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Workshop Context 

As part of the larger healthcare transformation to improve health care and health outcomes in regards to Cardiovascular and Diabetes, increase efficiency and reduce costs, application of digital health technologies and tools is increasingly having a greater impact on patients, providers and payers than ever before.  To accelerate research in this area, a workshop on Digital Health for Cardiovascular and Diabetes (adult and pediatrics) is planned to bring together the expertise of clinicians, engineers, industry and government agencies to address issues in healthcare delivery using digital health technologies.

Goals of the Workshop

  1. Significantly expand the “network connectivity.” The workshop will connect digital health needs with digital health innovators. It is well-recognized that every part of the healthcare system could benefit from digital transformation but we will need to invent the pathways by forming many new teams around new collaborative research projects, that will be seeded through multi-sources of funding.
  2. Sow the seeds for larger efforts. By increasing the network size, through seed funding, our goal is to prepare teams to ultimately successfully seek larger funding from NIH, NSF, ARPA-H, AHA, foundations etc. 
  3. Accelerate translation: It is crucial to move research results into clinical application that can be scaled, and hence we will engage entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs in the overall effort. 
Organizers
Seed Fund Proposals Information

Speakers

August 29th 

Welcome & Agenda Review

Gerard Cote

Gerard Cote, Ph.D

 

Henry Dirk Sostman, MD, FACR

  • President and Emeritus Professor of Radiology, Academic Institute Distinguished Member, Research Institute
  • Houston Methodist Profile

 

Mary E. Dickinson, Ph.D.

 

Ashutosh Sabharwal

Ashutosh Sabharwal, Ph.D.

  • Thrust 4 Co-Lead, PATHS-UP
  • Chair and Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Data Science for Diabetes and Health
  • Rice University Profile
  • LinkedIn Profile

 

Practitioner and Provider needs for Digital Health Solutions

Headshot of David Kerr

David Kerr, MD

    • Senior Investigator, Diabetes Research and Digital Health Equity
    • Sutter Health
    • LinkedIn Profile

Speaking
Aug 29th, 8:45 – 8:55 am 

Mohan Thanikachalam, MD

Speaking
Aug 29th, 8:55- 9:05 am 

Roberta L. Schwartz, Ph.D.

  • Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer
  • Houston Methodist
  • LinkedIn Profile

Speaking
Aug 29th, 9:05- 9:15 am 

Michael B. Dilling, Ph.D., CLP

  • Executive Director, Technology Management & Commercialization
  • Baylor College of Medicine Ventures (BCMV)
  • LinkedIn Profile

Speaking
Aug 29th, 9:15 – 9:25 am 

Innovation in Digital Health Systems (5-Minute Talks)

Khurram Nasir, MD, MPH

  • Professor of Cardiology, Academic Institute
  • Houston Methodist
  • Clinical Profile

Speaking
Aug 29th, 10:25 – 10:30 am

Stephen L. Jones, MD, MSHI

Speaking
Aug 29th, 10:30 – 10:35 am

Kershaw Patel, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Academic Institute Assistant Clinical Member, Research Institute
  • Houston Methodist
  • Faculty Profile 

Speaking 

Aug 29th, 10:35 – 10:40 AM

Sadeer Al-Kindi, MD

  • Associate Director of Cardiovascular Prevention & Wellness 
  • Houston Methodist 
  • LinkedIn Profile

Speaking 

Aug 29th, 10:40 – 10:45 am

Teresia M. O’Connor, MD, MPH, FAAP

Speaking 

Aug 29th, 10:45 -10:50 AM 

Jayer Chung, M.D., M.Sc.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 10:50 – 10:55 am 

Bijan Najafi, Ph.D., MSc.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 10:55 – 11:00 am 

David Klonoff, MD, FACP, FRCPE

  • Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF
  • Medical Director of the Mills-Peninsula Medical Center Diabetes Research Institute in San Mateo, California
  • UCSF Profile

Speaking

Aug 29th, 11:00- 11:05 am

Ashutosh Sabharwal

Ashutosh Sabharwal, Ph.D.

  • Thrust 4 Co-Lead, PATHS-UP
  • Chair and Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Data Science for Diabetes and Health
  • Rice University Profile
  • LinkedIn Profile

Speaking

Aug 29th, 11:05 – 11:10 am 

Farzan 

Sasangohar, Ph.D.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 11:10 – 11:15 am

Bobak 

Mortazavi, Ph.D.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 11:15 -11:20 am

Akane Sano, Ph.D.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 11:20 – 11:25 am

Xia “Ben” Hu, Ph.D.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 11:25 -11:30 am 

Enabling Technologies and Systems

Maria Jose Redondo, MD. Ph.D., MPH

Speaking

Aug 29th, 2:00 – 2:05 pm

Gerard Cote

Gerard Cote, Ph.D

Speaking 

August 29th, 2:05 – 2:10 pm

Mike McShane, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Department Head, Biomedical Engineering 
  • Computational imaging and computational sensing 
  • Texas A&M University Profile

Speaking

Aug 29th, 2:10 – 2:15 pm

Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ph.D.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 2:15 – 2:20 pm

Ozcan Aydogan

Aydogan Ozcan, Ph.D.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 2:20 – 2:25 pm

Hatice Ceylan Koydemir, Ph.D

Speaking

Aug 29th, 2:25 – 2:30 pm 

Jessica Ramella-Roman, Ph.D.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 2:35 – 2:40 pm

Dino Di Carlo

Dino Di Carlo, Ph.D.

Speaking

Aug 29th 2:40 – 2:45 pm 

Samuel Mabbott, Ph.D

Speaking

Aug 29th, 2:45 – 2:50 pm

Limei Tian, Ph.D.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 2:50  – 2:55 pm

Mary Laura Lind Thomas, Ph.D.

Speaking

Aug 29th, 2:55 – 3:00 pm 

Carl Bouthillette

  • Vistage Chair
  • Chief Business Development Officer
  • Expert in Healthcare and MedTech
  • LinkedIn Profile

Speaking

Aug 29th, 3:00 – 3:05 pm 

August 30th Speakers

 Funding Agencies

Sohi Rastegar, Ph.D.

Dev Mittar, Ph.D.

  • Program Officer, Division of Research, Innovation and Ventures (DRIVe)
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • LinkedIn Profile

Zane Arp, Ph.D.

  • Director, Division of BioMedical Physics
  • U.S Food and Drug Administration
  • LinkedIn Profile

Patrick Dunn, Ph.D.

  • Center for Health Technology & Innovation, American Heart Association (AHA) 
  • LinkedIn Profile

Manu Platt, Ph.D.

Engineering Faculty in Attendance 

Balakrishna Haridas, Ph.D 

Lei Li, Ph.D.

Kaiyuan Yang, Ph.D.

Momona Yamagami, Ph.D.

Guha Balakrishnan, Ph.D.

Vladimir Braverman, Ph.D.

Joshua Hutcheson, Ph.D.

Nezih Pala, Ph.D.

Amir Tofighi Zavareh, Ph.D.

Sherecce Fields, Ph.D.

Frances Ligler, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Eppright Chair in Biomedical Engineering 
  • Member and Past Councilor, National Academy of Engineering
  • Texas A&M University Profile

Agencies & Companies Attending