Speaker Bios for Spring 2013

Missy Krasner
Executive in Residence, Morgenthaler Ventures

Missy is currently working as an EIR at Morgenthaler Ventures looking for interesting startups in health IT or Health 2.0 that need Series A funding. Career History: Seasoned marketing and communications professional with an emphasis on Health IT and Consumer Health. Over 20 years of product marketing, policy, and media relations experience in the healthcare vertical. Worked at GOOGLE for 5 years in health and consumer marketing. Founding member of GOOGLE HEALTH, an online medical records and wellness platform. Also lead Google.com search launches and large branding campaigns on the Consumer Search Marketing team. Worked at \ the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a ground-level team to set nation-wide health IT policies under the first National Coordinator of Health IT (David Brailer, M.D., Ph.D.). Have worked for both Kaiser and Aetna. Alum at Stanford University and UCLA. Currently advising a handful of start ups and am a mentor 500 Startups and HealthBox.

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Anita Pramoda
Co-founder, TangramCare

Anita Pramoda is the co-founder of TangramCare, a technology-enabled care delivery system with the patient at the heart. The company affords extremely sick patients an opportunity to receive care in their homes, recover comfortably, and convalesce with dignity. Anita was recently the Chief Financial Officer at Epic Systems Corporation, a $1 billion+ healthcare IT company, that provides electronic medical records for over 40% of the US population. Anita led Epic through a period of significant domestic market growth, its expansion into the governmental and international markets, and its launch into mobile health IT solutions.\ Prior to Epic, Anita helped commercialize self-healing packaging technology into wholesale, retail, and military sectors at Ontech. Earlier in her career, Anita worked with companies in the technology and healthcare sectors on a variety of strategic advisory and financing assignments at UBS Investment Bank and served clients around the world in healthcare and life sciences at Arthur Andersen.

Anita holds a BS degree in Engineering and a MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She is also an executive advisor for Technology Crossover Ventures where she helps evaluate investment opportunities within health IT.

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Anil Sethi
Founder & CEO, Glimpse

Anil recently returned from living off-the-grid, to Palo Alto, to fast-track his 4th venture, a "not just for profit" Rx Obesity biotech. Plus his 5th startup, Healthcare's APP Store. Sethi is a product strategy guy. A geek and nerd, foremost a roll-your-sleaves-up tech strategist, Anil bet his companies early on Microsoft NT, then the nascent Web, and in 1994 helped birth the internet RFC for XML, all the while bootstrapping topline CAGR of 90% during the first 6 years. Over 20 years, he's vetted deals for NEA, Baker, Anthem, Mid-Atlantic Ventures and others, done PE/VC and due-diligence around M&A deals in defense electronics, but mostly Personal Health Records (PHRs). He mentors at StartX Med (Stanford's startup Accelerator), taught an Entrepreneurship workshop at the American Embassy School in India, plus Stanford's Biodesign program in mobileHealth. In past, Sethi was CEO/CTO of Xlipstream, developing ?Healthcare?s Cable-Modem,? a plug-and-play appliance, exporting to PHRs. Sethi previously founded Sequoia Software (Nasdaq: SQSW), shepherding Sequoia through A/B/C venture rounds ($45M). In 2000, Sequoia completed a $40M IPO, and in 2001 Citrix Systems (Nasdaq: CTXS) acquired SQSW ($184M). In 2004, WebMD (NASDAQ: WBMD) acquired Dakota Imaging for it's US healthcare claims processing business, for $40M. Sethi?s technical achievements include organizing "Operation Jumpstart" (a.k.a. Kona), resulting in HL7?s CDA/CCR, ONC/CMS standard for XML-based interchange. Founding member of HL7's XML Special Interest Group + ASTM E31.25 Committee on XML for Healthcare. Sethi holds a patent for XML indexing. He was the PI on a $2M XML-based NIST grant for a ?Master Patient Index for Massively Distributed Records Across a U.S. National Backbone.?

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Bryan Sivak
Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Dept. of Health & Huamn Services

Bryan Sivak joined HHS as the Chief Technology Officer in July 2011. In this role, he is responsible for helping HHS leadership harness the power of data, technology, and innovation to improve the health and welfare of the nation.

Previously, Bryan served as the Chief Innovation Officer to Maryland Governor Martin O?Malley, where he has led Maryland?s efforts to embed concepts of innovation into the DNA of state government. He has distinguished himself in this role as someone who can work creatively across a large government organization to identify and implement the best opportunities for improving the way the government works.

Prior to his time with Governor O?Malley, Bryan served as Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, where he created a technology infrastructure that enhanced communication between the District?s residents and their government, and implemented organizational reforms that improved efficiency, program controls, and customer service. Bryan previously worked in the private sector, co-founding InQuira, Inc., a multi-national software company, in 2002, and Electric Knowledge LLC, which provided one of the world's first Natural Language Search engines available on the web in 1998.

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Guy Cavet, PhD
CIO, Head of Computational Sciences, Nodality Inc.

Guy Cavet works on the use of computing in biology and medicine. He currently leads the Informatics team at Nodality, which profiles signaling activity in individual cells to enable development of diagnostics and new therapeutics. Before that he worked on the application of predictive modeling to the life sciences and healthcare at Kaggle, a crowd-sourcing startup. His earlier work included leadership positions at Crescendo Bioscience, Genentech, Merck and Rosetta Inpharmatics. He holds an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Cambridge.

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Jake Marcus, MPH
Data Scientist, Practice Fusion

Jake Marcus is Practice Fusion?s staff Data Scientist. As a key part of the company?s Research Division, Jake analyzes the real-time health data from millions of de-identified electronic health records. Previous to his current position, Jake worked at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, where he developed methods for estimating trends in mortality rates and wrote software to simulate the impact of health interventions. He has been published in The Lancet, PLoS Medicine, and Population Health Metrics, and has written for The New Republic. Jake received his MPH from the University of Washington and his BA in mathe\ matics from Yale.

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Andreas Kogelnik, MD PhD
Founder & Director, Open Medicine Institute

Andreas Kogelnik, MD, PhD is founder and Director of OMI and a practicing physician. Prior to OMI, Dr. Kogelnik founded two companies and a non-profit organization. Having received his MD from Emory University, a PhD in Bioengineering from Georgia Tech, and completing his medical residency and fellowship at Stanford, he has been centrally involved in the information and genomic revolutions in medicine. He has served as an advisor/consultant to many Silicon Valley biotech and IT organizations including Epocrates, Counsyl, the Fogarty Institute for Innovation, and the El Camino Hospital Genomic Medicine Institute.

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Brian Naughton, PhD, Founding Scientist
23andMe

Brian joined 23andMe at its founding drawing on his experience in bioinformatics, statistics and genetics to analyze data, develop algorithms and translate scientific research to drive the world's first Personal Genome Service?. Among other projects, Dr. Naughton has worked on the design of the 23andMe custom chip which now analyzes over 1 million SNPs and the development of tools related both to risk estimation and ancestry. Brian received his PhD from the Biomedical Informatics program at Stanford University and is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland.

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Chris Wicher, VP, Watson Solutions Assurance
IBM

By background, Chris is a mathematician, having received a B.S. (Math) from the University of Santa Clara, M.A. (Math) from U.C.L.A., and a MBA from University of Santa Clara. After hiring into IBM in the Programming Systems unit, Chris held a variety of development management jobs across a wide range of IBM Software Group technology areas and IBM development labs, including Bethesda (leading development of artificial intelligence technology), and Director of the IBM Software Group RTP development lab (leading the original development of WebSphere). He is currently the Vice President of Assurance for Watson Solutions at IBM,\ responsible for the successful design and deployment of Solutions powered by IBM Watson.

Chris is a member of several national societies, including Pi Mu Epsilon (Math), Beta Gamma Sigma (Business), and ASQ, as well as the author of 12 patent filings (in the area of technology in WebSphere and Express product design).

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