Peter Aguero was born and raised in Southern New Jersey and currently makes his home in Queens. He’s a Moth GrandSLAM champion, regular host of Moth shows, and an instructor for the MothSHOP community program. Fulfilling the dreams of no one, he appeared shirtless on Late Night With Conan O’Brien multiple times. He’s also the lead singer of The BTK Band – an improvised storytelling rock band that performs regularly in NYC.
Pritpal S. Tamber helps qualify and select speakers and assists with strategy for the stage program. A physician with over 12 years’ experience in creating compelling content in health and medicine, Pritpal is the founder of Optimising Clinical Knowledge, a UK-based consultancy that helps organizations devise and deliver clinically credible strategies with measurable impact on care.
Giovanni Colella co-founded Castlight Health in 2008, along with Todd Park (currently U.S. chief technology officer and formerly the CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and Bryan Roberts of Venrock. Prior to co-founding Castlight, Giovanni was Founder, President and CEO of RelayHealth, which was acquired by McKesson.
H. Shaw Warren, M.D., is a physician and pediatrician in the Infectious Disease Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Shaw received his training from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and did further training in Infectious Disease in Boston and at the Institute Pasteur in Paris before returning to Boston.
Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, co-directs the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He applies computational techniques, whole genome analysis, and functional genomics to study human diseases through the developmental lens, and particularly through the use of animal model systems.
John Kheir, MD is a staff physician in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He has developed and tested methods for the intravenous administration of oxygen using gas-filled microparticles. He is now the principal investigator of a lab which is further developing this concept and testing it in a variety of animal models.
In 1997, Jonathan Bush co-founded athenahealth as a women’s health practice management company. Today, athenahealth has evolved into a leading provider of cloud-based business services to U.S. medical groups pursuing a vision of an information backbone that makes healthcare work as it should.
Dr. Gary Slutkin is an epidemiologist, an innovator in violence reduction, and the Founder/ Executive Director of Cure Violence, formerly known as CeaseFire. He previously served as Medical Director for the San Francisco Health Department Tuberculosis Program, and worked for the World Health Organization reversing epidemics, including Uganda’s AIDS program, the only country to have reversed its AIDS epidemic.
America Bracho is the Executive Director of Latino Health Access, a center for health promotion and disease prevention located in Santa Ana, California. This Center was created under her leadership to assist with the multiple health needs of Latinos in Orange County.
Elazer R. Edelman holds faculty appointments at MIT where he directs the Biomedical Engineering Center and Harvard Medical School where he serves as Senior Attending Physician in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. His research combines his scientific and medical training using controlled drug delivery, growth factor biochemistry, tissue engineering, biomaterials-tissue interactions, and continuum mechanics to examine the mechanisms of tissue repair.