Speaking Faculty Bios 

Marcy Anderson, Director, Development & Education, Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) 

Regina Au, New Product Planning, BioMarketing Insight 

Paul E. Barbone, Ph.D., Professor, Theoretical Acoustics & Applied Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Boston University 

Chiara Bell, CEO, Careticker 

William Bria, M.D., CMIO, The HCI Group; President, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) 

Jane E. Brock, MBBS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Medical Director, Surgical Pathology Grossing Room; Associate Pathologist, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School 

Hugh A. Bruck, Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland 

Ki H. Chon, Ph.D., Professor & Head, Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

Utkan Demirci, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medicine, Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, Stanford University 

John Collins, Ph.D., COO and Director, Technology Implementation, 

Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) 

Anthony J. Dean, M.D., FAAEM, FACEP, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine in Radiology; Director, Division of Emergency Ultrasonography, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center 

Ronald Dixon, M.D., Director, Virtual Practice Project, Massachusetts General Hospital 

Jeffrey A. DuBois, Ph.D., Vice President, Medical & Scientific Affairs, Nova Biomedical 

Penny Ford-Carleton, Director, Clinical Innovation, Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) 

James K. Gimzewski, Ph.D., Ph.D. hc, DSc hc, FRS FREng, Distinguished Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles 

Sanjay Gupta, Vice President, Product Development, MC10 

Alberto Gutierrez, Ph.D., Director, Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health(OIR), CDRH, FDA 

Robert Havasy, Team Lead, Product & Technology Development, Center for Connected Health, Partners Healthcare System 

Rahul Kashyap, M.D., Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology-Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic 

Catherine Klapperich, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Director, NIBIB Center for Future Technologies in Cancer Care, Boston University 

Gerald J. Kost, M.D., Ph.D., MS, FACB, Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Director, Clinical Chemistry and Point-of-Care Testing; Faculty, Biomedical Engineering and Comparative 

Pathology, University of California, Davis 

Valmeek “Vick” Kudesia, M.D., Director, Clinical Informatics, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), Veterans Health Administration 

Luke P. Lee, Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Biophysics, University of California Berkeley 

Kent Lewandrowski, M.D., Associate Chief, Pathology; Director, Pathology Laboratories and Molecular Medicine, Massachusetts; General Hospital; Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School 

Maulik Majmudar, M.D., CMO, Quanttus 

Devin Mann, M.D., Assistant Professor, Medicine, Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine 

Jason Oberfest, Co-Founder and CEO, Mango Health 

John O’Horo, M.D., Assistant Professor, Medicine, Mayo Clinic 

Miguel Ossandon, MS, Program Director, Cancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, NIH 

Dipti Patel-Misra, Ph.D., MBA, CEO, DPM Resources Group; Health Informatics, UNC Charlotte 

Alexandra Pelletier, Manager, Innovation Program, Boston Children’s Hospital 

Avraham Rasooly, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute 

Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D., Stanley C. Moore Professor & Chair, George R. Brown 

School of Engineering, Rice University 

Carlos Rodarte, Corporate Strategy, PatientsLikeMe 

Jennie Rubinshteyn, Co-Founder and CFO, Pixie Scientific 

A. Hasan Sapci, M.D., Assistant Professor, Health Care Informatics, Department of Allied Health, Adelphi University 

Katherine Tynan, President, Tynan Consulting LLC 

Gene Walther, MBA, Deputy Director, Diagnostics, Discovery, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

Jeong-Yeol Yoon, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona 

George Zouridakis, Ph.D., Professor, Engineering Technology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science, University of Houston