6-7 June 2023
Tues-Wed
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Embarcadero Waterfront Hotel, CA

Digital Health Innovation Summit

Event Schedule

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7:00 - 8:00

Registration, Breakfast & Networking

8:00 - 8:10

Opening Remarks

Amir Lahav

Digital Health & Innovation Advisor for Pharma & Tech

8:10 - 10:10

Brain Health and Digital Neurology

8:10 - 8:35

Opening Keynote: How AI will Transform Early Childhood Neurodevelopmental Healthcare?

Sharief Taraman

CEO of Cognoa, Associate Professor and Former Division Chief, Pediatric Neurology

UC, Irvine
8:35 - 8:55

Featured Presentation: How to Design and Validate Digital Tools for Clinical Usefulness?

Bibi Bielekova

Chief, Neuroimmunological Diseases Section, Laboratory of Clinical Imunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
8:55 - 9:10

Harmonization of Digital Biomarkers Across Neurodegenerative Diseases

Bryan J. Hansen

Director Data Science and Digital Health, Neuroscience

Janssen Research & Development, LLC
9:10 - 9:25

Activity Monitoring in Boys with Duchenne Muscualr Dystrophy

Michael Binks

Vice President, Rare Disease Clinical and Translational Research

Pfizer
9:25 - 9:40

The Voice in the Brain: Digital Voice Biomarkers for Measuring Brain Health

Adam Vogel

Professor of Speech Neuroscience/ CEO of Redenlab

The University of Melbourne
9:40 - 9:55

The Future of Brain Health: Personalized Neuromodulation to Treat Brain Disorders

Ana Maiques

CEO

Neuroelectrics
9:55 - 10:10

Home-based Smartphone Assessments for Patients with Frontotemporal Dementia

Adam Staffaroni

Neuropsychologist and Assistant Professor, Memory and Aging Center

UCSF
10:10 - 10:40

Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:50

Digital Therapeutics: Is it Complementary To (or Better Than) Traditional Therapies?

10:40 - 11:00

Co-Presentation: Digital Therapeutics for Neurologic Injury and Disease

Brian Harris

Co-Founder and CEO

MedRhythms

Lou Awad

Assistant Professor and Founding Director, Neuromotor Recovery Lab

Boston University
11:00 - 11:15

Winning the Teletherapy Game: Optimizing Outcomes with the Secret Agent Society DTx Platform

Renae Beaumont

Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry

Weill Cornell Medicine
11:15 - 11:50

Panel: Digital Mental Health: Raising the Bar for Digital Therapeutics

Moderator

Iman Ahmed

Director, Digital Therapeutics

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies (U.S.)

Ariel Ganz

Precision Medicine and Mental Health Researcher

Stanford University School of Medicine

Jon Mysel

Director of Product Design

Click Therapeutics

Jessica Lake

Chief Science officer

Limbix

Athena Robinson

Chief Clinical Officer

Woebot Health

Scott Kollins

Chief Medical Officer

Akili Interactive
11:50 - 12:20

Digital Strategies for Patient Engagement

11:50 - 12:05

The Power of (the Patient) Doing Nothing: Improving Patients Engagement in Digital Healthcare

Roy Grossberg

Head of Engineering, Digital Patient Solutions

AstraZeneca
12:05 - 12:20

Using Digital Tools to Increase Patient Engagement and Compliance in a Clinical Study

Jeff Gombala

Global Lead, Digital Health Products & Platforms

ZS
12:20 - 12:30

Interactive Entertainment: The Digital Wheel of Fortune

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch Break

1:30 - 3:40

Track 1: Digital Disease Management and Virtual Care

1:30 - 1:45

The Future of Health Care Delivery: Connected Care, Improved Outcomes

Anobel Odisho

Associate Professor, Depts of Urology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Center for Digital Health Innovation

UCSF
1:45 - 2:00

The Role of Digital Health in Psychedelics

Jennifer Tippett

Director of Psychotherapeutic Development

Atai Life Sciences
2:00 - 2:35

Panel: Digital Monitoring and Management of Chronic Diseases

Moderator

Ritesh Patel

Senior Partner and Global Digital Health

FINN Partners

Arnab Roy

Global Lead, DCT Design & Analytics

ZS

Sarah Zweifach

Product Lead

Story Health

Hyein Cho

Clinical Research Scientist

Omada Health

Ronald Dixon

Chief Executive Officer

CareHive Health

Adam Kaufman

Digital Health Expert

2:35 - 2:50

Mirror, mirror on the...smartphone: An Innovative Digital Companion Platform to Empower Rare Disease Patients

Emily Lewis

Global Digital Business Transformation Lead

UCB
2:50 - 3:05

From Companion Apps to Digital-Drug Combination: Regulatory Landscape and Implications

Marty Culjat

SVP, Global Head of Digital Medicine & Regulatory Innovation

Eversana
3:05 - 3:40

Panel: Beyond The Pill: Digital Companions for Commercial Drug Therapies

Moderator

Emily Lewis

Global Digital Business Transformation Lead

UCB

Amir Kesten

VP Product, Solutions

Huma

Jin Lee

Former Director of Digital Health, Rx+ Global

Astellas Pharma

Kelly Watson

VP, Product & User Experience

Tidepool

Jessica Shull

Director of Digital Therapeutics

Vicore Pharma of Sweden
1:30 - 3:40

Track 2: Digital Outcome Measures and Surrogate Endpoints

1:30 - 1:45

How Digital Biomarkers Accelerate & Enable Precision CNS Drug Development?

Aman H. Bhatti

CEO

Cumulus Neuroscience
1:45 - 2:25

Panel: Digital Biomarkers in Neurological Diseases: Validation or Falsification?

Moderator

Rinol Alaj

Senior Director, Head of Clinical Outcomes Assessment & Patient Innovation

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Ariel Dowling

Head of Sensing and Measurements, Data Sciences Institute

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Bibi Bielekova

Chief, Neuroimmunological Diseases Section, Laboratory of Clinical Imunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Graham Jones

Head, Research and Innovation

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Adam Vogel

Professor of Speech Neuroscience/ CEO of Redenlab

The University of Melbourne
2:25 - 2:40

TBD

TBD

2:40 - 2:55

Predictive Models for Quantifying Disease Progression and Severity of ALS Using Home Asessments and Smartphone Data

Satoshi Iwasaki

Senior Director, Digital Healthcare Innovation, Corporate & Product Strategy

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Holdings America, Inc
2:55 - 3:10

Leveraging Emerging Biomarkers to Optimize Clinical Trial Operation in Alzheimer’s Disease

Jason C. Bork

Chief Operating Officer

Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation
3:10 - 3:25

Leveraging Oculometrics for Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Precision Medicine in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Micha Breakstone

Co-Founder and CEO

NeuraLight.ai
3:25 - 3:40

Mobile-only Ocular Markers for Concussion and Brain Health Assessment

Joanne Fielding

Chief Scientific Officer

BioEye
3:40 - 4:10

Coffee Break

4:10 - 4:35

Afternoon Keynote: Virtual Care's Next Chapter

Sean Duffy

Co-founder and CEO

Omada Health
4:35 - 5:00

Fireside Chat: Raising The Bar On Evidence and Efficacy in Digital Health: Calling For New Clinical Standards Raising

Ben Rosner

Associate Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine and Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research

UCSF

Jordan Silberman

Director of Clinical Analytics and Research, Digital Care Delivery

Elevance Health
5:00 - 5:15

Science for The People: A New Approach to Understand the Hidden Potential in Nature

Noah Craft

Co-founder and Co-CEO

People Science
5:15 - 6:00

Patient Voice Panel: Patients are People. Not Study ID Numbers.

What Motivates Patients to Use Trust, and Benefit from Digital Health Technologies?

Moderator

Parisa Vatanka

Thought Leader and Expert Moderator

Digital.Health

Gunnar Esiason

Principal, Patients & Strategy Lead

Cystic Fibrosis Patient Advocate

Florence Healthcare

Christine Von Raesfeld

Founder/CEO

Heart Failure Patient Advocate, Rare Disease

People with Empathy

Patient TBD

6:00

Closing Day 1

6:00 - 7:00

Evening Reception

7:00 - 8:00

Registration, Breakfast & Networking

8:00 - 8:05

Opening Remarks

Amir Lahav

Digital Health & Innovation Advisor for Pharma & Tech

8:05 - 10:10

AI in Pharma & Healthcare

8:05 - 8:30

Early Morning Keynote: AI-based Conversational Large Language Models (LLMs) in Healthcare: The Second Half of the Chessboard

Matthew Lungren

Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)

Microsoft
8:30 - 8:50

Penetrating the Digital AI-Med Market Through Grit, Spit, and Amnesia

Dennis Wall

Professor or Pediatrics and Biomedical Data Science

Stanford University
8:50 - 9:10

Co-Presentation: Transforming Clinical Trial Regulatory Reporting with Next-Generation AI Technology

Jennifer Bittinger

President

Narrativa

Len Rosenberg

Head of Clinical Operation

Beat AML / LLS
9:10 - 9:25

Drug Discovery with AI and NLP: Are We Heading in the Right Direction?

Bill McMahon

Chief Algorithmic Analytics Officer

Sumitovant
9:25 - 10:10

Broad-Spectrum Panel: Can AI help make our world healthier?

Moderator

Amir Lahav

Digital Health & Innovation Advisor for Pharma & Tech

David Suendermann-Oeft

Founder and CEO

Modality.AI

Liz Kwo

Chief Medical Officer

Everly Health

Quan Zhou

Director of Business Operations

MD.ai

Jayme Strauss

Chief Clinical Officer

Viz.ai

Matthew Lungren

Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)

Microsoft
10:10 - 10:40

Coffee Break

10:40 - 12:30

Agility and Innovation in Modern Clinical Trials and RWE Studies

10:40 - 10:55

How AI and iRWD can Accelerate Predictions and Precision Medicine for Patient Outcomes

MaryAnne Rizk

Digital Health Advisor

10:55 - 11:10

Accelerating Clinical Trials with a Digital-First Self-Service Solution from Prototype to Launch

Nico O'Kuinghttons

VP – Commercial

Huma
11:10 - 11:25

Getting it Right the First Time: Optimizing Study Design Through Data Insights Driven by ML and AI

Chelsea Gallagher

Director, Innovation & Digital Health

BMS
11:25 - 11:40

Lessons Learned from Implementing a Precision Oncology Platform

Mika Newton

Chief Executive Officer

xCures
11:40 - 12:00

Co-Presentation: Using Data Intelligence to Get Enrollment on Track

Josh Brandoff

Head of Data

OneStudyTeam

Aunna Nakazawa

Senior Director of Customer Success

OneStudyTeam
12:00 - 12:30

Panel: Using AI-driven Technology in Decentralized Clinical Trials: Are Patients, Sites, and CROs Ready?

Moderator

Jane Myles

Program Director, Special Projects

DTRA

Dana Edwards

Chief Operating Officer

Circuit Clinical

Nindhana Paranthaman

Principal Medical Director and Medical Partner, USMA Oncology

Genentech

Ingrid Oakley-Girvan

SVP of Research, Value and Strategy

Medable, Inc

Chelsea Gallagher

Director, Innovation & Digital Health

BMS

Anna Yang

Clinical Innovation and Technology Leader, Evidence Generation US Medical Affairs

Genentech, Inc.
12:30 - 12:40

Interactive Entertainment: TBD

12:40 - 1:40

Lunch Break

1:40 - 4:00

Track 1: Successful Partnerships and Data Integrations Across the Healthcare Ecosystem

1:40 - 2:00

Bridge 2 AI program: The Power of Clinical Data Consortiums and Multi-Institutional Partnerships

Yael Bensoussan

Division Chief of Laryngology, Assistant Professor and Director of Voice Center

USF Health
2:00 - 2:15

Retail Pharmacy, Pharma, &Healthcare: A Collaborative Advantage for Driving Better Outcomes and Modernize Clinical Trials

Josh Rose

VP, Head of Clinical Trial Delivery, Site Solutions and Strategy

CVS Health
2:15 - 2:30

Personalised Digital Health Solutions: The Next Frontier in South East Asia's Healthcare Landscape

Agata Blasiak

Head of Digital Health Innovation

The Institute for Digital Medicine, National University of Singapore
2:30 - 2:45

Clinical Data Without Borders: The Federated Learning Approach To Global Collaborations

Ittai Dayan

Co-founder and CEO

Rhino Health
2:45 - 3:00

Co-Presentation: A Partnership Model for A Decentralized Study With Digital Home-Based Assessments in ALS

Sharon Hesterlee

EVP & Chief Research Officer

Muscular Dystrophy Association

Satoshi Iwasaki

Senior Director, Digital Healthcare Innovation, Corporate & Product Strategy

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Holdings America, Inc
3:00 - 3:20

TBD

Medidata

3:20 - 3:35

Key Learnings for Partnering with Pharma and Healthcare Organizations

Ofer Waks

Director, Digital Strategy and Innovation

Pfizer
3:35 - 4:00

Cafe Style Conversation: What Makes Successful Partnerships?

Moderator

Sara Silacci

Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Managing Director, Center for Innovation in Digital HealthCare at Massachusetts General Hospital

Mass General Brigham

Lee Lehman-Becker

Vice President, Global Head of Partnering

Roche Information Solution

James Mault

CEO and Chairman

BioIntelliSense

Cheryl Cheng

Founder and CEO

Vive Collective
1:40 - 4:00

Track 2: Digital Biomarkers and Wearable Sensors

1:40 - 1:55

Digital Exploratory Measures in a Phase 2 Study in Parkinson's Dementia - Lessons Learned

Ann Marie Hake

Executive Director, Digital Health Research and Development

Eli Lilly and Company
1:55 - 2:10

Digital Health in the ALS Clinic

Andrew Geronimo

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery

Penn State College of Medicine
2:10 - 2:25

Wearable Sensors and Digital Health Technologies for Tracking Disease Progression and Therapeutics Effects in CNS Disorders

Ashkan Vaziri

CEO

BioSensics
2:25 - 2:40

StepWatch - The Gold Standard in Real-World Mobility Monitoring

Teri Chou

CEO

Modus Health
2:40 - 2:55

Wearable Device and Smartphone Data for Tracking ALS Disease Progression

Marta Karas

Senior Manager, Statistical & Quantitative Science

Takeda Pharmaceuticals
2:55 - 3:10

Advanced Wearable Sensors for Novel Digital Endpoints

Steve Xu

Assistant Professor in Dermatology, Engineering, and Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

CEO of Sibel Health
3:10 - 3:30

Co-Presentation: Developing Patient Centric, Real-World Digital Clinical Measures for Rett Syndrome

Jana von Hehn

Chief Scientific Officer

Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT)

Robert Wright

Research Scientist

VivoSense
3:30 - 4:00

Panel: Wearable Devices in 2030: How's it Gonna Look Like?

Moderator

Gary Monk

Thought Leader and Expert Moderator

Gary Monk Digital Consulting

Ashkan Vaziri

CEO

BioSensics

Teri Chou

CEO

Modus Health

Jochen Hurlebaus

Head Digital Health Innovation

Roche Diagnostics International Ltd

TBD

4:00 - 4:30

Happy Hour Break!

4:30 - 4:40

Interactive Entertainment: The Digital Wheel of Fortune

4:40 - 5:05

Special Closing Keynote: Provider, Payer, Purchaser, Pharma, Patient: What I Learned From Working For Each of Them

Amanda L. Goltz

U.S. Lead for Worldwide Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
5:05 - 5:45

Panel: Kids Come First: Innovative Technology to Improve Patient Experience in Pediatric Care and Clinical Trials

Moderator

Leane West

Chief Engineer of Pediatric Technology | President, International Children’s Advisory Network (iCAN)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Michael Binks

Vice President, Rare Disease Clinical and Translational Research

Pfizer

Dennis Wall

Professor or Pediatrics and Biomedical Data Science

Stanford University

Renae Beaumont

Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry

Weill Cornell Medicine

Ricky Choi

Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics | Head of Digital Health, Samsung

Stanford Medicine Children's Health
5:45 - 5:55

Top 10 Innovative Digital Heallth Solutions in 2022-2023

Gary Monk

Thought Leader and Expert Moderator

Gary Monk Digital Consulting
5:55-6:00

Closing Remarks

Amir Lahav

Digital Health & Innovation Advisor for Pharma & Tech