Keynote Speaker
Blair Hirst
Blair Hirst is a leader in the area of digital health equity through their work in healthcare technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. As CEO and Founder of Digital Health Review, Blair has launched a podcast, newsletter and digital health marketplace that empowers consumers to find apps & products that will keep their data and body safe.
Previously, Blair has led product at Series A startups, productized and commercialized Diversity in Clinical Trials Data offerings at Acorn AI, built the first MVP healthcare product at S&P Global Market Intelligence, and launched telehealth, e-consent, NLP chatbots and innovation programs at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Their work has centered on developing health technology products that use data and analytics to understand the effects of these tools on social determinants of health such as health literacy and access to care.
A graduate of Brown University School of Engineering with a bachelors in Biomedical Engineering, Blair received their masters degree in Innovation and Technology Management from NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
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Judges
Dimitra Georganopoulou
Dimitra joined Qral Ventures as a General Partner in 2020, and serves as Chief Business Officer (CBO) in select portfolio companies. She is an experienced biotech professional with deep knowledge of personalized medicine projects, therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and Health IT. She is currently also a member of the Innovation Faculty team for MIT’s LinQ Catalyst program, mentoring and guiding innovators solving health and medical challenges.
Dimitra serves on the investment committee of the Aim-Hi Accelerator Fund, and is a technical due diligence lead for the Keiretsu Forum Midwest Investments and a Venture Partner for MBx Capital (formerly FundRx), a next-generation life science venture capital firm. Dimitra has deep expertise in Tech Transfer with deep connections with the US innovation ecosystem, as she continues to be a mentor for mHUB’s MedTech Accelerator program, a venture mentor for the Polsky COMPASS program and a venture advisor for Northwestern's N.Xt Fund. Dimitra is a Director at Large for Women in Bio (WIB), an organization dedicated to promoting careers, leadership, and entrepreneurship of women in the life sciences.
Ravi Patel
Vice President of Digital Health at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
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Marisela Lawson
Partner at Sagence
Tyler Peterson
Tyler Peterson is Senior Director of Data Operations Technology at Vizient, where he oversees Vizient’s data interoperability strategy. He completed his Master of Health Administration degree at The University of Iowa in 2013, and his Master of Data Science degree at Indiana University in 2020. He is passionate about developing data science solutions and operationalizing the solutions into real-world workflows.
Karandeep Singh
Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc, is an Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Internal Medicine, Urology, and Information at the University of Michigan. He directs the Machine Learning for Learning Health Systems (ML4LHS) Lab, which focuses on the development, evaluation, and implementation of machine learning models within electronic health record systems in support of a learning health system. He serves as an Associate Director for Implementation of U-M Precision Health, a Presidential Initiative focused on bringing research discoveries to the bedside, with a focus on prediction models and genomics data. He chairs the Michigan Medicine Clinical Intelligence Committee, which oversees the implementation of machine learning models across the health system.
He teaches a health data science course for graduate and doctoral students, and provides clinical care for people with kidney disease. He completed his internal medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center, where he served as chief resident, and a nephrology fellowship in the combined Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital program in Boston, MA. He completed his medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School and holds a master’s degree in medical sciences in Biomedical Informatics from Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in internal medicine, nephrology, and clinical informatics.