Keynote Speakers

SANDEEP MENON Ph.D., Opening Keynote

Chief Scientific Officer of Artificial Information & Digital Science an SVP of Head of Early Clinical Development, Pfizer

Sandeep Menon is the Chief Scientific Officer of Artificial Information and Digital Science and SVP, Head of Early Clinical Development at Pfizer Inc., and holds Adjunct faculty positions at Boston University School of Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine and the Indian Institute of Management. At Pfizer, he is in the Worldwide Research, Development and Medical Leadership Team and leads a multi-functional global team which includes experts in Clinical Sciences, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Clinical Pharmacology, Quantitative Systems Pharmacology, Precision Medicine including labs, Digital Medicine which includes Pfizer Research and Innovation (PfIRE) lab, Translational Imaging and Early Scientific Planning and Operations. His responsibilities span into multiple therapeutic areas including Inflammation and Immunology, Oncology, Rare Disease, Anti-Infectives and Cardiovascular and Metabolism. He also leads Digital Medicine PfIRe (Pfizer Innovation and Research) lab with a remit to leverage state of the art technology to enable dynamic and remote monitoring of human behaviors to develop meaningful novel quantitative digital endpoints. During his years at Pfizer Sandeep has held leadership positions of increasing responsibility, from Discovery through Pivotal Studies. Prior to joining Pfizer, he held late-phase leadership roles at Biogen Idec and Aptiv Solutions (now ICON). Before joining the industry, he practiced family medicine in Mumbai and was Resident Medical Officer.

Sandeep is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), awarded the Young Scientist Award by the International Indian Statistical Association, received the Statistical Excellence Award in Pharmaceutical Industry by Royal Statistical Society, UK and recently received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University School of Public Health. He received his medical degree from Bangalore (Karnataka) University, India, and later completed his Masters in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Ph.D. in Biostatistics at Boston University and research Assistantship at Harvard Clinical Research Institute. He is on the advisory board for the M.S. program at Boston University. Sandeep served as an associate editor of the ASA journal Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research and served as an invited committee member of the prestigious Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award offered by ASA. He has published more than 50 scientific original publications and book chapters and co-authored /co-edited 7 books. He has received several awards for academic, teaching and research excellence.

ANDREW TRISTER, MD, Ph.D., Closing Keynote

Deputy Director, Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, Global Health @ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Andrew Trister leads digital health and artificial intelligence. His team focuses on building hardware and software solutions that enable high quality healthcare at the frontline of care delivery in the home and in the community in low resource settings. These products can lead to better care decisions by augmenting public and private frontline health workers with advanced technologies on mobile devices and ultimately improve population health management. 

Andrew is a physician scientist passionate about leveraging technology to improve health care for all. He believes the combination of multiscale digital data from patients can impact our understanding, prevention, and treatment of disease. He joined the foundation from Apple where he led clinical research and machine learning efforts in health special projects. Prior to Apple, he was the senior physician at Sage Bionetworks where he focused on incentives for researchers and participants to collaborate on large datasets and translating those findings to clinical settings. 

Andrew completed residency in radiation oncology at the University of Washington, earned an MD, PhD in bioengineering, MSE and BSE in computer science, and a BA in biological basis of behavior all from the University of Pennsylvania.