Alejandro Berenstein, MD (Dr B.) was born in Mexico City in 1948, graduated from the UNAM, at present is Professor of Radiology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is Director of the Hyman-Newman Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Roosevelt Hospital in NYC. Berenstein is also the Site Chair in the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Cheryl Pegus, M.D., M.P.H is the former Chief Medical Officer for Walgreen Co. and is Responsible for Clinical Affairs, Outcomes and Analytics, Employee Health and Wellness and Clinical Sales. She is currently the director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation at New York University.
Farzad Mostashari, M.D., Sc.M. formerly served as the National Coordinator for Health IT within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department …
Yoav Medan, Former Vice President and Chief Systems Architect at InSightec Ltd., Israel, was responsible for developing new platforms for the Magnetic Resonance guided Focused Ultrasound technology.
David Kirchhoff is the Former President and CEO of Weight Watchers. In this role, Mr. Kirchhoff oversaw a network of 19,000 service providers in almost every community around the country, as well as international operations in communities around the world.
Gabor Forgacs is a theoretical physicist turned bioengineer turned innovator-entrepreneur. He is the George H. Vineyard Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Executive and Scientific Director of the Shipley Center for Innovation at Clarkson University.
Ashley Dombkowski had global responsibility for 23andMe’s translational collaboration initiatives. She was previously a member of the Board of Directors at 23andMe and was a Managing Director at MPM Capital. She currently is the Managing Director with Bay City Capital.
Aneesh Chopra was the United States’ first Chief Technology Officer and in this role served as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy.
John Hoffman is vice president of HBO Documentary Films and was named to this position in June 2006. He is also Executive Producer of The Weight of the Nation, a four-part series and large-scale public health campaign presented by HBO and the Institute of Medicine in association with the CDC, NIH, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Kaiser Permanente. An award-winning television producer, Hoffman has been associated with HBO since 1996, having spearheaded some of the network’s most noteworthy and critically acclaimed documentaries as an independent producer.
Mary (Missy) Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the Navy’s first female fighter pilots.