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Amy Sheng
Amy has experience in the medical device industry and led a team of hardware and software engineers to develop an automated imaging device for hematology applications that was cleared by the FDA. Amy received a BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford and is an MBA candidate at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
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Anne Tamar-Mattis
Anne Tamar Mattis is the founder and Executive Director of Advocates for Informed Choice the first organization in the country using legal strategies to protect the human rights of children born with variations of sex anatomy. Anne brings to AIC more than eighteen years of experience in community organizing and nonprofit organizational management primarily with the lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer and intersex (LGBTQI) and youth communities. She spent six years as the Director of the LYRIC Youth Talkline a national peer support line for LGBTQ youth and she was the first Program Director for San Francisco s LGBT Community Center. In 2003 she took a brief hiatus to attend law school graduating from the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2006. Anne is the author of Exceptions to the Rule Curing the Law s Failure to Protect Intersex Infants (Berkeley Journal of Gender Law & Justice 2006).
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Elli Kaplan
CEO Elli Kaplan is aiming her life’s work at Alzheimer’s and related disorders. “I watched two of my grandparents die ‘alone’ because they could no longer remember their family members who were sitting at their bedsides,” she said. Neurotrack’s test is bolstered by 25 years of neuroscience research. Millions of dollars from foundations and grants have already been poured into the technology, which was developed by researchers at Emery University. The company offers a computer-based cognitive test that can detect an impairment on the Hippocampus, the first structure in the brain to be impacted by Alzheimer’s. The program evaluates patients’ eye movement — and the time spent looking at familiar and new images
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Inder Singh
Founder of Kinsa, which is revolutionizing healthcare by creating the world's first real-time map of health to stop the spread of illness. Previously, Executive Vice President at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI): built a team of 55 professionals across 10 countries and brokered the deals that President Clinton announced on significantly reduced prices for AIDS, malaria, and TB medicines for 70+ developing countries -- $1.5 billion dollars in cost savings enabling more than 2 million people to access life-saving drugs. 3 prior tech startups. While a student at the University of Michigan, started a philanthropic organization (dmum.org) that raises $500,000 each year to support children undergoing extensive physician rehabilitation.
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Jane Meier Hamilton
Jane Meier Hamilton MSN, RN, is CEO and Founder of Partners on the Path, LLC, providing caregiver support programs to businesses that employ, and non-profits that support caregivers. A nurse for 40 years and family caregiver for 20, she has created research-based, resilience-building resources to help caregivers remain productive while working, and compassionate while caring. Jane is a skilled consultant, educator, author, group facilitator and public speaker who has consulted with more than 150 organizations and presented over 3,000 workshops and keynote addresses, nationwide.
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Juan Almeida
Juan Almeida is Founder and CEO of QIMSA. Juan is a persistent entrepreneur focused on creating value for investors and stakeholders with projects that solve problems in our lives and in our communities. Juan is Ecuadorian and holds both Engineering and advanced Business degrees. He currently lives in Quito, Ecuador but has worked and studied in Chile, Canada and Belgium. He is a former soccer player and is engaged in various voluntary activities related to physical and spiritual health.
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Karan Singh
"Karan leads customer development and sales at Ginger.io. He has experience across the healthcare ecosystem working at Humedica (informatics), Signal Point Partners (emerging markets), and ZS Associates (consulting). He recently earned his MBA from MIT Sloan and a fellowship from the MIT Legatum Center. He is currently on leave from the Harvard-MIT Health Science Technology program. Karan received his B.A. and B.S. in Economics & Business Administration from UC Berkeley."
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Leah Sparks
Leah has more than a decade of experience in the healthcare industry, with a focus on creating new strategies and business models. At McKesson Corporation she started several new service lines, and then at DNA Direct she sourced and structured the company’s first contracts with healthcare payors, negotiated a successful acquisition by Medco, and then developed and executed new strategies to help scale the personalized medicine offering to Medco members
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Maksim Tsvetovat
Maksim Tsvetovat, CTO and Co-Founder of Open Cancer Network, is an interdisciplinary scientist, a software engineer, and a jazz musician. He has received his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University in the field of Computation, Organizations and Society, concentrating on computational modeling of evolution of social networks, diffusion of information and attitudes, and emergence of collective intelligence.He is a Professor at George Mason University where he teaches Social Network Analysis.
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Manmeet Kaur
Manmeet Kaur (pronounced “mun-meeth kawr”) has been a champion for healthier communities and equitable livelihoods for the past 10 years. She has worked in New York City to improve the working conditions of “unregulated” workers, in India to stabilize the chaotic lives of construction day laborers at a social enterprise called LabourNet, and in South Africa to help HIV+ individuals build their own health food business with Mamelani Projects. Before launching City Health Works, Manmeet was an advisor to the Earth Institute’s strategy on the retention and financing of community health workers in the Millennium Villages Project, which has contributed to the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign across Sub-Saharan Africa. In launching City Health Works, Manmeet saw the potential for reverse innovation from lower cost community health systems across the world applied to domestic health. Manmeet incubated City Health Works while completing an MBA at Columbia with the goal of creating an organization that harnesses the power of community members to create jobs and improve health in New York City. Manmeet also has a B.A. in History/Anthropology from Barnard College, where she was selected as a Third Millennium Human Rights fellow. Manmeet was born and raised in New York City and lives in Harlem with her husband and son.
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Meredith Barrett
Meredith have served in many different roles in both the health and environment fields, including: researcher, data analyst, project manager, grant writer, teacher, outreach coordinator, environmental educator, course designer, associate editor, board member and mentor. This diverse experience allows her to understand complex health and environmental issues from a unique perspective. Meredith is passionate about working to align environment and health priorities, improving health outcomes for humans and ecosystems.
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Michele McKeone
Michele McKeone, M. Ed., is an awarded thought leader and pioneer in the Autism education community. Specializing in the use of digital and social media literacy and production, she is dedicated to providing students with Autism the skills to pursue their independence and autonomy. As Founder of Autism Expressed, she is developing an online learning system designed specifically to teach adolescents with Autism how to navigate digital and social media.
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Sujay Santra
Sujay started his career in 1999 and has extensive experience across all phases of Software Development lifecycle. Prior to taking the entrepreneurial leap, he worked for several years at Oracle & IBM and has strong technical knowledge in Siebel CRM, Analytics, Business Intelligence and R&D. His can-do attitude & creativity has won him several awards & accolades during his career span such as 'IBM Bravo Award',‘Oracle Pacesetter Award’ among others. Sujay started iKure in 2010 and conceptualized the low-cost WHIMS application that can connect the rural patients with the urban doctors. In 2010, he was invited as the Keynote speaker at the EBRF Conference, Finland.He was also invited as a speaker at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad at Khemka Foundation Summit 2012. Each year Technology Review powered by MIT India & Wharton honours 35 most outstanding innovators under the age of 35 who are tackling important problems in innovative ways. In 2012, Sujay was nominated for the same. He has also been invited to be featured in a prime time show on CNBC-TV18 called ‘Young Turks’ that puts the spotlight on young entrepreneurs poised to be tomorrow's leaders.He holds an MCA from IETE, Hyderabad.Sujay manages the overall business & operations of the company.
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Tatyana Kanzaveli
Tatyana Kanzaveli is the Founder and CEO of Open Cancer Network. She has held leadership roles in number of startups and multinationals. She is a mentor at 500Startups, Branson Entrepreneurial Centre. Tatyana is also the organizer of TEDxBayArea conferences.
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Vineet Singal
Vineet is a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, a Staples/Ashoka Global Youth Social Entrepreneur, Donald A. Strauss Scholar, Goldwater Scholar, Haas Public Service Fellow, Irene and Eric Simon Foundation Fellow, DoSomething/AT&T Fellow, and an NIH Training Award Fellow. He has also served on the Stanford University Board of Trustees and Clinic by the Bay Board of Directors. He graduated with University Distinction from Stanford University with a degree in Biological Sciences.
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