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Meet our Speakers
Dr. Gordon Chen is Chief Medical Officer of ChenMed, where he manages all clinicians and clinical leaders and oversees clinical training, quality, outcomes, physician culture, and medical costs. He has helped the company expand from 6 medical centers to 74 locations in 10 states. He has also hired and trained more than 150 providers on ChenMed’s unique value-based health-care-delivery system. Dr. Chen received his M.D. degree from the University of Miami and his bachelor's from Brown University.
CMO, ChenMed
Member Board of Directors:
Preeclampsia Foundation
AHIMA Foundation
Chief Executive Officer
RTL Innovation
An executive healthcare strategist and technologist serving the interests of populations around the world to improve the quality of healthcare, increase access to healthcare, and obtain higher rates of health literacy and patient engagement.
Prior to Reach, Fran was the Head of Digital Health Strategy, Worldwide at HP and has worked for PAHO - WHO, CDC, BMS, and UHG among others.
President, Reach Healthcare
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic &Health Alliance Task Force. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and is founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. Following undergraduate degrees from Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Daniel was Board Certified in both Internal Medicine & Pediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Boston Children's Hospital, and fellowships in hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford.
Physician-Scientist. Founder & Chair, NextMed.Health
Paula Muto, MD is a general and vascular surgeon in practice for over 20 years, owner of a successful vein center, and founder and CEO of UBERDOC, currently the largest network of direct pay specialists in the country. Dr. Muto is a graduate of Amherst College, NY Medical, and did her surgical training in Boston at Tufts and vascular surgery at the Lahey Clinic. She is a passionate advocate for women's health and has been an outspoken voice for patient access and price transparency.
Founder & CEO, UBERDOC
He is a practicing pediatric cardiologist and has a background in startups, global health, and artificial intelligence. He is the author of Intelligence-Based Medicine. He is the chief intelligence and innovation officer of Children's Health of Orange County. He is also the founder of AI in Medicine (AIMed) and Medical Intelligence 10 (MI10).
CIIO, CHOC
Dr. Sapna Shah-Haque, MD MBA is a board certified Internal Medicine physician. She was born and raised in Kansas, and attended medical school at the University of Kansas [KU] School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at KU-Wichita as well. After experiencing burnout herself, and watching other physician colleagues burn out, it became a passion of hers to look into different aspects of burnout.
Physician, The worthy physician llc
Physician entrepreneur with 13 exits and managing partner of Xcellerant Ventures, an early-stage health tech focused VC.
Managing Partner, Xcellerant Ventures
Elsie Koh, MD EMHL FSIR is a practicing interventional radiologist and the Chief Medical Officer of American Endovascular & Amputation Prevention. She is the Founder and CEO of the LEAD Physician leadership program for physicians. LEAD Physician helps physicians, who are ready for growth, rediscover their purpose, rekindle their passion, and create real potential for their short and long-term future in academic or private practices, side businesses, or as a consultant in medicine.
Founder, LEAD Physician
Improving and optimizing the value and delivery of health care through research, innovation, and entrepreneurship to improve access and reduce disparities.
Dr. Padam is a Stanford/VA trained Palliative Medicine physician with a focus on Ethnogeriatrics. She is an ambassador of Applied Compassion and a graduate of The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University. She identifies innovative ways to fill the gaps in community health & wellness and co-founded a national non-profit focusing on gender justice and a free medical clinic for the uninsured. She also serves as board president for RotaCare Bay Area.
Chief Medical Officer, San Mateo Primary Care & Apollo Healthcare Center
Josh is Vice President of Innovation at Vituity and Inflect Health, overseeing the innovation efforts that leverage technology through strategic partnership, investment, or internal incubation. He also works as a physician in the ED at Good Samaritan Hospital, San Jose, California. He holds a BA biochemistry from Harvard University, a certificate in negotiation from Harvard Law School, an MD from Case Western Reserve University, and PhD from Case. Board-certified in EM and clinical informatics.
VP of Innovation, Vituity & Inflect Health
Dr. Babber is a physician, educator, and real estate agent. She has consulted with organizations on physician-to-physician marketing and on increasing visibility of various services and products among physicians. Dr. Babber takes great interest in providing ongoing education for her healthcare colleagues in non-clinical areas such as media, marketing, consulting, and real estate. Her unique skillset across several industries has positioned her as a valuable resource beyond the healthcare sector.
Founder, Physicians.RealEstate
Dr. Bricker is an internal medicine physician and former Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Compass Professional Health Services. Compass is a Healthcare Navigation service that grew to 2,000+ clients including T-Mobile and Southwest Airlines. Compass was acquired by Alight Solutions in July 2018. Dr. Bricker then went on to found AHealthcareZ, which provides 300+ healthcare finance educational videos with 120K+ Views Per Month Across All Platforms.
Chief Medical Officer, AHealthcareZ
Dr. Madhu Shetti is a practicing Bay Area Radiation Oncologist and recent grad of Stanford GSB. She received the Stanford Impact Founders prize for her work to improve cancer survivorship in underserved communities.
CEO, Balmere
Chief Medical Officer HIMS-HERS lead clinical quality, expansion of care scope and expansion into 50 States
Group Vice President/Chief Medical Officer at Walgreens oversaw retail clinic business unit as well as clinical programs and health system alliances. At retail clinics leads provision of care, clinical outcomes, patient safety , healthcare information systems, strategic initiatives and programs.
Former CMO/VP at Integrated Care Partners at Hartford HealthCare.
Chief Medical Officer, HIMS-HERS
After working in the medical field for over 20 plus years, and at the start of Covid Priscilla decided to change her career. She started her company Discovering You to help people see results from making positive changes. As a Business Coach every day, she thrives on making a difference in the life of others. She believes everyone has a special gift and her gift is to help others.
Founder & CEO, Discovering You
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Benjamin Schwartz, MD, MBA is a fellowship trained Orthopedic Surgeon frequently sought after by clinicians, founders, and venture capitalists for his ability to bridge the gap between real world medicine and startups/entrepreneurship. Dr. Schwartz's passion is thoughtful implementation of technology and innovation to improve healthcare quality, accessibility, costs, and outcomes.
Fellowship trained, Orthopedic Surgeon
Dr. Jain is a Physician turned Investor. She started her career as a primary care doctor but was quickly driven towards application of technology in healthcare. She was an operator leading product at a health-tech startup before becoming a Venture Capitalist. She has invested in companies like Berkeley Lights, Zymergen and Mission bio while serving on the boards of several of her portfolio companies.
Investor, Tarsadia Investments
Orrin Ailloni-Charas is a physician, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. As a result of this unique background, he is able to speak about cutting edge medical breakthroughs from both a clinical and business mindset. Working at the forefront of medical innovation, he has seen time and again that transformation in healthcare can only be achieved when startups solve meaningful clinical problems, have sound core businesses and teams, and coherent capital strategies.
Managing Partner, Cura Capital
Uli K. Chettipally is an emergency physician, researcher, author, and an innovator. He is the Founder of Sirica Therapeutics, developing a robotics/VR device for autism and InnovatorMD, the largest community for physician innovators. He received the Pioneer Award for Innovation and Morris F. Collen Research Award from Kaiser Permanente. He is an Advisor and Investor at various healthcare start-ups. He is the author of "Punish the Machine! The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare"
Founder, Sirica Therapeutics
Suzy has been in healthcare for the over 16 years, but it was her passion to make much needed that catapulted her into innovation arena about 7 years ago. She joined RedCrow in April where she assists healthcare startups to obtain needed funding and resources. Prior to RedCrow, she worked with an incubator to help hospitals ideate on real world challenges and to commercialize early stage ideas and concepts. She is passionate about healthcare innovation and how design thinking leads to success.
VP, Buisness Development, RedCrow - an Alira Health Company
Dr. Steen received his postdoctoral research training at the TIMI Study Group directly under the mentorship of Dr. Eugene Braunwald. He also completed a M.S. in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has led global, national, and local studies and enjoys connections to the seniormost levels of global research leadership. He serves as the CEO/confounder of High Enroll, a company sparked by decades of work on global, national, and site-level recruitment challenges.
Co-Founder & CEO, High Enroll, LLC
Joshua is an engineer with over 20 years of experience as a CEO. He is a multi-patent inventor including anti-viral applications of Maxwell’s platform. His background includes leading teams, as well as military intelligence and commercial applications. He is a pioneer in the field of plasma proteomics & biomimetics. He has wide ranging interests in physics, information theory & nanobiology. He is a graduate of the USAF Academy, with a B.S. in Management and has an MBA from U of Massachusetts.
CEO, Maxwell Biosciences, Inc.
Dr. Yan Chow is Global Healthcare Leader at Automation Anywhere, which provides intelligent automation software to automate manual, repetitive tasks. Dr. Chow was formerly Medical Director for Digital Medicine at Amgen and Director of the Innovation & Advanced Technology Group at Kaiser Permanente. He co-founded a venture-funded NLP analytics startup and has 3 U.S. patents. Dr. Chow earned his A.B. from Harvard, M.D. from UC San Diego, and MBA from UC Berkeley.
Global Healthcare Leader, Automation Anywhere
Dominique Simon-Levine, PhD, MPH, is founder and director of AlliesinRecovery.net, a web-based platform training families in the highly effective evidence-based CRAFT method. Her work is featured on HBO and NPR. A medical anthropologist with 20 years’ experience as a substance abuse researcher and evaluator, with participation in multi-million dollar SAMHSA grants under her belt, Dominique also spent years working in research on HIV, women’s social networks, and traditional medicine in Africa.
Founder & Director, Allies in Recovery
Host of Tribe Talks, Dr Behrooz Behbod is a Harvard & Oxford trained public health physician with 25+ years of international experience across healthcare, education, and business.
As The Entrepreneur's Doctor, he helps entrepreneurs, like you, create a healthier, happier world.
Founder & CEO, Entrepreneur’s Doctor
Mick is a strong believer in physicians leading the way to healthcare transformation. He believes the the medical home and continuity of care focused on the relationships of clinicians and patients is the way to solutions. Through his diverse clinical, administrative and entrepreneurial experiences, he has found his strengths to be providing vision to foster innovation , creating structure that drives quality, and developing financially sustainable models.
Founder, Connors Consulting
Dr. Nachat is CEO and Founder of Pallity, Inc & Encompassing Care Alliance, PC - a consulting and advocacy company focused on empowering institutions, clinicians and patients to engage together in meaningful advance care planning. A firm believer in integrating the best of allopathic and traditional modalities, Dr. Nachat also leads a concierge palliative oncology practice which specializes in minimizing a patients’ therapy and disease-related symptoms, while optimizing their quality of life.
Dr. Joel Park, MD, MS, is the Director of Medical Informatics and Health Information Systems - Applied Innovation, BeiGene, a clinical-stage Biopharma company focused on discovering and developing innovative, targeted immuno-oncology drugs. Dr. Park engineers and integrates different health information systems to provide high-quality, curated data in preparation for research and regulatory submissions. Joel is also an MIT Critical Data member and a board-certified emergency medicine physician.
Director, Medical Informatics & Health Information Systems, BeiGene
Manuel Menendez (MD, PhD) is a neurologist (at Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo) and professor of neurology (at Oviedo University) with research experience in clinical and translational neuroscience. He is focused on neurodegenerative diseases, from neuropsychology to neuroimaging and lab biomarkers. In the last few years, he is particularly interested in developing new strategies to treat CNS conditions, including implantable medical devices.
Neurologist, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias
As a physician, healthcare consultant, author, serial entrepreneur, leader, mentor, and executive coach, Harvey is on a mission to increase awareness of digital health and implement new changes in healthcare. Throughout his professional career, He has worked across multiple companies in various capacities, from CEO to physician to entrepreneur. As a former CEO managed a team of over 350 employees, and as a medical correspondent, appeared on live television more than 100 times.
CEO, Success Reinvention
Deepak is the CEO of Housptl. In addition, he advises entrepreneurs at the UC Berkeley Haas Business school and mentors various accelerators in Silicon Valley. He has fifteen years of venture investing experience across four institutional funds. Before investing, he was an entrepreneur or in management roles, having two exits with Cepheid (NASDAQ: CHPD) and Neuropace (NASDAQ: NPCE). He holds a BS in Mech Eng from Virginia Tech, an MS in Biomed Eng from VCU, and an MBA for U of Chicago Booth.
Startup/VC Director, UC Berkeley Haas
Torrey is Co-Founder & CEO of Endiatx, and Silicon Valley Founder Institute alum. He is also the principal founder of Sextant, founded to bring large-scale interactive works of Science & Engineering to the public. It began as a theme camp at the Burning Man event and has grown into an international arts collective. Before and amidst founding companies Torrey has served as R&D engineer at multiple companies including AEGEA Medical and Cordis Endovascular.
Co-Founder & CEO, Endiatx
Roberto is from Guatemala and went to college at Penn State. He graduated with solid science, math, and informatics background while enhancing his skills through post-graduate courses. After college, Roberto worked with his family's wholesale/retail businesses improving their processes and modernising operations. Soon after, he started his ventures that deployed energy solutions, developed software for healthcare, and installed radiological equipment.
Founder, Silibrain
Alex is the co-founder and CEO of Nabla, a physician AI-assistant company (raised 17m€ in series A in 2021).
Before Nabla, Alex led engineering at Facebook AI Research. He joined after selling Wit.ai to Facebook in 2015, an AI platform he created that makes it easy to build apps that understand natural human language.
Prior to Wit.ai, Alex was the founder and CEO of VirtuOz, “Siri for the Enterprise” virtual agents, acquired by Nuance Communications.
Co-Founder & CEO, Nabla
Aneesh is the co-founder and CEO of Qritive.com. Aneesh Sathe completed his PhD in Mechanobiology at National University of Singapore where he developed computer vision systems to identify cancer cells.
CEO, Qritive
Bhargav Raman is a physician, computer scientist and healthcare economist who is currently VP, Clinical Product at VIVIO Health, a disruptive pharmacy benefits startup aimed at completely rethinking how we evaluate the value of treatment using data. Dr. Raman has spent a decade in various healthcare startups in addition to being a full-time physician, as well as a decade of academic research in computer aided diagnosis.
VP & Clinical Product, VIVIO Health
Gabriel leads the development of UVA’s vision and strategy. He is a senior executive and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building startups inside and outside of organizations, including Singularity University and Virgin Group, leading strategy and development of Virgin Voyages. Gabriel has experience in B2B and B2C services, social impact, platform business models, community and global licensing. His focus is on solving big problems and innovations with positive impact.
CEO & Co-Founder, Urban Vision Alliance
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