Dr. Douglas Drossman
UNC School of Medicine
- Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at UNC School of Medicine
- Co-Director of the UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders. He has had a long-standing interest in the research and evaluation of difficult to diagnose and treat GI disorders.
- Published more than 400 books, articles and abstracts relating to epidemiology, psychosocial and quality of life assessment, design of treatment trials, and outcomes of research in GI disorders.
- President of the Rome Foundation
- Editor of Rome I, II and III, "Understanding the Irritbable Gut" and the "Clinical Algorithms for Functional GI Disorders" produced by the Rome Foundation
- Member of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, and Chair of the Awards Committee of the International Foundation for Functional GI Disorders (IFFGD)
- Founder and past chair of the Functional Brain Gut Research Group (FBG)
- Janssen Award for Clinical Research in Digestive Diseases
- Associate Editor of Gastroenterology, (2001-2006)
- MD degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1970
- Medical residency at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and New York University-Bellevue Medical Center.
- Sub-specialized in psychosocial (psychosomatic) medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine under the mentorship of Dr. George Engel from 1975 to 1976
- Specialized in gastroenterology at the University of North Carolina in from 1976 to 1978.
Dr. Mack Lipkin
NYU Medical School, NYU Medical Center
- Professor of Medicine and Chief of Primary Care Internal Medicine at NYU School of Medicine.
- Created Lipkin model of psychosocial education.
- Received the Rosenthal Award of the American College of Physicians for "significant clinical innovation."
- Taught at major medical institutions all over the world on general medicine and primary care.
- Produced twelve books and over 160 articles and chapters.
- Founding President and Chairman of the American Academy on Physician and Patient, and the American Academy on Communication in Health (AACH).
- President of the Zlinkoff Fund for Medical Education and Research and Past President of the Society of General Internal Medicine.
- Served on the Governor's Medical Advisory Panel on Primary Care
- Graduated (magna, phi beta kappa) from Harvard’s College and Medical School.
- Residency at UNC and USPHS Fellowship in Medicine and Psychiatry with George Engel.
Dr. Sandeep Jauhar
North Shore LIJ; author, "Intern, A Doctor's Initiation"
- Director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center
- Author of the book Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation, which was a national and Indian bestseller and has been optioned by NBC for a dramatic television series
- Writing about medicine and health for The New York Times for over a decade.
- Written essays for The New England Journal of Medicine, Slate, New York magazine, and The Los Angeles Times, and has appeared frequently in media venues, including CNN, ABC, Bloomberg, and National Public Radio.
- AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Time magazine
- Recipient of a South Asian Journalists Special recognition Award for outstanding stories about medicine.
- Ph.D. in physics from Berkeley.
- MD from Washington University School of Medicine.
- Internal Medicine residency at Weill Cornell
- Fellowship in Cardiology with specialization in heart failure at NYU School of Medicine.
Dr. Alfred Neugut
Columbia University Medical School, Columbia Presbyterian
- Myron M. Studner Professor of Cancer Research and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Columbia University
- Associate Director for Population Science, Leader of the Prevention, Control, and Disparities Program for the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia
- Co-Director of the Cancer Prevention Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital
- Initiated a series of important studies focused on risk factors for the occurrence and recurrence of colorectal adenomatous polyps (adenomas). These studies have extended into the use and yield of colonoscopy and fecal occult blood testing for routine screening and diagnosis.
- An editorial by Dr. Neugut in 1988 was the first to suggest the use of colonoscopy for routine screening of asymptomatic adults.
- Co-principal Investigator of the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project.
- Principal investigator of an NCI-funded Training Program in Cancer Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences.
- Former President of the American Society of Preventive Oncology
- He has served on numerous study sections and review committees, both at NIH and elsewhere.
- MD/PHD from Columbia University.
- Internal Medicine residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
- Fellowship in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
- MPH in Epidemiology as an Andrew Mellon Fellow at Columbia.
Dr. John Moore
MIT Media Lab, New Media Medicine Group
- Researcher and PhD candidate in the New Media Medicine Group at the MIT Media Lab.
- Studying the effect that new technology-mediated paradigms for doctor-patient collaboration can have on education, adherence, and behavior change.
- Fulbright Scholar in Belgium, where he conducted clinical engineering studies on neurological movement disorders.
- Winner of the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology Award for his work on CollaboRhythm: Primary Care Teamwork Anywhere at Any Time.
- MD from Boston University.
Scott Case
Malaria No More; Priceline.com
- technologist, entrepreneur and inventor
- CEO of Malaria No More a nonprofit organization who has set a goal of ending malaria deaths in Africa by 2015.
- Co-founder of priceline.com
- Chairman of Network for Good (www.NetworkForGood.org), a national nonprofit that has distributed more than $100 million to 20,000 nonprofits.
Dr. Jay Parkinson
HelloHealth
- Founder of HelloHealth “a web-based patient communication, practice management and electronic health record in one solution.”
- Co-founder of “the future well” a design and health innovation consulting firm.
- Called “The Doctor of the Future” and one of the “Top Ten Most Creative People in Healthcare” by Fast Company.
- Named 2009's “Best and Brightest: Radicals and Rebels Who Are Changing the World” issue. by esquire magazine.
- Featured in GOOD Magazine, CNN, Newsweek, and Health Affairs.
- Lead Author of several petitions to the FDA.
- Toyota Lean Training and Implementation at Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care.
- Helped Design the Obesity Management Program at Johns Hopkins.
- MD from Penn State University College of Medicine.
- Pediatrics Residency at St. Vincents.
- MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Preventative Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins.
John Schaetzl
Oxford Lotus Health Fund; SustainAbility; GEAM (Healthcare)
- Lead Director at SustainAbility LTD a Global Think Tank and Consultancy with 25 years "speaking truth to power"
- Interim Board member at Oxford Lotus Health investing in affordable solutions to Global Health Needs
- Adviser to Foundations and Governments investing in sustainable solutions to Global Health Problems
- Regular participant in Pharma Futures and Lyceum Health Panels
- Experience as GE Asset Management Health-care industry analyst and portfolio manager
- Valued consultant to the pharmaceutical industry at Healthcare Forecasting Inc and Scott Levin Associates
- Pharma Executive at Bayer
- BA, Harvard; MA, Penn
Ted Kaptchuk
Harvard, Beth Israel Deaconess
- Director, Complementary Specialties and Associate Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Renowned expert in the interface between alternative and conventional medicine
- Author of “Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine” a comprehensive guide to theory and practice of Chinese medicine.
- World expert on placebo studies and has led numerous NIH-funded clinical, basic science, social science, historical, methodological and ethical investigations of placebo effects
- He has authored over 100 articles in such journals as Lancet, British Medical Journal, Journal of Neuroscience, Annals of Internal Medicine, NeuroImage, Pain, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Bulletin for the History of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and International Journal of Epidemiology.
- Expert panelist of the FDA.
- Member of the National Advisory Council of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), of the NIH.
- Oriental Doctor of Medicine degree from the Macao Institute of Chinese Medicine, in Macao, China.
Katie Hood
Former Chief Executive Officer, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
- Former Chief Executive Officer of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson’s today;
- Member of the Advisory Council to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke;
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Parkinson’s Action Network;
- Prior to joining the Foundation, consultant at Bain & Company, analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and program coordinator with Duke University’s Hart Leadership Program;
- MBA, Harvard Business School and BA in Public Policy Studies, Duke University.
Juhan Sonin
Creative Director, Involution Studios
- Creative Director of Involution Studios a user interface and application design firm.
- Designs clinical and consumer health software for every application: from desktop to celltop to skintop.
- Leads the HIMSS Mobile Health Design Workgroup, consulted for the US Dept of Health and Human Services on the design of Medicare.gov and national health IDs, and co-designed Project Laika (the open source data interoperability service used in CCHIT’s EHR certification).
- Creative leader of three different organizations, producing work recognized by the BBC, the New York Times, Ars Electronica, Newsweek, National Pubic Radio, and Billboard Magazine.
- Worked with Apple, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and MITRE.
- Lecturer on design and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Herbert Chase
IBM Watson Project, Professor Clinical Medicine (in Bio-Medical Informatics) Columbia University
- Consultant IBM Watson Project, Professor Clinical Medicine (in Bio-Medical Informatics) Columbia University.
- Expert in medical education and bio-informatics.
- Leader in the use technology to help doctors deliver great care.
- Numerous projects including: A Chronic Kidney Disease Clinical Decision Support System, Medical Record Summarization dashboard and a Pharmacovigilance tool.
- Award wining professor at Yale and Columbia.
- Established Investigator for the American Heart Association.
- Prolific author on many subjects including: physiology, medical education, clinical medicine, and bio-medical informatics.
- Published in many journal including: Nature, The American Journal of Physiology, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
- Professor of Medicine and deputy Dean of Education at Yale University School of Medicine.
- Internal Medicine Residency at Mount Sinai.
- Fellowship and post-doctoral fellowship in Nephrology at Mount Sinai.
- Post doctoral fellowship in Bio-Medical Informatics Columbia University
Robert Stern
CEO/President, Projects In Knowledge, Inc.; Publisher, MedPage Today
- Founder, President, and CEO of Projects In Knowledge, Inc, an ACCME-accredited developer of continuing medical education (CME/CE) programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other clinicians
- Founder, Publisher, and Past President/CEO of MedPage Today, award-winning website, accessed by more than 700,000 clinicians each year, provides originally authored breaking medical news and conference coverage that also offers free CME/CE credit
- In 2009, Bob was named one of the 100 most inspiring and influential people in life sciences by PharmaVOICE.com
- Past President of CMEinfo.com, a producer of board review and medical update courses for physicians
- Co-Founder of Fingertip Formulary, a website that provides formulary drug status for health plans
- Editor of Genome, the first anthology devoted to exploring how the human genome was mapped
- Graduate of New York University School of Film and TV; earned MA in education with an emphasis on medical communications, also from NYU
Bunny Ellerin
NYC Health Business Leaders
- 17 years experience helping to build companies across the healthcare landscape
- CEO, Ellerin Health Media, to help companies shape their digital, social and mobile strategies to truly improve consumer and professional health experiences.
- Managing Director at InterbrandHealth, a leading global brand consultancy (part of Omnicom) where she led the Research and Analytics division and spearheaded the firm’s efforts in the digital arena.
- Executive Vice President of Clinsights, a data collection company acquired by PPD, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPDI) in 2003.
- Helped create several physician education websites including TCTMD, the first online community for interventional cardiologists.
- Founded and led Harvard Business School Health Industry Alumni Association
- BA in Political Science from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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