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Ronald M. Razmi, MD

Dr. Ronald Razmi is a cardiologist, author, former McKinsey consultant and health tech CEO.

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Shafiq Rab, MD

Dr. Shafiq Rab is a physician, technologist, and digital health executive, Chief Digital Officer at Tufts Medicine and former CIO at Rush University Medical Center, leading innovation in AI-enabled care delivery.

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Paul Barach, MD

Paul Barach, MD, MPH, AUA, Maj (ret.) is a Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital-trained, double board-certified anesthesiologist and Critical Care expert,

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Rene Baston

René is a medical informaticist and has over 25 years of experience in biomedical informatics, digital health transformation, and strategic alliances in biomedicine.

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Solenn Thircuir, PhD

Solenn Thircuir, PhD, is a healthcare systems strategist and medical sociologist working at the intersection of innovation, human factors, and care delivery.

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Gerry Petratos, MD

Dr. Gerry Petratos is a medical informaticist and founder of Hiteks Solutions, a medical data and informatics firm. Dr. Petratos was previously director of clinical decision support 

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Pradeep Nagachandran, MD

Dr. Pradeep Nagachandran is a physician with over 25 years of experience spanning clinical research, hospital administration, and health technology consulting.

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Rich Andrews

Rich Andrews is a healthcare entrepreneur and former biopharma executive with a track record of building digital health companies that transform access to care.

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Seymour Duncker

Seymour Duncker is a technology entrepreneur and AI strategist, CEO and Co-Founder of Mindscale.ai, MIT AI Policy Fellow, and former Founder and CEO of iCharts, a cloud BI platform.

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Rene Baston

René is a medical informaticist and has over 25 years of experience in biomedical informatics, digital health transformation, and strategic alliances in biomedicine.

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Shafiq Rab, MD

Dr. Shafiq Rab is a physician, technologist, and digital health executive, Chief Digital Officer at Tufts Medicine and former CIO at Rush University Medical Center, leading innovation in AI-enabled care delivery.

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Paul Barach, MD

Paul Barach, MD, MPH, AUA, Maj (ret.) is a Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital-trained, double board-certified anesthesiologist and Critical Care expert,

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Ronald M. Razmi, MD

Dr. Ronald M. Razmi

Dr. Ronald Razmi began his career as a cardiologist and was one of the pioneers in application of MRI systems in managing cardiac patients. He built the software system, cardiovascularmri.com, to serve as a platform for training of cardiologists in using MRI in managing their patients. He is a co-author of the textbook “Handbook of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging.”
 
As a McKinsey consultant, Ron worked with the world’s top healthcare and life science companies in strategy, M&A, and product development. In 2011, he founded Acupera, a population health management software company. This unique platform enables healthcare organizations to use data, care pathways, and AI to industrialize key aspects of care delivery and patient management.
 
Ron is the author of the recently published book, “AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare” (Wiley, 2024.) AI Doctor has received coverage in major media outlets such as Newsweek, ABC, CNBC, Fox Business, Politico, and more. He has multiple publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has been a prolific speaker and writer in the field of digital health.
 
Ron completed his medical training at the Mayo Clinic. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
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Shafiq Rab, MD

Dr. Shafiq Rab is a premier health AI expert and Chief Digital Officer, recognized for transforming digital healthcare strategy into operational reality. As System Chief Information Officer for Tufts Medicine, he executed enterprise-wide digital transformation,  guiding the organization toward a future of anticipatory, data-driven care.
 
Dr. Rab’s expertise lies in taking complex, large-scale visions and driving them to successful, real-world implementation. He has modernized healthcare technology stack through the application of advanced techniques in big data, cloud strategy, and interoperability. He was previously Chief Information Officer at Rush University Medical Center and Hackensack University Medical Center. 
 
His list of projects including creating the complex design and implementation of the world’s-first full healthcare IT ecosystem in the public cloud, including the Epic EHR, the use of data and tools, including Generative AI and Machine Learning, to enhance healthcare delivery; Creating clinical Lakehouse (FHIR-based Schema) and assisting Epic in developing their initial read and write FHIR APIs; developing mobile app allowing patients to share their tokenized health records with any doctor, regardless of system, via a patent-pending platform.
 
Dr. Rab is a definitive resource for organizations seeking to move beyond digital aspiration to achieve tangible results, accelerating innovative, data-driven connections between consumers and caregivers across all settings—academic, community, home health, and virtual.
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Neil Carpenter

Neil Carpenter

Neil Carpenter is a health care strategy and innovation leader, advising health systems, payors, and venture studios. In his career, Neil has been a health system leader and a chief strategy officer for a post IPO health tech startup, NantHealth.
 
At NantHealth he was responsible for portfolio management (predominantly RCM, MSO, and VBC) and building a new value-based care oncology product line. When Neil was the Chief Strategy Officer at LIfeBridge Health he had wide ranging responsibilities,  including leading typical corporate strategy functions (e.g., ambulatory development, service line planning, M&A), but also leadership in innovation and value. Neil  helped led the clinically integrated physician network which had one of the highest ACO savings in the country, launched the first in the nation, offshore command center, the first bioincubator inside a community hospital in the country and new patient engagement technologies aimed at some of the most socio-economically challenged populations in the country.
 
Neil also spent a decade at leading consulting firms leading strategy and transformation projections.  Neil also ran statewide engagement of sernios and other vulnerable populations for Maryland’s COVID-19 task force.
Neil’s thought leadership included modeling the impact of COVID-19 on the US health care sector has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the BBC and several industry publications
Paul Barach
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Paul Barach, MD

Paul Barach, MD, MPH, AUA, Maj (ret.) is a Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital-trained, double board-certified anesthesiologist and Critical Care expert, internationally recognized leader in healthcare quality, patient safety, digital health and system transformation with a passion for creating real world solutions which improve the quality and efficiency of the healthcare system for both patients and physicians. With over 25 years of experience as a physician executive, academic leader in lead hospitals, and advisor, he has worked across leading health systems, state and federal governments, and global organizations including the World Health Organization. Having served as Chief Medical Officer, Chief Quality Officer, Senior advisor, and Clinical Lead to multiple early-stage and growth-stage healthcare and digital health startups, where he has helped build and scale innovative, value-based and patient centered care models. He has authored 300+ publications and 4 books shaping modern approaches to team-based care, human factors, and system design.
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Seymour Duncker

Seymour Duncker is a healthcare innovator, product builder, and solution architect at the forefront of applying advanced AI to transform clinical workflows. As CEO and Co-Founder of Mindscale AI, he is leading the creation of a next-generation prior authorization platform that integrates clinical criteria, enables one-click submissions, and automates appeals—empowering providers to deliver care faster and with less administrative burden.

 

A lifelong technologist and entrepreneur with two successful exits, Seymour has built a career turning emerging technologies into transformative products. He holds multiple patents in interactive analytics, data visualization, and agentic AI, and has been recognized for excellence in leadership and product innovation. His work bridges deep technical insight with human-centered design to build scalable healthcare solutions that elevate care quality and streamline provider workflows.

 

 

Collaborating with leaders at MIT’s J-Clinic and UC Berkeley’s Computational Precision Health, Seymour focuses on validating and deploying advanced AI systems that deliver measurable clinical value. Passionate about the intersection of technology and humanity, he envisions a future where intelligent systems amplify clinical expertise, eliminate friction, and unlock innovation to improve patient outcomes at scale.

 
 
Rene Baston
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Rene Baston

René is a medical informaticist and has over 25 years of experience in biomedical informatics, digital health transformation, and strategic alliances in biomedicine. René is a national Lean Startup instructor for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the co-founder of three startups based on university, NIH, and NIST IP. Previously, René was at Ernst & Young’s eHealth group, Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, Director of Industry Interactions and Entrepreneurship at the Columbia University Data Science Institute,. He has served on or led multiple boards in startups, academic institutions, not-for-profits, and government entities. He is a business and technology reviewer for the National Science Foundation. René earned his M.A. in Biomedical Informatics and a B.A. from Columbia University
Solenn Thircuir
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Solenn Thircuir, PhD

Solenn Thircuir, PhD, is a healthcare systems strategist and medical sociologist working at the intersection of innovation, human factors, and care delivery. She helps health systems, academic institutions, and digital health companies translate complex clinical, organizational, and behavioral dynamics into scalable, patient-centered solutions. With over a decade of experience across the U.S. and Europe, she has led initiatives spanning 20+ institutions, trained more than 2,000 clinicians, and advised leadership teams on improving patient experience, care pathways, and clinical culture. Her work focuses on how innovation actually gets adopted in real-world healthcare settings, bridging the gap between technology, clinician workflows, and patient behavior. Combining academic rigor with operational insight, she brings a systems-level understanding of healthcare transformation, with a particular emphasis on aligning human experience, institutional constraints, and technological change.
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Gerry Petratos, MD

Dr. Gerry Petratos is a medical informaticist and founder of Hiteks Solutions, a medical data and informatics firm. Dr. Petratos was previously director of clinical decision support and Global Head of Healthcare Data Analytics at Roche, where he oversaw data-driven applications of clinical information management in protocol design, graphical medical review, analysis, reporting, and publications.

Dr. Petratos also conducted Adverse Drug Event detection research at Intermountain Healthcare and the University of Utah Health Sciences Center as part of a National Institutes of Health fellowship with the National Library of Medicine in Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Petratos earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Cornell, an MD from Howard, and a Master’s in Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics from the University of Utah.

Pradeep Nagachandran
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Pradeep Nagachandran, MD

Dr. Pradeep Nagachandran is a physician with over 25 years of experience spanning clinical research, hospital administration, and health technology consulting. With a background in managing healthcare information systems and electronic medical records, he specializes in emerging technologies and how they will impact the future of health care delivery. He has worked with large clinical and research datasets, including those connected with adverse event reporting on a statewide level and to support clinical decisionmaking, care coordination, and quality improvement for the Medicaid population. He currently serves advises a range of clients in hospital quality improvement and health IT consulting
Rich Andrews
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Rich Andrews

Rich Andrews is a healthcare entrepreneur and former biopharma executive with a track record of building digital health companies that transform access to care. He founded Healios, growing it into the UK’s largest paediatric digital behavioural health company for mental health, autism, and ADHD conditions, and later expanded into the US market. More recently, he co-founded Univa, a digital eating disorder company focused on children and young adults. Rich chairs the Board of Neuly, an AI platform for paediatric neurodevelopmental conditions, sits on the Board of Ortus-iHealth, a digital cardiology company, and previously co-chaired the Digital Mental Health Forum for the UK’s NHS Confederation.