DTx WEST 2022

The Honorable Dr. David J. Shulkin was the ninth Secretary of the US Department of
Veterans Affairs in the Trump Administration and VA’s Under Secretary of Health in the
Obama Administration. As such, Secretary Shulkin was the only member of the Cabinet
to have served both Presidents and to have been confirmed by the US Senate by a vote of
100-0.
Secretary Shulkin is a widely respected healthcare executive having served as chief
executive of leading hospitals and health systems including Beth Israel in New York
City, Morristown Medical Center in Northern NJ and currently he serves as Executive
Vice President at Sanford Health one of the country’s largest rural healthcare systems.
Secretary Shulkin is a board-certified internist. He received his medical degree from the
Medical College of Pennsylvania, his internship at Yale University School of Medicine,
and a residency and Fellowship in General Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
Presbyterian Medical Center. He received advanced training in outcomes research and
economics as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Over his career Secretary Shulkin has been named “One Hundred Most Influential
People in American Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare. He continues to advocate on
behalf of the country’s veterans by serving on the board of numerous nonprofits that
serve veterans, is the host of the popular Policy Vets Podcast, and is the author of the
recent book, “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government
and the Plight of Veterans”.

Anand is a respected global digital health leader—most known for his insights on and experience with technology, strategy and regulatory policy. Anand has been instrumental in WellDoc’s success and the development of BlueStar®. Since joining WellDoc in 2008, he has held core leadership positions that included Chief Data Science Officer, President and Chief Operations Officer. He holds an MS and a PhD in electrical and computer engineering, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Parks’ research focuses on self-help methods for increasing well-being via books and digital technology. Acacia is the Chief Behavioral Health Officer at Found. Prior to tis, Acacia was the Chief Scientist for tech startup Happify, which brings the cutting edge in research-based well-being interventions to large businesses, health plans, and consumers. Her research spans across the whole spectrum of wellness, from non-distressed consumers to stressed employees, sufferers of chronic health conditions, and individuals with depression and/or anxiety. She works to pioneer new methodology in the study of digital therapeutics, especially when it comes to outcomes assessment. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and in addition to editing three books, she is also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Positive Psychology.

Dr. Rosner is an Associate Professor of Medicine and an informaticist and digital health researcher in the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR).

Dr. Rosner holds a PhD in engineering from the University of Minnesota and spent a decade as a part time Hospitalist at Kaiser Permanente prior to joining UCSF.

Koa Health’s Chief Product Officer Stephen Dunne leads product strategy, design and development across all of the companies digital mental health solutions. Dedicated to translating cutting-edge science into scalable technologies with proven outcomes, Stephen spent his early career working in space applications before moving his focus to healthcare and bringing these skills to bear in applied neuroscience, leading a team that developed breakthrough hardware and software for brain monitoring and modulation.

Julia Strandberg serves as Chief Commercial Officer at Pear Therapeutics, responsible for crafting and implementing patient-, clinician-, and payer-centered strategies to accelerate the adoption of Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). She draws on extensive experience in developing and commercializing innovative medical technologies. From medical devices and RFID technologies, to consumer electronics, she has championed novel technologies and innovative business models to transform healthcare and advance the healthcare industry.

Prior to joining Pear, Julia served as Medtronic’s Vice President & General Manager for the Health Informatics & Monitoring division. She also has served as Vice President of Global Marketing for the Patient Monitoring franchise for Covidien. Julia joined Covidien in the Strategy & Portfolio group for Sleep Diagnostics and Therapy. She began her career at 3M Company, where she held multiple engineering and marketing positions in the Optical Systems and Track and Trace solutions division.

She earned her MBA from University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, and her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering at Purdue University.

Xavier Palomer is the Founder of Psious, a VR platform for Mental Health. Xavier graduated in Physics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Barcelona and was awarded a Balsells Fellowship to pursue an M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado. With Xavier’s vision, Psious has achieved the Hitlab Innovators Summit World Cup.

Kamal is an industry leader with 15+ years of experience in digital health from a provider
perspective, most recently at MassGeneral Brigham, with background in digital health strategy,
product design and clinical research and validation. Kamal has developed and implemented
100+ digital health programs and is widely published in the value digital health can bring to
healthcare delivery.

Dan Weinstein is an Associate Principal at ZS Medullan, an end to end strategy and solution development consultancy focused exclusively on digital health, where he leads the digital therapeutics capability area.  Dan previously served as CEO of Oshi Health, a digital-first GI care delivery platform.  Dan was also the co-founder and COO of Cohero Health, which brought to market one of the world’s first connected digital therapeutic solutions for people with respiratory disease.  Dan has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare innovation and holds an MBA in health sector management from Duke University and a BA in the biological basis of behavior & Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Afsana Akhter is CEO of Psious, a Mental Health platform that uses Virtual Reality to enable better patient care.  

Afsana brings 20 years of experience across Tech and Digital Health and has held commercial leadership roles at Livongo, Prealize Health, and Medullan. Afsana holds BS and MEng degrees in E.E.C.S. from MIT.

Steve brings nearly 15 years of healthcare experience working with pharma brands, CPG wellness, and change management platforms. Successfully navigating through such a highly-regulated industry brings its own unique challenges, but he has the experience to tackle them head-on and knows that digital has the power to transform the healthcare landscape and bring ambitious new ideas to life.

Ryan is a healthcare executive that has extensive experience commercializing innovative HealthTech solutions.  He’s currently Vice President of Growth at Wellsheet, a company working with health systems across the US providing a cloud-based, predictive workflow designed for providers at the point of care that substantially improves productivity and reduces clinician burnout. He previously led the commercialization of the Podimetrics SmartMat for four years, a remote patient monitoring solution capable of detecting 97% of diabetic foot ulcers five weeks before clinical presentation.  During this time, Ryan secured contracts with multiple health systems and health plans, including a national roll-out with the Veterans Health Administration. Ryan holds an MBA from Rice University and a BS in Naval Architecture from Webb Institute. 

Cyndi Williams is founder and CEO of Quin, a digital therapeutic that uses game narrative theory to treat diabetes distress and improve diabetes outcomes. Before founding Quin she was a managing director at ThoughtWorks, a global $500M software company, heading up the UK business and the global software products division. She spent her early career as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems and has BSc in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University.

Adam is Director of Clinical Operations at Curebase, overseeing all Curebase’s clinical trials, including digital therapeutics. Adam has a range of therapeutic and research experience. He began his career as a coordinator and transitioned into monitoring and project management roles of increasing responsibility within CROs, academia, and pharma.

Adam received a master’s in clinical research from George Washington University and is active in his professional community.

Kristian is the CEO and Founder of Meru Health, an online healthcare provider setting the new standard in mental healthcare. With Meru Health, Kristian is on a mission to empower 10 million people suffering from mental health challenges by 2027. This mission is more than business, it’s personal: Kristian lost his brother Peter to depression, and since then he has been committed to building better solutions to help people with depression, anxiety, burnout, and stress.

Travis Bond is a digital health executive, disruptor, and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of
experience in building and leading healthcare technology and services companies for B2B and
B2C markets. He has built technology platforms, products, and services that have impacted the
lives of millions of people and have dramatically enhanced the ways that healthcare
organizations do business and how people experience care.
As a medical student, Travis lived through the inefficiencies in healthcare IT firsthand. He
eventually withdrew in his third year to found Bond Technologies, which built the first browser-
based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and successfully exited to MediNotes Corporation and
Eclipsys (AllScripts). Through that exit, Travis held roles such as ESVP of Business
Development and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). He has since founded and led companies in
spaces such as musculoskeletal care and chronic care management.
Travis holds a dual MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the National
University Singapore (NUS).