ENERGIZING HEALTH - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Chairman of the Board of Eliza Corporation
- Co - Founder, Chair of the Board, Eliza Corporation
Alexandra is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Eliza Corporation, and co-founder of Engage with Grace and Seduce Health. She is obsessed with using technology to help people of all walks of life be happier, healthier, and more productive. She believes the definition of health should be broadened to include life factors (because when life goes wrong, health goes wrong), that people have enormous capacity and the best intentions, and that the single biggest missing, and most important, ingredient in health care is empathy.
Alexandra has founded four companies (all boot-strapped), is in the process of starting her fifth, and takes an active role with the non-profits she feels are doing their best to change the world, including two she co-founded. She sits on the Board of Advisors of TEDMED, the Harvard Executive Sleep Council, and is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Teaching Hospital, in Boston, MA. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the Board of Directors of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and the Health Executive Leadership Network. Alex was named one of Disruptive Women in Health Care市 Women to Watch in 2014, and one of Boston Globe市 2013 Top 100 Women Leaders. She appears on Boston Business Journal市 柱40 Under 40 and Healthspottr Future Health 100 lists, as well as an inventor on multiple patents. She has few hobbies outside of her passion for revolutionizing health care, and her love of family and adventure.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Executive Vice President of Hunch Analytics
- First ) U.S. Chief Technology Officer. As an Assistant
Aneesh Chopra is the former (and first) U.S. Chief Technology Officer. As an Assistant to the President, he designed the National Wireless Initiative, helped launch Startup America, and executed an "open innovation" strategy across the government built on private sector collaboration - opening up data, convening on standards and staffing "lean government startups." He is the author of the book, "Innovative State: How New Technologies can Transform Government," focused on how we can tap entrepreneurial problem solvers to address challenges in health, energy and education markets among other public and regulated sectors.
Chopra is currently the co-founder and executive vice president of Hunch Analytics, a technology firm focused on improving the productivity of public and regulated sectors of the economy through data analytics. He serves as a Member of the Council on Virginia's市 Future and is an inaugural Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at Harvard市 Kennedy School of Government. In 2011, Chopra was named to Modern Healthcare's list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare and in 2008, to Government Technology magazine's Top 25 in their Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers issue. Chopra earned his master's degree in public policy from Harvard University in 1997 and his bachelor's degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994.
Job Titles:
- Chief Medical Officer, Human Longevity, Inc
- Member of the RAND Health Board
- Visionary Physician, Scientist
Dr. Perkins is a visionary physician, scientist, and executive who is responsible for leading all clinical and therapeutic operations at the HLI. This includes collecting and utilizing phenotype data, development of the consumer clinics business, and guiding stem cell therapeutics.
Prior to joining HLI, Dr. Perkins was Executive Vice President for Strategy and Innovation, and Chief Transformation Officer at Vanguard Health Systems, a large multi-state, for-profit, integrated health services provider with nearly 46,000 employees. He helped transform Vanguard from a traditional fee for service healthcare model, to a fee for value, ""population health" model. Some of his innovative solutions there included: establishing Accountable Care Organizations to improve primary care, implementing an award winning tele-radiology program, and starting a $167 million venture capital fund to support Vanguard's transformation programs.
Dr. Perkins began his career at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1989 after completing his residency training and chief residency in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. At the CDC he led some of the most important and high profile programs and published more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.
He first joined and then led the Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch where he investigated global bacterial disease epidemics. He co-discovered the bacteria which causes Cat Scratch Diseases and conducted translational research leading to development of several new bacterial meningitis and pneumonia vaccines. In 2001 Dr. Perkins led the investigations into the anthrax attacks in the United States, the largest and highest profile investigation ever conducted by CDC. In 2005 he was appointed CDC's Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, a position in which he managed a $11.2 billion budget, and 15,000 employees with offices in more than 50 countries. Working closely with the CDC Director, he built a $2 billion state-of-the-art emergency response capability and positioned the improvement of population health as a focus of the healthcare reform movement within the White House administration at that time.
Dr. Perkins is a member of the RAND Health Board, and he is the chairman of the advisory board for Esther Dyson's nonprofit, HICCup, sponsor of the ""Way to Wellville" community health competition. He received his BA in Microbiology and his MD from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and an MBA from Emory University. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Similar
- Principal
Brian is a serial entreprenuer who successfully founded OnePlace.com in the 90s in partnership with Digital Equipment Corporation. He led the Internet portal and collaboration platform for six years before exiting and selling it to Landmark Communications, owners of the Weather Channel. During this time he also wrote the bestselling book "Making the Internet Family-friendly," and collaborated with Internet pioneers like Vint Cerf on technical solutions to make and keep the Internet safe for kids.
Brian then worked in the nonprofit sector for a decade leading Ecunet, a multi-faith Internet collaboration platform for faith leaders. As Ecunet's Executive Director, Brian worked with the Episcopal Church, USA, the Presbyterian Church, USA, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and others to build a collaboration technology platform that was home to over 20,000 pastors.
Next he founded Seniors In Touch, a communications and health care-coordination platform for residents of senior living communities. After launching and successfully building the technology platform, he exited and sold it to the publically traded Cornerstone Healthcare Group. During this time he also began working with AARP and SXSW Interactive on promoting innovative technology solutions and served as architect behind the formation a national innovation consortium of pediatric hospitals and helped guide the launch of TMCx - the accelerator of the Texas Medical Center.
At Energizing Health, Brian works with startups from all over the world and US based healthcare organizations to accelerate healthcare innovation. Begun with a grant from the Kauffman Foundation, Energizing Health solves the problem of how to connect early stage health startups with large, established healthcare organizations. Since its foundation in 2014, Energizing Health has worked with some of the world's biggest healthcare organizations, with highly recognized thought-leaders, and with some of this era's most successful health startups.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- Vice - President, Innovation, Partners HealthCare
Chris Coburn is Vice President, Innovation, Partners HealthCare. Based in Boston, Partners is largest academic research enterprise in the United States with greater than $1.5 billion in annual research. The Partners HealthCare system consists of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital "- ranked #1 and #6 in the nation, respectively, by US News & World Report "- as well as McLean Hospital and others. Partners faculty are appointed at Harvard Medical School.
Mr. Coburn leads a team of more than 80 tasked with the commercial application of the discoveries and unique capabilities of Partners' 60,000 employees. His unit's responsibilities include business development, company creation, licensing, investment, cooperative agreements, and management of all technological breakthroughs of Partners' staff. 2015 commercialization revenue exceeded $110 million.
Prior to joining Partners, Mr. Coburn founded Cleveland Clinic Innovations and served for 13 years as its Executive Director. During his tenure Cleveland Clinic spun off 57 companies that raised more than $700 million in equity financing. Cleveland Clinic had no technology based spin-offs before Coburn's arrival. He also implemented a national Innovation Alliance in which Cleveland Clinic managed technology commercialization for healthcare systems throughout the United States.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Chair, Exponential Medicine
- Physician - Scientist
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. With over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has chaired the Medicine Track for Singularity University since SU's inception, and founded and is Executive Director 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. He has multiple patents on medical device, immunology and stem cell related patents through faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at University of California, San Francisco.
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a New York Times bestselling author. He heads the Center for Science and Law, a national non-profit institute, and serves as an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He is best known for his work on sensory substitution, time perception, brain plasticity, synesthesia, and neurolaw.
He is the writer and presenter of the international PBS series, The Brain with David Eagleman, and the author of the companion book, The Brain: The Story of You.
Job Titles:
- Chief Medical Officer, the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services
- Social Entrepreneur and Practicing Physician
Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky is a social entrepreneur and practicing physician. In 2016, he was asked to serve as the Chief Medical Officer for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS). Prior to working for Medicaid, he co-founded and sold his software company, Care at Hand, an award-winning predictive analytics platform that used insights of non-medical staff to prevent aging people from being hospitalized. Under his leadership, Care at Hand published several peer-reviewed studies, enabled home and community based service providers to sustain their care transition programs, and saved Medicare and Medicaid millions of dollars by preventing hospitalizations. Dr. Ostrovsky has served on several boards and committees dedicated to interoperability standards, quality improvement and measurement, and innovation including the National Quality Forum, Office of the National Coordinator, and the Commonwealth Fund. Prior to Care at Hand, he led teams at the World Health Organization, United States Senate, and San Francisco Health Department toward health system strengthening through technology. Andrey holds a Medical Doctorate and undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Psychology Magna cum Laude from Boston University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Andrey completed his pediatrics residency training in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children's Hospital where he was a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. He is currently teaching faculty and attending physician at Children's National Medical Center.
Job Titles:
- Chief Health Officer at the Illinois Hospital Association
- Chief Medical Officer and President and CEO of the Health Research and Educational Trust, American Hospital Association
Dr. Bhatt is the Chief Health Officer at the Illinois Hospital Association. He most recently served as Managing Deputy Commissioner and first Chief Innovation Officer for the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH). His vision is to bring the health department together with health systems, community-based organizations, and the private sector to advance population health using big data, cross sector collaborations, predictive analytics, and upstream solutions.
Dr. Jay Bhatt is a National Health Service Corps Scholar and a Geriatrician from University of Michigan. He completed an internal medicine residency at Cambridge Health Alliance, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School where he was a clinical fellow. In 2012 Dr. Bhatt was a Senior Fellow with NEHI, a health policy Institute in Cambridge, MA focusing on health IT and strengthening primary care. During 2005-2006, he was a Legislative Fellow for Congresswoman Donna Christensen.
In addition to his work at the Illinois Hospital Association, Dr. Bhatt sees patients at Erie Family Health Center and teaches residents. He was honored with the 2013-2014 Erie Internal Medicine Preceptor of the Year Award. He also teaches medical students and residents at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and University of Michigan Medical School.
Dr. Bhatt graduated from the University of Chicago in 1999 with a degree in Economics. In 2008, Dr. Bhatt received both his medical degree from the PCOM, and his Master in Public Health degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. In 2012 he received his Master市 in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman Leadership Fellow and as a Mongan Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- CEO
- Member of the Similar
- Founder and Managing Partner of the Experience Firm
Elijah is the founder and Managing Partner of The Experience Firm, an Austin-based management consulting firm that specializing in creating remarkable experiences that connect people. He is a huge proponent of company culture and believes deeply that we should strive to create a world in which all people have a real opportunity to reach their potential.
Prior to moving to Austin, Elijah's spent nearly a decade in the public relations department of his Alma Mater, the University of Southern California. In 2006, he moved to Austin and embarked on a both thrilling and terrifying journey of freelancing and entrepreneurship. In the 15 years since, he has served as a brand strategist for more than a dozen companies, become a highly sought-after pitch coach, started three companies of his own, and become a regular guest lecturer at Concordia University, St. Edward's University, and the University of Texas.
Elijah currently serves as an advisor to statewide CEO group YTexas, healthcare venture firm MD Cress Ventures, and media tech accelerator MediaTech Ventures. He is also honored to sit on the boards of the North Austin's Children's Museum, the Robomastery Institute, and Energizing Health.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and CEO at Tempus
Eric Lefkofsky is the co-founder and CEO at Tempus, a technology company that enables physicians to deliver personalized cancer care for patients through an interactive analytical and machine learning platform. Tempus is building the world's largest library of molecular and clinical data and an operating system to make that data accessible and useful. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), a global e-commerce marketplace, and co-founder of Uptake Technologies, a leading predictive analytics platform for the world's largest industries; Mediaocean, a leading provider of integrated media procurement technology; Echo Global Logistics (NASDAQ: ECHO), a technology-enabled transportation and logistics outsourcing firm; and InnerWorkings (NASDAQ: INWK), a global provider of managed print and promotional solutions. He is also a founding partner of Lightbank, a venture fund investing in disruptive technology businesses. He co-chairs the Lefkofsky Family Foundation with his wife Liz to advance high-impact initiatives that enhance lives in the communities served. Lefkofsky serves as a Trustee of Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Science and Industry and World Business Chicago. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Lefkofsky is an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago and author of Accelerated Disruption: Understanding the True Speed of Innovation. He graduated from the University of Michigan and received his Juris Doctor at University of Michigan Law School. For more information, visit lefkofsky.com, connect on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter (@lefkofsky) and Facebook
Job Titles:
- Executive Founder, Way to Wellville
Esther Dyson(@edyson on twitter) is executive founder of the Way to Wellville (@WaytoWellville), an ten-year, evidence-generating project devoted to defining and testing models for cultivating community health (not health care) that will return profits to investors and health to the participants and their communities. W2W is working with the five Wellville communities to accelerate their own efforts to produce health. The communities are: Clatsop County, OR; Lake County, CA; Muskegon County, MI; COMING SOON; and Spartanburg, SC. Dyson is the W2W advocate for Muskegon, and is actively involved in overall policy and fundraising for the project.
Aside from that full-time role, Dyson spends her extra time investing in and nurturing start-ups, with a recent focus on health and aerospace. On the health side, she is an investor in 23andMe (also a director), Applied Proteomics, Clover Health, Cur, Eligible API, GeriJoy, Health Loop, HealthTap, i2Dx, Impact Health, Keas (also an advisor), Medesk, Medivo, mEquilibrium, Omada Health, Organized Wisdom, PatientsLikeMe, PatientsKnowBest (UK), Proofpilot, Resilient, Sleepio (UK), Startup Health, Tocagen, Valkee (Finland), Voxiva (also a director) and Zipongo.
From October 2008 to March of 2009, she lived in Star City outside Moscow, Russia, training as a backup cosmonaut. She spent her time there learning space plumbing and space medicine.