Alexis Normand
VP of Healthcare - Digital Health
Healthcare
United States
Biography
A graduate of HEC (Msc.), Sciences-Po (MPA) and La Sorbonne in philosophy (Ba), Alexis has a background in public policy, healthcare reform and strategic consulting. In 2013, he created the B2B department of French start-up Withings, acquired by Nokia in 2016. He became head of B2B for Nokia Digital Health and moved to the US in 2017 to leads its Boston office, until the company became Withings again. He is now VP of Healthcare. Alexis has driven the adoption of digital devices in healthcare with employers, medical providers and life sciences, growing B2B revenues. Working with major providers in Europe and the US, e.g., the Cleveland Clinic or Ochsner, he has implemented IoT based solutions that connect to Electronic Health Records, making it easy to monitor patient remotely and empower them in managing their chronic conditions. This has helped move from a logic of “fee for service†to “value-based" healthcare. Alexis has also has been an active digital health evangelist, both with the general public (Connected Health, HIMSS, AHA, OECD etc.), academics and regulators, e.g., as a member of the GDPR working Group on eHealth for the EU commission. Launching the Withings Health Institute, he worked with leading researchers (Scripps, Stanford etc.), sharing de-identified datasets on health trends to author joint scientific publications on public health. He has also authored a book on "The Revolution of eHealth", blog articles and opinion columns in leading newspapers. Recently, he also took an industry role as head of the Embleema Blockchain Consortium, bringing together patient advocacy groups, tech companies, providers and pharma, to empower patients to own their health data.
Research Interest
digital therapeutics & patient blockchain ,active digital health evangelist,eHealth
Biography
Nick Desai, CEO of Heal, is an entrepreneur who has started and led four successful startups over the last 18 years. To reboot America’s broken healthcare system, Nick founded Heal, a technology-enabled healthcare experience with comprehensive & timely doctor house calls at its foundation. At the touch of a button, a licensed physician can arrive at your door in two hours or less to conduct a comprehensive primary, preventive, pediatric or urgent care visit. In three years, Heal has raised over $65 million in investment capital, delivered over 60,000 house calls and driven over $41 million in healthcare savings. Nick earned his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Irvine, where he earned the 2018 Lauds and Laurels Distinguished Alumni Award, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Nick is a speaker and author with credits including Consumer Electronics Show, Harvard Business School, the Huffington Post and other publications.
Research Interest
AHA increase education,awareness of heart disease, practice of medicine,
Emmanuel Fombu
Entrepreneur, Digital Health Advocate, Healthcare Executive, Medical Futurist.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Biography
Dr Fombu is a recognized authority on the convergence of digital technologies and healthcare. He is an author, physician and medical futurist with over 10 years combined experience in clinical medicine, drug development, medical affairs, research, pragmatic trials and product lifecycle management strategy in biopharmaceutical industry and private equity. His current focus for Novartis is how digital technologies can be leveraged to better measure Novartis product’s real world effectiveness and value, and also to design more comprehensive disease management systems in partnership with digital health startups, payers and providers. In addition to his book, The Future of Healthcare: Human and Machine Partnering for Better Outcomes, Dr. Fombu has authored multiple research papers and abstracts in renowned peer reviewed journals. As a medical futurist and 2017 winner of the prestigious New York City Health Business Leaders Boldest Digital Health Influencer Award, Dr Fombu is a champion and advocate for value based healthcare, personalized medicine, mhealth, nanotechnology, big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital medicine. He serves as an external advisory board member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT.nano project. Dr Fombu did his clinical training at Emory-Crawford Long Hospital and holds an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business and a certification in Artificial Intelligence: Implications for business strategy from MIT’s Sloan school of management and Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Lab. He lives in New York City.
Research Interest
Artificial Intelligence clinical medicine,Health IT, Digital medicine, drug development,Big-Data medical affairs, research, pragmatic trials and product lifecycle management strategy in bio-pharmaceutical industry and private equity.
