Archive for February 2018

Jeff Immelt was the 9th Chairman of GE and served as CEO for 16 years, transforming GE into a simpler, stronger, and more focused digital industrial company. Immelt revamped the company’s strategy, global footprint, workforce and culture, positioning GE for the future. During his tenure, industrial earnings doubled and GE returned $143B in dividends, more…

Dr. Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Gruber’s research focuses on the areas of public finance and health economics, and in 2006 he received the ASHE Medal for the best health economist in the nation aged…

Dr. Gary Gottlieb is Chief Executive Officer of Partners In Health, a provider of healthcare in some of the world’s poorest countries. He previously served as CEO, Partners HealthCare and President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, Chair of the…

Named CEO of Teladoc in 2009, Jason Gorevic has led the company through tremendous growth, increasing revenue nearly twentyfold; driving Teladoc to become the nation’s largest and fastest growing telemedicine firm. He has steered Teladoc through innovative program enhancements, the redesign of core technology, multiple rounds of expansion funding and successful acquisitions. Previously, Jason was…

Peter M. Fleischut, MD, is Senior Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer for NewYork-Presbyterian. In this role, he leads NYP’s enterprise integration and transformation, innovation initiatives, and pharmacy. Dr. Fleischut is also responsible for the development of the NYP OnDemand suite of digital health services and the implementation of clinical operations for the new David…

Deborah DiSanzo is the global General Manager for IBM Watson Health, the business unit founded to achieve IBMs next ‘moonshot’: to advance health at a global scale. Leads a team of 7,000 employees around the world, ranging from medical experts to health economists to data scientists, UX experts and developers. Under her leadership, Watson Health…

KAREN DESALVO, MD, MPH, MSc is a physician whose career is dedicated to improving health with a focus on vulnerable populations. She most recently served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology concurrently for two years…

Atul Butte, MD, PhD is the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Computational Health Sciences (ichs.ucsf.edu) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Butte has authored over 200 publications, with research repeatedly featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Dr. Butte was elected…

CEO and President of athenahealth, Inc. He co-founded the company in 1997 and took it public in 2007. In his New York Times best-selling book, Where Does it Hurt?:An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Fixing Health Care, Bush describes his early experiences on health care’s frontlines and exposes the industry’s sprawling waste, as well as the underbelly…