Gloria Torres-Cortes _
No Photo AvailableForeign attorney – Graduate studentGrace O’Sullivan _
No Photo AvailableDirector of Strategic PartnershipsProject HoneyBee – Arizona State UniversityNon-profitWork Tempe Arizona United States of AmericaWebsite: http://sustainablehealth.org/honeybee/Biography
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.
Technology, Public Health, Social Media
Greg Biggers _
No Photo AvailableCEO / Board MemberGenomera, Compression Kinetics, Genetic AllianceMedicine/Health Care, Corporate/Private Sector, Non-profitWork Orinda California United States of AmericaWebsite: http://j.mp/possible-gbDesign, Ethics/IRB, Business models, Research methods, Electronic Health Records
Greg Marsters _
No Photo AvailableConsultantMobilis GroupCorporate/Private Sector, Non-profitWork Laguna Beach California United States of AmericaBiography
Background in software engineering.
Background in computer gaming UI and mechanics.
Background in software analyst for Army, Singapore Armed Services.
Technologist consulting.
Board member at IFLAS.
Advisory Board at InnovateOC.Technology, Design, Research methods, Data Science, Visualization, Devices, Apps
Gregory M Marcus, MD, MAS _
No Photo AvailableDirector of Clinical Research, Division of CardiologyUCSFWork San Francisco California United States of AmericaWebsite: https://www.health-eheartstudy.orgBiography
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.Technology, Public Health, Research methods, Devices, Apps
Gretchen Thompson _
No Photo AvailableLead AssociateBooz Allen HamiltonCorporate/Private SectorWork Raleigh North Carolina United States of AmericaBiography
Dr. Thompson is a senior research scientist with expertise in translational public health, community health, global development, social capital and social epidemiology. She has published research in peer-reviewed outlets on public health, substance abuse, nutritional outcomes, community development, globalization, social capital and health disparities. She has over ten years of combined academic and professional experience leading collaborative research and consulting teams in both domestic and international settings. Dr. Thompson has tactical experience across the research spectrum including proposal writing, project design, international field data collection, survey design, advanced quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and presentation/publication of results. Her strengths include effective leadership capabilities, superlative communication skills, outstanding problem-solving abilities, keen observation skills, and a contagious enthusiasm for her work.
Public Health, Policy, Research methods, Data Science, Social Justice / Digital Divide
Gwynn _
No Photo AvailableHarald Schmidt _
No Photo AvailableAssistant ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania, Department of Medical Ethics and health Policy, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral EconomicsAcademia/University, Medicine/Health CareWork Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States of AmericaWebsite: http://medicalethics.med.upenn.edu/people/faculty/harald-schmidtBiography
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.
Public Health, Policy, Ethics/IRB, Electronic Health Records
Harinath Garudadri _
No Photo AvailableAssociate Research ScientistQualcomm Institute, UCSDAcademia/UniversityWork San Diego California United States of AmericaBiography
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.Technology, Visualization, Devices, Apps, Internet of Things
Heidi Rataj _
No Photo AvailableHealth Content StrategistNon-profitWork San Diego California United States of AmericaWebsite: http://www.benefunder.orgBiography
I am a healthcare content strategist with over ten years of producing, writing and directing content for both healthcare professionals and patients. I am passionate about the conversation between these two groups and want to see sustainability in all aspects. The need for care coordination is at its greatest level because we have this massive shift in technology and opportunity.
Public Health, Policy, Privacy, Internet of Things
Ida Sim _
No Photo AvailableProfessor of Medicine, Co-Director Biomedical Informatics, UCSF CTSIUCSFAcademia/University, Non-profitWork San Francisco California United States of AmericaWebsite: http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ida.simBiography
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.
Technology, Research methods, Data Science, Informatics and Statistics, Apps
Jacky Jennings _
No Photo AvailableAssociate Professor/DirectorJohns Hopkins University/ Center for Child and Community Health Research (CCHR)Academia/University, Medicine/Health CareWork baltimore Maryland United States of AmericaWebsite: http://jhcchr.orgBiography
To utilized big data to improve the health of communities, families and children across their life course and throughout the world.
Public Health, Data Science, Informatics and Statistics, Social Justice / Digital Divide
Jakob Eg Larsen _
No Photo AvailableAssociate ProfessorTechnical University of DenmarkJames Fogarty _
No Photo AvailableAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Washington, Computer Science & EngineeringAcademia/UniversityWork Seattle Washington United States of AmericaWebsite: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty/Biography
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.
Technology, Public Health, Design, HCI/Ubicomp, Apps
James G. Hodge, Jr. _
No Photo AvailableProfessorASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of LawAcademia/UniversityWork Tempe Arizona United States of AmericaBiography
James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, is Professor of Public Health Law and Ethics; and Director of the nationally-ranked Public Health Law and Policy Program at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. Through scholarship, teaching, and applied projects, Professor Hodge delves into multiple areas of health law, public health law, global health law, ethics and human rights.
Beginning in September 2010, he has served as Director of the Western Region Office of the Network for Public Health Law, one of five centers nationally funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Since its inception, the Western Region Office has assisted public health lawyers, officials, practitioners, students, and others across 11 states and nationally on over 1,500 claims.
Professor Hodge is a prolific scholar, having published more than 160 articles in journals of law, medicine, public health and bioethics; 2 books in public health law; 25 book chapters; and guest edited 4 symposium issues in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Jurimetrics, and the Annals of Health Law. As former President of the Public Health Law Association and Board of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME), Professor Hodge co-chaired the national public health law conference sponsored by RWJF in 2010 and 2014. He also hosted ASLME’s Health Law Professors Conference at ASU in June 2012.Public Health, Policy, Law, Privacy, Social Justice / Digital Divide
Jasmin Phua _
No Photo AvailableExecutive DirectorMedical Research Analytics and Informatics Alliance (MRAIA)Non-profitWork Chicago United States of AmericaWebsite: http://www.mraia.orgPublic Health, Data Science, Electronic Health Records, Informatics and Statistics, Devices
Jason Bobe _
No Photo AvailableDirector of the Sharing LabIcahn Institute at Mt. Sinai School of MedicineAcademia/University, Non-profitWork New York City New York United States of AmericaBiography
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.Law, Ethics/IRB, Business models, Research methods, Privacy
Jay Bernhardt _
No Photo AvailableProfessor and DirectorUniversity of Texas Center for Health CommunicationAcademia/University, Corporate/Private SectorWork Austin Texas United States of AmericaWebsite: http://moody.utexas.edu/healthcommBiography
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.
Technology, Public Health, Social Media, Devices, Apps
Jeannie Huang _
No Photo AvailableAssociate Professor, PediatricsUniversity of California San DiegoAcademia/University, Medicine/Health CareWork San Diego California United States of AmericaBiography
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.
Technology, Data Science, Visualization, Devices, Apps
Jen Jen Chen _
No Photo AvailableClinical Health Science Professor/Pediatric PulmonaryUniversity of California IrvineAcademia/University, Medicine/Health CareWork Irvine California United States of AmericaBiography
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.
Technology, Data Science, Social Media, Devices, Internet of Things
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