernstein. He was also the lead analyst for the initial public offering of Intuitive Surgical (robotics) and Given Imaging, and a merchant banking investment in Therasense.

Before entering Wall Street, Dr. Gruber was VP of Planning and Business Development for the $1.6 billion healthcare group at Bristol-Myers that included Zimmer, ConvaTec, Linvatec and Xomed-Treace. There, he represented the company on the Health Industry Manufacturing Association (HIMA) as it deliberated the merits of the Hillary Clinton healthcare reform proposals.

He recently appeared on NPR and C-Span; was quoted in the Washington Post, LA Times, The Deal, Healthcare Finance News, Managed Care Executive, Managed Care Outlook, Becker’s Hospital Review, Inside Health Policy; and published in the Journal of Diabetes Science & Technology, Turnaround Management Association Newsletter of Corporate Renewal and American Bankruptcy Institute Journal.

Dr. Gruber is a magna cum laude graduate of a six-year BS-MD program, having received a bachelor’s degree from Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, CCNY in 1981 and a medical degree from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in 1983. He also has an MBA from Columbia University and was a Kellogg Foundation National Fellow. He is currently a Senior Fellow, Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab (HITLAB) at Columbia Presbyterian and an elected Trustee to the Teaneck Board of Education.

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Michael Gusmano investigates health care equity in the U.S. and other countries. His research and publications have focused on health policy, aging, and comparative welfare state analysis. He is the codirector of the World Cities Project, the first effort to compare the performance of health, social, and long-term care systems in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, the four largest cities among the wealthy nations of the world. In addition to being a research scholar at The Hastings Center, he is an associate professor of health policy at Rutgers University School of Public Health. He has authored four books and more than 100 scholarly articles. He is frequently interviewed by reporters about health policy issues.

Dr. Gusmano is an investigator on The Role of Values in Impact Assessment and Care Transitions in Aging Societies, a Singapore-based project that is producing an online casebook that focuses on ethical challenges of caring for people in an aging society. He is codirector of the Undocumented Patients project, concerned with finding ways to improve access to health care for undocumented immigrants. He serves on public policy initiatives related to his research, including the Bioethics Steering Committee of the White House Office of Science, Technology and Policy Initiative on Access to Health Care in Saharan Africa (2015-present) and the New York City Mayor’s Task Force on Immigration (2014-2015).

He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Maryland at College Park and a master’s degree in public policy from the State University of New York at Albany. He was post-doctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy program at Yale University.

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Rajiv Leventhal is Managing Editor of Healthcare Informatics, covering healthcare IT leadership and strategy for the renowned, award-winning publication. Since 2012, he has been covering the daily impact of regulatory measures on Healthcare Informatics’ CIO and CMIO-based audience, and has taken keen interest in areas such as patient engagement, health information exchange, mobile health, healthcare data security, and telemedicine.

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Dr. Erik Viirre is Adjunct Professor in the UCSD Departments of Neurosciences, Surgery and Cognitive Science. His clinical specialties are vertigo, balance problems and tinnitus. He treats people with disorders such as Migraine, Menieres Disease, Labyrinthitis and Benign Positional Vertigo (BPV). His interests include vision, hearing and the vestibular system and higher cognitive function. Dr. Viirre has done research for the National Institutes of Health, the United States Navy’s Office of Naval Research, DARPA and NASA. He is a consultant for groups such as the National Academy of Science and a variety of Virtual Reality technology companies. He has participated in a variety of start-up companies, including Zero G Corporation, and Otosound LLC, which is bringing to market technology for treatment of tinnitus that he developed and patented at UCSD.

Dr. Viirre received his Ph.D. in Neurophysiology in 1987 at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada and his M.D. in 1988. He completed a Rotating Internship at St. Josephs's Medical Center in London, Canada in 1989. After his internship in London, he was a fellow at the Robarts Research Institute in functional imaging and had an eye care practice. In 1994, Dr. Viirre was a Visiting Professor in Neurology and Ophthalmology at UCLA where he did a fellowship in Medical Neurotology, the management of inner ear disorders. In 1995-99 he was a Scientist at the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington. He was a Senior Scientist in the Human Performance Department of the US Navy’s Naval Health Research Center from 2001 to 2012 and is a member of the Clinical Investigation Department at Naval Medical Center San Diego as of 2012.

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Digital Health Corp is a diversified healthcare company that harnesses the power of the latest technology and thinking to accelerate and improve patient recovery at home.

The company is comprised of businesses across a range of healthcare and wellness therapies with an initial focus on virtual physical therapy offered by Reflexion Health, Inc. and The Learning Corp, a developer of mobile solutions that treat patients with traumatic brain injury, stroke, aphasia, and learning disorders.

Reflexion Health is a digital medicine / telemedicine company working to transform healthcare delivery, initially focusing on rehabilitation medicine.

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David Gruber, MBA is a Managing Director and Director of Research with Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group (HIG) in New York, specializing in strategy, business development, consumer engagement, innovation, new ventures, technology, analytics and health benefits.

He is currently responsible for thought leadership and model development within HIG, co-leads A&M health benefit activities and is involved in a wide range of consulting projects.
Dr. Gruber brings 30 years of diversified healthcare experience as a consultant, corporate executive, Wall Street analyst and physician.

Before A&M, he spent three years as the Founder of Healthcare Convergence Associates, a consulting firm focused on the convergence of healthcare, technology and the consumer. Assignments included working with a multinational to explore tele-health opportunities; a medical device maker to assess the feasibility of a proposed asthma and COPD technology; a pharmacy benefit manager to define innovative approaches to medication adherence in diabetes; a national retailer exploring health and wellness; a Canadian company interested in preventing nosocomial infections; and a major Wireless Health Institute to develop its strategic plan. He was also involved in three healthcare-related IT start-ups.

Until 2008, Dr. Gruber was VP of Corporate Development and New Ventures with the Johnson & Johnson Consumer Group of Companies, focusing on dermatology / aesthetics, consumer engagement and wireless health. In 1995-2004, he worked on Wall Street as a top-ten rated medical supplies and devices analyst at Lehman Brothers, Piper Jaffray and Sanford Bernstein. He was also the lead analyst for the initial public offering of Intuitive Surgical (robotics) and Given Imaging, and a merchant banking investment in Therasense.

Before entering Wall Street, Dr. Gruber was VP of Planning and Business Development for the $1.6 billion healthcare group at Bristol-Myers that included Zimmer, ConvaTec, Linvatec and Xomed-Treace. There, he represented the company on the Health Industry Manufacturing Association (HIMA) as it deliberated the merits of the Hillary Clinton healthcare reform proposals.

He recently appeared on NPR and C-Span; was quoted in the Washington Post, LA Times, The Deal, Healthcare Finance News, Managed Care Executive, Managed Care Outlook, Becker’s Hospital Review, Inside Health Policy; and published in the Journal of Diabetes Science & Technology, Turnaround Management Association Newsletter of Corporate Renewal and American Bankruptcy Institute Journal.

Dr. Gruber is a magna cum laude graduate of a six-year BS-MD program, having received a bachelor’s degree from Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, CCNY in 1981 and a medical degree from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in 1983. He also has an MBA from Columbia University and was a Kellogg Foundation National Fellow. He is currently a Senior Fellow, Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab (HITLAB) at Columbia Presbyterian and an elected Trustee to the Teaneck Board of Education. 

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Iris Berman, RN, MSN, CCRN-K, is the VP of telehealth services at Northwell Health. Having been a nurse for more than 30 years, she has experience in a variety of care settings that has given her a unique understanding of the needs of at-risk patient populations and the critical nature of patient access.  She started her career as a per diem nurse, which gave her the opportunity to work in a variety of environments, but it was Critical Care that called to her. After moving into a position in critical care, she became interested in at risk populations and volunteered to work on joint programs with her hospital and the American Heart Association. The health system supported her interest and the program continued to grow. She and her team developed a support program for patients with a variety of cardiac diseases.  While attending school for her MSN in nursing administration, she became the critical care educator for Glen Cove hospital, now a part of Northwell Health. This roll enabled her to work not only on site but to collaborate on system-wide task forces for things like stroke, CV disease and other best practice programs. While in this position, Berman wrote and successfully was awarded a grant to expand stroke education. Being an educator allowed her to use her years of nursing knowledge to help others both on the patient front and in nursing.

With a successful career as a health educator, Berman moved into hospital management. Through her involvement in the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, she had been increasingly aware of tele-ICUs (eICU®). She became the director of this program at what is now Northwell Health. Berman is now VP for telehealth services at Northwell, where she leads efforts to ensure Northwell is a progressive, agile, and welcoming healthcare organization.

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Drew Wilson is an attorney at Morris James LLP, a full service law firm offering everything from estate planning to personal injury with offices around the state. He specializes in healthcare law and policy, working with practitioners and the changing landscape they face in the modern era of care delivery. He sits on Delaware's Telehealth Coalition Steering Committee and was instrumental in the drafting and passing of Delaware's telemedicine statute.

He began his career as counsel in the New York State Senate where, along with staffing members, he staffed the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse committee, combating the ongoing addiction epidemic. More recently, he spent several years in-house at the Medical Society of Delaware, the second oldest physician member organization in the United States. Through the Medical Society and his position on the Delaware Telehealth Coalition, he drafted and lobbied House Bill 69, the law which put Delaware at the national forefront of telemedicine.

When Drew is not practicing law, he is active on a number of nonprofit boards and in politics. He lives with his wife Mary Nash in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Rajiv Leventhal is Managing Editor of Healthcare Informatics, covering healthcare IT leadership and strategy for the renowned, award-winning publication. Since 2012, he has been covering the daily impact of regulatory measures on Healthcare Informatics’ CIO and CMIO-based audience, and has taken keen interest in areas such as patient engagement, health information exchange, mobile health, healthcare data security, and telemedicine.

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Michael Adcock is an emerging leader in the fast growing business of telehealth. As executive director for the Center for Telehealth at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, he guides the strategy and expansion of virtual medical care in communities across the region. Prior to his work at UMMC, Michael served as chief operations officer for West Jefferson Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, and vice president of operations at the North Carolina-based Halifax Regional Medical Center. Michael began his professional career at UMMC, and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from the Jackson-based health science center. He’s a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, vice chairman of the Mississippi Telehealth Association board of directors, and a member of the American Medical Association’s Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group and Connected Health Initiative

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Rajiv Leventhal is Managing Editor of Healthcare Informatics, covering healthcare IT leadership and strategy for the renowned, award-winning publication. Since 2012, he has been covering the daily impact of regulatory measures on Healthcare Informatics’ CIO and CMIO-based audience, and has taken keen interest in areas such as patient engagement, health information exchange, mobile health, healthcare data security, and telemedicine. 

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For the past 11 years, I’ve been building services that explore what the internet means to healthcare delivery. Two months after the iPhone was released back in 2007, I launched the world’s first mobile-powered house call doctor practice and it subsequently went viral racking up 7 million hits on my site in the first month of operations. Soon after, I co-founded Hello Health, one of the first cloud-based electronic medical records designed to power a new kind of medical practice— one that delivered care both in our offices in NYC and online with our patients. Hello Health continues to thrive powering cutting-edge practices around the world.

In 2010, I co-founded a design firm to work with large brands across the world to help them figure out what the internet means to health. Our clients included the NHS in the UK, Sanofi in Paris, Planned Parenthood of America, and Physicians Interactive. With Physicians Interactive, we ideated and designed one of the most popular iPad apps for physicians, Omnio. In 2012, I created Sherpaa and pioneered Virtual Primary Care. VPC combines the scalability and accessibility of telehealth with the continuity found in traditional primary care and enables our primary care doctors to manage 95% of the conditions a traditional office-based primary care doctor can manage. Sherpaa employs full-time physicians and delivers 24/7/365 primary care in 48 states to employees of self-funded companies, members of forward-thinking health plans, and directly to individuals.

I’m currently the CEO of Sherpaa and VPC’s main evangelist. I’ve spoken at over 50 conferences including TED, Google’s Zeitgeist, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Aspen Institute, Mayo Transform, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. I address new models of healthcare delivery, the future of primary care, design, and healthcare business model transformation.

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Dr. Sandeep Pulim is a physician entrepreneur and digital health pioneer. Prior to joining Medici as Chief Innovation Officer in 2017, Sandeep helped to build one of the first venture backed health care e-learning platforms called medschool.com.  Since then Sandeep has been building innovative digital health technologies to help improve care delivery, access, and outcomes for both patients and providers. 

Sandeep Co-Founded and served as the Chief Medical Officer of Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) a mobile enabled patient engagement solution to prevent all-cause 30-day hospital readmissions. 

Most recently Sandeep helped co-found and served as the Chief Medical Information Officer of At Point of Care where he helped design and deliver IBM Watson based cognitive learning tools via a partnership with IBM to over 200,000 HCPs. 

Sandeep is deeply connected to the healthcare innovation ecosystem and has mentored numerous digital health startups via collaborations with Blueprint Health, StartUp Health, Health for America and HealthXL.

 

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Ms. Hoffman serves as the Global Co-Leader for the IBM Cognitive Legal Practice driving global strategy and execution across clients, legal markets and internal groups. She was certified as an IBM Thought Leader in the capability of Consulting in 2015 and has a patent pending for Detecting Clusters and Relationships in Large Data Sets. She co-authored the book “eDiscovery Plain & Simple.” She is the Co-Founder of Women in AI & Blockchain founded at the MIT Legal Forum for AI & Blockchain in 2017. She is also the Co-Founder of the non-profit Women in eDiscovery which has grown to over 5,000 members since its founding in 2007. As her give back to her local community, Ms. Hoffman co-founded and serves on the Board of the Community Hope Center of Osceola County which has helped over 20,000 homeless families since its inception. The Community Hope Center has received multiple awards and most recently was presented with the Bob Allen Award from the Walt Disney Company and the Good Neighbor Award from Bank of America for the fight against homelessness. 

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Florence Hudson, former IBM Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, and Internet2 Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, is a proven leader and C-level executive in technology and business. She has led multi-billion-dollar business strategies and execution. She has been an independent director on for-profit and not-for-profit boards. Her leadership expertise includes innovation, strategic growth, marketing, channels, partnerships, business development, sales, diversity and inclusion. 

Florence is currently Special Advisor to the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub for Next Generation Internet (NGI) at Columbia University, enabling United States / European Union collaboration. She is on the Editorial Board of the journal Blockchain in Healthcare Today, and on engineering and technology advisory councils at Princeton University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and Union County College. She is on the program committee for the Computational Approaches for Cancer workshop at SuperComputing conferences annually, and the 2018 NSF Cybersecurity Summit. She has presented in many venues worldwide, from Dubai to Japan, including a TED talk focused on sustainability on a smarter planet. She is a global thought leader and published on Internet of Things, Smarter Cities, and Cognitive Computing.

Her 30+ year IBM career included 16 years as an executive, including Chief Technology Officer of the Global Industrial Sector, and three roles as Vice President in strategy and marketing. She was a leader of many growth strategies at IBM, including the Internet of Things, smart buildings, smart water management, Watson cognitive computing, healthcare and life sciences, cloud, hardware, software, financing and services. She increased solution sales and partnerships in hardware, software, and services, developing and growing multi-billion dollar businesses. She was a leader in the development of IBM's Emerging Business Opportunities innovation and growth strategy, as cited in a Harvard Case Study. 

After IBM, she was Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Internet2, a not-for-profit consortium of 500 research and education organizations in academia, industry and government. She led a Collaborative Innovation Community of 170 organizations around the world, focused on the Internet of Things, IoT ethics, cybersecurity, distributed big data & analytics, healthcare & life sciences, smart campuses, advanced networking, trust & identity, and cloud computing. She was Principal Investigator on NSF cybersecurity grants for end to end trust and security for IoT, and cybersecurity research transition-to-practice acceleration. 

Ms. Hudson graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, beginning her career at Grumman Corporation and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab working on Navy aircraft, solar power satellites, the space shuttle program, and future missions around Jupiter. She attended executive education at Harvard Business School and Columbia University.

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Dr. Piraino has extensive Health Care leadership experience. He has been a practicing RN since 1988 and has worked in many clinical areas to include ICU, Emergency Medicine, OP Clinics, Medical-Surgical, and all levels of Nursing leadership. He has worked at the highest levels of Nursing and Hospital leadership since 2005 as the Associate Administrator, Chief Nursing Officer or Assistant Chief Nursing Officer of both small community hospitals and large Medical Centers.

Dr Piraino has extensive international experience having worked as a Chief Nurse in Saudi Arabia and as a Staff Nurse in Italy (Quality Consultant) and Japan (US Navy).

Dr. Piraino’s hallmark achievements include improving clinical outcomes / Quality of Care, improving nursing, physician, and customer satisfaction, and reducing vacancy rates in the facilities he has lead. Dr Piraino has been able to improve nursing sensitive indicators such as CAUTI and CLBSI (reducing them to zero) Implementing strategies that reduces Falls to a rate of 0.3%, and improving customer satisfaction by 79% while introducing budgetary concepts that decreased the facility HPPD by 10%.

Dr. Piraino received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York (1991); a Master of Science degree in Nursing Administration with a minor in Nursing Informatics from the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas (2003) and a Doctorate in Nursing Practice degree from the George Washington University, Washington, DC (2013). He is a Fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives and is Board certified in both Nursing Administration and Medical-Surgical Nursing.

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Bryan T. Arkwright works as a Managing Consultant with Schumacher Clinical Partners Consulting and Physician Advisory Services focusing on Telehealth / Telemedicine Strategy and Operations. Bryan’s immediate past experience was serving as Director of the Mission Center for Telehealth in Asheville, NC where he oversaw the expansion and growth of their Telehealth clinical programs reaching over 44 locations and establishing a comprehensive multi-year telehealth strategic plan. Bryan’s other experiences include working at Wake Forest Baptist Health serving as lead for their Office of Telehealth and launching key regional telehealth programs. Bryan’s additional areas of expertise include: Project Management, Business Development, mHealth, Strategic Planning, and Process Improvement. In addition to his consulting and advisory work, Bryan is Adjunct Faculty at Wake Forest University School of Law where he teaches a Telemedicine course and on the Editorial Board for Telehealth and Medicine Today Journal. Bryan has a Bachelor’s degree from Ohio University, a Master of Health Administration from Medical College of Virginia / VCU, and a Six Sigma Black Belt from the American Society for Quality. Bryan regularly speaks on Telehealth and is active on Twitter and Google+ tracking the latest #Telehealth, #mHealth, and #FutureHealthcare news and trends @StateOfTheArk and LinkedIn. 

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Jamey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cloudbreak Health, a leading unified telemedicine company currently performing over 1,000,000 encounters annually in almost 1,000 hospitals nationwide. Cloudbreak's mission is to #HumanizeHealthcare by resolving healthcare disparities by integrating technology into the daily practice of medicine. He serves as a Board Member for American Red Cross, Partners in Care, Run to Remember and the Young President’s Organization. Jamey has been a 4x Honoree for the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award and has been identified as a leading Healthcare Transformer by Startup Health and MM&M Magazine.  Jamey is also a proud member of the #PinkSocks Tribe of healthcare innovators, working to disrupt healthcare from the ground up and drive positive change for patients and providers. He graduated as a tradition fellow and received his BS and MBA from Cornell University.

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John Mattison, is the Chief Medical Information Officer and Assistant Medical Director for Kaiser Permanente. He focuses on transforming care delivery with information technology, through convergence of exponential technologies and data liquidity. He led the design and implementation of the largest integrated electronic health record in the US, and leads various national programs including virtual care. He has sponsored or led numerous digital innovations, and mentors many digital health startups. He chairs the eHealth Workgroup of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), and is a board member of Open mHealth, advisory board member of the NIH funded Policy and Ethics in Precision Medicine, teaches at multiple Universities including Singularity University, and has published widely on privacy, policy, security, IOT, global genomics collaboration, interoperability, mobile health, and healthcare transformation. He has published in Nature, JAMIA, JAMA, WSJ, Forbes, and has authored chapters for various books. He has keynoted or hosted many national and international healthcare conferences and has consulted in many countries. He is the founder of the international XML standard for health record interoperability known as CDA, CCD and CCDA, and is an active participant on several global initiatives to bring internet services to under served communities providing access to both jobs and healthcare. 

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Dee W. Ford, MD, MSCR, is a Professor of Medicine in the Medical University of South Carolina’s Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.  Her clinical focus is critical care and her research focus includes palliative/end-of-life care, quality improvement, and reducing health disparities in critical care.  Dr. Ford is the Medical Director for MUSC’s Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) and is a champion of quality improvement and patient safety initiatives. She is widely recognized for her collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach to improving the care of critically ill patients and their families. Her efforts are characterized by novel program and implementation, elevating performance to better meet patient/family needs, and facilitating the professional development of others.

Dr. Ford became active in telehealth in 2009 and was tapped by MUSC leadership in 2013 to develop a strategic plan for accelerating MUSC’s telehealth programs. She serves as the Medical Director of the Tele-ICU and ICU Innovations Critical Care Outreach programs.  MUSC’s Tele-ICU is a cornerstone service that currently supports six South Carolina community hospital ICUs. Collaborating with site champions at South Carolina community hospital ICUs, MUSC’s ICU Innovations is comprised of an interdisciplinary outreach education and quality improvement team who conduct on-site, quarterly seminars for interdisciplinary ICU teams.

Dr. Ford has recently taken on a new role as Program Director for MUSC’s HRSA designation as a national Center of Excellence for telehealth. As a Center of Excellence (COE), MUSC will fill important gaps in the national telehealth landscape through a combination of ongoing regional and national collaborations and proactive dissemination of telehealth resources.  The COE will address the following objectives:
1) the impact of telehealth on federal and local healthcare spending
2) provider and patient engagement in telehealth, and
3) open access network evaluation and best practice dissemination

Dr. Ford is from Anderson, South Carolina, and received her BS in biology from the University of South Carolina where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.  She received her MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society.  Dr. Ford completed her internal medicine residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and her pulmonary/critical care fellowship training at the Medical University of South Carolina.

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Kathryn King Cristaldi, M.D., MHS, is the medical Director for School Based Health and an assistant professor in the Division of General Pediatrics at MUSC Children’s Hospital. She directs the clinical care and programmatic functioning of both in-person and telemedicine School Based Health Centers and provides clinical care to students.

Dr. Cristaldi has a special interest in extending the reach of primary care and preventative medicine to underserved children through school based health. Hailing from a rural area herself, she has sought out opportunities to become involved in the local community to ensure the health and wellness of school children. Dr. Cristaldi is dedicated to exploring public health solutions that utilize involvement of key stakeholders at each level of the sociologic framework to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to address healthcare disparities. In this role she continues to use her research skills and experience leveraging partnerships between school, medical and local community personnel in order to successfully increase access to health care in rural communities.

Dr. Cristaldi received her undergraduate education at the University of Dayton and earned her medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. She completed her pediatric residency at MUSC, and an academic generalist fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University, earning a Master of Health Science degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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James T. McElligott, M.D., MSCR, is the Medical Director for Telehealth at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics at MUSC Children’s Hospital.  He oversees the Center for Telehealth at MUSC. 

Dr. McElligott’s career has been driven by a passion for helping the vulnerable and the conviction that the way to do so is through population-level change. These led him first to an interest in pediatrics, caring for the most vulnerable of patients, and in improving the health of children both in the United States and in developing countries. He then realized something startling about his own state that would fuel his interest in rural outreach: the poverty along the I-95 corridor in South Carolina rivals that in many developing countries. Given the magnitude of the health care disparities in these areas, he came to believe that real progress in this generation could only be made through the radical innovation offered by telehealth. Using videoconferencing and other technology, telehealth brings the care to the patient instead of expecting the patient to come to the care, thereby eliminating many traditional barriers to care.   His work in telehealth began as he developed a school-based telehealth program to bring primary pediatric care to underserved children in Williamsburg County, one of South Carolina’s poorest areas.  He later assisted in the development of telehealth programs serving both children and adults, and in 2013 accepted the position as Medical Director for Telehealth at MUSC. 

Dr. McElligott currently serves as the Chair of the South Carolina Telehealth Alliance Advisory Council, the Secretary of the Pediatric Telehealth Special Interest Group of the American Telemedicine Association, a Board Member of Palmetto Care Connections, and is the Chair of the Trident United Way Health Vision Council in Charleston.  In 2014, Dr. McElligott received the Health Care Hero from the Charleston Regional Business Journal for his work with school-based telehealth. 

Dr. McElligott received his undergraduate education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his medical degree at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at MUSC, as well as an academic generalist fellowship, earning a Master of Science in Clinical Research degree. 

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Professor Stan Kachnowski, PhD MPA CSEP, an Oxford trained researcher, has taught over 5,000 students from Columbia University, IIT-Delhi, and Quinnipiac College. His teaching and research over the past 25 years includes educating graduate level and executive students on 4 continents and conducting extensive studies on the efficacy and diffusion of digital health, including electronic data capture, ePRO, wearables, and predictive algorithms.

Professor Kachnowski has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers and presentations for national and international journals and societies in digital health development, management, and diffusion. He was selected as a Fellow to CHIME in 1998. In 2003 he received a letter of commendation for teaching excellence from the Dean of the School of Public Health at Columbia University. Professor Kachnowski was named a Fellow to England’s Royal Society of Medicine for his research demonstrating the outcomes effectiveness of using the Palm Pilot in managing haemophilia patients in 2005. Professor Kachnowski has received grant funding from a wide ranging groups of sponsors, including over a dozen nations, AARP, WHO, USAID, Gates and Dell Foundations, and most of the top 20 global life science companies. Over the past 25 years he has also served as interim CTO for life science organizations, including Eyetech and Oncology.com. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Oursmedicina, The Hudson Center for Health Equity, and Aptus Health.

Professor Kachnowski holds Bachelors and Master’s Degrees from the University of Vermont, and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford.

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Dr. Mechanic is an Emergency Medicine attending at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and is a Fellow of Health Policy and Management at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians. Dr. Mechanic’s interests and activities are health care innovation, value-based delivery, and TeleHealth. Dr. Mechanic trained at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at BIDMC and obtained a Master of Public Health (MPH) at Dartmouth Medical School, researching health care operations and implementing value-based health care delivery. During his residency training, he was selected into Prof Michael Porter’s Value-Based Health Care Delivery intensive seminar at Harvard Business School. Dr. Mechanic has participated in the Physician Leadership Program, designed by health care leaders at the medical center and business school to develop leadership skills surrounding quality, safety, and process improvement projects. Over recent years, his interests are in coordinating innovative approaches to healthcare delivery, population health, and telehealth endeavors within regional and international medical practices, and he has spoken nationally on such topics. Other interests include Emergency Department operations in order to provide timely and safe care to patients presenting in the ED, specifically regarding observation medicine. He has been awarded a Harvard Medical School teaching award and is a core faculty member for the clinical skills course.

Dr. Mechanic is from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for undergraduate and medical school studies and is a proud Tar Heel.

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Dominique Hurley is an expert in Bio/Pharma commercial operations with a focus on commercial data enablement. She is currently Vice President of Innovation and Strategy for HealthVerity, a cloud-based technology company enhancing the transparency, availability, and cost-efficiency in healthcare data access and management. Through novel technology that encrypts, matches and unifies healthcare data, HealthVerity delivers interoperable access to over 300 million patients and 11 billion healthcare and consumer transactions. Prior to HealthVerity, Dominique was Senior Director, Commercial Operations at Biogen where she led the aggregation of specialty pharmacy data for the multiple sclerosis and hematology franchises unifying the information and its use across the enterprise. She also led key initiatives on measurement and reporting strategy to support a better understanding of patient and physician needs for both mature and launch brands. Prior to Biogen, she led the information strategy, technology and commercial operations set up for Ironwood Pharmaceuticals in advance of their first commercial launch, Linzess. Dominique also spent time on the supplier side of the industry serving as VPGM of Epsilon (ADS) pharmaceutical practice. Here she led global, omni-channel engagements for AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Procter & Gamble. She is a graduate of Lehigh University College of Business and Economics and resides in the Boston area.

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Mr. Colón is the co-founder and CEO of Izzy Care, an artificial intelligence-driven digital health and wellness platform that offers patients unlimited access to integrated primary care and behavioral health services, leveraging a unique tokenized incentives system. He has been honored by Becker's Hospital Review as one 2018's top up-and-comers in healthcare IT. The 22-year-old CEO attended the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, where he founded the undergraduate neuroscience organization, won more than $20,000 in awards through the annual McCloskey Business Plan Competition, and assisted in virtual reality and neurophysiology research before leaving his senior year to pursue his business ventures full time.  

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Lori Ruderman, Director of FedResponse Services for the Dept. of Health and Human Services’ Program Support System serves as the Project Management Office Lead for HHS ReImagine BuySmarter.  BuySmarter is an innovative new HHS-wide program to use technology to streamline and modernize federal acquisitions across the Department to achieve significant economies of scale and gain Department-wide efficiencies. 
Ms. Ruderman has over 30 years’ experience in diverse range of leadership and management roles.  With a Master’s Degree in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling, Ms. Ruderman spent more than 20 years of her career serving in the healthcare space.  During the course of her career to-date, Ms. Ruderman has served as the director of a not-for-profit health program and has served as a hospital administrator for two different healthcare systems before joining the federal government in 2008.   Since entering public service, Ms. Ruderman has spent the past ten years in the federal Shared Services environment with the majority of that time focused on federal acquisitions. 

Ms. Ruderman brings a passion and innovative energy to this unique opportunity to revolutionize acquisitions for the Department’s $24B in annual spend on goods and services.  

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Senior Operations Leader bringing more than 20 years’ experience across Healthcare, Service Industry, Manufacturing, Transactional Businesses, Federal Government, and Non-Profit industries in the deployment of small and large scale Business Transformations, Business Unit Leadership, Lean Transformation, Operational Excellence, Large Scale Program Management Office (PMO), Revenue Generation/Cost Reduction Initiatives, Strategic Planning & Execution, Executive Coaching, Operational Merger Leadership, and Business Turnaround deployments.   HHS BUYSMARTER Solution Architect:      Principal designer of the overall BUYSMARTER solution for HHS, an entirely new way for HHS to combine its $24B in spend on services and supplies to leverage its vast buying power to drive best value and best pricing for all contracted goods and services.

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Cees Hesp is Director mHealth Research Labs at PharmAccess, a Dutch not-for-profit organization that aims to improve access to quality healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cees has a professional background in IT and technical writing, with over 30 years of experience. He holds an MA in English Linguistics from the Free University of Amsterdam, where he graduated Cum Laude. Cees holds several Advisory Board member positions and sits on the Board of Directors of the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at the United Nations Foundation. Dr. Hesp is also a member of the editorial board of Blockchain in Healthcare Today, sister publication to Telehealth and Medicine Today. 

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Dr. Priya Ramaswamy is an Anesthesiology resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Priya obtained her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and her MD from Tufts University School of Medicine.

Priya has worked/consulted for several health-care and technology companies including Medtronic, Rest Devices, and Facebook. She has been a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society's Information Technology Committee since 2013. She most recently won first place at the Society for Technology and Anesthesia's annual Engineering Challenge on using Blockchain to share difficult intubation scores.

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Ellen brings a unique blend of scientific expertise and strategic thinking to her role as Managing Director at Cadent Medical Communications. Throughout her career in medical education and healthcare advertising, she has amassed significant experience developing strategic communication platforms for numerous educational and promotional initiatives, including peer-to-peer, medical affairs and publications.  She relishes in learning new science and working with her team and clients to bring it to life for the HCP audience.
 
Ellen’s scientific repertoire spans numerous therapeutic categories across accounts both domestic and global. She has worked extensively in the fields of oncology (immunotherapy, prostate cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, CML, oncology diagnostics, and oncology supportive care), dermatology (psoriasis), gastroenterology (IBD [ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease]) rheumatology/immunology (lupus, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis), respiratory (COPD), neurology (TTR-FAP and movement disorders), as well as cardiology (anticoagulation) and diabetes (SGLT2 inhibition), supporting products and brands from development to launch and lifecycle management.

Prior to joining Cadent in 2017, Ellen was SVP, Director Medical and Scientific Services at The Bloc and prior to that worked at Ogilvy Healthworld. She received her doctorate degree in cancer biology from Columbia University where she was the recipient of the Rover Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Achievement. Ellen’s work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.

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Julia has over 15 years of experience in the field of medical communications, education, and advertising.  She holds a doctoral degree in molecular genetics from the University of Salamanca (Spain) and spent 5 years as a postdoctoral research fellow, later associate, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, investigating the mechanisms of cell division control and their relationship to potential oncogenic processes.

Working with pharmaceutical, biotech clients, academic institutions, and professional societies, Julia has provided strategic solutions via publications, educational programs, and promotional campaigns, from the development of concepts and messaging, to final deliverables. Her expertise includes genetic diseases, rheumatology/immunology, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, and oncology.

Julia has an extensive track record in publications, from conceptual multi-year planning, to successful execution of high-quality, high-science manuscripts or congress presentations (phase I-III clinical trials, as well as clinical biomarker discovery data sets). Among other brands, Julia led the multi-indication publication efforts for Erbitux (cetuximab) and Tarceva (erlotinib) when these products transitioned from widely-defined indications to biomarker-based clinical use. Julia has also worked developing promotional and medical strategies for major brands, such as Erbitux (cetuximab), Velcade (bortezomib), Empliciti (elotuzumab), Orkambi (lumacaftor/ivacaftor), Eliquis (apixaban) and Cimzia (certolizumab pegol), playing an instrumental role in developing positioning platforms and strategic messaging from inception to market research. 

Recently, Julia has been supporting several major brands in the field of oncology/hematology, and immunology including multiple antibodies and large molecules, both for US and global teams. Julia acts as medical director, leading content development and management for publications and other scientific output. 

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"The most intriguing and important aspect of business is quality networking. To me, the most fulfilling part of my career has been building meaningful relationships which drive change, create improvements, and enhance people's lives."

Todd Eury grew up in Southwestern Pennsylvania in the small community of Evans City, thirty miles north of downtown Pittsburgh. He graduated summa cum laude from Geneva College with a dual degree in Business Administration & Human Resources. Todd started his professional career in telecommunications with Sprint's Small Business Division and spent 8 years in the field of business development for WorldCom and AT&T until entering the pharmacy technology sector of healthcare in 2004.

Todd helped to build a small software systems design company with barely 10 total customers to the most recognized long-term care pharmacy management system in the pharmacy industry, SoftWriters developers of FrameworkLTC. Having an entrepreneurial spirit and desire to launch his own company in the privately owned pharmacy sector, Todd created the “Pharmacy Technology Resource” which started from a small popular blog about pharmacy operators leveraging technology better to gain efficiency and maximize profitability.

In 2009, Todd launched the pharmacy industry’s first podcast about the Business of Pharmacy dedicated to healthcare professionals called the ‘Pharmacy Podcast Show’.

In 2011, the Pharmacy Technology Resource merged with a pharmacy-buying group called PharmacyGPO. Todd formed a partnership with a pharmacy owner and business developer in Pittsburgh and used H. D. Smith as their wholesaler to create a unique offering and building business for their pharmacy members through digital marketing and call center services.  Todd’s partners voted to sell the company in 2014 to a physician dispensing organization and he then began to consult for pharmacy software developers on improving their business development strategies, networking, and digital marketing efforts. 

In the fall of 2014, several pharmacists joined Todd’s podcast publication and the Pharmacy Podcast Show was transformed into the Pharmacy Podcast Network. Today the audio-blog publication is the U.S. Healthcare System’s largest network of podcasts dedicated to the profession of pharmacy with 23 co-hosts developing content for 15 different podcasts segmented on different topics like healthcare law, technology, medical cannabis, senior care, and pharmacogenomics.  The Pharmacy Podcast Network has a collective listener base of about 67,000 and has personalized podcast publications for national associations like the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists and the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy.

In 2015, Todd was contracted by WellMedRx to help build a mobile application to assist doctors in identifying if their patient’s were eligible for a pharmacogenomics test to ensure the medications they were taking would work as medically intended.

The world of pharmacy software and healthcare tech consulting wasn’t consistent enough and Todd found a new career in the field of opioid addiction recovery in business development and strategic marketing with national leader New Season headquartered in Orlando Florida, he has been with New Season since June 2016.

Todd is married to his wife Nicole who’s a nurse at a maximum-security state prison system and is a proud father to four daughters and two fur-babies. They live in Fayette County Pennsylvania and are planning to buy their second home in Eastern Florida to eventually live as “snow-birds” as they don’t like the cold winters of the northeast. 

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Walter A. De Brouwer Ph.D., is the founder and CEO of doc.ai, an AI company with a presence on the Blockchain that uses Machine Learning on Precision Medicine. The company started in August 2016 and together with DLA Piper closed a successful Initial Coin Offering in 2017 (Concurrent Offerings Under Rule 506(c) And Regulation S) to decentralize its AI and allow anyone to start training their own AI. The Palo-Alto based crypto company is using Deep Neural Networks on rare diseases that have a genetic root. His Wikipedia page is here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_De_Brouwer
Walter is an entrepreneur and investor in tech and science. Together with Nicholas Negroponte (MIT), he founded Starlab SA, Europe's premier Deep Future research lab on wearable computing, Quantum computation, computational genomics and MPEG-21 (IP was sold to Philips). In 1993 he co-founded the European internet backbone company PING out of the European UNIX Users Group later EUnet International Ltd. which merged with Qwest Communications and went from NASDAQ to NYSE now Centurylink. In 1994 he had founded one of the pioneers of online job boards in Europe called Jobscape which merged into Stepstone ASA and completed an IPO in March 2000. In 2002 he took over the Brussels-based Patronale Capitalisation and made it into a Fintech Life insurer. In 2007 Nicholas Negroponte appointed De Brouwer to set up the EMEA branch of MIT's NGO One Laptop per Child (OLPC). De Brouwer negotiated with 14 Ministers of Finance and 9 Presidents in South and West Africa, and eventually, The Learning Center was transferred from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston to Kigali (Rwanda) Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). The XO was the first 802.11 mesh-driven device in Africa.

Walter moved to Silicon Valley in 2011 to found Scanadu one of the first mobile health company building people-centric and portable medical devices (FDA pending) using machine learning. He served as the CEO of the 60$m- funded company until April 2016. In 2016 he set up doc.ai in USA and Gen.life in China where he serves as Chief Scientific Officer. In 2017 he set up TokenSoft, a smart-contracts company in San Francisco and became the scientific advisor to Ubiome. In 2018 he became involved in Havven (Australia) the stable coin company and is setting up a new crypto-investment bank in Palo Alto, CA to play a role in the coming "Tokenization of Corporate America."

Walter earned a master's degree in Formal Linguistics (University of Ghent, Belgium) and a Ph.D. in Computational Semantics ("Bio-semiotics: The Biology of Language. The search for the atomic unit of meaning") from the Catholic University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. He started as an academic lecturer at the Jesuit University of Antwerp, Belgium (Machine Translation and Chomsky's TGG), but left in 1989 to become an entrepreneur.

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Basker is lead in Digital Innovation at Bayer.  Basker’s role is to develop and execute a solid program and lay a foundation for innovation and digital in the U.S, and work with the Americas to leverage and/or contribute to global approaches. The purpose is to drive digital innovation to successfully implement projects together with Business Partnering, and IT Operations, while ensuring a strong link to divisions’ business strategies for timeliness and relevance.

As a volunteer lead with the IEEE-Standards Association, Basker is committed to developing a community outside of Bayer focused on bringing the pharma industry and university to identify business cases for Clinical Trials using Block Chain, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, and Big Data.
Prior to joining Bayer Basker held positions of increasing responsibility: Business Solution Manager, Hoffman-La-Roche, Assistant Director, Schering Plough and Senior Analyst, Bristol Myers Squibb.

Prior to joining Bayer Basker held positions of increasing responsibility: Business Solution Manager, Hoffman-La-Roche, Assistant Director, Schering Plough and Senior Analyst, Bristol Myers Squibb.

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Dr. Halamka completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University, where he received a degree in medical microbiology and a degree in public policy with a focus on technology issues. He entered medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and simultaneously pursued graduate work in bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley focusing on technology issues in medicine. He completed his residency at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

In his role at BIDMC, Dr. Halamka is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative, and academic information technology, serving 3,000 doctors, 12,000 employees, and 1,000,000 patients. As chairman of NEHEN, Dr. Halamka oversees clinical and administrative data exchange among the payers, providers, and patients in Massachusetts.   As a Harvard professor, he has served the George W. Bush administration, the Obama administration, and national governments throughout the world planning their healthcare IT strategy.

Dr. Halamka has authored five books on technology-related issues, hundreds of articles and thousands of posts on the popular Geekdoctor blog. He runs Unity Farm in Sherborn, MA and serves as caretaker for 150 animals, 30 acres of agricultural production and a cidery/winery.

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Amar Das joined IBM in 2016 as a Director in IBM's Healthcare and Life Sciences research organization.  Amar is advancing the healthcare research agenda at IBM by proposing, modeling, and executing clinical studies and clinical trials of IBM solutions within healthcare. The research focuses on new statistical, computational, and regulatory approaches to the assessment, deployment, and adoption of these solutions.  The overall goal is to develop a learning health system that engages providers, patients, researchers and other stakeholders in continually evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, improving health outcomes, and delivering high value care.

Prior to joining IBM Research, Amar was a faculty member at Stanford University Medical School and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.  At Dartmouth, he also served as Director of Biomedical Informatics within the Department of Biomedical Data Science, which he cofounded, and Director of the Biomedical Informatics Core within the SYNERGY Clinical and Translational Science Institute.  He also initiated and led the Informatics Collaboratory at Dartmouth, which engaged end users and stakeholders in an agile process for designing and hardening research informatics software.  His labs at Dartmouth and Stanford have primarily pursued new computational methods for managing, mining and visualizing longitudinal clinical data.  His work also includes decision support systems, knowledge management, machine learning, natural language processing, blockchain and health services research.  Amar has applied his research to HIV drug resistance, immune tolerance, autism spectrum disorders, and breast cancer care.  He has trained and mentored dozens of undergraduate, graduate and medical students as part of his lab, and developed new coursework based on his informatics research.

Amar obtained a BA with Distinction in Anthropology and the Honors Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences at Northwestern University.  He received his MD and PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University.  He completed a research track residency in Psychiatry and a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute.   Amar has received a number of teaching and research awards during his career in academic medicine.  He also serves on numerous US and international grant review panels.

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