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Thought Leaders' Workshop Biographical Sketches
David K. Ahern, PhD
National Program DirectorHealth e-Technologies Initiative
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, MA
dahern@partners.org
David K. Ahern, PhD is the National Program Director at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston (Partners Health Care System) for a 5 year, $10.3 million dollar initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support research in eHealth for behavior change and chronic disease management.
Dr. Ahern is Assistant Professor of Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School. From 1992-2000, Dr. Ahern was the founder and director of the Behavioral Medicine Service at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) wherein he provided clinical care, teaching, and consultative services. Dr. Ahern transferred his primary hospital appointment from MGH to the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2000 to continue his collaborative research program with Arthur Barsky, MD within the Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Ahern has had a distinguished career in clinical research in behavioral medicine and the development of behaviorally based, eHealth applications for health promotion and chronic disease management. He is well published in the psychosocial aspects of chronic pain and cardiovascular disorders. He has held numerous investigator roles on research grants and contracts funded by multiple agencies including the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the National Cancer Institute, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Ahern also holds the position of Chief Science Officer for The Abacus Group, a consulting firm in Rhode Island.
Anthony Almudevar, PhD
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Biostatistics & Computational Biology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY
anthony_almudevar@urmc.rochester.edu
Dr. Almudevar received his PhD from the Department of Statistics at the University of Toronto in 1994, joining the University of Rochester in 2003. He has done work in the areas of operations research, statistical genetics as well as basic research in statistical theory. In addition, he has consulted widely in medical research and private industry.
Stephen Bauer, PhD
DirectorRehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology Transfer
SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
smbauer@buffalo.edu
Stephen Bauer, PhD is Principal Investigator and Project Director for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology Transfer at SUNY Buffalo. Dr. Bauer earned a BS in Chemistry and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from SUNY Buffalo. He is Director of Information Technology for the School of Public Health and Health Professions and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science. Dr. Bauer held an NIH/NCMRR Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Rehabilitation (1992-1993) and UB Engineering Lectureship (1987-1990). Dr. Bauer is conversant in assistive technologies for mobility, hearing, speech, and vision. Current interests include technology transfer, market research, public policy, assistive technology, and product design.
Michel Berg, MD
Associate Professor of NeurologyUniversity of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY
michael_berg@urmc.rochester.edu
The Medical Director of the Strong Epilepsy Center, Dr. Berg joined the University of Rochester School of Medicine faculty in 1993. He is an Associate Professor of Neurology with a special interest in health technology in the area of neurology. His research includes projects on automating MRI analysis, seizure prediction from EEG, analysis of gait and movement disorders, and the genetics of abnormalities of brain development. Dr. Berg received a B.S. in Physics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and his M.D. from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Russell Bodoff, MA
Executive DirectorCenter for Aging Services Technologies (CAST)
Washington, DC
rbodoff@agingtech.org
Russell Bodoff joined AAHSA in February 2002 with responsibilities for technology and business development, new partner opportunities, group purchasing program, distance learning and the AAHSA Development Council. He is now responsible for the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) which he helped launch in March 2003. Bodoff came to AAHSA with over seven years of experience in building online businesses and 20 years experience in product and program development and voluntary standards and certification programs. He was responsible for developing and launching the world’s largest Internet consumer protection and privacy trustmark program. He has been asked to provide expert testimony on online consumer and privacy issues to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Commerce Committee and the European Commission. Bodoff has been quoted in hundreds of publications and has appeared on CNN and CNNFN as an expert on Internet consumer issues and most recently as an expert on issues involving technology and aging services. He has an MA in Education from New York University and a BS in Communications from Temple University.
Kathy Brown, RN, MN, CWOCN
ManagerWound/Ostomy Program
Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester and Monroe County, Inc.
Rochester, NY
kbrown@vnsnet.com
Kathy Brown, RN, MN, CWOCN is the manager of the wound and ostomy program at Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester and Monroe County, Inc. (VNS). She is a board certified in wound, ostomy and continence (WOC) and has practiced as a nurse specialist for more than 20 years. Kathy is a graduate of the Emory University Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nursing Education Program, in Atlanta. Kathy is published and a former section editor of the Journal of WOCN. She has practiced nursing 28 years in a wide range of settings including hospitals, home health care and outpatient facilities.
Paul Cuddihy, MS
Project LeaderAdvanced Computing Technology, GE Global Research
Niskayuna, NY
cuddihy@research.ge.com
Paul Cuddihy is a computer scientist and project leader in the Advanced Computing Technology in the General Electric Global Research Center. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology. His career has focused on diagnostics, alerting, and modeling technologies including case-based reasoning, adaptive clustering, and machine learning. Past work has included monitoring and diagnostic techniques for commercial aircraft engines, and machine learning for medical imaging equipment diagnostics. His current focus includes modeling techniques for monitoring seniors living independently in their own homes.
Christopher Currens, MBA
Program ManagerNIST/ATP
US Department of Commerce
Gaithersburg, MD
Christopher.currens@nist.gov
As part of the highly regarded National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) bridges the gap between the research lab and the market place, stimulating prosperity through innovation. Through partnerships with the private sector, ATP’s early stage investment accelerates the development of innovative technologies that promise significant commercial payoffs and widespread benefits for the U.S.
Christopher Currens came to ATP as a General Business Specialist/Economist. As an auditor and management consultant for nearly 10 years, in both the private and public sectors, he gained experience in business management, finance, and information systems. He acted as a project leader on a number of significant Federal information system development efforts.
Mr. Currens has interests in various aspects and fields of information technology, including quantum computing, telecommunication security, learning technologies, bioinformatics, healthcare, and artificial intelligence.
He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting/Finance from Mount Saint Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Maryland. In addition, he earned a Master of Business Administration, with concentrations in Information Systems and Finance, in 1999 from the University of Maryland. Currently, Mr. Currens is completing an MS degree in Computer Science.
Lisa A. DeLouise, PhD
ResearcherCenter for Future Health
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
lisa_delouise@urmc.rochester.edu
Dr. DeLouise received a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University ('84) and an Executive Masters degree in Product Development from the Rochester Institute of Technology ('01). Her professional career spans nearly 20 years of conducting material science and chemical physics R&D. While employed at the IBM Corporation and the Xerox Corporation she developed expertise in surface chemistry, thin film processing and microfluidic imaging technology. Currently, she is conducting biomedical research in the Department of Dermatology and Center for Future Health at the University of Rochester. Her research focus is to develop a photonic silicon chip technology platform that can be used for real- time molecular sensing and chronic wound care management.
Eric Dishman, MS, PhD Candidate
Director, Intel Proactive Health Research LabIntel Corporation
Hillsboro, OR
Chair, Center for Aging Services Technologies
eric.dishman@intel.com
Director of Intel’s Proactive Health Lab, he is a senior social scientist whose research focuses on developing aging-in-place and home healthcare technologies. His team’s current fieldwork and prototyping efforts center on elder and boomer populations who are dealing with cognitive disability, physical disability, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and nutrition/fitness concerns. Eric also serves as the inaugural Chair of the Center for Aging Services Technologies, a national cross-industry working group that is driving technology R&D to meet the needs of seniors—and the people who care for them—no matter where they choose to live. He and his wife, Ashley Armstrong, who is also a social scientist, split their time between snowy Mount Hood and their home in Portland, Oregon.
Serguei Endrikhovski, PhD
ResearcherEastman Kodak Company
Rochester, NY
Serguei.Endrikhovski@kodak.com
Serguei Endrikhovski received a MS degree in Psychology from Moscow State University (Russia) in 1994, and PhD in Visual Perception from the Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) in 1998. From 1998 to 2000 he was a Research Fellow at the Center for Research on User-System Interaction (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Colour and Imaging Institute (Derby, UK).
Philippe Fauchet, PhD
Director, Center for Future HealthProfessor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
fauchet@ece.rochester.edu
Professor Fauchet is the founding Director of the Center for Future Health. He has 25 years of experience in nanoscience and nanotechnology for biosensing and optoelectronic applications. His research with nanoscale silicon is widely recognized. Dr. Fauchet received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a member of various advisory boards, including the Center for Aging Services Commission. He is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and a Professor at the Institute of Optics and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Rochester in 1990, he taught at Princeton and Stanford, where he also received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 1984.
Elena Fedorovskya, PhD
ResearcherEastman Kodak Company
Rochester, NY
Elena.Fedorovskaya@kodak.com
Elena A. Fedorovskaya received a MS in psychology, PhD degree in psychophysiology and a MS degree in Applied Mathematics, all from Moscow State University (Russia). She worked as a senior research scientist at Moscow State University. From 1992 to 1993 she was a visiting research fellow at the IPO (the Netherlands). Since 1997 Elena works for Eastman Kodak Company in the area of image psychology studying perceptual, cognitive and emotional aspects of human experience in relation to images.
Lisa A. Gaudet, MBA
ManagerOffice of Remote Care Technology, Northeast Health
Troy, NY
gaudetL@nehealth.com
Lisa Gaudet, manager for the Office of Remote Care Technology at Northeast Health in Troy, NY, is working to establish Northeast Health as a leader in the testing, use and promotion of remote care technologies. She has developed collaborative initiatives with international technology developers for the testing and evaluation of their new technologies. She is a member of AAHSA’s Center for Aging Services Technologies, and chairs the clearinghouse task group. She has been published in the Journal of Case Management on the topic of data sharing and electronic referrals. She holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in business administration.
Pramod Gaur, PhD
President & CEOViterion TeleHealthcare LLC, A Bayer-Panasonic Company
Tarrytown, NY
pramod.gaur@viterion.com
Pramod K. Gaur, PhD, was appointed as the founding President and CEO of Viterion TeleHealthcare LLC, a Bayer – Panasonic Company in January 2003. Dr. Gaur spent nine years (1994-02) at Bayer Healthcare, Diagnostics Division as Vice President, R & D, Marketing & Sales and Group Strategic Planning. Dr. Gaur spent six years (1988-94) with increasing responsibilities in R&D, Marketing and General Management at Baxter International, Diagnostics Division. Dr. Gaur was responsible for developing cancer diagnostics tests for four years at Hybritech Incorporated and for four years at Stauffer Chemicals. Dr. Gaur received his doctoral degree from the University of Kansas in 1979 and received his postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and at the University of Maryland, school of Medicine in Baltimore.
Walter Greenleaf, MD
PresidentGreenleaf Medical Systems
Palo Alto, CA
walter@greenleafmed.com
Dr. Greenleaf is a research scientist with a PhD in Neuro- and Biobehavioral sciences from Stanford University. Greenleaf is president of Greenleaf Medical (Palo Alto, CA). The firm has launched several computer-based workstations for clinical evaluation and treatment in neuro and orthopaedic medicine, and is currently developing technology to treat difficult neurological problems, such as Tinnitus and Dystonia.
A scientific adviser and grant reviewer for the U.S. Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and U.S. Department of Education, Greenleaf is also a founding board member of the University of California Center for Disabilities.
Linda Harris, PhD
Senior Health Communications ScientistHealth Communications and Informatics Research Branch
Division of Cancer Control & Population Science, National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
lindaehealth@nih.gov
Linda Harris is leading the Branch's effort in information and communication technology research. She came to the National Cancer Institute after spending five years in the private sector, providing information technology services to the health industry and directing the marketing and corporate communications at an Internet consulting company. Her previous public sector experience includes: Director of the Family Health Program at the Washington Business Group on Health; Chief of the Information Branch for the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and Director of the National Health Information Center, HHS; and, Senior Health Advisor to the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense. Dr. Harris has written extensively about family communication, and health communication technologies,including, Health and the New Media: Technologies Transforming Personal and Public Health, Lawrence Erlbaum, Associates. She has advanced degrees in mass communication and interpersonal communication, a nd a postdoctoral in family sociology.
Cecelia Horwitz, MBA
Associate DirectorCenter for Future Health
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
cecelia_horwitz@futurehealth.edu
Cecelia Horwitz, Associate Director of the Center for Future Health, is responsible for operations, industry liaison, and Smart Medical Home research. She specializes in helping diverse stakeholders improve outcomes by working together. In her 20 years in industry she led inter-disciplinary health technology teams involved with tele-rehabilitation research, and psychophysiology research, as well as multi national teams addressing strategic business issues. In academia she initiated a research project to improve provider-patient communication using a graphical health planning tool and process. She holds a BA from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Holly Jimison, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical InformaticsOregon Health & Sciences University
Portland, OR
jimisonh@ohsu.edu
Holly B. Jimison, PhD received her Doctorate in Medical Information Sciences at Stanford University, with dissertation work on using computer decision models to tailor patient education materials to individuals. She is currently on the faculty of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU. She has served as Director of the Informed Patient Decisions Group, conducting research on methods to enable patients to be active and informed participants in their medical care decisions. Dr. Jimison’s current work is on health management using the Internet and new communications technologies for patients in the home. She is a past President and Program Chair for the Oregon Chapter of Health Information Management Systems Society.
Craig Lehmann, PhD, CC (NRCC), FACB
School of Health Technology & ManagementHealth Sciences Center, Stony Brook University
State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY
craig.lehmann@sunysb.edu
Craig Lehmann, PhD, CC (NRCC), FACB, Dean of The School of Health Technology and Management. Through his numerous presentations and publications, he has established a national and international reputation in health care.
Just recently (July 2003) he chaired a group of researchers who met with Presidential Advisor John Marburger, PhD, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy. The goal of the meeting was to summarize the latest advances telehealth to assure that the President and the Executive Branch are aware of the current status of medical technology, and how home health care can meet the needs of an increasingly older U.S. population and help address the rising expenditures on health care.
Lena Mamykina, MS
Human Factors SpecialistUser Interface Design Center, Siemens Corporate Research
Princeton, NY
lena.mamykina@siemens.com
Ms. Mamykina is a Human Factors Specialist at the User Interface Design Center (UIDC) of Siemens Corporate Research. Her current research interests include human computer interaction techniques that support clinical decision-making. She leads UIDC efforts in investigating home healthcare and opportunities to support it with novel computing technologies. Ms. Mamykina holds BS in Computer Science and MS in Human Computer Interaction from Georgia Institute of Technology. Her publications cover such areas as HCI, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Computation and Creativity. Ms. Mamykina is co-organizing a workshop at the upcoming CHI-2004 conference with focus on HCI and home healthcare.
Roberta Milman, MS
Vice President, Health Products & ServicesAARP Services, Inc.
Washington, DC
RMliman@aarp.org
A former executive and consultant in the health care delivery system, Roberta Milman is Vice President of Health Products and Services, AARP Services, Inc., overseeing the health products AARP provides members. Ms Milman was an executive of a Johns Hopkins affiliated medical center and Children’s National Medical Center . She serves on the board of the Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery Co. (MD), the “safety net” providers serving low income residents. A graduate of Smith College, she has a Masters Degree from Tufts University.
Elizabeth Mynatt, PhD
Director, Aware Home Research InitiativeAssociate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
mynatt@cc.gatech.edu
Elizabeth Mynatt is the Director of the Aware Home Research Initiative; investigating the design of future home technologies especially those that enable older adults to continue living independently as opposed to moving to an institutional care setting. Dr. Mynatt is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to her current position, she worked for three years at Xerox PARC - the birthplace of ubiquitous computing - alongside its inventor, Mark Weiser. Dr. Mynatt is the Associate Director of the Georgia Tech GVU Center, and is responsible for research and graduate educational objectives in human-centered computing.
Misha Pavel, PhD
ProfessorBiomedical Engineering
Oregon Health & Sciences University
Portland, OR
pavel@bme.ogi.edu
Dr. Pavel is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Oregon Health & Sciences University. His main area of research is at the intersection of engineering and cognitive science, with a focus on information fusion, pattern recognition, augmented cognition, and the development of multimodal and perceptual human-computer interfaces. Dr. Pavel was on the faculty at New York University and Stanford University, and was a Member of Technical staff at Bell Laboratories and Technology Leader at AT&T Laboratories. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from New York University; M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
Alex Pentland, PhD
DirectorHuman Dynamics Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory
Cambridge, MA
pentland@media.mit.edu
Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland is a pioneer in wearable computers, health systems, smart environments, and technology for developing countries. He is one of the most-cited computer scientists in the world. He is the founding director of the Media Lab Asia, and is a co-founder of the Center for Future Health,† the Wearable Computing research community, and the international Digital Nations Consortium.† He was formerly the Academic Head of the MIT Media Laboratory, and is the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences.†He has won numerous international awards in the Arts, Sciences and Engineering. He was chosen by Newsweek as one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape the next century. He currently directs the Human Dynamics research group at the MIT Media Lab.
Alice Pentland, MD
Medical Director, Center for Future HealthChair, Department of Dermatology
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
alice_pentland@urmc.rochester.edu
Dr. Alice Pentland is the Medical Director and co-founder of the University of Rochester’s Center For Future Health. She has been working with a wide spectrum of health care providers, technologists, manufacturers and users of health care to move design of the home interface of health care toward reality for the past 8 years. As chair of the University of Rochester’s Department of Dermatology, she has also worked to bring her specialty into the digital age, supporting the development of image based decision support tools, and working to create electronic media for patient care in Dermatology.
Charles E. Phelps, PhD
ProvostProfessor of Economics & Community and Preventive Medicine
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
charles.phelps@rochester.edu
Charles Phelps is in his tenth year as Provost (Chief Academic Officer) of the University of Rochester. He holds appointments in the departments of economics, political science, and community and preventive medicine (which he chaired for five years). Trained as an economist at the University of Chicago (PhD, 1973), he spent 14 years at the RAND Corporation before coming to Rochester. He was induced into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.
Thomas Plocher, MS
Staff ScientistHoneywell Automation & Control Systems Laboratory
Minneapolis, MN
tom.plocher@honeywell.com
Tom Plocher has 25 years of experience working with the usability of products and services. Most recently, he managed Honeywell’s Independent LifeStyle Assistant (ILSA) project which explored the use of wireless sensors and devices to enhance the living environment of seniors. He also is interested in issues of culture and product design and hopes to extend that interest into the realm of technology for seniors.
William C. Popik, MD
Chief Medical OfficerAetna
Hartford, CT
William C. Popik, MD, is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Aetna. Dr. Popik directs the company’s quality, patient management, medical policy, and health informatics units. He also has responsibility for the clinical activities of Aetna’s 102 Medical Directors and 1250 nurses. Dr. Popik believes that a goal of organized medicine should be to provide tools and programs that make the doctor/patient interaction efficient, effective, and satisfying. Under his direction, Aetna has introduced new Disease Management programs, expanded its Case Management functions, and made its Patient Management processes simpler and easier for physicians to use. His organization is also developing programs to expand the focus of Women’s health and to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care, such as Aetna’s initiative for the prevention of pre-term labor in African American women. Dr. Popik has more than 30 years' experience as a practicing physician and senior health care executive. Prior to joining Aetna, he was the National Medical Director at CIGNA HealthCare; senior vice president and chief medical officer of Health Net HMO California; and vice president, medical affairs for QualMed Plan for Health. Prior to joining the managed care industry, he was a practicing physician in California, where he started and led a multi-physician family practice. Dr. Popik is a board-certified family physician, a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and a member of the American College of Physician Executives and. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Disease Management Association of America and the Corporate Advisory Board of the American Diabetes Association. He completed a family practice residency program at the University of California, San Francisco, received his M.D. degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and holds a B.A. degree in psychology from Yale University.
Dena S. Puskin, PhD
DirectorOffice for the Advancement of Telehealth
Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources
Rockville, MD
dpuskin@hrsa.gov
Dr. Puskin is the Director of the Federal Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. Prior to her current position, Dr. Puskin served as the Acting Director of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP). Dr. Puskin has assumed many leadership positions within and outside of government. Prior to joining ORHP in 1988, Dr. Puskin was a senior analyst at Congress’s Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, where she developed the model for annual updates of Medicare payment rates to hospitals and worked on numerous economic issues related to rural hospitals and specialized hospitals in the U.S. (psychiatric, rehabilitation, and chronic disease hospitals). From 1982-1988, she was employed by the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association as a senior legislative analyst in Washington D.C. Dr. Puskin served as the Research Director at the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency and as Assistant Professor of Community Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry from 1977-1981.
Dr. Puskin currently chairs the Joint Working Group on Telemedicine, the Federal interagency committee coordinating the development of telemedicine initiatives across the Federal government, and within the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Puskin spends considerable time speaking at national forums and writing academic papers and reports on telehealth, rural health, and health care financing issues. In the past year, she has given over 20 speeches and published numerous papers on telehealth.
Dr. Puskin received her Sc.D. degree in Health Policy and Research from Johns Hopkins University, a M.S. degree in Community Medicine from the University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, and B.A. and M.A. degrees in Biology from Boston University.
Louis Reale, ME
Technical Project Director, Med Graph Inc.Rochester, NY
Vice President, Inventor’s Society of Western New York
lr@frontiernet.net
Louis Reale is proficient innovator and product developer who has authored over 12 US and foreign Patents. He has extensive experience in evolving newly discovered innovations into mature products. Innovations and experience are in the areas of material science, imaging science, sensors, electrostatics/electronics technology, plasma science, and novel industrial manufacturing processes. Technology transfer of innovations/products has led to participation in worldwide implementation teams in USA, Europe, Brazil, and Japan.
Louis has earned several awards of appreciation in the areas of technical discovery and implementation including the two most prestigious awards bestowed by the Xerox Corporation: The Individual Excellence Award for Innovation, and the President’s Award. He holds undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering, a Masters in Engineering, and a Graduate certificate in Quality from Rochester Institute of Technology. Louis is VP of the Inventor’s Society of Western New York, an organization designed to guide young entrepreneurs.
Richard Rockefeller, MD, EdM
Founder and Board Chair of Health Commons InstituteDoctors Without Boarders
Falmouth, ME
www.healthcommons.org
A non-profit organization that promotes new means and technologies to enhance medical decisions and support the human work of wellness and healing. Dr. Rockefeller also chairs the U.S. advisory board to Doctors Without Borders, USA. He serves on the boards of Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Rockefeller Family Fund. A family physician and clinical assistant professor in Family Medicine at the Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program, in Portland, Maine, Dr. Rockefeller received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School, an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. from Harvard College. A leukemia survivor, he actively supports leukemia research and provides online support to other leukemia patients.
Edward Schlueter, MS
PresidentMed Graph Inc.
Rochester, NY
info@med-graph.com
Ed Schlueter is an accomplished innovator that has been awarded over 80 US patents. As a co-founder and CEO of Med Graph Inc., Ed brings more than 25 years of international technology transfer and implementation to interacting partners. He has participated and facilitated a number of technical and executive teams in Japan, England, Germany and Belgium.
Since establishing Med Graph Inc., Ed has led efforts in assembling teams of cross disciplinary skills to accomplish advances in medical informatics. Associations with the University of Rochester, University of Buffalo, University of Syracuse, Diabetes Endocrinology Center of Western New York and medical device manufacturers have advanced innovative solutions to complex problems.
Ed is also associated with the High Technology Business Counsel, Lennox Center and is a member of the Upstate Innovation Alliance. He has been recognized by Xerox as a recipient of the prestigious President’s Award and selected to the Xerox Hall of Fame for Innovation. Most recently, Ed has been recognized as the 5th top innovator in the Rochester area and has led Med Graph to issued patents in medical device communication methods.
Ed holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Science Degree from the University of Rochester. He also has a valued association with the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester.
J. Douglas Studebaker, MBA
Sr. Vice PresidentAcademic Research
VivoMetrics Inc.
Ventura, CA
dstudebaker@vivometrics.com
Doug Studebaker has over 30 years of experience as both principal and consultant for leading healthcare firms, hospitals and early stage high tech ventures. At VivoMetrics he is responsible for business development and setting up initial engagements with universities. He is a specialist in planning and implementation of innovative healthcare device and service introductions. Past experience includes extracorporeal liver dialysis, outpatient surgery center development and syndication, design and implementation of hospital based community health plans. Experience also includes sales, marketing and management positions with two scientific instrument companies. He has a BS in chemistry from the University of Washington and an MBA from Stanford University.
Chris Vojta, MD, MBA, MSCE
Vice President of Business DevelopmentOvations: A UnitedHealth Group Company
christopher_vojta@uhc.com
Dr. Vojta is Vice President of Business Development for United HealthGroup’s Ovations. He is a graduate of Yale University and began his career as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley investment bank. Subsequently he received his MD and MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and Wharton School of Business, and then completed his Internal Medicine residency and Geriatrics fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Vojta has over a decade of experience in developing, implementing and evaluating care and disease management interventions. Prior to joining Ovations, Dr. Vojta was a Vice President at Cigna’s Intracorp, founded a chronic care consulting company and interned at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals and Cordis Corporation.
