Virtual-First Care West

Bruce Meadows is the Managing Partner of Takeda Digital Ventures (TDV)–a corporate venture capital group for Takeda investing in the most promising Virtual First Care companies that are using digital to improve outcomes and experiences throughout the patient journey. Since 1999, Meadows has been a Partner of several healthcare investment funds including NM Rothschild and GBS Ventures in Australia.

Upon completing his MBA in Switzerland, Bruce saw the importance of having operational experience as an investor and joined Stryker Orthopedics to lead their European thoracolumbar spine business. Meadows oversaw the European sales and marketing strategy and influenced manufacturing and R&D activities. At Stryker, Bruce spent a great deal of time in the operating room to be close to healthcare professionals and patients–a value he has taken with him throughout his investing career. Bruce was then recruited as a founding Partner of Ares Life Sciences, a €1 billion fund investing in all stages of healthcare companies. Amongst other investments he also conducted the leveraged buyout of Esaote, an Italian medical imaging company developing advanced data analysis and connectivity tools. His next investment role was at MD Start, an incubation stage fund where he was involved in founding several companies including CorWave and LimFlow.

Previous to Takeda Digital Ventures, Bruce was the Senior Investment Director of MTIP, a Swiss based healthcare fund. Here he led the group’s digital health strategy that ultimately resulted in investments in Tyto Care and Quanta Dialysis Technologies. Meadows has also been a director of many portfolio companies–leading them through IPOs and trade sales.

Bruce contributed as a part time Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at Webster University giving back to the next generation of entrepreneurs. Bruce has an MBA from IMD in Lausanne (Switzerland) and a First Class Honors Degree in Biotechnology from the University of Queensland (Australia).

Nabomita Dutta is SVP of Commercial Strategy and Partnerships for the US Group Health business at Teladoc Health, with responsibility for go-to-market strategy and growth across lines of business and partner channels. She has over fifteen years of experience at the intersection of healthcare and technology via prior roles at UnitedHealth Group, Oscar Health, and Uber Health across strategy and business development, and consulting engagements with CVS Health and Kaiser Permanente. Nabomita received an MBA from the University of Michigan and Bachelors’ degrees in chemical engineering and Economics from U.C. Berkeley.

As the cofounder and CEO of Oshi Health, Sam is combining his passion for redesigning healthcare around the needs of patients with a mission to increase access to the high quality, whole-person care that two of his family members have needed to manage their digestive conditions. He has held leadership roles across healthcare technology and tech-enabled services companies focused on improving population health. These include scaling a tech-enabled diabetes management company, a data-driven health system patient acquisition platform and population health tools for a leading electronic medical record (EMR) company. Sam lives in New York City with his family and enjoys meeting other innovators in healthcare, deepening his knowledge of how our bodies and brains work and cheering on Philadelphia sports teams and NYCFC.

Timothy Law, DO is Chief Medical Officer, Vice President Integrative Care Delivery at Highmark. Dr. Law leads efforts on Living Health Solutions Collaborations, the Clinical Quality Governance Committee, the Utilization Management Prior Authorization team, Federal Employee Program and VBR – True Performance. He began as a member of the Medical Policy Team, where he drove completion of HM CED (Coverage with Evidence) policy to allow better access to new technology for our strategic partners and our members. He now leads the Medical Policy Team as part of his direct reporting structure in Clinical Services. He also serves as chairman of the Care Management and Quality Committee.

Dr. Law is telehealth lead on Highmark’s Covid-19 Command Center team, and led the team in the organization of adding over 1000 codes for inclusion in the coverage policy during the pandemic, helping to bring virtual care to patients in the midst of a pandemic.
A board certified physician with two decades of clinical experience, Dr. Law serves as the Medical Director and Principal Investigator of the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI) at Ohio University with multiple NIH grants funding research in healthy aging and wellness.

Dr. Law is in active clinical practice as a rural Family Doctor in Central Ky. He uses virtual health and house calls to perform full service family medicine to include obstetrics and minor orthopedic and dermatologic surgeries.

In addition, he has an aesthetics practice for
over 15 years. Trained by vascular surgeons
at the Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, KY. He also took his post
graduate aesthetics training at the Pfenninger Procedural Institute nearly 20 years ago. He currently does traveling Botox and Filler parties around the country and is collaborating medical director for his aesthetics practice in Beverly Hills, CA.

Dr. Law earned his medical degree from
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, and an MBA in Health Care Management from Indiana Wesleyan University. He completed family medicine residency at Ireland Army Community Hospital, Fort Knox, KY.

Johanna Esser has lived with Crohn’s disease since 1996, and finally gained the tools to manage her symptoms and find relief through Oshi Health’s whole-person, virtual-first care. Now that she has her energy back, she enjoys gardening, cooking, and spending time with her loved ones. She lives in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, with her husband, dog, and guinea pig.

Brian serves as Vice President of Provider Collaboration and Network Transformation for CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. He leads the company’s provider and network-related business functions, including network strategy, network operations, practice transformation, provider contracting, advanced payment model (APM) design, and healthcare delivery partner relations. In addition to day-to-day management of the networks function, Brian is leading the company’s 5-year transition from “Volume to Value” in all the company’s lines of business, moving from fee-for-service to payment models designed to drive value creation and improvements in outcomes. Brian is joined in this effort by a team of experts in value-based payment models, practice transformation, data analytics, contracting strategies, and relationship managers, each dedicated to making healthcare more affordable, accessible, and equitable for the people in communities CareFirst serves.

An entrepreneur at heart, Brian has worked in the healthcare sector for over 25 years, serving in various leadership roles in large and small provider organizations, start-up companies, and a multi-national Fortune 500 company. He served on several corporate, non-profit and community Boards of Directors in the past and currently serves on the Boards of Maryland and DC’s Health Information Exchange (CRISP), the Prince George’s Chamber of Commerce, and the Advisory Board for Health Payer Specialist.

Lucia Savage is a nationally-recognized expert on health care regulation, digital health and health information privacy. Using strategic advice to advance digital technology to deliver health care, she drives the Omada Health’s privacy, regulatory and public policy strategies. Founded in 2011, Omada Health is one of the oldest virtual-first digital healthcare providers in the U.S. and has provided well-established cardio-metabolic and physical therapy protocols via a virtual-first approach to over 500,000 individuals.

Ms. Savage also is:

• An Advisor to Evidation Health, a digital health research platform that measures health in everyday life and enables anyone to participate in ground-breaking research and health programs,
• A member of the Board of Directors of Tidepool, a 501(c)(3) that is developing an open-source, fully interoperable closed-loop insulin pump (clearance pending at FDA) that allows people with diabetes to see and understand their own data; and
• A member of the Board of Directors of Academy Health, where she is chair of its Committee on Advocacy and Public Policy.

Lucia is Rock Health’s 2021 Top 50 in Digital Health for her policy acumen and digital health advocacy, is a contributing author to Amazon bestseller  “Mobile Medicine: Overcoming People, Culture and Governance”, and has testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on health information interoperability and digital health.

Prior to joining Omada, she served the Obama Administration as Chief Privacy Officer at the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Lucia has a B.A. with Honor from Mills College and received her Juris Doctor summa cum laude from New York University School of Law.

Grace Chang is the Founder/CEO of Kintsugi. Grace was previously in technical leadership roles at several Bay Area startups including a machine learning company specialized in signal processing for authentication. Grace has been interviewed by the New York Times, MIT Tech in Review, CNBC, TechCrunch, Forbes, Gartner, The Hill, Financial Times, Fierce Healthcare, and more on Kintsugi and its breakthrough technology in voice biomarkers. In addition to receiving multiple National Science Foundation Phase I and II awards for the development of novel AI technology, Kintsugi has been awarded Fierce Healthcare’s Fierce 15 of 2023, Forbes AI 50 for North America and named Gartner’s Cool Vendor for Responsible AI.

As a Senior Medical Director on the Enterprise Virtual Care and Retail Health teams, Dr. Adusumalli drives clinical and technology initiatives to support CVS Health’s virtual care and retail health strategies within the Healthcare Delivery organization. He is particularly focused on health information technology, population health, quality improvement, and patient safety activities.

Dr. Adusumalli joined CVS Health in August 2022. Prior to joining CVS Health, Dr. Adusumalli was an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and served in multiple leadership roles, including as Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer for Connected Health, where he led ambulatory connected health strategy and technology for the enterprise, and as the Deputy Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, the health system’s embedded behavioral design team. Outside of Penn, Dr. Adusumalli is highly involved with the American College of Cardiology, where he currently serves as President of the Pennsylvania Chapter and helps to lead digital transformation initiatives for the national organization.

He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia where he graduated AOA. He completed his internal medicine training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and went on to cardiovascular disease fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania during which time he served as chief fellow. Simultaneously, he earned a Master of Science degree in Health Policy Research from the University of Pennsylvania with a focus in healthcare improvement, patient safety, and clinical informatics. He additionally holds a Master of Biomedical Informatics degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He is board certified in internal medicine,
cardiovascular disease, echocardiography, and clinical informatics. Dr. Adusumalli continues to practice inpatient and outpatient cardiovascular medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Additionally, he teaches about clinical informatics and digital transformation topics as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Management at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School.

Susan Conover is the Cofounder and CEO of Piction Health. Prior to starting Piction Health, she trained as a mechanical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, and worked in management consulting at Oliver Wyman, before returning to school for two Master’s degrees at MIT and the Singapore University of Technology and Design focused on product development. She was diagnosed with melanoma 3 times, which sparked her passion for ensuring every person with a skin issue gets the right care at the right time.

Ardy Arianpour is CEO & Co-Founder of SEQSTER the leading healthcare technology company that puts the patient at the center of all their health data. He is a visionary health tech executive with 20+ years driving innovation in biotech, life sciences and digital health. Prior to starting SEQSTER, Ardy launched several clinical and consumer-based genetic tests as CCO of Pathway Genomics, and served as SVP of Ambry Genetics, which sold to Konica in 2017 for $1 Billion.

As a key player in the 2013 landmark SCOTUS decision scrapping gene patents, Ardy played an instrumental role in expanding genetic testing access with the launch of BRCA testing benefiting patients and family members across the country.

Ardy received his BS in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine and an MBA from Marshall Goldsmith School of Management. He was a Medical, Marketing, and Media’s (MM&M) Top 40 Healthcare Transformer and San Diego Business Journal 40 under 40. Ardy is on the Digital Health Advisory Board of UCSD and Faculty for NextMed.Health. He is known for coining the term “Health Data is Medicine™”

Joe Connolly is the co-founder and CEO of Visana Health, a virtual-first gynecology clinic he founded from his mother’s experience with endometriosis. Joe’s worked in the virtual-first care space for nearly a decade, including in clinical evidence development, economic evidence development, sales, implementations, and product. Joe’s a founding member of IMPACT, the virtual-first medical practice collaboration committed to supporting virtual-first care companies and their commitment to improving patient outcomes.

Previous to founding Visana, he worked in digital health at Boston Scientific, where he created and scaled a virtual-first digital healthcare solution to health systems. Joe’s a thought leader in the virtual care space and publishes a popular blog on virtual-first care. Joe has a BS in Bioengineering from Clemson and an MEng in Biomedical Engineering from Duke.

Sheena D. Franklin is the Founder and CEO of K’ept Health, a health-tech company dedicated to helping individuals with chronic skin diseases, and the practitioners who treat them, thrive through accessible telehealth care and inclusive A.I. diagnostic recommendations.  Prior to starting K’ept Health, she worked as a senior healthcare government relations director and public policy advisor for some of the nation’s leading trade associations and companies, including Walgreens Boots Alliance. Sheena has been awarded several awards for her leadership work in developing national policy advocacy campaigns and patient advocate initiatives.  She has a master’s degree from The George Washington University and is a graduate of Clark-Atlanta University.

Tracy Rico MHA, RN is the Director of Virtual Care Services at Superior HealthPlan, a subsidiary of Centene Corporation.   Her current focus is on improving health outcomes through interoperability and innovation. She has spent the last 10 years increasing access to care by building the virtual care strategy of Superior HealthPlan and Centene Corporation and developing and implementing the first clinical interoperability strategy for Superior HealthPlan.

Tracy began her career as a Registered Nurse and is passionate about creating partnerships that channel resources to needy populations in support of continuity of care.  She participates in several Texas Health and Human Services Commission committees to support interoperability and virtual care initiatives and is a Board Member for the Texas e-Health Alliance and the eHealth Exchange.

Charles Fan leads Global Growth at Babylon Health, a virtual health care company that is dedicated to providing high-quality, accessible, and affordable healthcare to every person on Earth.  Prior to joining Babylon, he spent 10 years in a variety of onshore and offshore chief executive roles at Optum (the health services branch of UnitedHealth Group, the world’s largest health care company), helping to grow the business to over $100b in annual revenues.

Charles has been in the health care space for over 25 years, serving as an ambulatory surgery clinical care provider, pharmacology clinical researcher, strategy consultant, and business leader.  His main career interest is consumerism in healthcare, helping to equip patients with the knowledge, insights, and engagement to play their role in optimizing clinical outcomes.  Charles holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Ezequiel “Zeke” Silva III, MD, FACR, FSIR, FRBMA, RCC, is a graduate of the University
of Texas at Austin. He completed medical school and residency at Baylor College of
Medicine before pursuing a fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology at
Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Silva is Chair of the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee (RUC) and
immediate past Co-Chair of the AMA Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group (DMPAG).
He is also a member of the Texas Medical Association (TMA) Delegation to the American
Medical Association and is on the TMA Council on Legislation.
He is the immediate past-chair of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Commission on
Economics and is a founding board member of the Neiman Health Policy Institute. Dr. Silva
serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Radiology for which
he authored the standing column “Reimbursement Rounds” from 2010 to 2016. Last month,
he was awarded the William T. Thorwarth Award for excellence in economics and health
Policy.
He previously served as the chairman of economics for the Society of Interventional
Radiology and editor of the Interventional Radiology Coding Guide. He served on the board
of the Radiology Coding Certification Board for five years and is a Past President of the
Texas Radiological Society. He is President-Elect of the Bexar County Medical Society.
Dr. Silva has approximately 70 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, more than 50
non-peer reviewed publications and over 50 CME approved scientific lectures and exhibits,
to his credit. As lead author, Dr. Silva’s 2016 paper on alternative payment models was
awarded the “Best of 2016” by the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Also, in
2016, Dr. Silva and collaborators were semi-finalists for Aunt Minnie’s Scientific Paper of
the Year.
His academic achievements are largely focused on payment policy and quality initiatives in
radiology and across health care.
More recently, Dr. Silva has also been a leader during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on
digital health applications, including telemedicine, digital therapeutics and augmented
intelligence. He was an invited presenter to the CMS and White House COVID-19 Task
Force. “Lessons from the Front Lines: COVID-19” and also served as webinar faculty for the
AMA “Coding for Telemedicine and COVID-19” attended by several thousand interested
professionals.
In San Antonio, Dr. Silva is a member of the board of directors for the South Texas
Radiology Group and Diagnostic Imaging Management. He is the Medical Director of
Radiology at the Methodist Texsan Hospital. He is an adjunct professor at the UT Health-San
Antonio. Locally, Dr. Silva has been recognized among the “40 Under Forty: San Antonio’s
Rising Stars” and is a multi-year recipient of San Antonio’s “Best Doctors” as chosen by his
peers across the medical community. He was recently recognized as a “Health Care Hero” by
the San Antonio Business Journal for his efforts during the COVID-19 public health
emergency.

Vijay Patel is partner and co-founder of CVS Health® Ventures and Vice President of enterprise business development for CVS Health. In his role, he is responsible for proactively identifying and executing opportunities across the enterprise through strategic partnerships and investments. Patel joined the company’s Boston Digital Innovation Lab in 2015 where he led the company’s efforts to develop strategic partnerships with and investments in digital health and technology companies. Patel structured the first set of connected health and price transparency partnerships for CVS Health. He also founded the CVS® Digital Leadership Program to attract and retain early career talent.

Patel earned his bachelor’s degree from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Previous to CVS Health, he worked as an investment professional at H.I.G. Growth Partners and Bain Capital.

Thomas Vande Casteele is the Co-Founder & CEO of Awell, a low-code platform used by clinical and product teams to design clinical workflows and integrate them into their tech stack.

Since launching in 2018, Thomas and his team enabled care organizations in the US and Europe to improve the lives of more than 150,000 patients across a wide array of medical conditions. Awell’s customers achieved results such as 50% increase in care team capacity, 40% reduction in length of stay and 25% reduction in emergency room admissions.

Prior to founding Awell in 2018, Thomas was an entrepreneur in e-commerce and digital marketing where he spent 8 years improving customer journeys for companies like Samsung, Audi and Nestlé before becoming obsessed with value-based healthcare principles. He is passionate about how software can help care teams perform at the very best of their abilities.

Thomas is also co-author at CareOps.org

Dr. Sameer Berry, MD, MBA is a gastroenterologist and physician-entrepreneur dedicated to using evidence-based, whole-person care to improve the lives of patients with digestive disorders. Dr. Berry practices on both sides of hybrid care delivery, holding leadership roles in private practice gastroenterology in Manhattan, as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System, and as Chief Medical Officer at Oshi Health, a venture-backed virtual-first specialty care clinic for digestive health.

Dr. Berry serves as a principal investigator on randomized-controlled trials in gastroenterology and has more than twenty publications in peer-reviewed journals. His grant-funded research focuses on the validation of digital health technologies, integrated care delivery, remote patient monitoring, bundled/capitated payments, telehealth regulation, and site-of-service differentials.

He has practiced in a broad variety of clinical settings including the Cleveland Clinic, Veteran Affairs (VA), Memorial Sloan Kettering, county hospitals, homeless clinics, LGBT+ centers, assisted living facilities, and in-home care. He earned a doctor of medicine degree from Oakland University, a masters in business administration from Duke University, completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and his fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is a member of the AGA, ACG, ASGE, ANMS, and ROME Foundation.

Branden currently serves as a Principal at Providence Ventures, a Seattle- and Menlo Park-based venture capital firm focused on digital health and tech-enabled healthcare services. Since joining PV in 2019, Branden has made investments in OrthAlign, MacroHealth, Arrive Health, and Kno2.

He currently sits on the boards of MacroHealth, Arrive, Omada, and Kno2 as an observer. Prior to joining PV, Branden was an investor at Transformation Capital, a Boston, MA-based growth equity firm focused on healthcare IT and tech-enabled healthcare services. Before Transformation, Branden led corporate development at ShoutStore, an early-stage e-commerce platform for physician practices. Prior to ShoutStore, Branden spent most of his time in an investor role at Strathspey Crown, a Newport Beach, CA-based investment firm that made a wide range of investments across healthcare, spanning early- and late-stage investments.

Branden holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a degree in Mathematics from Northwestern University, where he was a Ryan Scholar.

Deepak Ghosh is a tenured and innovative executive with 15+ years of hands-on experience in building and scaling products across enterprises, with experience across Apple, Amazon and Twilio, and his own startup among others. Deepak received his MBA from Yale University and holds an MS in Computer Science from University of Southern California.

Gabby (Dell’Aquilo) Goldblatt is a dynamic leader in healthcare, currently leading Care Delivery Partnerships at the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe). With a mission to redefine healthcare with technology, Gabby has made significant contributions to the field, including during her time at Amwell, Rock Health, Together Senior Health, and Publicis. Gabby earned her MBA in Health Sector Management from Questrom School of Business (Boston University) and a BS from Carroll School of Management (Boston College) with a minor in philosophy. Driven by her mission, Gabby combines her education with her professional experience to advance digital medicine, foster partnerships, and improve outcomes for all.

Dr. Demetria Malloy is an internist who serves as a Regional Vice President, Strategic Physician Executive for Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield’s National Accounts Team.  She has had leadership roles in the payor industry for over ten years, following a clinical and academic research career with formal training in health inequities and whole health population strategies.  In her current role as a Strategic Physician Executive in National Accounts, Dr. Malloy works closely with the Account Management and Sales teams for National Accounts to focus on clinical strategy, complex cases, performance trends and integration of clinical programs for employer clients and their employees.

Dr. Nie is a board-certified geriatric psychiatrist with diverse experience in clinical, academic, administrative, and business development settings.

Dr. Nei is a Clinical lead and subject matter expert for behavioral health startups through all phases of development, including merger and acquisition. She oversees all care delivery systems, steers program and product development, shapes technology- based measures to audit program performance, resolves challenging workflows and facilitates further scalable growth building upon a robust quality- and patient-focused foundation.

Dr. Nei achieved and maintained Joint Commission Accreditation: Developed clinical workflow protocols based on evidence-based best practices, established policies and procedures, created the quality department and peer review process using defined clinical quantifiable measures. She developed the medical staff office, reformed the organizational structure, and established process improvement protocols and by-laws. She is faculty attending physician at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and has published in two academic textbooks about neurocognitive disorders and women in healthcare.

Education: Geriatric Fellowship from University of California San Francisco; General Psychiatry internship and residency training, Emory University School of Medicine; Medical Degree from Emory University School of Medicine 2006.

Michelle Snyder is a Partner at McKesson Ventures, investing in healthcare technology and service companies that are creating new models of care.  In addition to investing, she also brings over 25 years’ healthcare industry experience in marketing, strategic planning, public policy, and general management. Prior to joining McKesson Ventures, she was Chief Marketing Officer at Welltok as well as an early executive at Epocrates, where she worked for over a decade to build the company into one of the most recognized brands among clinicians.  Michelle also spent time in strategy and policy consulting at the Wilkerson Group, Lewin Group and Georgetown Center for Health Policy Studies.

Michelle received her M.B.A at the Kellogg School of Management and her undergraduate degree at Carleton College.  While happy to have grown up in the Midwest eating cheese and cheering for the Packers, she is now happy to call the Bay Area home enjoying the ocean, mountains and warm(er) weather with her family.

Jill FitzGerald, MSW, LICSW, Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations at Confidant Health is a clinical leader and operations expert. She has designed and implemented innovative care-team models across multiple states and care settings to align high-quality behavioral health service delivery with value-based payments. At Confidant Health, Jill is designing the future of virtual care for addiction by leveraging both her clinical expertise and the use of technology to support data-driven care-team model design, implementation, and intervention efficacy. Jill has over 20 years of experience working, innovating, and teaching in the behavioral health space. She received her bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the University of Vermont, and her master’s degree in Clinical Social Work with a Specialization in Law from Fordham University.

Dr. Kristin Dean is a board-certified Family Practice Physician based in San Diego, CA. Dr. Dean attended medical school at the University of Florida College of Medicine, after which she moved to Los Angeles to complete her residency training in Family Medicine at Kaiser Permanente. Her career interests then led her to to the growing field of telemedicine and she accepted a position with Included Health (then known as Doctor On Demand) in August 2014. She is honored to be part of a team whose mission is to raise the standard of healthcare for everyone, in an innovative and patient-centric manner. Dr. Dean currently serves as the Senior Medical Director of Clinical Education and Quality for the Included Health organization. Within this role, she focuses on the delivery of high-quality virtual care. This work has included various quality initiatives, including: the Antibiotic Stewardship program, the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines for virtual care, and assisting with the launch of Virtual Primary Care. Dr. Dean has also published several articles in the field of telehealth.

Ellen is the Chief Product Officer at Wellinks, a digital health company focusing on improving care for patients with chronic respiratory conditions. She thrives at the intersection of software, services, and user experience, and focuses on translating high level business strategy into user-first product design and development. She previously founded and managed the acquisition of a connected medical device startup where she raised funding, directed design, and led product development. She received her degree from Yale University, where she also served as a Design Fellow at the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design and a Mentor in Residence at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale.

Donald Jones is a globally recognized leader in digital medicine, digital therapies, technology enabled health services and virtual-first healthcare delivery. He is a sought out as a speaker, advisor and board member. He works across the spectrum of healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical device, wearable, smart apparel, material science and healthcare companies. He is an Operating Partner with Takeda Digital Ventures. He sits as an independent director on multiple boards of VC and PE backed companies. Don has advised the Boards and executive suites of many of the largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies including Dexcom, Resmed, Cepheid, Sanofi, Teva, Astra Zeneca, Genentech, Otsuka, Novo Nordisk and the Verily/Sanofi joint venture, Onduo. He is a Senior Advisor with both McKinsey & Co. and the GLG Institute. Jones serves as Chief Digital Officer of the Scripps Research Translational Institute (SRTI), collaborating with the renowned Eric Topol, MD, where they co-founded Scripps Digital Medicine, the world’s first digital health clinical trial center and the non-profit West Health Institute, raising over $130 million. At JP Morgan Healthcare in 2021, Don founded IMPACT, the Virtual First Medical Practice Collaboration, in partnership with DiMe (Digital Medicine Society).

​Beginning in 2002, Don led Qualcomm Wireless Health Global Strategy and founded its healthcare subsidiary. In 2005 he founded the international Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, merging it with HIMSS in 2016. Earlier in his career, Don was COO of MedTrans (re-named AMR), in which he was instrumental in growing from $4.5 million into the largest emergency services provider in the world (now Global Medical Response), with over 38,000 EMS personnel, 7000 ambulances and 450 medical aircraft. He was Founder and Chair of EMME, Mexico’s largest consumer membership healthcare provider and largest private practice, with over 450 physicians. As advisor to the Board of AMR, he helped build the largest medical group in the US, under the EmCare brand (now Envision Healthcare), with over 25,000 physicians. In 2014, EvoNexus recognized Donald Jones as Digital Health Innovator of the Year. Don conceived the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a global competition for a consumer device which successfully makes medical diagnoses. The XPRIZE was awarded in Hollywood in April 2017.

Dan is a Partner at Flare Capital Partners, where he has led investments into and sits on the Boards of Somatus, Eden Health, Oui Health, Vita/Vytyl Health, Votive Health and Elektra Health. Dan was a practicing Internal Medicine Physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and had a Faculty appointment as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2010 until 2019. Prior to joining Flare Capital, Dan served as a Medical Director at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan, leading Population Health Analytics, Value-Based Purchasing, and General Strategy. Dan also spent time as an entrepreneur and operator in the Health IT Industry, co-founding and managing two separate businesses in the Electronic Health Records and Online Medical Education industries.

Dan’s other interests include Healthcare Policy and Global Health. Dan served on Former Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s Board of Nursing Home Administrators from 2016 to 2020. He has served as a Senior Health Policy Advisor for the Campaigns of Governor Charlie Baker, Congressman Joseph Kennedy III and Congressman Jake Auchincloss. He has worked to expand healthcare infrastructure in the developing world, serving as a consultant for the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Ethiopia.

Dan earned a BS with honors from the University of California, San Diego, an MD Summa Cum Laude from the Morehouse School of Medicine, and an MBA from the
Harvard Business School. Dan completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Lisa LaCarrubba is the Medical Director for CloseKnit Health, a new Virtual forward primary care practice, and a board-certified family physician.  Prior to joining CloseKnit, Dr. LaCarrubba was the Medical Director for Clinical Reengineering at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield New Jersey, responsible for the clinical aspects of value-based programs including practice transformation, quality, attribution, employer group activation and implementation of new models of care and collaboration. Additional health plan experience includes overseeing quality, wellness, credentialing, appeals and case and utilization management.  Dr. LaCarrubba practiced with North Country Health System in Newport Vermont where she served as chief of staff, medical director for Derby Green Long Term Care Facility, chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee and Quality Consultant.  She is a member of the American Academy of Family Practice, The American Association for Physician Leaders and is co-chair of the New Jersey Immunization Network.  Dr. LaCarrubba received her undergraduate degree from Villanova University and her MD from UMDNJ (now Rutgers) Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.  She completed a family residency at Mount Holly Memorial Hospital where she served as chief resident.

Matt joined Lemhi Ventures Fund III in August of 2022 but is no stranger to the partnership, having known and or worked with the Lemhi GP’s for many years. Prior to Lemhi, Matt was most recently part of Google’s life sciences arm Verily, where he led a number of business development efforts as part of the Onduo virtual clinic business. Matt previously served as head of corporate and business development at RedBrick Health, where he was the first employee hired by the founding team. RedBrick was one of the pioneers in aligning incentives and rewards to healthy behavior change. Matt has extensive experience in healthcare startup growth, including business development, sales, channel partner success and strategy.

Matt contributes a wealth of M&A, fundraising, and strategic consulting expertise, including an investment banking and research tenure at the healthcare boutique TripleTree, and as an independent business coach and advisor to healthcare startups.

Matt has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from San Diego State University and a BA and MEd in psychology and counseling from the University of San Diego. He currently serves as a board observer of Lemhi portfolio company Mendota Health, an in-home wound care business.

Seth Staton is a dynamic healthcare executive with extensive experience in health tech and building innovative clinical programs. As the Head of Clinical Program Development & Innovation at Walgreens Health, he is responsible for developing and implementing solutions across retail, virtual, and in-home care delivery channels that improve patient outcomes and drive business growth.

Seth has a proven track record of success in the healthcare industry, having held leadership positions at Fortune 100 organizations and early stage companies. Prior to joining Walgreens Health, he served as the Vice President of Virtual Care at CareMore & Aspire Health, where he was responsible for overseeing telehealth programs and leading digital health strategy.

Emily Mischel is the CEO and Co-Founder at FlexTogether, a Cedars-Sinai Accelerator company. FlexTogether provides virtual pulmonary rehab to COPD, ILD, Long-Covid and other chronic lung disease patients to reduce shortness of breath and improve quality of life. Emily is passionate about creating innovative digital health solutions that remain accessible to underserved populations. Emily has experience in marketing, entertainment/video production, and financial services. Emily holds a M.S. in Social Entrepreneurship from USC Marshall School of Business and a BA in both American Studies and English and World Literature from Pitzer College.

Barbara Levy, M.D., FACOG, FACS, is a lifelong advocate for advancing the quality of women’s health.
She was elected as the first female president of AAGL in 1994-1995.

In 2012 Dr. Levy joined the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) as the first full-
time woman physician leader. Her clinical work focused on evidence-based, equitable, comprehensive care for women throughout their life course. In addition to her clinical focus, Dr. Levy has served as a member, and then Chair, of the AMA RBRVS Update Committee, and is currently Vice-Chair of the AMA CPT Editorial Panel
She currently holds clinical professorships in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the George Washington
University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and UCSD Health. Dr. Levy is Chief Medical Officer at
VisanaHealth.

William Cherniak BSc MD MPH CCFP(EM)/DABFM is an Emergency physician with training in family
medicine and global public health. He is a co-founder and board chair of Bridge to Health Medical and
Dental Canada & USA and the founder and CEO of Rocket Doctor Inc, a Medicaid-focused Shopify for
clinicians that integrates a unique support system, advanced AI-fueled software and wireless medical
devices to enhance care. Bill has had research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the
Lancet, Academic Medicine, PLOS ONE and given numerous speeches in Europe and North America on
digital health as well as global public health and development.
Bill completed his medical school at the University of Calgary and residency at the University of
Toronto. He completed a cancer fellowship at the U.S. Federal Government’s Center for Global Health
in the National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health as well as a Master in Public Health at
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a concentration in health in crisis and
humanitarian assistance, while a Sommer Scholar with a full-scholarship. He is an Adjunct Professor
with Northwestern University, Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Family and
Community Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine.

Jeff is a Sr. Director of Engineering at One Medical, where he’s worked since 2018. In prior roles, he’s served as a software engineer, product manager, entrepreneur, and executive coach. He’s worked across a broad range of company sizes and industries prior to healthcare, from enterprise software at Slack, consumer civic tech at Sean Parker’s Brigade, and content farming at Jason Calacanis’s Mahalo

Dr. Neil Parikh is the Chief Medical Officer of Thirty Madison, focused on implementing technology to deliver care at scale. He oversees the clinical, research, and strategic partnership organizations within the company. Prior to Thirty Madison, Neil was President of Oscar Medical Group and Senior Medical Director at Oscar Health leading Care Delivery, where he oversaw Oscar’s clinic and telemedicine operations, complex case management, and clinical concierge services. Neil is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, where he has been teaching and practicing since 2014. Neil completed his Internal Medicine residency at Cedars Sinai, his MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and his MD at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Neil stays connected to philanthropy through Amply, a giving platform he co-founded, and as a member of the Healthcare Advisory Council to the Ronald McDonald House NY. He splits his time between New York and Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

Stuart is the Co-Founder/COO of Hone Health, one of the largest DTC virtual care companies for men’s health in the US. They enable men with low testosterone to receive care and treatment right from home. Prior to Hone, he was the Chief Business Officer at 7SBio, which transformed how blood is collected. They are the makers of TAP, the world’s first push-button blood collection device. It makes the process simple, convenient, and painless. Stuart was also the first employee at AgaMatrix, a blood glucose monitoring company that made the first medical device connecting directly to the iPhone. He helped grow the company from a startup to one with over 15 FDA-cleared products and 750 employees, forging partnerships with Apple, Sanofi, CVS, and Target.

Stuart holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University and an M.S. in Investment Management from Boston University.

Gabby (Dell’Aquilo) Goldblatt is a dynamic leader in healthcare, currently leading Care Delivery Partnerships at the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe). With a mission to redefine healthcare with technology, Gabby has made significant contributions to the field, including during her time at Amwell, Rock Health, Together Senior Health, and Publicis. Gabby earned her MBA in Health Sector Management from Questrom School of Business (Boston University) and a BS from Carroll School of Management (Boston College) with a minor in philosophy. Driven by her mission, Gabby combines her education with her professional experience to advance digital medicine, foster partnerships, and improve outcomes for all.