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).

Dr. Adam Myers is senior vice president and chief clinical transformation officer (CCTO) for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), a national federation of 34 independent, community-based and locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) companies. Today, one in three Americans is covered by the Blue System.

As BCBSA’s CCTO, Myers drives clinical transformation across the BCBS System through national networks, health analytics, quality initiatives, and policy and advocacy positions. In his role, he collaborates with the chief medical officers across the 34 BCBS companies and leads the Office of Clinical Affairs (OCA) and the BCBS Institute. Additionally, Myers serves as chief medical officer of the Blues’ Federal Employee Program (FEP), which covers more than 5.4 million members across all 50 states and abroad. A longtime advocate for community health and health equity, Myers helps set the vision for the Blues’ efforts to create a more equitable healthcare system.

Prior to joining the Association in September 2021, Myers served as the Cleveland Clinic’s chief of population health and director of the Cleveland Clinic Community Care program, where he provided leadership to a wide variety of clinical and residency programs, as well as the center for value-based research. In addition, he led the clinic’s care model redesign strategy, the community and public health strategy, and the Diversity Inclusion and Racial Equity Council. Previously, he served in senior clinical and operational leadership roles at several large health systems, including Texas Health Resources, Southwestern Health Resources and Methodist Health System.

A New York City native, Myers is board-certified in family medicine and was in private practice in Oklahoma for more than 10 years. He served on the faculty of the University of Oklahoma obstetrics and gynecology department teaching obstetrics and has earned the status of Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives, The American Institute of Healthcare Quality and the American Association of Family Physicians. He holds additional board certification in healthcare quality management and patient safety and is a certified professional in healthcare risk management. He is past chair of the American Hospital Association board-level Committee for Clinical Leadership and has held board positions with both the Health Care Transformation Task Force and The Joint Commission.

Myers received his undergraduate degree from Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, where he graduated from Louisiana State University Medical Center. He completed his residency with In His Image Family Practice Residency at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla., and has completed fellowship work at the University of Oklahoma obstetrics and gynecology department. He also completed a master’s in healthcare management from Harvard University.

Chevon Rariy, MD is a Venture Partner at Takeda Digital Ventures (TDV) where she leads efforts to identify, execute, and manage strategic investments for the venture capital firm. In partnership with TDV and Takeda, she provides leadership in the evolution of virtual care models to enhance differentiating value including supporting TDV portfolio companies and founders within the Venture Studio to transform health and improve lives.

Dr. Rariy has more than 15 years’ experience within the digital health industry.  Functioning as a senior executive in various markets including government, academic, private, Fortune 5, to start-up, she brings expertise in building, managing, and scaling successful national digital health innovative platforms and companies for large populations.  Within the primary, specialty, and home care space, Dr. Rariy has a proven track record of advising on investment strategies and potential of new product care design at the intersection between care delivery and digital technology while developing partnerships that have demonstrated value to consumers & patients, clinicians, insurance, health systems, and communities including rural and other underrepresented communities.

Prior to joining TDV, Dr. Rariy served as Chief Medical Officer of Clinical Strategy at Care Medical, the clinical care delivery arm for Amazon Care at Amazon, a URAC accredited/HITrust certified, national, virtual first primary care platform providing preventative, urgent, and wellness care.  Prior to that, Dr. Rariy led a national Virtual Health care delivery program in specialty care, oncology, chronic disease management, and health & wellness as enterprise Vice President and Chair of Virtual Health for Cancer Treatment Centers of America/City of Hope.  She also served as a medical director of endocrinology and in academia as Assistant Clinical Professor where she maintained a clinical practice specializing in endocrine oncology, oncology side effect management, chronic disease management (e.g. diabetes, obesity, hypertension, etc.), prevention, and women’s health.

Dr. Rariy is double board certified in both Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. She is fellowship trained at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), with a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She is located in the midwestern United States with her husband and sons where they enjoy exploring the beauty of nature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sean is an entrepreneurial technology executive dedicated to leading exceptional teams to distribute inventions that enhance our quality of life, the survival of our species, and the health of our planet. He is focused on forming and operating early to growth stage, high-tech ventures to achieve significant scale, commercial success, and fulfillment of a meaningful mission.

He is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of HealthTap, a nationwide virtual primary care clinic enabled by a leading consumer technology experience to provide a personal relationship to an affordable, long-term primary care doctor equitably nationwide to all Americans, with or without good insurance. Over the decade, Sean served various leadership roles at the organization, including COO and CPO, responsible for building the technology, team, and clinical operation which allow the company to deliver trusted doctor care and knowledge scalably and cost-efficiently.

Prior to HealthTap, Sean specialized in digital consumer engagement as founder & executive of GXStudios, a venture-backed, team-based casual games platform, and PayoutHub, a social game-monetization platform that was acquired. Sean advises startups regularly through venture capital firms, Stanford’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (now “TSAI City”), Yale University’s official incubator and fellowship program for entrepreneurs (which he co-founded). Sean holds numerous honors and inventions in the fields of health informatics, drug delivery, genetic testing, medical devices, and new industrial polymers.

He earned an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. (with Distinction) in Biomedical Engineering and Pre-Medicine from Yale University. Sean is a futurist by nature, an inventor at heart, a scientist by training, an engineer by trade, and a designer by hobby.

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.

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.

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.

Nina Birnbaum is a family physician and the medical director for Innovation Acceleration at Blue Shield of California. Prior to joining Blue Shield in April 2021, she served as the medical director for primary care for a multi‐specialty medical group in the Bay Area. Nina’s work is focused around supporting high‐functioning, multi‐disciplinary teams and amplifying the joy of work in clinical practice.

Nina received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed residency training at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital. She continues to serve her community as a primary care doctor. In her free time, she enjoys rambling the hills and beaches of the Bay Area with her family, friends and very active canine companion!

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.

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.

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.