Biography
Debbie Cyncynatus is a registered nurse with 29 years of experience in areas of critical care, medical and surgical care, nursing management and hospital administration. Debbie is skilled in large-scale change, Big 4 consulting, strategic and tactical planning, clinical operations improvement, transformational and thought leadership, process improvement, patient first, hospital leadership and program management with a track record of breakthrough performance. She is also knowledgeable in transformational change leadership, lean management, healthcare transformation, case management, pharmacy, supply chain, revenue cycle and clinical informatics. Debbie’s strengths include effective communication, group and team facilitation, executive leadership, process improvement, relationship-building, physician relationships, data/analytics and clinical skills. Debbie earned her MBA and also a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. She is currently working toward a Doctor in Nursing Practice from Capella University
Research Interest
Nursing Practice from Capella University
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,e Health
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