2018 Speakers

Robin has been a social worker for over 29 years. She has a BA in Sociology and received her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California.

Robin specializes in the field of behavioral health and medical social work for seniors, and end of life issues. She started the Social Work program at CareMore Health 11 years ago, were she began addressing the social determinants of healthcare. Robin is currently serving as CareMore Health’s first Chief Togetherness Officer to combat loneliness in the senior population. As the Chief Togetherness Officer, Robin leads the program to ensure that loneliness is addressed as a treatable condition. As a result of Robin’s work to integrate the Togetherness program into CareMore’s clinical model, the program is now being launched to Anthem Medicare members. Since the inception of the Togetherness program in 2017, Robin has spoken at the national HIMSS conference, Health 2.0, and Stanford Medicine X on addressing loneliness and social isolation in the healthcare setting. She is a member of the Los Angeles Social Isolation and Loneliness Coalition and is published in the AJMC. In 2018 Robin received the Athena Healthcare Innovation Award for her work through the Togetherness program to address senior loneliness.

Justin is a Co-Founder at Helix, a personal genomics company dedicated to empowering every person to improve their life through DNA. Helix is created the first marketplace for DNA—a place to find the latest and greatest in DNA-powered products from reputable partners like National Geographic and Mayo Clinic. Using next-generation sequencing to acquire an unprecedented amount of data, Helix enables its partners to easily launch high-quality products across a wide range of categories, from health and family planning to fitness and nutrition. Users are empowered to be sequenced once, and return over and over to live better both today and years from now.

Bryce Olson is the Global Marketing Director for Intel’s Health and Life Sciences group. One of the areas he focuses on is bringing technology and science together in the exciting area of genomics and precision medicine with a powerful message on how this saves lives. Genomic sequencing and precision medicine gave him a life he didn’t think he’d get to live, and the ability to use artificial intelligence and find new secrets in data will help keep it that way. Bryce is inspired by connecting the advances in life sciences into clinical settings and helping patients understand these new opportunities. He is a sought after keynote speaker both locally and nationally, and his story has been covered by both local and national media. Bryce also started FACTS (‘Fighting Advanced Cancer Through Songs’), a movement that uses the power of music to build awareness for a new way to fight cancer and bring molecular testing and precision medicine to other advanced cancer patients. In 2017, Bryce wrote and co-produced a rock-n-roll album with proceeds going towards the FACTS movement, that brought together a variety of musicians and singers including Jenny Conlee from the Decemberists, Martha Davis from the Motels, Pete Krebs, and Michelle DeCourcy – all four of whom are also cancer survivors.

Robin has been a social worker for over 29 years. She has a BA in Sociology and received her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California.

Robin specializes in the field of behavioral health and medical social work for seniors, and end of life issues. She started the Social Work program at CareMore Health 11 years ago, were she began addressing the social determinants of healthcare. Robin is currently serving as CareMore Health’s first Chief Togetherness Officer to combat loneliness in the senior population. As the Chief Togetherness Officer, Robin leads the program to ensure that loneliness is addressed as a treatable condition. As a result of Robin’s work to integrate the Togetherness program into CareMore’s clinical model, the program is now being launched to Anthem Medicare members. Since the inception of the Togetherness program in 2017, Robin has spoken at the national HIMSS conference, Health 2.0, and Stanford Medicine X on addressing loneliness and social isolation in the healthcare setting. She is a member of the Los Angeles Social Isolation and Loneliness Coalition and is published in the AJMC. In 2018 Robin received the Athena Healthcare Innovation Award for her work through the Togetherness program to address senior loneliness.

Louis Dias was named Chief Patient Officer at Medtronic Diabetes in July 2015. Louis is responsible for putting our patients’ voice at the center of all our business processes – from product development to customer service. Louis joined Medtronic Diabetes from Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, where he served as Vice President of Global Strategic Insights, responsible for championing the voice of the customer, using consumer insights for marketing and R&D, and creating strategies to improve the patient experience. He joined J&J Vision Care in 2001 and held leadership roles in strategy, insights and product innovations related to custom lenses, smart devices, and drug-device combinations. Prior to J&J, Louis worked at Procter & Gamble, where he was responsible for leading consumer insights and marketing strategy. Louis earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston and is fluent in French, German, Portuguese and Spanish.

Shannon leads the Office of Patient Experience supporting caregivers in delivering on an experience that is personalized and caring, supports health, delivers exceptional outcomes and is free from harm. Prior to joining Intermountain, she served as Cleveland Clinic’s first patient safety officer and as associate chief quality officer. As a pediatric hospitalist, her interests include the inpatient care of medically complex children and the overall family-centered approach to patient care. She is a Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine and recognized as a “Top Doc” since 2006.

Currently, she sits on the National Quality Forum’s Expert Panel on Common Formats and the Measures Application Partnership Hospital Workgroup. Additionally, she serves on the Executive Committee of the Council on Quality and Patient Safety of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She has been a visiting professor and invited consultant to organizations in the US and across the globe. Her hope is that healthcare is an empathic human experience.

Roslyn Schneider, MD, joined Pfizer in 2006 and is the Global Patient Affairs Lead on Pfizer’s Medical Leadership Team of the Chief Medical Office (CMO). In this newly created role, Dr Schneider drives patient centricity and integration of the voice of the patient throughout the lifecycle of medicines and their development. Just prior to this she worked with the CMO on Medical Strategy and has held other leadership roles in Medical Affairs and Medicine Development at Pfizer.

Dr Schneider received her Bachelor of Science from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education of the City College of New York, MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and later her MSc in Pharmaceutical Medicine from Hibernia College.

Dr Schneider is a retired Clinical Professor of Medicine of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, an Internist, Pulmonologist, Intensivist, and cared for patients at Beth Israel Medical Center, NY, for twenty years. She presented and published primarily in the areas of pulmonary complications of HIV infection, venous thromboembolic disease, medical ethics and medical education. Dr Schneider was a Program Director for the Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care, the Residency in Internal Medicine, and Assistant Chair of the Department of Medicine. She is a fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians where she Chairs the Clinical Research Network. She also serves as Secretary on the Board of Trustees of the Physician Assistant Foundation, and is on the Advisory Council of the Keck Graduate Institute.

Jonathan is the SVP of Business Development, Sales and Marketing of Spry Health, a company that provides health care organizations with real-time, actionable clinical analytics to enable delivery of precision care to their patients when they need it, prevent hospital admissions, and reduce spending. Its easy-to-use wearable device is the first to deliver predictive health insights by creating continuous, industry-standard vital sign monitoring.  Jon’s previous experience includes VP of Sales and Business Development at MedeAnalytics and co- founding BENU, a pioneer in building risk adjusted healthcare exchanges.

Alexis Normad is VP of Withings Healthcare and has been at the forefront of the connected health revolution for more than 10 years in a career that spans public policy, hospital operations and product management. He currently leads Withings’ ongoing strategy in driving adoption of digital devices in healthcare with consumers, employers, medical providers and life sciences. In 2013, he founded and headed the B2B division of Withings to promote sales and use of smart devices and data in preventative health services for employers, distance health monitoring for healthcare providers, and real-word evidence studies for life sciences and academic institutions.

He has developed eHealth solutions for hospitals in North America and Europe and is a leading industry advocate, having served as a member of the GDPR working Group on eHealth for the EU commission.  Alexis is also a regular keynote and panel speaker at industry events and has spoken at conferences including Connected Health, HIMSS, AHA and OECD.

Alexis has also written extensively on issues relating to connected health as an author, media commentator and co-investigator for peer reviewed publications. His book, “The Revolution of eHealth” was published in 2017 and his writings and comments have appeared in media all over the world including the Wall Street Journal, Les Echos and Le Monde. In addition, as part of his work with Withings, he has co-authored multiple studies involving connected health devices and data in peer reviewed publications including The American Journal of Hypertension, The Journal of Internet Medical Research and The Journal of Physical Activity Research.

Alexis is a graduate of HEC (Msc.), Sciences-Po (MPA) and La Sorbonne in philosophy (Ba) and currently lives in Boston.

Dr. Priya Radhakrishnan, MD, FACP is a board certified internist with an interest in treating patients with chronic complex illness and is a physician leader with extensive experience. She has specific expertise in Population Health and Quality Improvement , Medical Education, Health Care disparities, Integrated Care and Health Information Technology. She is the Chief Academic Officer at HonorHealth and oversees the medical education programs at HonorHealth. She also is a member of the HonorHealth Best Care Council- which is the network quality improvement and patient safety body at HonorHealth.

Dr. Radhakrishnan has held several leadership positions. She is the current Governor-Elect for the Arizona chapter of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American College of Physicians, Medical Informatics Committee. She was the Robert Craig Academic Chair of Internal Medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix.

Dr. Radhakrishnan’s work with health care disparities , quality  improvement and medical education  has been recognized locally and nationally. She was the recipient of the SGIM’s Clinical Practice and Quality Innovation award for her work in transforming the Internal Medicine clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital. She has been the physician advisor for the Practice Innovation Institute, a CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI) grant. She is currently the national co-champion of the Patient and Family Engagement Work Group (previously Affinity group) for TCPI . She has won several teaching awards. Dr. Radhakrishnan was recognized as a Master teacher by faculty and residents at St. Joseph’s Hospital and is also a recipient of Phoenix Top Docs, an annual peer-selected list of the Valley’s most respected physicians published in Phoenix Magazine.

Alongside over two decades of clinical experience spanning general practice, general surgery, clinical laboratory and pharmacy, Dr. Berisha has extensive expertise with relational databases, data analysis and predictive modeling applications across the continuum of healthcare.

Dr. Berisha completed medical school in 1993 and General Surgery residency in 2002. Since joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Dr. Berisha has been instrumental in building clinical data intelligence including direction of scientist team in the design, development, and validation of predictive modeling algorithms and risk stratification tools.

Currently, he is serving as Head of Clinical Analytics and Data Science team at LexisNexis Risk Solutions researching Socioeconomic Determinants of Health (SDOH) and their impact and relationship with a number of relevant clinical outcomes.

Jay Bhatt serves as chief medical officer of the American Hospital Association and president of HRET. Most recently, he was the first chief health officer at the Illinois Health & Hospital Association. In this role, he led large improvement projects including the Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), which is aimed at reducing readmissions and hospital-acquired conditions. He has launched several improvement collaboratives, managed the Medical Executive Forum, led the Midwest Alliance for Patient Safety, launched a physician leadership academy, and designed and advanced a statewide high-reliability initiative.

Previously, he was managing deputy commissioner and chief innovation officer for the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH). There he led the implementation of Healthy Chicago — the city’s public health agenda, innovations in cross-sector partnerships, predictive analytics, epidemiology and informatics. He led the department to be internationally and nationally recognized in their approach to using predictive analytics to improve food inspections, chronic disease, West Nile and lead inspections. He also led a groundbreaking initiative with Advocate South Asian Cardiovascular Center in developing the South Asian Healthy Eating Benefits program along with a partnership to reimagine community benefit spending with Presence Health. Under his leadership, the Chicago Department of Public Health was awarded Local Health Department of the Year, and received an award from the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.

He also is a practicing internal medicine physician for Erie Family Health Center in Chicago serving vulnerable populations and is a member of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern faculty and the University of Michigan Medical School faculty. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1999 with a degree in economics. In 2008, Dr. Bhatt received both his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and his Master in Public Health degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. In 2012, he received his Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman Leadership Fellow and Mongan Commonwealth Fund/Harvard Minority Health Policy Fellow. He was a White House Fellows National Finalist in 2013. He is an American College of Physicians Walter McDonald Young Physician Awardee, 40 under 40 health innovator award recognition, and selected to the prestigious Presidential Leadership Scholars Program in 2016. He enjoys exploring Chicago with family and friends including trying different restaurants. He also enjoys teaching dance in the community.

Melinda Cordero-Bárzaga has dedicated most of her professional career to working with Promotores in several capacities including, designing and directing programs, developing curricula, training, mentoring, evaluating projects and is approaching 28 years of service.  She is one of 5 co-founders of Visión y Compromiso and joined the organization in 2004 as the Director of its California Network of Promotoras and Community Health Workers (CHW’s). Currently she serves as the Associate Director of the organization and in this capacity oversees their statewide programmatic work and operations including its Network statewide annual conference, annual legislative day in Sacramento, CA and the development of the Promotores Institute.

Ms. Cordero-Bárzaga has been recognized for her work with women and girls as well as with Promotores. She is the recipient of the 1999, Los Angeles Women’s Foundation Mentor Award and 2001 received an award from Comision Femenil de Los Angeles for her work with Latinas and health. Ms. Cordero-Bárzaga was also recognized in 2009 by the California Assembly for her work with Promotores in the state and and in 2011, she received the Helen Rodriguez-Trias award from the California Office of Women’s Health for her dedication to the health of women in California. In June 2013, she was awarded the MENDing Poverty Nonprofit Leadership Award which recognized her effective organizational and community leadership in Southern California on behalf of individuals living in poverty.

She has served on many advisory boards and is currently serving as a member of the California State Program Committee for the March of Dimes, the California HPV Vaccination Roundtable, Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI) University of Southern California (USC) and is serving on her second term on the Los Angeles County Community Prevention and Population Health Task Force.

Dennis is responsible for the direction, coordination, evaluation, and management in developing and leading strategic investment. The focus of the initiative is to develop a portfolio of investments that, as a whole, focus on improving the Kansas (and national) healthcare market, enhance the core business of the company and generate revenue. These strategic investments are expected to be integrated into the company as part of its overall long-term strategy. Dennis brings more than 20 years of experience in creating, building and leading high growth enterprises in the United States and abroad. He most recently served as CEO/president of Ulterius Technologies, LLC, Wichita, where he managed all start-up, fundraising, technology development, and sales and marketing activities to launch a new product for the company’s founders. Previously, he in leadership and board roles for various technology and health-related start-ups in the USA and Europe. He holds two degrees from the University of Kansas: a bachelor’s in business and a master’s in business administration. Depenbusch is outgoing president of the board of trustees for Bishop Seabury Academy, Lawrence, and Chairs the MBA advisory board for the KU’s School of Business. He and his wife reside in Lawrence, Kansas. They have two college-aged sons.

Justin is a Co-Founder at Helix, a personal genomics company dedicated to empowering every person to improve their life through DNA. Helix is created the first marketplace for DNA—a place to find the latest and greatest in DNA-powered products from reputable partners like National Geographic and Mayo Clinic. Using next-generation sequencing to acquire an unprecedented amount of data, Helix enables its partners to easily launch high-quality products across a wide range of categories, from health and family planning to fitness and nutrition. Users are empowered to be sequenced once, and return over and over to live better both today and years from now.

During his five-year battle with a -then- terminal cancer diagnosis, Taylor Carol witnessed the immense impact that video games and entertainment technology had on patients’ lives. Inspired, he resolved to build a non-profit committed to leveraging gaming, technology, and innovation to empower patients to play, learn, and socialize. Despite missing nearly five years of school, Taylor, now a 23-year old Harvard Graduate, has taken GameChanger Charity from a garage hobby to an international endeavor; partnering with the largest tech companies on earth, like Amazon, to support over 20,000 children in 100 hospitals around the world.

Witnessing the desperate need for these services, Taylor and the GameChanger team resolved to create “businesses around the charity,” to both promote the GameChanger vision into the for-profit space and to ensure that GameChanger Charity always had the means to support its patient populations.  In recent years the GameChanger team has created ZOTT: A for-profit subsidiary owned in majority by GameChanger Charity. ZOTT is a cloud-based content distribution platform designed to revolutionize hospitals’ patient engagement systems. Both the ZOTT and GameChanger Charity teams are thrilled to reimagine the ways in which the for-profit and non-profit sectors can harness technology to change patients’ lives forever.

Karthik is the Founder of PulsedIn, Inc. a physician-designed multi-utility social platform for verified physicians that enables effective interaction between passionate physicians, patients and organizations globally. Patients can engage with other patients and providers as well as hospitals/ organizations to develop self-care plans and to communicate via. HealthBeat. PulsedIn aims to place patient in the driver’s seat of managing their own health with the support of their providers and community patient champions. By providing several tools to interact with other patients and support groups, PulsedIn provides peer social and emotional support as well as assistance with daily management for patients with chronic diseases.In addition to PulsedIn, Dr. Koduru also co-founded OncoPower, an Oncology focused platform that aims to reward patients for medication adherence, real-time reporting of side effects, personal genomic data and positive lifestyle changes. He has a strong passion for teaching and has designed and founded successful Archer online test prep courses for medical students.  Dr.Koduru has several years of experience as an Oncologist and serves on board of directors of Illinois Medical Oncology Society. He continues to work full time as an Oncologist at Quincy Medical Group while contributing to PulsedIn and OncoPower with a goal to improve the quality of life and the care delivered to the patients.

Ardy Arianpour is CEO & Co-Founder of Seqster, the first consumer-driven healthcare technology platform that utilizes A.I. to enable individuals to aggregate their EHR, genomics and fitness data in one place and share with their family creating a multi-generational health record. Ardy is a visionary genomics executive and serial entrepreneur in the biotech industry. Prior to starting Seqster, Ardy launched several clinical and consumer-based genetic tests as CCO of Pathway Genomics, and SVP of Ambry Genetics that sold to Konica for $1B in 2017. He is one of the main architects in launching the first commercial clinical exome sequencing test in 2011, establishing the value of next-gen sequencing in the clinic. As a key player in the 2013 landmark SCOTUS decision scrapping gene patents, Ardy played an instrumental role in expanding genetic testing access with the launch of BRCA testing benefiting patients and family members across the country.

Ardy received his BS in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine and an MBA from Marshall Goldsmith School of Management.

Shasha is the co-founder of Context.AI. He is an established healthcare and drug development problem solver and brings an ensemble of mathematical modeling, machine learning, electronics, signal processing, physiology, and drug development tools to the integration of biomedical sciences and medical devices. His distinguished career spans innovative data science applications in implantable devices, artificial kidney irreversible thermodynamics, telemetry, biotechnology, infectious disease, oncology, immunology, child growth and development and global health policy. Previously, he was a senior program officer leading the Healthy Birth, Growth and Development knowledge integration (HBGDki) at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He also held positions at F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG as a Virology Disease Modeling Expert and at Amgen as a senior scientist.

 Shasha aims to integrate evolving progress in materials science, electronic sensors, and information technologies to develop intelligent health platforms and democratize diagnostics to provide actionable and immediate insights on health status, in order to promote preventive care, improve quality of life for patients, and predict and prevent costly medical events for care providers.

Dr. Claire Novorol is Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Ada, an AI-powered health guide that helps people understand their health and navigate to the next appropriate steps in their care.

Claire’s career has been guided by her deep interest in developing creative solutions to tackle real-world problems. At Ada, she is responsible for overseeing medical affairs, clinical partnerships and for ensuring Ada‘s products are tailored to support patient needs. She has advised several health startups throughout her career, and also founded Doctorpreneurs – a global community of over 10,0000 medical professionals who share an interest in health entrepreneurship.

Prior to Ada, Claire worked as a Paediatrician and Clinical Geneticist within the NHS. She also has a degree in Pathology and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge.

Internal medicine specialist David Wetherhold, MD, believes the most important aspect of excellent patient care is the ability to listen to his patients. He also enjoys caring for the whole family and watching the evolution of his patients’ lives.

As an internist, he not only provides front line care to his patients but acts as an advocate and a coordinator of care, including organizing medical tests and collaborating with specialists when needed. In addition to providing comprehensive primary care, he has a special focus on preventative care, which he believes is extremely important. Dr. Wetherhold’s goal is to address potential problems before they become more serious. For this reason he has a clinical interest in the treatment and management of diabetes, since this can lead to many more medical problems.

In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Wetherhold is invested in the development and implementation of technology to improve communication in the health care setting. As the medical director involved in the implementation of ambulatory electronic health records (AEHR) and the patient portal he seeks to increase the accessibility of health information for patients and physicians, in turn opening the lines of communication for more effective patient care.

Dr. Wetherhold has been the recipient of multiple honors and awards throughout his career including the Gordon Schultz Award for Clinical Research. Dr. Wetherhold is also an avid educator and has been involved with the Scripps Clinic Graduate Medical Education Committee, the Scripps Clinic Continuity Clinic, assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and a clinical instructor at Pacific University.

When he is not caring for patients, he enjoys keeping up with the latest technology advances, photography and spending time with his family.

Charles Curbbun has over 35 years of product design experience with an extensive understanding of the product development process. His human centered approach to design combines the ability to produce products that thoughtfully differentiate, with focus on the user experience, resulting in differentiation and competitive advantage for the client. It is this methodology and his leadership that inspires the strategic design direction for DDSTUDIO.

Charles studied Industrial Design in England, earning a BA with honors at De Montfort University. He worked in Europe for various tech firms, including ITT where he initiated their product branding throughout Europe. While at ITT, Charles worked with Bill Moggeridge, whose method of human centered design approach in an open oreative environment sparked the inspiration for his own design consultancy, DDSTUDIO, three years later. Since then DDSTUDIO has consistantly delveloped unique, award winning and appropriate product solutions in multiple industries. The company particulary enjoys the challenge of humanizing new science and technology for start-ups and forward thinking clients.

In addition to designing category-defining products, he also guides future generations of design thinkers by lecturing at UCSD, UC-Irvine, CSU-Long Beach, and Domas Acadamy.

Dr. Komal Patel is a Clinical Pharmacist at Catalia Health and excels in finding innovative means to achieve positive patient outcomes. Finding success in her
professional endeavors has largely revolved around improving the patient experience and crafting ways to better engage patients in their overall care. While at Catalia Health, Dr. Patel has been using her clinical and patient insights to collaborate with creative writers and also contribute to the company’s care management platform, which utilizes a robot health coach as an interface to empower patients in their care. Dialogs for Catalia Health’s robot, named Mabu, are written by professional writers who have helped develop her character and personality to be engaging to patients. Dr. Patel graduated from the University of Southern California, and was awarded 2014 Outstanding Alumna of the Year by the School of Pharmacy for her role in the advancement of healthcare.

Academy Award-winning producer Ed Saxon has been making feature films for 25 years. As principal of his own independent production company, he has developed and produced films with Fox, Universal, Warner Brothers, Columbia, Paramount, and Disney Studios. Saxon’s films combined have grossed over $700M at the box office worldwide and garnered 21 nominations and 8 Academy Awards®. Saxon has been a member of the Academy since 1991.

Saxon won his first Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs which swept Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards categories in the same year. This film remains one of only three films in history of American cinema to achieve this distinction. Saxon has also produced: Philadelphia, garnering two Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Tom Hanks). Adaptation, which was nominated for 4 Academy Awards®; and the Academy Award-nominated documentary Mandela, based on the true-life story of Nelson Mandela in which he stars along with former wife Winnie Mandela. Currently Saxon has Elsa & Fred starring Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer, directed by Academy Award-nominee Michael Radford (Il Postino) in theaters.

Raised in St, Louis, Missouri, Ed is a graduate of the USC Peter Stark Producing Program. He received his undergraduate degree at McGill University. He has taught classes at USC, UCLA, Columbia University and NYU. He is a mentor for the Producer’s Guild, Sundance Institute, and USC. He is a board member of The Center for Body Computing at USC.

Ken comes from an entrepreneurial background with experience in product & sales strategy, financial and channel management; while holding senior roles from a successful career covering HR software, E-commerce, telecoms to banking/ATM solutions.  He is extremely passionate about how technology can be used to provide meaningful access to positive mental health supports and care.

He has worked with a number of large multinational organizations such as Gateway, HP and Dell in Europe, the USA and India. Ken Holds a BSc in Computing & IT, a degree in new business management and has recently completed the Leadership for Growth executive program in IMD, Switzerland. Ken has received a number of awards including the InterTrade Ireland SeedCorn award 2008, Irish Venture Capital Association most investable business award 2012.

Jeremy Maynor is a seasoned executive with over a decade of experience in healthcare.
He joined Optum in 2014 on the Corporate Strategy team where he led multiple Optum-
wide corporate initiatives including development of growth strategy, modernizing clinical
operations and evaluating acquisition targets. He took the post of Vice President of
Product Innovation in 2016 where he focuses on innovation projects that advance the
delivery of behavioral care across all channels. Prior to joining Optum, he held executive
roles leading business development and strategy in healthcare. He was a core member
of The Boston Consulting Group’s healthcare practice as well as the Business Model
Innovation team. Jeremy received his Bachelor’s from the University of Minnesota in
Mathematics and his MBA from The University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of
Business.

Stephanie is an entrepreneur and intrapreneur who builds products, platforms, and businesses from the ground up.
She is currently the Founder and CEO of Vida Health, a digital therapeutics platform that helps individuals overcome chronic mental and physical health conditions. Stephanie founded Vida after watching her father deal with four chronic conditions at once. She and her brother struggled to get him the daily care he needed to manage and reverse the conditions. Vida seeks to address the problems in the healthcare system that made it so hard to get her father the care he needed. Prior to founding Vida, Stephanie held VP roles at Google, eBay, and Paypal. In these roles, Stephanie transformed online shopping. At PayPal, she built merchant services from the ground-up to become PayPal’s fastest growing business. She then went on to lead eBay’s turnaround and took the marketplace from negative to positive double-digit growth rates. At Google, she built the teams that launched Google Wallet, Google Shopping, and Google Express.

Now she’s working to transform healthcare. Vida combines digital therapies with 1:1 health coaching and evidence-based programs to help individuals change their behavior and overcome common physical and mental chronic diseases.

Agnes Berzsenyi is the President and CEO, Women’s Health, GE Healthcare. In this role, Agnes is responsible for driving the strategic and commercial direction for the Women’s Health portfolio, including mammography, bone densitometry and services. She is responsible for product innovation, commercial growth and customer collaboration to reshape the mammography experience for women all around the world with innovative products such as Senographe Pristina and Pristina Dueta, the industry’s first wireless remote that allows women to manage their own compression during their mammogram.
Prior to this role, Agnes was the Formation Leader for GE Healthcare Imaging, an $8 billion business including services and a portfolio of X-Ray, Women’s Health, Interventional, Surgical C-arms, CT, Nuclear Medicine, PET, and MR products. Agnes served as the leader to bring together these businesses under one strategic vision and direction.

She joined GE Healthcare in 2003 as a Regional Service Manager, responsible for Eastern Europe and Russia.
Agnes is the Executive Sponsor for GE Girls, a company-wide program that engages middle school girls in STEM
education. She also is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She
recently was recognized with a career achievement award from Rose-Hulman. In 2016, Agnes was named a
“Woman of Influence” by the Milwaukee Business Journal and was included in the “Women to Watch” list by The
Business Journal, an honor for the top 100 business leaders throughout the country. Agnes holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering and Management from the University of Magdeburg, Germany, and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology,

During his five-year battle with a -then- terminal cancer diagnosis, Taylor Carol witnessed the immense impact that video games and entertainment technology had on patients’ lives. Inspired, he resolved to build a non-profit committed to leveraging gaming, technology, and innovation to empower patients to play, learn, and socialize. Despite missing nearly five years of school, Taylor, now a 23-year old Harvard Graduate, has taken GameChanger Charity from a garage hobby to an international endeavor; partnering with the largest tech companies on earth, like Amazon, to support over 20,000 children in 100 hospitals around the world.

Witnessing the desperate need for these services, Taylor and the GameChanger team resolved to create “businesses around the charity,” to both promote the GameChanger vision into the for-profit space and to ensure that GameChanger Charity always had the means to support its patient populations.  In recent years the GameChanger team has created ZOTT: A for-profit subsidiary owned in majority by GameChanger Charity. ZOTT is a cloud-based content distribution platform designed to revolutionize hospitals’ patient engagement systems. Both the ZOTT and GameChanger Charity teams are thrilled to reimagine the ways in which the for-profit and non-profit sectors can harness technology to change patients’ lives forever.

Dana Dinerman is the founder of Hulabelle Swim and Resort wear. She is also a breast cancer thriver/advocate. Dana was diagnosed with Stage III Intraductal Carcinoma in November 2011 at the age of 34.  Dana opted to have a single mastectomy without reconstruction. After her surgery and six months of intense chemotherapy followed by radiation to her chest wall Dana was ready for a break. Her family planned on going to Maui Hawaii to celebrate the end of her treatment. Yet, a set back would cause some discouragement for the new survivor. The swim pieces in the local shops did not offer pockets for her prosthetic and the suits were too revealing. Dana went to medical supply shops to find the swimsuits offered to patients were not fashion forward or comfortable. She decided to research and see if there was a need. Dana would discover there was a need for comfortable swimwear that was fashion forward yet also had the right components for those who needed coverage and a pocket for a swim form. Hulabelle was then created and has been helping young women find swimwear for their summer months since 2016.

Dana has been battling breast cancer on and off since her original diagnosis. She has been through chemotherapy and radiation multiple times. She is living with breast cancer as a chronic condition. She has decided living in the moment and enjoying each day is the best gift she can give herself. She likes to help other survivors and has given back through such charities as Young Survivor Coalition, Susan G Komen, and American Cancer Society.

Dana’s brand Hulabelle has been featured or seen in several publications including Ranch and Coast Magazine, La Jolla Light, NBC Today Show, NBC Channel 7 San Diego, Fox 6 in the mornings,  and various blogs. Dana’s collection has also walked the runway in FWSD both in 2017 and 2018. Dana’s personal story has been featured in national publications such as Glamour Magazine, WebMD, and Readers Digest, and a television commercial for WWE and Susan G. Komen.

Kristin leads Castlight’s efforts to support growth through our company strategy, strategic partnerships, and inorganic opportunities. She leads the identification, evaluation, execution, and integration of these opportunities together with our portfolio of medical, pharmacy, dental, and behavioral health plan relationships.

Previously, Kristin was vice president at DaVita Inc., a Fortune 500 and one of the largest national healthcare providers. She was responsible for corporate strategy, Falcon EHR (electronic health records business), and recruiting for the Redwoods Leadership Development Program. She co-led due diligence in DaVita’s $4.4B merger with HealthCare Partners. Kristin earned her bachelors in international relations and minor in human biology from Stanford University. After a consulting career at Bain & Co. and The Bridgespan Group, Kristin worked at Chiron Corporation before returning to Stanford to earn her MBA and JD. She serves on the Bay Area Executive Board of Spark, a non-profit engaging at-risk youth to become motivated learners and connected community members.

Matt leads HealthSparq’s efforts to develop and continually improve industry-leading products that meet the needs of health plans, while also helping their members take more control of their health care.

Matt has more than 15 years of experience in the health care technology product industry. Prior to HealthSparq, he was the VP of Products at Connecture, where he lead product management of its SaaS products, including Medicare, individual and family and group shopping, and enrollment products. Before joining Connecture, he was the VP of Clinical Products at DestinationRX. One of his professional passions is streamlining implementations so that customers are up and running with new products more quickly.

As an outdoor enthusiast, Matt loves camping and exploring new places with his wife have two young daughters. He’s also committed to applying his own experiences as a patient and a parent to his work at HealthSparq.

A successful businessman and entrepreneur who has consistently spotted the opportunities for profitable businesses and built them into successful operations.

Focused on the innovative use of software technology to create groundbreaking solutions, Rick founded Interactive Lifestyle Management, a health technology company with a next generation health self-management platform that engages even the un-health conscious. ILM uses elements of Trivial pursuit, Facebook and Pinterest to nudge individuals to make small lifestyle changes they can sustain.

Previously he founded Farelogix (Miami), the leading provider of low-cost merchandising and distribution software for the travel industry.  He also advises early stage tech companies including Kapok (leading-edge text analytics software) and Zoom And Go (unique travel booking and analytics platform).

Starting in advertising and promotions, Rick ran several successful marketing and communications companies.  An internationally published author, he has written numerous books including “A Parent’s Guide to Streetproofing Children,” as well as the National Coaching Development Program, which standardized coaching best practices across Canada.

Annie McBride serves as Vice President of SaaS Strategy at ResMed, where she seeks out partnerships, acquisition, investment and integration opportunities to grow ResMed’s global offerings and brand. Previously, she served as the company’s Director of Strategic Partners and Director Global Data Exchange over the course of three years delivering on ResMed’s integration, interoperability and HME industry partner management. Before joining the HI and SaaS division, she worked as a Senior Manager in the company’s resupply/replenishment division and initially as Sr. Product Manager launching ResMed’s first dental sleep product to the Americas. Prior to ResMed, Annie was Brand Manager for Zimmer Biomet’s Surgical Portfolio.

Annie has been managing global portfolios and products for more than a decade in industries spanning software, medical device and consumer packaged goods. She holds a Master of Business Administration from Fordham University and a Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Oregon.

Bob is a strategist and pioneer in healthcare B2C/B2B driving better business models, digital transformation, customer experience, and engagement solutions. He is a hybrid of business and technology that brings a combination of strategy, customer focus, operations, and technology expertise to take advantage of industry shifts, consumer needs, and healthcare challenges. He is a former vice-president of Customer Experience and Engagement with UnitedHealth servicing payers, pharma and providers with professional services. He held leadership roles at Lucent Tech, Bell Labs, and AT&T supporting business growth in global markets. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University. His 2015 book, Commercializing Consumer Engagement – A Blueprint for the Healthcare Industry, is a cookbook that provides unique approaches and best practices to optimize personal engagement for chronic diseases.

As Chief Information Officer, Dr. Longhurst is responsible for all operations and strategic planning for information and communications technology across the multiple hospitals, clinics, and professional schools which encompass UC San Diego Health. Dr. Longhurst is also a
Clinical Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and continues to see patients. As a result of his efforts to leverage technology to improve patient experience in the UCSD Jacobs Medical Center, he was voted the 2017 Top Tech
Exec in the education category for San Diego. He previously served as Chief Medical Information Officer for Stanford Children’s Health and Clinical Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he helped lead the organization through the implementation of a comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) for over a decade. This work culminated in HIMSS stage 7 awards for both Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and 167 network practices in Stanford Children’s Health.

Dr. Longhurst has published dozens of scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals on how technology and data can improve patient care and outcomes and was elected as a fellow in the prestigious American College of Medical Informatics, among other distinctions. He is a
board-certified pediatrician and clinical informaticist, and founded Stanford’s fellowship in clinical informatics, first in the nation to receive accreditation. Described as a pragmatic academician, Dr. Longhurst, serves as an advisor to several companies and speaks internationally on a wide gamut of healthcare IT topics.

Kelly Summers is the Senior Director of Digital Transformation at Dignity Health where she is responsible for patient-facing digital assets such as the patient portal, online care delivery, and various digital health interventions.

Kelly began her career as an oncology nurse and has over thirty years of clinical, operational, and informatics leadership experience.  She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Kansas and her Masters of Administration from Northern Arizona University. A life-long learner, she is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Nursing Leadership at the University of Kansas.

Her professional and academic pursuits include digital health intervention development and adoption, transformation of care delivery through enabling technology, and developing informatics skill at all organizational levels.  She is passionate about empowering individuals in the management of their health and healthcare.

As a medical industry executive and leader within the healthcare sector, Mr. Wilkins has repeatedly
driven transformation. He has turned around revenue and operations, spurring technology integration
and focusing teams on value and quality service to patients, physicians, and consumers.

Mr. Wilkins currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer at Atlantic Health
System. Prior to joining Atlantic Health System, he led the commercial operations teams at Quest
Diagnostics, $9B for profit leading organization, building high-level business relationships and employing
diagnostic technology and innovation to empower better health with diagnostics insights and actionable
data. Mr. Wilkins served as Board Directors for St. Joseph Hoag Health – Providence St Joseph Health where he served as initial Board Chairman leading governance design, board planning, and destination metrics for this $3.4B nonprofit regional healthcare
network. He has served on various Board committees as a trustee from Executive, Medical Executive,
Nomination, Quality and Safety committees. He has served in various governance roles for 15 years
at Providence St Joseph Hoag Health.

Mr. Wilkins also served as Chair of the California Hospital Association (CHA) Governance Forum, and
was a member of the Governor’s Office of Health Equity Advisory Committee for the California
Department of Public Health, he was also a member of the Board of Trustees for the American Hospital
Association. He currently serves as a member of the America Hospital Association’s Committee on
Strategy and Innovation and its Board for the Institute for Diversity and Equity.

Dr. Lee is the Director of Specialty Care at the Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, the largest medical center in the second largest municipal network in the United States, serving low-income safety-net patients. He oversees 15 departments and over 168 specialty clinics. He received his medical degree from Western University and his Internal Medicine residency and Endocrinology fellowship at LAC+USC Medical Center. Thereafter, he remained at the USC Keck Medical Center as a full time faculty involved with teaching, researching , and building chronic disease manage practices.

With the need to transform the Los Angeles County Healthcare system with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, he was recruited to lead as the director of specialty care for the largest medical center in the Los Angeles County Healthcare Network. With his passion for healthcare transformation, he also assumed the role of the Director of Clinical Innovation at LAC+USC Medical Center. In partnership with the California HealthCare Foundation, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles County Health Agency, and UCSF Healthforce Center, Dr. Lee built the first Medical Innovation Incubator within the Los Angeles County Healthcare System. This achievement was recognized by the LA County Productivity and Quality Commission. This unit provides a new model for designing and accelerating innovation within a government-run healthcare system.

Jean leads PCORI’s Engagement Program and growing dissemination and implementation planning efforts.

Before joining PCORI, Slutsky directed the Center for Outcomes and Evidence at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, where she conceived and implemented the Effective Health Care program. The Effective Health Care program is an integrated program of research, stakeholder engagement, research training, and dissemination and implementation of comparative effectiveness research. Slutsky is particularly interested in pragmatic user-driven research and its implementation into healthcare decision making.

Slutsky received her baccalaureate degree from the University of Iowa, trained as a Physician Assistant at the University of Southern California, and received a MSPH in health policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Gaspard is the President and Co-Founder of Pager. His passion for using technology and design to disrupt old business models and empower consumers has led him to start business ventures in the gaming and finance industries – and now in healthcare. After producing games for the Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo consoles, Gaspard co-founded NYC-based fintech startup Kapitall, the first online broker for Millennials, and TradeIt, the leader in retail brokerage APIs. With Pager, Gaspard wants to make healthcare more convenient and affordable for all, pioneering the on-demand care delivery model.

Hope Kragh has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, primarily working with employers to develop strategic benefits and employee healthcare programs. Hope is currently VP of Client Success at Collective Health where she leads a team dedicated to managing the relationships with the company’s self-funded employer clients, and overseeing their health programs. Previously, she served as director of national accounts for Anthem Blue Cross and led a high performance team focused on Fortune 100 companies and the challenges they face in managing their corporate healthcare costs. Hope is also an active participant in the healthcare initiatives driven by industry policy organizations such as Pacific Business Group on Health, Silicon Valley Employers Forum and the Purchaser Value Network Council.

Abner Mason is the Founder and CEO of ConsejoSano (www.ConsejoSano.com), the only patient engagement and care navigation solution designed to help clients activate their multicultural patient populations to better engage with the healthcare system. ConsejoSano’s clients are typically health plans and provider groups serving Medicaid and Medicare Advantage members and patient populations. 

Abner is Founder and President of Healthtech for Medicaid (HT4M), a non-profit seeking to increase innovation in Medicaid, and he is a member of the Founder’s Council for United States of Care, a non-profit launched and headed by former CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt focused on ensuring access to quality, affordable healthcare for all Americans. 

Abner was appointed by US President George W. Bush to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, where he served as Chairman of the International Sub-Committee from 2002 – 2005.

Mike leads Human Experience at Bind, the nation’s first-ever on-demand health insurance model. Mike first learned about the power of great customer experience while working at American Express. He applied those lessons to health care as the chief architect of the member experience for Definity Health, and helped instill a consumer focus at UnitedHealth Group while leading the Definity Health business after its acquisition by UHG. At Geisinger Health and in his consulting work, Mike’s commitment to the consumer and their experience was, and continues to be, a driving force.

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 underserved communities providing access to both jobs and healthcare.

Glenn is a Managing Director with Healthbox, supporting the organization’s growth. He is a 30+ year veteran of the software industry and has been instrumental in the building of several successful enterprise software companies. He is now focused on improving the productivity and quality of healthcare by connecting early stage technology and service companies with health systems who are committed to identifying, adopting, and investing in innovative solutions. Prior to joining Healthbox, Glenn co-founded, seed funded, and served as CEO of Syapse. Under Glenn’s leadership, six of the top 15 non-profit health systems in the US made significant commitments in choosing Syapse to enable their precision medicine programs. Earlier in his career he spent many years bringing software solutions to market in highly regulated industries including healthcare. Glenn received a B.S. in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a frequent guest lecturer, mentor, and advisor at both the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He is also a member of UCSF’s Med Center’s Technology Advisory Group.

Bryce Olson is the Global Marketing Director for Intel’s Health and Life Sciences group. One of the areas he focuses on is bringing technology and science together in the exciting area of genomics and precision medicine with a powerful message on how this saves lives. Genomic sequencing and precision medicine gave him a life he didn’t think he’d get to live, and the ability to use artificial intelligence and find new secrets in data will help keep it that way. Bryce is inspired by connecting the advances in life sciences into clinical settings and helping patients understand these new opportunities. He is a sought after keynote speaker both locally and nationally, and his story has been covered by both local and national media. Bryce also started FACTS (‘Fighting Advanced Cancer Through Songs’), a movement that uses the power of music to build awareness for a new way to fight cancer and bring molecular testing and precision medicine to other advanced cancer patients. In 2017, Bryce wrote and co-produced a rock-n-roll album with proceeds going towards the FACTS movement, that brought together a variety of musicians and singers including Jenny Conlee from the Decemberists, Martha Davis from the Motels, Pete Krebs, and Michelle DeCourcy – all four of whom are also cancer survivors.