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MILENA ADAMIAN, MD Milena Adamian is founder and executive of the Life Sciences Angel Network, which is focused on early-stage investing and entrepreneurial activities in medical devices and healthcare information technology and on the education of entrepreneurs and investors. |
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RAJNI ANEJA, MD, MBA KDr. Rajni Aneja MD, MBA, CPE currently serves as Strategic Executive, Clinical Transformation Leader at Humana. Most recently Dr. Aneja, served as Executive Vice President of Joslin Diabetes Center, now serving as strategic advisor to Joslin, she worked in all areas of Joslin to address Joslin’s numerous local, national, and global initiatives. Further, she was actively involved with Joslin’s partners and collaborators to create and deliver cost-effective and impactful diabetes solutions within today’s healthcare economic environment. |
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KRISTIN BAKER Kristin currently leads strategic partnerships in her role as Director of Business Development for Collective Health. Collective Health is a cloud-based employer self-insurance platform that empowers companies to take control of their healthcare benefits. Collective Health partners with health plans, providers and other third party services to bring a better overall health benefits experience to employers and employees.
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GEOFFREY CLAPP Geoffrey Clapp is the Co-founder and CEO of Better, a Personal Health Assistant service that gives people the means to worry less when it comes to health care and instead focus on being well. Previously, he spent more than twelve years disrupting the telemedicine market with Health Hero Network. During his tenure at Health Hero, Geoffrey served multiple roles, including COO and CTO. As CTO, Geoffrey designed and implemented award winning hardware and software products, including Business Week’s 2000 Product of The Year. During his time as COO, he guided the company through the “bubble” bursting in Silicon Valley, and built the organization into the largest telehealth vendor in the world with cornerstone customers such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and McKesson. After selling Health Hero Network to Robert Bosch, Geoffrey now serves as advisor to Rock Health and dozens of other Health Technology Startups. |
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ADAM FEINSTEIN, CFA Adam has a unique background with a wealth of experience as both a senior |
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ALLAN FINE Allan Fine is Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Operations Officer for New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE), the oldest specialty hospital in the United States. Mr. Fine is responsible for the operations of clinical and non-financial departments related to the strategic and operational goals of NYEE. He oversees all strategy and network development activities for NYEE. This includes developing a growth and expansion plan addressing such issues as physician outreach strategies, service line and programmatic growth, ambulatory surgery center development, joint ventures, NYEE/physician satellite offices, international programs, new program development, product and research commercialization activities, and branding strategy. |
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ALAN GREENE, MD, FAAP
Dr. Greene has devoted himself to freely giving real answers to parents’ real questions. His answers combine cutting edge science, practical wisdom, warm empathy, and a deep respect for parents, children, and the environment. He is also an electrifying public speaker, and has personally touched many during his talks in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. In 2010 Dr. Greene founded the WhiteOut Movement to change how babies in the United States are fed. In 2012 he founded TICC TOCC – Transitioning Immediate Cord Clamping To Optimal Cord Clamping. He is also the founder of KidGlyphs, an iPhone app that provides a tool for young children to express themselves beyond their verbal skills. Dr. Greene is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of California at San Francisco. In addition to his own private practice, he is the Chief Medical Officer for Scanadu, a cutting edge health and technology company dedicated to empowering consumers with medical tools and education. Dr. Greene also appears frequently on TV, radio, websites, and in newspapers and magazines around the world, including such venues as the TODAY Show, Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, The Dr. Oz Show, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC network news, NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Time Magazine. |
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WENDY GOLDSTEIN |
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MARK HADFIELD Mark, a serial entrepreneur, is on a mission to dramatically expand access to global healthcare by creating a friction-free marketplace for cash-based treatment options. HelloMD (@ondellortc) is a marketplace of the best doctors, advisors, and treatment options from around the globe. HelloMD is connecting patients with the best care options, at a price they can afford, globally. HelloMD is located in San Francisco, CA. |
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JODY HOLTZMAN Jody Holtzman has more than two decades of experience helping companies develop and implement competitive strategies and achieve their strategic market goals. At AARP, he leads the Thought Leadership group, where his focus is to stimulate innovation in the market that benefits people over 50. This involves areas such as the future of technology and the 50+, technology design for all, and 50+ entrepreneurship. It also involves developing partnerships with non-traditional players for AARP, such as the venture capital community, and the consumer electronics and technology industries. Previously, Jody led AARP’s Research and Strategic Analysis group. |
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DESMOND HUSSEY Desmond J. Hussey is the regional vice president of Marketing, Product and Innovation for UnitedHealthcare Northeast. Mr. Hussey began his career in healthcare at Oxford Health Plans in 1994 as a group sales representative in the New York City office. Since then, Mr. Hussey has held numerous posts in marketing and product management, at Oxford and at UnitedHealthcare, which acquired Oxford in 2004. In his current role, he oversees new products and portfolio management in 12 states plus the District of Columbia. He was responsible for implementing the product requirements of PPACA across all business segments, and is actively engaged in interpreting regulations, and developing effective product responses. Recent product launches include Choice Advanced, a tiered product in New England, focused network products in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Mid-Atlantic, and new funding responses for businesses. He has also launched Compass, UnitedHealthcare’s Healthcare Exchange product, in six states. Mr. Hussey is responsible for all aspects of Marketing in the Northeast states, including B2B campaigns for employer groups, product marketing support, development of Consumer campaigns to support Exchange activity, and the use of digital and social media to build the brand. Before joining Oxford, Hussey worked in advertising and sales promotion, developing branding programs with The Disney Channel and other family-oriented organizations. He earned his bachelor of arts in economics at Middlebury College in Vermont. He lives in Wilton, Connecticut with his wife and three boys. |
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ALAN LONDON, MD Alan London is the Vice President, Strategic Clinical Partnerships, Walgreen Co., providing strategic leadership in designing and building clinically integrated health system relationships for Walgreens. He also provides strategic direction and leadership for Healthcare Clinic’s service expansion, quality, clinical education and training, and collaborative physician practice agreement functions. Prior to this position, he was Chief Medical Officer for Take Care Health Systems and helped lead the clinical service expansion, quality, clinical education/training and health system affiliations for the 400+ Retail Clinic division. Dr. London is a family physician with more than three decades of experience in patient care delivery, healthcare strategy and business development. He has worked within the managed care contracting and risk management fields, while also spending extensive time in the hospital and healthcare system setting, serving at the Cleveland Clinic for 12 years. Most recently, Dr. London was the President of the London Group International, a firm providing innovative healthcare solutions for health systems, insurers, governments, physicians, and the investment community. He is a co-founder of two healthcare companies, Clinically Home, LLC and MX.com. Dr. London holds a number of professional appointments including membership on the Physician Advisory Council for WellPoint and served for seven years as Director on the Board of Advocate Physician Partners in Chicago. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cincinnati and received his MD from the Medical College of Ohio. He then completed a residency in family medicine from the University of California, Irvine. |
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LISA MAKI With her rich background in technology, Lisa and her co—founder & CTO, Ted Tanner, Jr., created PokitDok to allow customers to “cut to the chase” while searching for information on physicians, their treatments and services and the cash prices they charge. Before starting PokitDok, Lisa co—founded BeliefNetworks with Ted, which applied semantic intelligence and predictive analytics for the Department of Defense and other tech companies, and was later acquired by the health and employee benefits company, Benefitfocus (NASDAQ: BNFT, IPO 2013). Earlier in her career, while at Microsoft, she was the Director of Program Management for all consumer products, during Bill Gates's tenure. She earned her BA from Stanford University. |
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JAMES MERLINO, MD ames Merlino, MD, is the Chief Experience Officer of the Cleveland Clinic Health System, and is a practicing staff colorectal surgeon in the Digestive Disease Institute. He is also the founder and current president of the Association for Patient Experience. |
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REENA PANDE, MD, MSc Reena Pande is Chief Medical Officer at AbilTo, where she serves as a passionate voice for the critical need for innovative ways to truly help individuals achieve meaningful behavior change in order to improve medical outcomes. She also spearheads AbilTo’s data analytics and outcomes research endeavors. |
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Cheryl Pegus, M.D., M.P.H is the Director, Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation, Associate Chair, Clinical Innovation at NYU Langone Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYULMC. She is the President of Caluent, LLC, a private equity advisory company with a portfolio of public and startup companies under management, a Director of Glytec and the Lead Independent Director of Vision Sciences, Inc. (VSCI). Dr. Pegus is also the President of the American Heart Association (AHA) Founder’s Affiliate. Dr. Pegus has more than 20 years of clinical practice and industry experience. Previously she was the Chief Medical Officer for Walgreens. She served as the General Manager and Chief Medical Officer for SymCare Personalized Health Solutions, Inc., a J&J start-up company, which provides wireless care management solutions utilizing remote monitoring, now part of the $2.6 billion J&J Diabetes Franchise. Prior to joining SymCare in 2007, she was the Head of Clinical Products for Aetna’s Medical Products Business Unit. Former positions at Aetna include National Medical Director, Clinical Program Development/Design and Marketing for Aetna’s Member Advantage programs, and National Medical Director for Women’s Health. Early in her career, she served as the Medical Director for the Cardiovascular Risk Factors Group at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in New York. She is a member of the Dean’s Circle at Weill Cornell Medical College, sits on the editorial advisory board of Disease Management Advisor , was a Founding Board member of the National Business Group on Health’s (NBGH) Obesity Taskforce and is a a past board member of the Care Continuum Allliance. Dr. Pegus has chaired the Health Disparities Taskforce for the AHA, Founder’s Affiliate and recently chaired the first AHA Health Equity Summit. Dr. Pegus is a board-certified physician with subspecialty training in cardiology. She received an M.P.H. from Columbia University School of Public Health, an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, completed her internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at New York Hospital-Cornell and practiced internal medicine and cardiology. She has published many peer-reviewed studies and presented at national and international conferences. Dr. Pegus recently published the healthy cookbook, Everyone Eats.
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SALLY POBLETE Sally has been a leader and innovator in the health care industry for 18 years. She founded Wellthie in 2013 out of a deep passion for making health insurance more simple and approachable for consumers. She had a successful career leading product development at WellPoint, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies. An entrepreneur at heart, she also ran a long-term health care business and worked at several health care start-ups like HealthMarket and Medscape. Sally received her B.S. in Management, magna cum laude from New York University and received her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Health Care Management.
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ALAN RUSSELL, PhD He holds appointments in ICES and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and will be launching a Disruptive Health Technology initiative. Increasing the simplicity, affordability, and accessibility of healthcare through science and engineering will be the goal of the new program. Over the next six months, teams from CMU, Highmark, and West Penn Allegheny Health System will develop strategic science and engineering driven programs in multiple areas. |
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JACOB SATTELMAIR Jacob’s work and research lie at the intersection of healthcare, technology, data analytics and consumer engagement. He is a co-founder and CEO at Wellframe, a Boston-based health tech company that combines mobile devices and artificial intelligence to amplify therapeutic relationships in order optimally engage patients in personalized care plans. Jacob was previously Product Manager at RunKeeper, a leading mobile/web health and fitness platform. Prior to that, he was the Director of Research and Strategy at Dossia, an employer driven health IT initiative. He holds a doctorate in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, where his research focused on lifestyle behaviors and cardiovascular health. He previously championed the importance of physical activity to the brain and learning at the nonprofit The Ratey Institute, lectured in the Department of Physical Activity and Health Science at UMass Boston, interned with the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health at the World Health Organization, completed a Masters in Physiology, with distinction, at the University of Oxford (Exeter College) and holds a BA in Neurobiology, magna cum laude, from Harvard University. Jacob is a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper. He has authored numerous peer reviewed articles, book chapters, technical papers and contributed articles.
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MICHELLE SNYDER Michelle Snyder is recognized as a marketing and strategy leader in the digital health space. She now leads all corporate and product marketing, marketing communications and public relations activities. |
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LISA SUENNEN Lisa Suennen is Managing Partner at Venture Valkyrie Consulting, which provides business advisory services to large and small companies, venture capital and private equity firms and non profit organizations in the healthcare field. Lisa is currently and Board Member of digital health companies Beyond Lucid Technologies and Pokitdok; a Board Member of the Dignity Health Foundation, a member of the Qualcomm Life Advisory Board, and an Advisor to the California Health Care Foundation Innovation Fund and an Advisor to HealthXL. Lisa also serves as an Advisor to innovation consulting firm Accelevate, Inc. Lisa holds an M.A. in political science, a B.A. in political science and a B.A. in mass communications, all from the University of California, Berkeley, where she now teaches graduate courses on healthcare venture capital and the changing healthcare economy at the Haas School of Business. Lisa also sits on the UC Berkeley National Advisory Council of the Institute of Governmental Studies.
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FRANK WILLIAMS Frank serves as Evolent Health's CEO and is responsible for all aspects of the strategic and operational management of the firm. He also serves as Vice Chairman of The Advisory Board, a best practices research and technology provider to the health care industry.
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