Vision

Pioneers in Healthcare and Technology

		Jordan Shlain, MD Founder & Chief Medical Officer Dr. Shlain is an actively practicing internist who believes in value-based, personalized medicine. He has founded numerous medical and technology companies with the common thread of bringing doctors and patients closer together. When he is not caring for patients, he is always fine tuning his patient centric practice, CurrentHealth. Dr. Shlain is regularly featured on national programs, and is the President of the American Academy of Private Physicians. He was recently chosen as a top #100 innovator on the hit healthcare blog www.healthspottr.com and is very involved in the Health 2.0 movement.
		Cheryl Toth, MBA VP, Product & Operations Cheryl is a creative problem solver who has been helping physicians adopt online technologies since the 1990s, when it was revolutionary to post patient registration forms on the Web. Her focus is on helping healthcare professionals adopt technology to improve efficiency, care, and communication. Previously a senior consultant with KarenZupko & Associates, Cheryl is a dynamic speaker and advisor with a deep understanding of practice management, process improvement, and marketing. As VP of Digital Solutions for iConecto, she oversaw development and operations of collaboration portals for Ascension Health. Cheryl has published hundreds of articles on practice management and health technology issues, and was the content editor of eHealthcare: Harness the Power of eCommerce & eCare.
		Ben Rosner, MD, PhD Chief Medical Informatics Officer Dr. Rosner is a clinician, scientist, and entrepreneur.  His industry roles have included Medical Director at Archimedes, Inc. where he guided mathematical modeling of physiologic and healthcare systems for pharma, voluntary health organizations, and biotech. In that role he has published high-impact studies in the peer reviewed literature, spoken on a national platform, and has been influential on the revision of clinical practice guidelines as well as on the opinions of payers and national policy makers in the smarter and more cost-effective design and practice of medicine. He has also served as Director of Research at early stage biotech start-ups guiding companies through Angel and Venture Capital investment rounds, and is a Kauffman Fellows Program Finalist. An internist, he currently sees patients at Kaiser Permanente in northern CA.
		Mayank Thanawala Director, Engineering Mayank is a pragmatic software and systems architect, specializing in health care and biotechnology applications since the mid-1990s.  He developed numerous scientific and medical data management applications at Incyte, DiaDexus and CardioDx, and has built and managed web-scale software in his work with the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD) and Amazon. Mayank’s software architecture experience is complemented by his background in numerical and statistical analysis, and his solution-driven approach.

Our Advisors

		Ted Meisel, JD Senior Business Advisor & Investor Ted is an experienced digital media and health tech operator, advisor and investor. He is Senior Advisor at Elevation Partners, where he serves on the boards of Forbes and Marketshare. Ted is also a board member of healthtech companies WiserCare, LLC and Doctor Evidence, LLC. He is vice chairman of the board of Hope Street Group, a not-for-profit, bipartisan organization focused on improving the performance of the education, healthcare, and other socioeconomic systems in the US. Ted is the former CEO of Overture, which he led to $1 billion in revenues and its sale to Yahoo! in 2003 for $1.6 billion. He then led the Overture division (renamed Yahoo Search Marketing) to substantial growth before stepping down in 2006. Prior to Overture, Ted played several executive roles at CitySearch, helping to grow that company from 30 employees to its eventual sale to IAC.
		Michael Kaplan, MBA Founder & Managing Director, Altos Health Mike has more than twenty years of healthcare experience as an operator, acquirer, venture investor, board member, consultant and investment banker. He currently serves as the Managing Director of Altos Health Management, an early stage venture capital fund.  Prior to founding Altos Health Management, Mike was a Partner at Three Arch Partners, a venture capital firm focused on medical devices and healthcare services. At the time, Three Arch managed approximately $1.1 billion in a series of five funds, and investments ranged from seed capital to late-stage growth equity and buyouts. Mike led the investment in and/or served on the boards of 18 portfolio companies during nearly a decade at Three Arch. Prior to joining Three Arch Partners, Mike was an operating executive at Blue Shield of California, where his roles included Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning, Regional Chief Executive for Northern California, and Vice President of Business Transformation.
		Karen Zupko President, KarenZupko & Associates, Inc. For more than 30 years, Karen Zupko has been a leader in practice and reimbursement management for leading groups, academic medical centers and entrepreneurial solo physicians.  Known for her engaging and high energy presentations, practical articles and result-producing consulting, Karen leads a 25 person group with a national client base in broad range of specialties.  The firm has relationships with national specialty societies spanning over 20 years, giving it “brand name” recognition among their members. Prior to founding Karen Zupko & Associates, Karen headed the American Medical Association’s Department of Practice Management.  She serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Medical Practice Management and Medical Economics magazine.   She is a regular contributor to numerous other magazines and newsletters.
		Paul Turek, MD Urologist & Medical Director, The Turek Clinic Recognized as an international authority and thought leader on men’s reproductive health issues, Dr. Turek is Director of The Turek Clinic, a men’s health clinic in San Francisco. He is a former Professor of Urology, Obstetrics & Gynecology at the UCSF and held the Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair in Urology Education. Dr. Turek has written nearly 200 publications focused on germ and stem cell genetics, and men’s sexual and reproductive health problems. He is an active consultant to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and serves on the Advisory Boards of Fertile Hope and The Men’s Health Network. Dr. Turek advises biopharma companies such as Gilead Sciences, BioQuiddity, Genzyme Genetics, Auxilium, and Roche, and recently founded a volunteer medical clinic for the working uninsured that’s powered by retired physicians.
		Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS Chief Medical Information Officer, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital & Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine Dr. Christopher Longhurst is a board-certified hospitalist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Chris also has a graduate degree in medical informatics and holds an administrative appointment as the Chief Medical Information Officer at Packard Children’s. In this role he has helped lead the hospital’s transition to electronic medical records and developed that system as a diverse tool to enhance patient safety, efficiency, and quality of care.
		Marty Boos Chief Information Officer Marty has 25 years of hands-on experience delivering scalable, secure, and highly available cloud environments for mobile services, on-line retailers and global service providers. Most recently, he was responsible for eCommerce hosting and managed services operations, as well as the company’s global network operations center and internal IT, at MarketLive. Previously, Marty was the CIO for Motorola/Good Technology, where he was responsible for the company’s Network Operations Center. Marty has also held the role of CIO/CTO for Digital River, where he launched five, world-class data centers and designed and managed the infrastructure for 40,000 hosted e-commerce web sites transacting over $2B/year. Digital River revenues grew from $2M – $220M during his tenure. Marty has done consulting work for Best Buy, Target Corporation, Fingerhut companies and MCC Behavioral Health Care.
		Michelle Snyder Consultant/Entrepreneur Michelle is an entrepreneur and consultant with more than 20 years of healthcare industry experience. Her wide range of clients includes venture firms, pharmaceutical companies, and early stage companies. Michelle was one of the senior executives responsible for building Epocrates into a leading mobile health care information technology company, driving user network growth to more than 40% of all U.S. physicians.  Prior to Epocrates, Michelle worked as a health strategy consultant for several firms such as the Wilkerson Group, the Lewin Group and Georgetown Center for Health Policy Studies. She currently advises a leading venture firm on its healthcare IT strategy, and serves as a mentor to early stage health care entrepreneurs.
		Todd C. Cozzens CEO, Accountable Care Solutions – Optum Todd Cozzens co-founded Picis, the leading high acuity information systems company and has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare technology and information systems industry. It was Cozzens’ original strategic vision of information systems for the high-acuity care areas of hospitals that drove the company to a 50% annual growth rate over a ten year span and to over 2100 hospital clients. He was Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young in 2005. Prior to Picis, Cozzens served as the president of a division of Marquette Medical Systems (now GE Healthcare) and held several other senior management positions, including vice president of sales, from 1983 to 1995. Cozzens is a graduate of Marquette University and the Harvard Business School Executive Program for Management Development. He was a four-time member of the U.S. Olympic Sailing team from 1980 to 1992. In August of 2010, Picis was acquired by Optum, part of United Health Group. Cozzens now leads Optum’s accountable care solutions group focused on helping healthcare providers to design, build and operate accountable care organizations and sustainable health communities utilizing Optum’s leading analytics, population management and care coordination solutions.
		Dave Schmidt Principal Schmidt & Associates After leading SCAN Health Plan from the brink of bankruptcy to a position of national prominence, Dave Schmidt has established a consultancy practice in the health care industry. Schmidt served as Chief Executive Officer and board member of SCAN™ Health Plan, a not-for-profit health care organization and the largest Social HMO and 10th largest Medicare Advantage plan in the country. Prior to SCAN, Schmidt served as CEO of Medicheck. He led the company through developing its software platform and sale to Passport Health Communications. He was also Senior Vice President of Sales and Customer Services with Care America/Blue Shield Health Plan and Regional Vice President for FHP Healthcare. Prior to a career in managed care, Schmidt held senior management positions at Avery-Dennison, Memorex and Rockwell International.
		Marc Toth Field Manager, Bard Vascular Systems Marc is a senior sales and marketing professional who has significant experience with early stage startup companies in the cardiovascular and vascular product industry. He was a CROSSER specialist at FlowCardia until CR Bard purchased the company in 2010. He was responsible for the launch and sales training of CardioVention’s CORx cardiopulmonary bypass system, and led the sales team that introduced Jostra-Bentley’s European cardiovascular surgery products into the U.S. market. An early member of the Cordis sales force that launched the first drug-eluting cardiac stent, Marc has also worked for Heartport and startup venture Nephrion.
		Gabriel Eichler, MSc, PhD Director of Consulting, InnoCentive Gabriel Eichler is a biomedical informatics advisor, author, and consultant with over a decade in the field. Gabriel advises companies on the use of Open Innovation to solve computational problems. He completed his graduate work at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where his research focused on the genomics of cancer. Prior to graduate school, Gabriel worked at Harvard Medical School’s Laboratory of Pathology, where he focused on genomics projects and patented his GEDI data visualization algorithm. He is published in numerous journals on the topics of genomics, metabolomics and technology for personalized medicine.
		Ken Goldberg, PhD Professor of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research University of California at Berkeley Ken is an engineer whose professorial scope includes appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Information.  Ken and his students work in two areas: Geometric Algorithms for Automation, and Medical Robotics. Ken has published over 150 research papers and edited four books. Ken’s art installations based on his research have been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Whitney Biennial, Pompidou Center in Paris, Buenos Aires Biennial, and the ICC in Tokyo.
		Eric Swagel, MD Dr. Swagel is a practicing internist with an interest in making evidence-based medicine work in a patient care setting.  After graduating from the UCLA School of Medicine and completing his Internal Medicine residency at UCSF, he joined the UCSF faculty where he received awards for his work in training students andresidents.  In addition to clinical and teaching responsibilities, he directed Quality Improvement Committees at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, where he came to appreciate the ability of healthcare information technology to modify physician behavior.  His work as a clinician, educator, and agent of change in medical culture inform his motivation to help technology transform the work of patient care.
		Randy Gobbel, PhD Director of Engineering, CollabRx Randy’s career is focused on software systems engineering, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science/neuroscience. At CollaboRx, he plays a lead role in the development of applications for selecting customized, targeted therapies for cancer. Randy holds a Ph.D in computational neuroscience and cognitive science from UC San Diego, where he conducted computational modeling of Parkinson’s disease, then carried out postdoctoral research in neural reinforcement learning at Carnegie-Mellon University. Randy was a senior member of the research staff of Xerox PARC, contributed to the development of the Pathway Tools metabolomics knowledge base in the Bioinformatics Research Group at SRI, and was Director of Advanced Development and General Manager for Afferent Systems.
		Simon Brownleader, MD General Practitioner, Partner, Blithehale Medical Centre, London Dr. Brownleader trained as a primary care physician and is a practicing partner at Blithehale Medical Centre in London, England. He has an interest in medical education and is responsible for both undergraduate and postgraduate training in particular general practitioner trainees. He is a board member of a large network of primary care practices responsible for providing community health services within Tower Hamlets, London.  A founding member of Mediverse, he is actively involved in exploring and researching virtual environments within medical education.  Dr. Brownleader has previously volunteered in Mozambique with MSF (Doctors Without Borders) where he provided medical services in conjunction with the UN to demobilized soldiers and local populations in remote areas.
		Tze-Ming (Benson) Chen, MD Pulmonologist, California Pacific Medical Center Dr. Chen is a pulmonary and critical care physician with subspecialty expertise in end-stage liver disease and acute respiratory distress syndrome intensive care management, as well as lung nodule and lung cancer evaluation and staging with the use of advanced diagnostic interventional bronchoscopy. During his fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Stanford University, he was involved in lung cancer stem cell research under the guidance of Dr. Irving Weissman and was awarded one of the first post-graduate fellow grants from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine.  He is currently on staff at the California Pacific Medical Center where he is the Co-medical Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program and the Associate Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program.
		Margaret Skurka, MS, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA Professor & Director, HIM Programs, Indiana University Northwest Margaret is an internationally known health information management educator, consultant, speaker, and author. She has served as president of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and was AHIMA’s representative from the US to the International Federation of Health Information Management Associations, where she was President-Elect from 2007 to 2010. In that capacity she was a member of the Executive Committee and the co-chair of the World Health Organization’s FIC Joint Collaboration, working on the project of international coder recognition. Margaret is currently president of the International Association, the IFHIMA , from 2010 to 2013. She was named a Fellow of AHIMA in 2008, and honored as the Distinguished Member of the Association in 2010.
		Jeff Oscodar Managing Director, Co-Founder SBIR Ventures Jeff is a results-oriented executive, investor and advisor to early stage companies. He has led or been involved with $500M in acquisitions and financings and has designed, implemented and supervised the introduction of over a dozen new products. 1996, he co-founded InfoGear Technology Corporation as part of an Ackerman Group spin-out transaction from National Semiconductor. There, he oversaw the launch of multiple products and services and raised approximately $35 million. Jeff also stepped into the CEO role at consumer electronics company ZVUE Corp, where he successfully turned the failing company around and took it public fourteen months later. Today Jeff delivers advice and assistance to small companies, helping them connect with venture investors, strategic partners and customers.