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Aaron Coleman, Fitabase by Small Steps Labs

From: San Diego, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care, Corporate/Private Sector, Government/Civil Service

Title: Founder & CEO

Job Keywords: Entrepreneur, Computer scientist, Information Technologist

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Design, Policy, Law, Ethics/IRB, Business models, Research methods, Privacy, Data Science, HCI/Ubicomp, Electronic Health Records, Informatics and Statistics, Visualization, Social Media, Devices, Apps, Internet of Things, Social Justice / Digital Divide, Wearables, Cloud Infrastructure, Big Data, Academic / Private Partnerships

    

Founder and CEO of Small Steps Labs, makers of Fitabase. Fitabase facilitates data collection suitable for research using wearable devices like the Fitbit. Aaron brings a range of knowledge and experience in cloud software architecture, behavioral research models, and business together to bring to market new tools that advance the understanding and usefulness of data created by sensors.
The Health Data Exploration project fits perfectly with the mission of Small Steps Labs and the work being done by Fitabase customers who are expanding the usefulness of Fitbit tracker models in to behavioral science, medicine, rehabilitation, and wellness with evidence based approaches. We’re excited to be a part of this network.
Besides building great software products Aaron enjoys working on his yearly garden, restoring classic British cars, strumming on the guitar, and playing with his new daughter Adina.

Akshay Mahajan, UC San Diego

From: La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Student

Job Keywords: Other

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Business models, Electronic Health Records, Visualization

  

I am a first year undergraduate student at UC San Diego studying neuroscience. The vast expanse of data that exists can be intimidating to many people, and with the Health Data Exploration Network I hope to help making this data manageable and understandable by all.

Alvin Delfin

From: Makati City, Philippines

Sector: Corporate/Private Sector

Job Keywords: Manager / director, Consultant, Entrepreneur

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Design, Business models, Privacy, Data Science, Electronic Health Records, Informatics and Statistics, Visualization, Social Media, Devices, Apps, Internet of Things, Innovations

  

Andrew Miller, University of Washington

From: Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Title: NLM Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Angela Fidler Pfammatter, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

From: Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Job Keywords: Researcher, Medical professional / Clinician

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Design, Research methods, Social Media, Behavioral Medicine

  

Aurelien Mazurie, Montana State University

From: Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Director, Bioinformatics Core

Job Keywords: Researcher, Consultant, Data scientist

Interests: Technology, Research methods, Data Science, Electronic Health Records, Informatics and Statistics

    

Bonnie Spring, Northwestern University - Dept. of Preventive Medicine

From: Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care

Title: Professor

Job Keywords: Researcher, Medical professional / Clinician, Professor, Manager / director

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Research methods, Data Science, Apps

 

Bruce Hecht, Analog Devices

From: Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care, Corporate/Private Sector, Non-profit

Title: New Product Design Quality Engineer

Job Keywords: Researcher, Designer, Manager / director, Entrepreneur, Data scientist, Engineer

Interests: Design, Data Science, Visualization, Devices, Internet of Things, sensors signal processing education

    

Bruce Hecht is a hardware designer and developer of new technologies. With 20 years experience in design and release of breakthrough new products, 5 US patents, and a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Bruce’s interests are in the integration of sensors and signal processing. Bruce has served in leadership roles for the IEEE including the Boston Section, the Solid-State Circuits Society and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and in the growth of the IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community (LSTC). He has chaired conferences in circuits, life sciences, and medical devices and systems, and in the publication of the special issue of Journal of Solid-State Circuits and the IEEE Design & Test Magazine.

Camille Crittenden, CITRIS (Center for IT Research in the Interest of Society)

From: Berkeley, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Deputy Director

Job Keywords: Manager / director

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Visualization, Social Media, Apps, Social Justice / Digital Divide

Camille Nebeker, UC San Diego

From: San Diego, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Assistant Professor

Job Keywords: Researcher, Professor

Interests: Public Health, Ethics/IRB, Privacy, Devices, Social Justice / Digital Divide

 

Camille is a research ethicist with an interest in exploring the ethical dimensions of pervasive information and communication technologies used in health research. Of particular interest is 1- exploring methods of obtaining meaningful informed consent and 2- barriers to use of wearable technologies in communities where health disparities are most prevalent.

Carlos Rodarte, PatientsLikeMe

From: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sector: Medicine/Health Care, Corporate/Private Sector, Other

Title: Director, Business Development, Wearables & Biosensors

Job Keywords: Researcher, Manager / director, Entrepreneur, Information Technologist

Interests: Technology, Business models, Research methods, Devices, Internet of Things, wearables, sensors, digital health, governance

     

Carlos Rodarte is the Director of Business Development, Wearables & Biosensors, at PatientsLikeMe, a patient network that improves lives and a real-time research platform that advances medicine. He oversees strategic partnerships with various healthcare stakeholders interested in learning how patients experience and manage their disease. In developing the wearables and biosensors division, he is helping define the role innovative sensor technologies play in understanding behavior, patient care, and disease characteristics.

Christine Sardo Molmenti, Columbia University Medical Center/Mailman School of Public Health

From: New York, New York, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Postdoctoral research scientist

Job Keywords: Researcher, Medical professional / Clinician, Health Professional, Public health professional, Consultant

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Research methods, Data Science, Electronic Health Records, Chronic disease prevention, particularly prevention of colorectal cancer and colorectal adenomas

 

Christine Sardo Molmenti, PhD, MPH, RD is a postdoctoral research scientist in the NIH/NCI R25T Cancer Epidemiology Training Program at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health at the Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Christine specializes in the epidemiology and prevention of chronic disease, particularly colorectal cancer and its major risk factors, including nutrition, sedentary behavior, and obesity. Her research is focused on the role of inflammation and how it is inextricably linked to these factors and impacts disease risk.
Notably, she recently published a paper in Cancer Causes and Control titled, “Sedentary behavior is linked to colorectal adenoma recurrence in men” and is interested in refining tools to measure sedentary behavior as well as developing/testing effective models for behavior change.
Her experience working with the Canyon Ranch and Canyon Ranch Institute has given her an appreciation for taking an “integrative approach” to health promotion and disease prevention which motivates her to consider the whole-patient/whole-person in designing interventions and delivering messages to the public.
She is looking forward to joining the Health Data Exploration Project network in order to conduct collaborative research projects that will advance public health research in the areas of sedentary behavior and inflammation as well as to develop/test novel research methods that will reduce sedentary behavior in order to reduce the US burden of chronic disease.

Christopher A. Jones, MHA, Northwest AHEC

From: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care, Government/Civil Service

Title: Assistant Director – Quality and Informatics

Job Keywords: Researcher, Designer, Public health professional, Manager / director, Informatics, Information Technologist

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Design, Business models, Research methods, Data Science, Electronic Health Records, Informatics and Statistics, Visualization, Social Media, Devices, Apps, Internet of Things

    

Expected DrPH from UNC School of Public Health in 2016. Research interest: reducing sedentary behavior in the workplace using technology. Skills: Programming, data visualization, electronic medical records, databases, structured query language, data modeling, data analysis, trend spotting, workflows, PDSA cycles, chronic disease management using patient generated data. I work in health professional continuing education and promote educational initiatives throughout the state. Keenly interested in mobilizing consumers in the interest of upstream wellness.

Danielle Raudenbush, University of California, San Diego

From: San Diego, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Assistant Professor of Sociology

Job Keywords: Professor

Interests: Public Health, Policy, Social Justice / Digital Divide

 

Dr. Raudenbush is a qualitative researcher interested in the health-care experiences of low-income minorities. Currently, her research focuses on two areas: 1) understanding how minorities who have limited access to health services treat health problems in the face of this limitation and 2) understanding the enrollment experiences of low-income African Americans who recently became eligible for Medicaid through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Among those who are eligible, who’s enrolling, who’s not enrolling, and why? She is also interested in how new technologies can be used to address health disparities, and in particular health problems that have become endemic to low-income minority populations such as obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

David M. Hondula, Arizona State University

From: Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Assistant Research Professor

Job Keywords: Researcher

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Research methods, Informatics and Statistics, Devices

  

David Hondula’s research examines the societal impacts of weather and climate with an emphasis on extreme weather and health. Recent projects include statistical analysis of health and environmental data sets to improve understanding of the impact of high temperatures on human morbidity and mortality, especially within urban areas. Hondula is also engaged in quantitative and qualitative field work to learn how individuals experience and cope with extreme heat in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Developing research considers how to facilitate effective governance and communication strategies for climate adaptation. These efforts are motivated by the overarching goal of reducing unnecessary weather-related illnesses and deaths through effective mitigation and intervention strategies.

David Tharp, PureTech Ventures

From: Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sector: Medicine/Health Care, Corporate/Private Sector, Other

Job Keywords: Researcher, Manager / director, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Informatics

Interests: Technology, Design, Business models, Devices, Apps, connected health, wearables

    

Desney Tan, Microsoft Research

Sector: Corporate/Private Sector

Job Keywords: Researcher, Professor, Manager / director, Computer scientist, Engineer

Interests: Technology, Data Science, Devices, Other, Mobile Health

    

I am a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, where I manage a Health Technology group in Redmond, Washington. I also hold an affiliate faculty appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. My research interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile Computing, and Healthcare. I spend large chunks of my time applying signal processing and machine learning to recognizing noisy signals, specifically those in or on the human body, and using them in interesting ways. However, I have pretty varied interests and have worked on projects in many other domains.

Donald Patterson, University of CA, Irvine

From: Irvine, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Associate Professor

Job Keywords: Researcher, Designer, Professor, Manager / director, Entrepreneur, Data scientist, Computer scientist, Engineer, Informatics, Information Technologist

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Design, Data Science, HCI/Ubicomp, Informatics and Statistics, Visualization, Social Media, Devices, Apps, Internet of Things

    

Don Patterson’s areas of research interest lie at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Ubiquitous computing and he has applied this work to transportation and activity assistance.

Donna L. Coffman

From: PA Furnace, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Senior Research Associate/ BD2K K01 awardee

Job Keywords: Researcher, Professor, Data scientist

Interests: Public Health, Research methods, Data Science, Informatics and Statistics

    

I work on analytic methods for data collected via smartphones, accelerometers and other biosensors to promote and maintain healthy behavior change.

Donna Spruijt-Metz, University of Southern California

From: Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Director, USC mHealth Collaboratory

Job Keywords: Researcher, Public health professional, Professor

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Design, Ethics/IRB, Research methods, Data Science, HCI/Ubicomp, Electronic Health Records, Informatics and Statistics, Visualization, Social Media, Devices, Apps, Internet of Things, Social Justice / Digital Divide

   

Donna Spruijt-Metz is Director of the USC mHealth Collaboratory at the University of Southern California’s Center for Economic and Social Research, and Professor of Research in Psychology. Her main interests include using mobile technologies to develop data sets that combine sensor and self-report data that is continuous, temporally rich, contextualized. Using this data along with innovative modeling techniques, she wants to develop dynamic, contextualized mathematical models of health-related behavior. She was one of the first to undertake a just-in-time, adaptive intervention (JITAI) in youth, and envisions most or all interventions being JITAI in the future. Her research focuses on childhood obesity and mobile health technologies, including the KNOWME Networks project, that developed a Wireless Body Area Network system to decrease sedentariness and increase physical activity in overweight minority youth using a JITAI. She is PI of Virtual Sprouts, a virtual, multiplatform gardening game designed to change dietary knowledge and behavior and prevent obesity in minority youth. She recently led an NSF/EU/NIH-funded workshop in Brussels on building new computationally-enabled theoretical models to support health behavior change and maintenance. Her work meshes 21st century technologies with transdisciplinary metabolic, behavioral and environmental research in order to facilitate the development of dynamic, personalized, contextualized JITAIs. She has a deep interest in harnessing mobile health and new media modalities to bring researchers and researched systems into interaction, to engage people in their own data, and to bring about lasting change in public health.

Dori Rosenberg, Group Health Research Institute

From: Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care

Title: Assistant Scientific Investigator

Job Keywords: Researcher

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Electronic Health Records, Devices, Apps

   

My goal is to support people in changing their patterns of behavior to help them live in ways that maximize their ability to engage in meaningful activities. I am particularly interesting in supporting ways to help older adults and people with chronic conditions in changing their sedentary behavior and physically active behaviors. I aim to deliver interventions in ways that are easy for populations to engage with such as by technologies such as smart phone applications. Furthermore I’m interested in surveillance opportunities by blending data from the electronic health record with information from wireless devices.

Edison Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology

From: Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care

Title: PhD Candidate/Research Assistant

Job Keywords: Researcher, Data scientist, Computer scientist, Engineer, Informatics

Interests: Public Health, Research methods, Data Science, HCI/Ubicomp, Devices, Sensors

   

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Human-Centered Computing program at Georgia Tech. I design, implement and evaluate systems that can sense, recognize and model people’s everyday life activities in service of health and well-being applications. My research combines technical approaches from Ubicomp, HCI, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing.

Ellen Frank, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

From: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology

Job Keywords: Researcher, Medical professional / Clinician, Professor

Interests: Technology, Design, Research methods, Data Science

   

For more than 25 years my laboratory has been studying interventions for mood disorders and the pathophysiology underlying response to those interventions. These studies are notable for their emphasis on sleep/wake and circadian rhythms as mediators and moderators of treatment response. Consistent with that emphasis we have developed an approach to the treatment of bipolar disorder that is based on a specific hypothesis regarding the impact of social rhythms, as measured by the Social Rhythm Metric (SRM) on circadian function and mood in this illness. Under the auspices of an NIMH MERIT Award, we demonstrated the preventive efficacy of interpersonal and social rhythm therapy (IPSRT) which seeks to stabilize circadian function in patients with bipolar disorder by increasing the regularity of their daily social rhythms. Most relevant to the current application, we found that the preventive efficacy of IPSRT was directly related to the degree to which participants increased the regularity of their social routines. IPSRT has now been validated in several other studies of bipolar disorder in both adults and youth. Given the centrality of the social rhythm regularity to this intervention approach, we are working with patient and clinician stakeholders to develop a highly disseminbable health care system based on a smartphone version of the Social Rhythm Metric combined with data sensed from the smartphone. This system can interface with a clinical monitoring system in clinicians’ offices or be used independently by patients with bipolar disorder in their own self-management.

Emil Chiauzzi, PatientsLikeMe

From: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sector: Corporate/Private Sector

Title: Research Director

Job Keywords: Researcher, Health Professional, Manager / director, Information Technologist

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Research methods, Social Media, Devices, interactive health interventions, personal health monitoring, motivational enhancement interventions

   

Emil Chiauzzi, Ph.D. is Research Director at PatientsLikeMe. He leads a multidisciplinary research team focused on analyzing patient-reported data to help academic partners, pharmaceutical companies and other organizations gain clinical and business insights into patient conditions, symptoms, treatments, and disease journeys. A clinical research psychologist, Dr. Chiauzzi has served as the Principal Investigator on numerous NIH grants and as a reviewer and chair on a variety of NIH grant review committees. Dr. Chiauzzi was previously the VP of Research and Innovation at Inflexxion, where he conducted and supervised a range of interactive health research projects with technology-based clinical interventions. He led the development and testing of patient-centered programs that address a range of behavioral health disorders, opioid abuse and chronic pain. His current interests include interactive health interventions, personal health monitoring patients with chronic diseases and the application of self-reported data by patients with behavioral health conditions.

Ernesto Ramirez, QS Labs

Sector: Other

Title: Program Director

Job Keywords: Researcher, Information Technologist

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Data Science, Visualization, Internet of Things

    

Frederick Muench, North Shore Health System

From: Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care, Non-profit

Title: Director of Digital Health Interventions

Job Keywords: Researcher, Medical professional / Clinician, Health Professional, Professor, Entrepreneur, Data scientist

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Research methods, Devices, Internet of Things, Social Justice / Digital Divide, Intervention development

   

I am a clinical psychologist and the Director of Digital Health Interventions in the Department of Psychiatry at North Shore LIJ Health System. I was the Director of Research and Development at Helicor, the makers of the first portable Heart Rate Variability device and the founder of Mobile Health Interventions. My current research focuses on interventions developed by end users and methods to harness consumer content and data to build effective behavior change tools. I have NIH grants but also focus on real-world implementation of mobile interventions. In addition, I teach a class at NYUs Interactive Telecommunications graduate program on developing technology based interventions for mindful wellbeing. I am very interested in working with a network of individuals interested using novel research methods to improve public health via low hanging fruit interventions.

Fernando Martin-Sanchez, The University of Melbourne

From: Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care

Title: Director, Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre

Job Keywords: Researcher, Professor, Data scientist, Informatics

Interests: Public Health, Research methods, Data Science, Informatics and Statistics, Social Media, Devices, Exposome, quantified self

    

I am a Biomedical Information scientist with research interests at the interface of precision medicine, participatory health and health informatics. The use of social media and personal sensors opens up new possibilities in terms of assessing the genome, phenome and exposure of individuals to risk factors and life habits. This poses huge challenges for health informatics in terms of processing big (and small) data and their applications to improve individual health, clinical research and public health. Very aware of the many unknowns and the need for evidence and further research, I still think that we will see these approaches in routine healthcare.
The HDEP and Network represent an unique opportunity to discuss those aspects and interact with a community of researchers, health practitioners and consumer groups in order to generate this evidence, address ethical and legal issues and pilot new information systems connecting multilevel individual sources of health data.

Gary Wolf, Quantified Self Labs

From: Berkeley, California, United States of America

Sector: Other

Title: Director

Job Keywords: Other

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Research methods, Data Science, HCI/Ubicomp, Social Enterprise

    

Gary Wolf is the co-founder of The Quantified Self, a global collaboration among users and makers of self-tracking tools exploring “self-knowledge through numbers.” Wolf is also a contributing editor at Wired magazine. His work has appeared The Best American Science Writing (2009) and in The Best American Science and Nature Writing (2009). In 2010, he was awarded the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism prize. In 2005-2006 he was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.

Gillian Christie, Vitality Institute

Sector: Corporate/Private Sector, Other

Title: Health Innovation Analyst

Job Keywords: Researcher

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Ethics/IRB, Research methods, Privacy, Internet of Things, Social Justice / Digital Divide, health promotion, disease prevention, personalized health technology

  

Gillian Hayes, UC Irvine

From: Irvine, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Chair in Informatics

Job Keywords: Researcher, Professor

Interests: Technology, Design, HCI/Ubicomp, Social Media, Social Justice / Digital Divide, pediatrics, family medicine

    

I am an Associate Professor and the Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Chair in Informatics in the School of Information and Computer Sciences and in the School of Education and School of Medicine at UC Irvine. My research interests are in human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, assistive and educational technologies, and health informatics. I design, develop, deploy, and evaluate technologies to empower people to use collected data to address real human needs in sensitive and ethically responsible ways. In particular, I focus on vulnerable populations in their efforts to understand their own data and in the use of these data to provide them with necessary resources and services. I am the Director of Technology Research at the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders and the Faculty Director for Civic and Community Engagement at UCI. I currently co-direct the UCI site of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing.
I am an alumna of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.

Grace O'Sullivan, Project HoneyBee - Arizona State University

From: Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Sector: Non-profit

Title: Director of Strategic Partnerships

Job Keywords: Manager / director, Entrepreneur

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Social Media, digital health, health innovation, open data

   

Grace O’Sullivan is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Center for Sustainable Health. In this role, she is responsible for developing strategic partnerships, cultivating new opportunities, and promoting cross-sector collaborations. She also leads the Center’s marketing and communications efforts. Prior to joining CSH, she served as Executive Director and Chief of Staff for the Senior Vice President of the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development at ASU. In this position, she also directed the research enterprise Communications and Marketing team, leading a large portfolio of internal and external projects. From 2008 to 2012, she played a key leadership role on the research administration team at the Biodesign Institute. Grace earned her MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU and is also a Certified Research Administrator.

Gregory M Marcus, MD, MAS, UCSF

From: San Francisco, California, United States of America

Title: Director of Clinical Research, Division of Cardiology

Job Keywords: Researcher, Medical professional / Clinician

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Research methods, Devices, Apps, cardiovascular, arrhythmias

  

Dr. Gregory Marcus is a specialist in the treatment of arrhythmias, including mapping and catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardias and ventricular arrhythmias. He is also an expert in pacemaker, biventricular device and defibrillator implantation.
Dr. Marcus is the Director of Clinical Research for the Division of Cardiology at UCSF. He is the principle investigator on research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association. His interest in technology is related primarily to his role as one of the principal investigators of the Health eHeart Study, a fully digital, internet-based, global cardiovascular cohort study and broadly applicable research platform.
Dr. Marcus earned his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He completed an internship, residency and Chief Residency in medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. He then completed his training in cardiovascular medicine and cardiovascular electrophysiology at UCSF before joining the faculty as an assistant professor of medicine in 2006. As part of an NIH-funded career development award, he then earned his Masters in Advanced Studies (including formal training in epidemiology and biostatistics) at UCSF in 2008.

Harald Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medical Ethics and health Policy, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics

From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care

Title: Assistant Professor

Job Keywords: Researcher, Professor

Interests: Public Health, Policy, Ethics/IRB, Electronic Health Records, personal responsibility for health, behavioral economics

   

My academic background is an MA in Philosophy and a PhD in Public Policy. My research interests center around personal responsibility for health, public health ethics and fairness in resource allocation. I aim to combine robust conceptual and empirical work to contribute to more evidence-based, equitable and efficient health care policy and practice (see publications and CV on my Penn website, including a paper on difficulties with the concept of anonymous data). Interests with regard to the Health Data Exploration Network concern responsibilities of people to use mobile health technology, and responsibilities of companies that gather data in terms of contributing to the public good.

Harinath Garudadri, Qualcomm Institute, UCSD

From: San Diego, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Associate Research Scientist

Job Keywords: Researcher, Entrepreneur, Engineer

Interests: Technology, Visualization, Devices, Apps, Internet of Things

 

I recently moved from industry to academia to work on technologies that will (a) reduce the cost of healthcare delivery and (b) increase the reach of caregivers’ expertise to beyond hospital walls. I have a deep understanding of signal processing. I have been able to apply this knowledge in diverse fields such as speech recognition, speech, audio and video compression, multimedia delivery in 3G/4G networks, low-power sensing and telemetry of physiological data, reliable body area networks (BAN), noise cancellation, and artifacts mitigation, among other areas. My contributions have been incorporated into cell phones and commercial networks. I have a proven track record of generating intellectual property, as demonstrated by 39 granted patents (7 in BAN, 8 in audio, 6 in video, 4 in speech, 3 in biomedical signal processing, and 11 in voice recognition), and over 14 pending patents in biomedical signal processing and related areas. Prior to joining UCSD, I was at Qualcomm for 16 years in various roles, including speech recognition, speech and audio coding, and error resilient low power communications. My foray into technologies for healthcare started with a 5-lead, diagnostic-grade ECG and physical activity monitoring device we built. This device was about 1/3 the size of a smartphone and streamed ECG and physical activity data continuously for 48 hours on a single charge. We demonstrated “wireline” ECG quality despite packet losses and “resting state” ECG quality during normal daily physical activities, using FDA-adopted standards for ECG systems used in hospitals.

Ida Sim, UCSF

From: San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Non-profit

Title: Professor of Medicine, Co-Director Biomedical Informatics, UCSF CTSI

Job Keywords: Researcher, Medical professional / Clinician, Professor, Entrepreneur, Data scientist, Informatics

Interests: Technology, Research methods, Data Science, Informatics and Statistics, Apps, Primary care, preventive care, chronic disease management

    

Ida Sim, MD, PhD is a primary care physician, health information technology researcher, and entrepreneur. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she co-directs Biomedical Informatics at UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Her research work focuses on computational methods for data sharing and decision making for clinical research and for mobile health. She is also co-founder of Open mHealth, a non-profit organization bridging academia and industry to bring clinical meaning to mobile health data. Other major projects that Dr. Sim is a member of include the Mobile Data to Knowledge NIH Center of Excellence, and the Health eHeart study. Dr. Sim has served on multiple advisory committees on health information infrastructure for clinical care and research, including committees of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. Dr. Sim is a recipient of the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

James Fogarty, University of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering

From: Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Associate Professor

Job Keywords: Researcher, Professor, Computer scientist

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Design, HCI/Ubicomp, Apps

  

My broad research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction, User Interface Software and Technology, and Ubiquitous Computing. My focus is on developing, deploying, and evaluating new approaches to the human obstacles surrounding widespread everyday adoption of ubiquitous sensing and intelligent computing technologies.

Jason Bobe, Icahn Institute at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

From: New York City, New York, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Non-profit

Title: Director of the Sharing Lab

Job Keywords: Researcher, Professor, Manager / director, Entrepreneur

Interests: Law, Ethics/IRB, Business models, Research methods, Privacy, sharing, research design

  

I’m the director of the Sharing Lab at the Icahn Institute at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
The focus of my research is prototyping collaborative and participatory models of biomedical research and innovation. I am particularly interested in (a) greatly expanding the rates of participation in organized health research, (b) broadening the types of contributions participants in research are able to make, (c) promoting discovery & innovation through equitable data sharing practices, i.e. those which enable individuals to build highly integrated, longitudinal research profiles with portable, re-usable data and information assets, (d) the creation of well-consented public data resources via the “open consent” framework, (e) building research networks and communities of practice around emerging technologies.
Since 2007, I have been working closely with George Church at Harvard Medical School to develop the Global Network of Personal Genome Projects (PGP), a group of research studies that collaborate on the development and evaluation personal genomic technologies and practices at increasing scales. The first site was founded at Harvard Medical School in 2005, followed by sites at Hospital for Sick Kids / University Toronto (2012), University College London (2013), and at CeMM in Vienna (2014).
I also am ED of PersonalGenomes.org, produce the annual GET Conference and GET Labs events, co-founded OpenHumans.org and DIYbio.org.

Jay Bernhardt, University of Texas Center for Health Communication

From: Austin, Texas, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Corporate/Private Sector

Title: Professor and Director

Job Keywords: Researcher, Public health professional, Professor, Manager / director, Consultant

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Social Media, Devices, Apps, Health Communication; Mobile Motivation

     

Dr. Jay Bernhardt (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999; M.P.H., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1994) is Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Health Communication and the Everett D. Collier Centennial Chair in Communication in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Austin Regional Campus of The University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston. He has conducted research on mobile tracking and data collection since 2006, from Apple Newtons to Apple Watches. From 2010-2014, Dr. Bernhardt served as a Professor at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida, and Founding Director of the Center for Digital Health and Wellness. From 2010 to 2013 he also served as Chair of the Department of Health Education and Behavior. From 2005-2010, Dr. Bernhardt served as the Director of the National Center for Health Marketing at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In that role, he led CDC’s health communication, new media, and partnership programs with a staff of more than 500 and a budget of more than $100 million. Prior to his position at the CDC, he served on the faculty at Emory University and the University of Georgia.

Jeannie Huang, University of California San Diego

From: San Diego, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care

Title: Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Job Keywords: Researcher, Medical professional / Clinician

Interests: Technology, Data Science, Visualization, Devices, Apps

 

Jeannie Huang, MD, MPH is Associate Professor in Pediatrics and a pediatric gastroenterologists. Her main research interests lie at the intersection of technology and medicine and specifically focus on how to improve health care delivery through the innovative use of available technologies. She has a special interest in youth with chronic disease.

Jen Jen Chen, University of California Irvine

From: Irvine, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care

Title: Clinical Health Science Professor/Pediatric Pulmonary

Job Keywords: Researcher, Medical professional / Clinician

Interests: Technology, Data Science, Social Media, Devices, Internet of Things, Remote biometric monitoring, teleexercise, data science

   

After completing pediatric residency and pediatric pulmonary fellowship, I (surprise) decided to stay at UCI as a clinical HS professor. Most of my time is devoted to research at UCI’s Pediatric Exercise Research Center (PERC) and currently am working on evaluating the effects of teleexercise and remote monitoring on Cystic fibrosis children. But my training is not yet over as I am working on a data science certificate for preparation in getting an additional degree in data science in the near future.

Jocelyn DeWitt, PhD, UW Health System

From: Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Medicine/Health Care

Title: Senior Vice President and CIO

Job Keywords: Manager / director, Informatics

Interests: Policy, Ethics/IRB, Privacy, Electronic Health Records, Informatics and Statistics

 

Senior Vice President and CIO at UW Health. Interested in supporting the academic mission of the UW-Madison and advancing knowledge through the industry.

John W. Ayers

From: San Diego, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Corporate/Private Sector, Non-profit

Job Keywords: Researcher, Public health professional, Professor, Self-employed, Data scientist, Informatics

Interests: Public Health, Research methods

 

Judy Tan, UCSF

From: San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Job Keywords: Researcher

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Research methods, Social Justice / Digital Divide

   

Dr. Judy Y. Tan is a behavioral scientist and social psychologist, currently a Research Specialist at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS). She received her doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of Connecticut, where she was a fellow in the NIMH T-32 Predoctoral Fellowship, Social Processes of AIDS. She has also received certifications in Quantitative Research Methods and Health Psychology. Dr. Tan’s research focuses on HIV-related behaviors among gay men of color and is guided by her interest in the health and behavioral impact of social inequality in marginalized and disenfranchised populations. Her work utilizes theory and advanced quantitative methods that include daily process methods and multilevel analyses.

Jules Polonetsky, Future of Privacy

From: Washington, DC, United States of America

Sector: Non-profit

Title: Executive Director

Interests: Privacy

  

Julie Kientz, University of Washington

From: Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Associate Professor

Job Keywords: Researcher, Designer, Professor, Computer scientist

Interests: Technology, Design, HCI/Ubicomp, Apps, Internet of Things

     

Julie A. Kientz is an Associate Professor in the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. She directs the Computing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab, is active in the Design, Use, Build (dub) alliance, and has adjunct appointments in The Information School and Computer Science & Engineering. Dr. Kientz’s primary research areas are in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, and Health Informatics. Her research focuses on understanding and reducing the user burdens of interactive technologies for health and education through the design of future applications. She has designed, developed, and evaluated mobile, sensor, and social applications for helping individuals with sleep problems, parents of young children tracking developmental progress, individuals with visual impairments, people who want to quit smoking, and special education teachers working with children with autism. Her primary research methods involve human-centered design, technology development, and a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods. Dr. Kientz received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. She was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2009, named an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 in 2013, and was given the UW College of Engineering Faculty Research Innovator award in 2014.

Junaed Siddiqui, MS, University of Maryland School of Public Health

From: College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University, Non-profit

Title: Student, Department of Behavioral and Community Health

Job Keywords: Researcher, Public health professional, Consultant, Other

Interests: Public Health, Design, Informatics and Statistics, Devices, Apps

 

I’m very interested in the utilization of wearable health technology and its implications for the future of public health. I’m open to collaborating with anyone who shares this passion and would like to talk more about it!

Katherine Kim, University of California Davis

From: Sacramento, California, United States of America

Sector: Academia/University

Title: Assistant Professor

Job Keywords: Researcher, Professor, Other

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Research methods, Social Media, Apps

    

Katherine Kim is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Davis, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. Her research centers on the role of technology in consumer and patient engagement in health and technology-enabled care models with a particular focus in mobile health (mHealth) and social networks, distributed research networks (DRNs), and health information exchange (HIE). She has over 20 years of previous experience in healthcare as a hospital, clinic, and medical group manager, an entrepreneur–CEO of a venture-funded startup, leader of a technology startup incubator, and Founder and—and in software product development with Oracle. Dr. Kim received her PhD with a focus on Health Informatics at UC Davis, an MPH and MBA from UC Berkeley, and a BA in Biology from Harvard.

Kelsey Finch, Future of Privacy

From: Washington, DC, United States of America

Sector: Non-profit

Interests: Technology, Public Health, Policy, Law, Ethics/IRB, Business models, Privacy, Social Media, Devices, Apps, Internet of Things, Social Justice / Digital Divide

  

Ken Martin, WorkOut Cancer research fund

From: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Sector: Non-profit

Title: Director

Job Keywords: Manager / director

Interests: Technology, Business models, Research methods, Data Science, Electronic Health Records, Devices, Apps, consumer fitness and exercise-oncology research

     

I’m a cancer survivor and exercise-oncology advocate, including advocating for the integration of research and valid consumer fitness data with Electronic Health Records (EHRs). I’m actively involved in registering exercise and physical activity measures with LOINC. My interest beyond LOINC codes for exercise and physical activity is to utilize HL7 APIs (if they exist, or seek development of them if they do not) to summarize research and consumer fitness data for entry into EHRs via patient portals. Furthermore, I have an interest in the development HL7 templates for exercise and physical activity measures that can be used in Survivorship Care Plans and research databases.

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