2018 Advisory Board

Busy Burr is Vice President at Humana and Head of Healthcare Trend and Innovation, based in Silicon Valley. In this role, she leads a 50+ person team driving cross-company efforts to deliver transformational solutions that improve health outcomes, create superior member experiences, and bend the trend on health care costs. The HTI team drives External Discovery, Innovation Partnerships, Product Development and Trend Product Portfolio Management for the company. Before joining Humana in 2015, she was Managing Director of Citi Ventures and led large-scale business transformation efforts as the Global Head of Citigroup’s DesignWorks. Among her  accomplishments at Citi was the digital, process and client experience transformation of Citi’s Global Private Bank, which received innovation awards as Spear’s Private Bank of the Year and Euromoney’s Best Overall Bank. She is the author of From Ideas to Impact, a playbook for executing innovation in a global enterprise.

Busy’s innovation bug started early. When she was in the 3 rd  grade, she built a time machine out of a refrigerator box.  It was a disappointing failure, but it marked the first of her many adventures into disrupting the status quo. Since then, her inspirational leadership and passion for customer experience has resulted in several ground-breaking businesses and products, and she holds patents (some pending) in mass-customization, alternative currency and social payments.

Busy’s unique blend of skills and her wicked sense of humor have been honed as a technology investment banker, a global brand marketer, an entrepreneur-in- residence and as the founder and CEO of a Silicon Valley startup.  She spent seven years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston executing IPOs and M&A deals for some of the best companies in the technology space. As Vice President of Global Brand Management at Gap, Inc. she was responsible for aligning the product, retail, online, advertising and merchandising efforts for the four Gap brands around the world. As Entrepreneur-in- Residence at eBay, she led the creation of an innovative social e-commerce platform.

At Humana, Busy founded the company’s strategic investing practice, Humana Health Ventures, and built a world-class team and reputation in healthcare venturing and innovation in a single year. In 2017, she was named to the Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Powerlist, placing her among the top 100 corporate venture leaders in the world. Every year, she and her team meet with hundreds of healthcare startups, innovators and investors to identify the most-promising partners and innovative opportunities for Humana. In addition, she established and directs the work of the new products foundry to design, build and commercialize platforms and solutions that promise to generate a return on health.

Busy holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in Economics from Smith College. She was named one of Silicon Valley’s Women of Influence and has been honored as Frost & Sullivan’s Innovator of the Year. A sought-after speaker and collaborator, she is also a long-time performing member of the Bay Area improv troupe Subject to Change.

Daniel J. Chavez joined San Diego Beacon HIE as Executive Director in March 2013 with more than 30 years of health care information technology experience. He has an extensive track record of cultivating startups, business development and product marketing. Previously, he served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Independa, a San Diego-based innovator that provides solutions to help the elderly remain independent. In his previous positions, Chavez was Executive Vice President at Payformance Corporation, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the medical division of Immersion Corporation, and Senior Vice President at Availity. His prior experience includes IBM, GTE, SAIC, Stellcom Technologies and CSC. He holds a BA from San Jose State University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Donald Jones is a globally recognized leader in digital medicine, digital therapies, and technology enabled health services.  He is a sought out as a speaker, advisor and board member. He works across a spectrum of healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical device, wearable, apparel, material science and early stage companies.  He is an independent director on the boards of venture capital backed companies with strategic investors including GE, Telus, Qualcomm, Reed Elsevier and Adidas. His Fortune 1000 Advisory Board roles include Flex, TEVA, JSR, Sanofi, Otsuka and MAS. Jones serves as Chief Digital Officer of the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI), a Center within The Scripps Research Institute, collaborating with the renowned Eric Topol, MD. He co-founded with Eric Scripps Digital Medicine, the world’s first digital health clinical trial center and the non-profit West Health Institute, raising over $130 million. STSI now holds the largest NIH grant in history, part of the ‘All of Us’ Precision Medicine Initiative.

For 11 years, Don led Qualcomm’s Wireless Health Global Strategy and Business Development and founded its healthcare subsidiary. In 2005 he founded and is now Chairman Emeritus of the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance. In 2016, WLSA merged with the HIMSS Personal Connected Healthcare Alliance (PCHA), forming a global trade, standards, scientific and professional organization. Earlier in his career, Donald was COO of MedTrans, which grew from $4.5 million into the largest emergency services provider in the US, operating with more than 22,000 paramedics and 5,500 ambulances. He was Founder and Chairman of EMME, the largest consumer subscription based healthcare provider in Mexico, employing over 500 physicians. While advising the Board of American Medical Response, he helped build the largest medical group in the US, under the EmCare brand. Ultimately, MedTrans acquired AMR and EmCare, both now part of Envision Healthcare. EvoNexus recognized Donald Jones as 2014 Digital Health Innovator of the Year. Don conceived the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a global competition with 134 entrants, for a consumer device which successfully makes medical diagnoses. The prize was awarded in Hollywood in April 2017.

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.

Dennis Robbins (M.P.H. Harvard, Ph.D., Boston College) is a prominent innovator, thought leader, and health activist. His distinguished career spans multiple sectors of health, wellness, health care, industry, medical and surgical devices and technology, disruptive innovation, ethics and policy.  His initial work on patient-centric engagement and now person-centricity ™ has stimulated a major paradigmatic shift in how we think about health, healthcare, and next generation engagement across diverse ecosystems.

Dr. Robbins was a National Fund for Medical Education Fellow, Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow at Harvard. He has advised Presidential and White house commissions, the military health system, start-ups, two US Supreme Court Cases and chaired the PCMH 2.O national think tank where he created the concept of person-centricity™, to help people become and stay healthier while adding years to their lives and life to their years. He blends elements of health information technologies, ethics, behavioral economics, exercise physiology, sleep, mindfulness, and healthy eating to bend the sickness curve. He serves on the boards or advisory boards of several companies and national organizations including the Global Innovation and Leadership Council of Frost and Sullivan and the American Heart Assn’s Technology and Innovation Advisory Board.

Dr. Robbins was a major force in the early Hospice Movement and worked closely across both aisles and CMS in helping to promote the Hospice Medicare benefit. His legacy of nine books and more than 400 articles is complimented by a plethora keynote presentations and panels. He has been recognized in the national media in such publications as Forbes, Medical Economics, Modern Healthcare, Hospital Ethics, and Managed Healthcare Executive who depicted him as among the top ten keenest thinkers in Managed Care.