Panelists

Micky Tripathi, PhD MPP

National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Micky Tripathi is the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he leads the formulation of the federal health IT strategy and coordinates federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments.  

Dr. Tripathi has over 20 years of experience across the health IT landscape. He most recently served as Chief Alliance Officer for Arcadia, a health care data and software company focused on population health management and value-based care, the project manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR, and a board member of HL7, the Sequoia Project, the CommonWell Health Alliance, and the CARIN Alliance.

Dr. Tripathi served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company. He was also the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a statewide HIE partnered with the Regenstrief Institute, an Executive Advisor to investment firm LRVHealth, and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

He holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a Presidential Management Fellow and a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal.

Nate Beyor, PhD

Managing Director & Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Nate leads Health Tech for BCG, based out of Southern California.  He is passionate about the interface between technology and biology, with a healthy appreciation for operational rigor. He has spent his career exploring different avenues at this intersection, from microfluidics, to biologics manufacturing, to stem cell therapy development, and now in digital health. At BCG, he has hands on experience launching digital solutions in SaMD, remote monitoring, clintech, supply chain, and precision medicine.  Nate believes in the power of technology to change how we treat, how we heal, and how we live.

Philip Wickline

Cofounder and Chief Technology Officer, Zus Health

Philip Wickline is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Zus Health, Inc. a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data at the point of care via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations.

Prior to Zus, Philip was Chief Technology Officer for OM1, Inc. a leading health outcomes and registries company focused on the measurement, comparison, and prediction of treatment outcomes. Philip led the development of OM1’s real world evidence technology platform, aggregating and interpreting massive volumes of clinical data to produce patient registries in a variety of condition areas. Prior to OM1, he held executive positions at a variety of data-focused technology companies. Philip holds a BA from Wesleyan University in Math and Computer Science, and a MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and three children.

Wout Brusselaers

Founder and CEO at Deep6 AI

Wout Brusselaers is the CEO and co-founder of Deep 6 AI, a cutting-edge AI platform leading clinical trial acceleration.

Wout began his career as a diplomat in the Middle East before joining McKinsey & Company and serving a variety of industries across Asia. Wout next founded an extreme sports adventure company in Singapore and then spent five years in the high-stakes world of international security, growing and leading a 22,000-headcount organization across four continents into a $500M global player.

Deep 6 AI is the leader in clinical trial acceleration software which connects dozens of leading healthcare organizations and life science companies in a precision research ecosystem to bring life-saving therapies to patients faster. Deep 6 applies AI to both structured and unstructured clinical data to identify the right patients and sites for clinical trials in real time.  

Wout is a frequent speaker on artificial intelligence and data modeling in healthcare and works closely with hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, universities and research institutes.

Moderator

Christopher Llop

Vice President, Analysis Group

M.I.D.S., information and data science, UC Berkeley School of Information; B.S., electrical engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo

Mr. Llop brings expertise in data science, software development, and analytics to assist clients at the intersection of technology, software, and health care. His experience includes managing analytics teams studying both structured and unstructured datasets of all sizes, developing novel tools for data and source code analysis, reviewing source code for patent and copyright infringement, and modeling the dynamics of a variety of markets. Mr. Llop has managed software development and analytics projects involving the deployment of machine learning models for use by physicians, and the use of wearable devices and smartphones to gather data as part of medical studies. His work has included conducting time and motion studies on clinics in Haiti to help improve staffing decisions, as well as collecting high-resolution sensor data to assess the association between guided physical exercises and patient-reported outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Mr. Llop has experience in health care claims and medical records, and his work in this area has been published in Hospital Practice. He is a virtual lecturer for Python Fundamentals for Data Science at the University of California, Berkeley.