Michelle Roxo Goncalves is dentist and teleconsultant at TelessaúdeRS (telehealth program of the Brazilian Ministry of Health). She is specialist in Public Health and she took Medical Residency in Oral Medicine at Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre. She did her Fellow in Oral Medicine, Oncology and Oral Surgery at Bellvitge Hospital in Barcelona, ??Spain. Currently she is Master's student in Oral Pathology at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Sul and MBA student in Health Management, Innovation and Services at the Pontificia Universidade Catoloca do Rio Grande do Sul.
Erkeda DeRouen, M.D. is a Board-Certified Family Medicine physician who was born and raised in the Washington DC area. She studied biology at the illustrious Hampton University, eventually attending medical school at Boston University School of Medicine. She trained then trained at the University of Maryland Family and Community Medicine Residency Program. As a physician with an administrative background, Erkeda DeRouen serves as a thought leader in healthcare innovation. She is passionate about merging the humanistic aspect of medicine with the new field of emerging technology. She has gained extensive experience in the people management realm, while managing a team of doctors remotely across the country. She believes in putting people first, whether that be in patient care, management, or in her personal life. She has been able to utilize her gift of listening, communicating, and connecting the missing pieces to solve complex problems. Her unique skillset includes, but is not limited to healthy equity expertise, service of underserved populations, HIV management, transgender care, and lifestyle medicine. Dr. DeRouen brings a diversity to the realm with a goal to shake up the landscape to provide compassionate care to all who seek it. She finds joy in mentoring, as she believes that one should always share their gifts to uplift others. Recently, she started to host a pre-med and medical student geared podcast to expand the amount of people that she can mentor
Vishal Upadhyay did his graduate in Medical School in India and did early Post graduate Training in Orthopaedic Surgery in India. Then worked in the NHS UK for 17 years. Experienced Orthopaedic Surgeon with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Clinical Research, Medical Education, Hospitals, Orthopaedic Surgery and Trauma Surgery. He has been a Strong healthcare services professional Fellow from Royal College of Surgeons England. Now an Entrepreneur. Founder and Managing Director at Agile Healthcare and Rehabilitation Services with a mission to solve the problem of in equality in access to Quality Healthcare Services in underserved areas with the utilisation of Innovative solutions and Technology. Created a Portable Telemedicine solution, “Hospital in a Bag” to provide Affordable and High Quality Comprehensive Primary Healthcare Services to people living in underserved areas regardless of Geographical location or boundaries.
Manager Director of Valorange, a platform that contributes to the transformation of health systems through organizational and technological innovations in Dutch-Brazilian partnerships Deputy Director of the Health and Biotechnology Committee of FIESP - Federation of Industries in Sao Paulo State, division of innovation (nano, biotechnology, and converging technologies). Member of the FIESP Innovation and Competitiveness Council. He was Director of Marketing at Cietec - Sao Paulo University Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology (1998-2012). Executive Director of the Brazilian Biotechnology Association and Observer Member of the OECD Biotechnology Working Group (2009-2012). He works in strategic consultancy in the areas of innovation and technology transfer. He coordinates international activities with the objective of promoting transformation in the healthcare system through int'l partnership. He is one of the authors, in partnership with CEBRAP of the Brazil Biotech Map 2011.
Fernando Cembranelli is the CEO at Helath Innova Hub, Brazil. He is the Healthcare Serial Entrepreneur from Duke University. He is the Physician graduated from UNIFESP, with Medical Residency, in Hospital Administration, from Hospital das Clínicas of the Medical School of USP and MBA with a focus on Healthcare Management from Duke University. He was Co-founder of EmpreenderSaúde, Manager of the HCFMUSP Innovation Center, Partner of Live Healthcare (Health Business Portal, Health Business Forum and Healthcare Innovation Show) and Co-Founder of Berrini Ventures, Pioneer Health Digital Accelerator.
Dr. Jouvet is pediatric intensivist, professor pediatrics at Sainte Justine Hospital. He joined the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of CHU Sainte-Justine in Montreal in 2004. He is currently the Scientific Director of the Health Technologies Assessment Unit, of the Technology integration Laboratory and of the Innovation Platform of Sainte Justine Hospital. He is a clinician-researcher at the FRQS and leads a research program on real-time clinical decision support systems and disaster management, funded by the Quebec MSSS, FRQS, CIHR, NSERC and by the industry. He is also a member of the clinical excellence committee of INESSS. His research program use several methodologies including systematic reviews, consensus conference methodology, development of research dynamic databases, observational clinical studies, clinical investigation studies, randomized clinical trials.
Tanjir Rashid Soron is a psychiatrist and digital health expert. He is working to design, develop and implement technology-based mental health services in resource-poor settings to reduce the wide mental health treatment gap around the world. He has established “Telepsychiatry Research and Innovation Network Ltd” http://trin-innovation.com/ which is the leading organization in the region that focuses on cutting edge research on technology-based mental health care and developing low cost digital mental health solutions. He is the pioneer of telepsychiatry in Bangladesh and his innovations are playing key roles in transforming the mental health scenario in Bangladesh. His innovation- Monerdaktar https://monerdaktar.com/ – is the first online mental health care service in Bangladesh where people can seek help from more than 100 psychiatrist and psychologist 24/7. Another key innovation and contribution of Dr. soron is the launching the “Monershastho”- the first mental health mobile application and website to provide evidence based mental health and well being practice sessions, information that everyone can access and practices to promote their mental health and stay healthy. He contributed in development of a mobile application to help professionals in diagnosis and severity of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Bangladesh. He is also working in NIH funded research project “Mobile-Based Care for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Remote Experience Sampling Method (mCARE)”. He is also contributing in developing mobile applications on Autism for other LMICs. He has been leading the first nationwide mobile-based mental health service “MindTale” 2016. Dr. Soron is working as Roaster of expert of Digital Health for World Health Organization (WHO) and member of College of Experts to support the Global Effort on COVID-19 (GECO) Health Research. He dedicated his significant amount of time as Research and Innovation consultant in Neuro-Developmental Disability Protection Trust of Government of Bangladesh- the leading organization of government for ensuring the rights of persons with NDDs and improving their quality of life. Dr. Soron also worked as Head of Department of Psychiatry of a reputed Medical college in Dhaka and contributed as external PhD supervisor for different universities.
His key research area of interest is exploring mobile and SNSs based mental health care, health care policies and digital health ethics. Facebook and Suicide. Dr. Tanjir is on the editorial board for several journals including the JMIR. He has been an invited speaker in different countries and different platforms. He is a Commonwealth Scholar, recipient of the Paramjit Toor Joshi, MD, International Scholars Award from The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and Fellowship from World Psychiatric Association and World Association of Social Psychiatry
Craig Sorkin, DNP, APN is a doctorally prepared Family Nurse Practitioner with over 15 years of experience in this field. He has extensive experience in family medicine especially in telemedicine. He is the clinical lead of telemedicine and the national representative for his great in the telemedicine practice champions. He also has a history in Emergency Medical Services as the Medical Director of a local ambulance service. When not providing care to the patients under his service, he loves spending time with his wife and two beautiful children. His hobbies include: walks, writing, playing with his children and Clive Cussler books
Dr. Rajni is the CEO and founder of Quannet Health Inc, a New York-based mental health startup. Her focus is on accelerating and enhancing patient outcomes, leveraging advanced analytics and merging technology platforms (www.quannethealth.com). Dr. Rajni is leveraging her clinical and public health experience to fix the fragmentation in mental health care delivery. She is one of the few women entrepreneurs in Health Tech, accepting the challenge to bridge the mental health treatment gap.
Dr. Rajni is a trained Psychiatrist and addiction specialist from G.S Medical College and KEM hospital, Mumbai, with a Master’s in Public Health in Global Health Leadership from New York University, New York. She has more than 15 years of international experience collaborating with government, academia and private institutions to improve mental health programs, policies and legislations. She is also a Subject Matter Expert on mental health risk factors and the gap between health and social determinants. Dr. Rajni has authored peer-reviewed research and book-chapters focused on Mental Health. Currently she is piloting m-health, remote patient monitoring enabled e-clinic by leveraging advance technology for New York and New Jersey states.
Devi has 15 years of Analytics and Engineering experience in Retail and Healthcare domains. She has an MS in Genetics and Statistics, MS in Software Engineering, and MBA. Devi is currently driving marketing personalization initiatives for Medicare and Retirement segment of United Healthcare
Dr. Purva is a DHA certified medical practitioner with over 12 years of international experience in Aesthetic, Functional, Integrative, Geriatric and General medicine as well as management in UAE, USA, and India. She also was one of the telehealth pioneers in central India since starting telemedicine 10 years back.
Dr Purva has tremendous experience practicing skin care and cosmetology, combining her knowledge of medicine and aesthetics including Microneedling, Mesotherapy, Gold stamps, anti aging injections, eyebrow lifting, glutathione injections, cheek augmentation, fillers, rejuvenation, acne/pigmentation/scar treatments, peelings, whitening, sweat reduction treatments, ultherapy, lipolysis, various health conditions, respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal problems, skin diseases, hypertension, cholesterol and other lipid problems, vitamin deficiencies, obesity, screen problems in children and lifestyle diseases.
She firmly believes in and promotes positive health and wellbeing alongside mental and physical exercise and good nutrition
Larry Steinberg, MBA, is CSO/Co-founder of FTG Care, a leading care coordination company and also Sr. Consultant for Trapollo, the leading Telehealth medical device provider and logistics company in the US. He is the former EVP/Co-founder of Cloud DX, winner of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize Bold Epic Innovator Award. Larry has been keenly focused on the Telehealth/Telemedicine market for the last 10 years and has been involved in some of the largest Remote Patient Monitoring and medical device deployments in the US. His vast experience in Telehealth includes deploying 10’s of thousands of vital sign monitoring devices to 10’s of thousands of patients and working with some of the largest Payers, Providers and Employers globally. Larry speaks about Telehealth and Telemedicine topics around the world and resides with his family in Naples, Florida
Dr Dilraj Kalsi uses Lifestyle Medicine and Digital Health to empower patients. After qualifying from Oxford University, he has gone on to found Hippocrates Lounge, a clinic to help patients use their lifestyle to prevent and reverse disease. He is a Lecturer in Digital Health at the University of Warwick, was previously Managing Director of Ortus-iHealth and regularly publishes on Patient-Centred Care with colleagues from Oxford. He most recently founded Kalsi & Kalsi, where he leverages Behavioural Change and Data Analytics to help employers maximise the health impact of Wellbeing Programmes.
Renato de Filippis is a medical doctor, resident in psychiatry at the University of Naples "Luigi Vanvitelli". He currently works in the Psychiatric Unit at the aggregate office of University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro (Italy) directed by Prof. Pasquale De Fazio. Renato does research in clinical psychiatry and he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Currently, he is Visiting Research Scientist for 1-year rotation at the Department of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital (NY, USA), directed by Prof. Christoph U. Correll and Prof. John Kane. Actually, he is a PhD student in Life Sciences at University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro (Italy).
