Winfried A. BurkeCEO, Incentive Targeting, www.incentivetargeting.com
Win is a serial entrepreneur with more than twenty years experience as a senior executive in high tech. Win has an extensive strategic and operational management background in leading nimble and agile early stage companies, including successful fund-raising as well as IPO and M&A exits, backed up by a large company background and knowledge of what it takes to achieve the business goal of becoming a successful large enterprise.
Win's experience includes five startups/early stage companies, two as VP of Sales & Marketing (Oberon Software and ViewSoft) and three as CEO (ViryaNet, Bungee Labs and Incentive Targeting). He has a deep understanding of emerging technologies and how to best monetize them -- in addition to being a skilled builder and manager of organizations, and a successful marketing, business development and sales executive, he relies on his EE/Computer Science training at MIT and years spent as an engineer and technologist for better business decision making in the context of rapidly evolving technologies and their practical application.
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Dr. Francis X. Campion, M.D., F.A.C.P.Since January 2008, Dr. Campion has served as the Director of Provider Programs for Outcome, Inc., Cambridge, MA. Outcome is the leading provider of clinical registries and Phase IV studies for hospitals, medical groups and pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Dr. Campion works with hospitals and physician professional societies to deliver clinical outcomes programs to improve clinical quality and patient safety.
Beginning in 2007, Dr. Campion has been the Director for the Complex Chronic Care disease management program at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. He is a member of the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School where he participates in research initiatives involving the use of clinical information systems for biosurveillance, patient safety and clinical decision support. Since 2005, he has maintained his internal medicine clinical practice at the HVMA Kenmore center in Boston. In 2007 he was included in Boston Magazine's "Best Doctors in America" list. He served as the Director for Clinical Information Systems from 2005-2007, helping to roll out the EpicCare EMR across the Atrius Health Care System.
Prior to coming to HVMA/Atrius Health in 2005, Dr. Campion served for 10 years as the Vice President for Clinical Integration at the Caritas Christi Health Care System in Boston. Prior to that he was a member of the Internal Medicine Dept. and the Director for Quality Resources and Risk Management at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA. He received his AB degree in biology from the College of the Holy Cross, medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed internal medicine residency training at the New England Deaconess Hospital.
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Sherri Dorfman, MBAStepping Stone Partners, http://www.stepping-stone.net/healthcareexpertise.html
Sherri Dorfman has led the development of patient- centric products for companies including Philips Medical Systems, Lifeline Systems, GE Healthcare, Partners' Center for Connected Health, Elite Care Technologies, World Clinic Telemedicine Services, BodyMedia, Wellcoaches.com and iGetBetter.com.
Sherri is passionate about patient empowerment and engagement to motivate healthy behavior change. With strong expertise in e-Health, e-Wellness and elder care technologies, she has guided the development of products with needed decision support, mobile, Health 2.0 and Social Media for communication and collaboration.
Sherri helps run the Healthcare & Social Media Advisory Boards for the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. Over the past four years, she has served as a faculty advisor for Harvard University's class on Information Technology in the Healthcare System of the Future where she advised student teams on peer-to-peer online patient communities, an online diabetes community solution and a multi-channel consumer wellness initiative. Sherri has moderated panels at Healthcare Unbound conferences on eldercare technologies, mobile health and social media. Sherri ran the World Health Care Congress Leadership Summit on Wireless Health and presented at their annual conference on social media in healthcare.
Sherri has a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and an MBA in Database & Decision Support from the LeBow School at Drexel University.
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Mark J. Hauser, MDMark J. Hauser, M.D. a practicing psychiatrist for 25 years, has specialty expertise in several areas: general adult psychiatry, the psychiatric care of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, forensic psychiatry, and risk management. In addition to his clinical consultation practice, he is the president of On-Site Psychiatric Services, Inc., a physician staffing organization focusing on the nighttime, weekend and holiday coverage at 12 Massachusetts hospitals. Dr. Hauser's clinical practice serves adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the staff who care for them. He is a nationally recognized consultant for numerous state and private agencies. As the program director of psychiatry department Doctor-On-Call coverage, Dr. Hauser manages physician recruitment, orientation, scheduling, and quality assurance.
Dr. Hauser graduated from the Harvard Medical School psychiatry residency training program at Beth Israel Hospital in 1985. He received his Medical Degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and his Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. Dr. Hauser is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and a Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with added qualifications in Forensic Psychiatry. Dr. Hauser serves as Webmaster for the Program in Psychiatry and the Law of Harvard Medical School at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Hauser serves as a Course Director of CME courses in risk management and liability prevention for Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society.
Dr. Hauser's research interests include confidentiality, consent, patient privacy, defensive medicine, models of service delivery, and the impact of computers and technology in medical and psychiatric care.
He is active in several professional organizations. He is the current treasurer of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society (MPS), and a Councillor in the American Academy of Psychiatriy and the Law (AAPL). He is the Chairperson of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Caucus of psychiatrists who treat people with mental retardation. He serves on the APA Committee on Judicial Action. He is Chairperson of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health statewide Human Rights Advisory Committee.
Dr. Hauser has a longstanding interest in health care information technology. He is a frequent presenter at the annual meeting of AAPL on the topic of computers and technology in psychiatry. He served as the MPS representative to a Subcommittee of the Mass. Legislature dealing with medical privacy. He works on various projects at the Mass. Health Data Consortium (MHDC) and is a member of their Behavioral Health Forum. He is a frequent attendee of the Electronic Media & Behavior Change meeting hosted by BIDMC.
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Gary HirschConsultant, Creator of Learning Environments
Gary Hirsch has consulted with organizations on management strategy and organizational change for the past 35 years. He has worked with clients in diverse areas such as health care, human services, education, and news media. He specializes in applying System Dynamics and Systems Thinking and using these techniques to create simulation-based learning environments. Mr. Hirsch received SB and SM degrees from MIT's Sloan School of Management with concentrations in System Dynamics and Public Sector Management. He is the author of three books and numerous journal and magazine articles and conference presentations. He also has taught in MIT's Special Summer Session on the Dynamics of Health Service Systems and many professional seminars.
Mr. Hirsch's work has included strategy development and program planning for a number of different health care organizations including medical schools, hospitals and other health providers in the US, The Netherlands, Pakistan, and East Africa. His work has also included the modeling of community-level delivery systems, health status improvement for communities, care of populations with particular problems such as cardiovascular disease, health manpower policies for government agencies, public policy problems such as heroin addiction and provision of children's services, emergency preparedness of communities, and contagious diseases and the control of epidemics. Recent work has included modeling the prevalence, treatment, and cost of chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart failure in a community.
Mr. Hirsch's work on simulation-based Microworlds (learning environments) includes several health care simulators focused on improving delivery system performance and community health status. He has also developed a model to help school leaders understand the process of innovation in schools and then expanded that model into a simulator that helps schools understand the impact of education reform on innovation. In addition, he has created simulators for teaching physics and economics to high school and middle school students. Another simulator helps people understand how to manage micro-credit institutions more effectively.
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Terrence Joyce, MD, MIPTerrence J. Joyce, MD, MIP has extensive experience in intellectual property law and its transactions including patent prosecution, portfolio analysis, licensing, and conducting patent searches. He has worked with many organizations assisting them in marketing their intellectual property, performing freedom to operate analyses, and managing their portfolios.
Dr. Joyce is a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School and Franklin Pierce Law Center where he obtained a Master of Intellectual Property, Commerce and Technology degree. Prior to obtaining his degree in intellectual property law, he did residency training in pathology at Yale University and also completed an internship in the Corporate Sponsored Research and Licensing Office of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Joyce is the author of several scientific research papers and has served on the editorial board for the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the College of American Pathologists (CAP), and the American Family Physician (AFP).
He is the recipient of numerous scientific research awards and fellowships from the American Liver Foundation, the Arthritis Foundation, the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, and the National Heart Blood and Lung Institute. In 1994, Dr. Joyce received national recognition for his development of Gene therapy vectors for the treatment of beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease.
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Chandrika Samarth, MBA, MSDirector, Environment and Health Group, Inc.
Mr. Chandrika Samarth is currently a Director in a US Government grant funded start-up. He leads initiatives for IT enablement and commercialization of healthcare research in disease management, lifestyle & wellness and caregiver social networking areas. He is collaborating with a team from the Harvard Medical School to understand social network characterizes of specific disease groups and age profiles in order to design programs for targeted intervention using Web 2.0 technologies. Previously in India, he founded a start-up in the railway signaling area that sub-contracted design work from Asia and the Middle East.
He is a Sloan Fellow, Class of 2007 from the MIT Sloan School of Management and has researched and published on using Social Network Analysis techniques and IT Governance mechanisms to optimize delivery of clinical care.
Most recently he was with a consulting group within Partners Healthcare Systems that evaluated value of investments in healthcare IT for the Veterans Health Administration. Mr. Samarth has also worked with Siemens Health Services where he was business manager and instrumental in forging public-private partnerships with governments of developing countries. His earlier work background has also been in logistics operations, ERP implementation and business development.
Mr. Samarth holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management. He remains keenly involved with organizing seminars/events for networking opportunities in the Boston area.
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Nevin SummersPresident, Novation, Inc.
Nevin Summers works at the knowledge frontier bounded by profound scientific ignorance, technological impossibility and socio-political improbability, an emergent and surprising frontier where the once inconceivable can quickly become the inevitable. He focuses on big problems that 1) defy simplistic categorization by discipline, geography, politics, culture or physical scale, and 2) represent big payout opportunities where the discovery and application of testable, empirically gained knowledge can be transformative and game-changing.
Nevin is Founder and President of Novation, Inc., a consultancy in Cambridge, MA that provides due diligence, business planning, corporate development, and technology assessment services to venture capitalists, universities, and life science companies.
He is currently Director of Corporate Development for the Biomedical Enterprise Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and serves on the Board of the BioMatrix Mentoring Program for undergraduates at MIT planning careers in the life sciences. He is a co-founder of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation and has served as Life Sciences Specialist to the MIT Sloan School of Management and as an advisor and grant reviewer to the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation and the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center.
Nevin previously held executive positions at biotechnology companies. He served as Chairman and Founding CEO of CISTRAN Corp., a 2001 start-up that attempted low-cost whole genome DNA sequencing using the technology of co-founder George Church of Harvard. Previously, he was Senior Director for Strategic Planning, Technology Assessment, and Genomics at Hybridon, Inc., a publicly traded firm In Cambridge, MA that attempted antisense nucleic acid therapy for HIV/AIDS, and Business Development Manager of Ingenex, Inc., a start-up in Menlo Park, CA focused on gene therapy to protect blood stem cells of ovarian cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Previously he worked in various roles on the finance, design and construction of high-rise mixed-use real estate developments in Boston and Washington for The Beacon Companies.
He studied molecular biology at the Stanford School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins (BS '71) as a Westinghouse-Intel Science Talent Search Scholar (First Prize '67), and later earned professional graduate degrees in architecture and urban planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (MArch '80) and in technology management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT School of Engineering (SM '93).
Nevin, a Registered Architect in Massachusetts and student of Bauhaus industrial design, enjoys exploring Synthetic Neurobiology and applying his problem-solving and creative skills orthogonally across traditional discipline boundaries and complex organizational challenges, ranging in scale from the molecular to the institutional.
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Julie Yoo, MBA, MSVice President of Clinical Product Strategy, Generation Health
Julie Yoo, MS, MBA, is an alumnus of the HST.921 teaching team (TA '07, Asst. Course Director '08) and looks forward to engaging with the newest team of students as a project mentor. She completed her MS and MBA through the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Enterprise Program in 2009, where she focused on the commercialization of technology platforms in the areas of genetics and genomics.
Julie is currently the Vice President of Clinical Product Strategy at Generation Health, a local VC-backed startup company aiming to help healthcare payers implement benefits strategies for accelerating the adoption of personalized medicine. Her prior work included product & technology strategy at Knome, startup incubation and corporate ventures at Biogen Idec, and strategy consulting for a number of early-stage informatics and life sciences startups at CBT Advisors. She also spent 5 years at Endeca Technologies in various roles, including software engineering and sales for the healthcare/life sciences vertical. Julie completed her undergraduate degree at MIT in computer science and pre-medicine.
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