Exiting and Transforming: Level Up
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Examine strategies for exiting or transforming scaled healthcare enterprises.
The April event was focused on helping established healthcare businesses transform (we labeled it “Level up”). It follows the kick-off event we hosted in November 2024 which was about getting early healthcare ventures off the ground (aka “Fuel Up”) and our February event which focused on building a sustainable business model (aka “Ramp up”). For each event, we bring together panelists representing the lenses of operators (CEO/President), financial and strategic investors.

 Operator: Caitlin Zulla, US radiology
 Strategic Investor: Sukanya Soderland, – formerly BCBS MA
 Financial Investor: David Russell, Bain Capital

Moderator:
Eric Berger, MBA '11, Partner, Bain & Company

A conversation with Teresa Zayas-Caban, PhD – Enabling the use of standardized clinical data and data to advance discovery: Where are we now, and what’s next

Tuesday April 22, 2025

Speaker:
Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD, is Assistant Director for Policy Development, NLM, NIH

In this role she leads NLM's policy development and implementation activities.

Prior to her position at ONC, she was the Chief of Health IT Research and Acting Director of the Division of Health IT at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). While at AHRQ, she set new directions for their funding opportunities and coordinated with federal partners, such as the National Science Foundation.

Before joining AHRQ, she served as a post-doctoral trainee in the computation and informatics in biology and medicine program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She obtained her doctorate in industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow in industrial engineering.

Moderators:
Anne Quaadgras, Director, MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
Doug Williams, Product Lead, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Bringing together healthcare leaders with lenses covering health technology, Pharma and Med Tech.

Speakers:
Liam Hurley - Spencer Stuart
Anders Tveteraas - Novartis
Carolyn Kelley - Philips

Moderators:
Rebecca L. Schechter, MBA, Formerly at Nuance/Microsoft, Healthcare executive and CEO
Eric Berger, MBA '11, Partner, Bain & Company

Representing Digital in Pharma: Anders Tveteraas
Novartis VP @ Novartis, leading all int'l digital and patient facing activities

Anders leads international patient services at Novartis. In this role, he guides the strategy and implementation of how Novartis interacts directly with patients and any programs aimed at solving pain points along the patient journey. Examples include patient support call centers, companion apps, symptom checkers, and telemedicine solutions. In his prior role, he led Digital Health Solution development for Novartis' commercial Pharma division.

He joined Novartis from Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group in the US where he led Strategy & Digital for their population health management division. In this capacity, his team managed large remote monitoring programs, digitized care management solutions, and provided patient education. Previously, he led Digital for Boston Children's Hospital and kicked off their journey into telemedicine and online second opinions.

Originally trained as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, Anders holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School, an M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from London School of Economics, and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Natively Danish, he now lives in Brookline, MA together with his wife and three children.

Representing Talent Leadership in MedTech: Carolyn Kelley 
Philips People Partner, Monitoring and Sleep and Respiratory Care, Philips

Experienced hand-on collaborative and results-orientated Human Resources leader with broad functional experience. 20+ years of People Management and Leadership experience. Drive business value through driving change initiatives, coalition-building, talent selection and development, and operating across organizational boundaries. Known and respected for outstanding interpersonal skills, analytical problem solving, strong business acumen, executive presence and cultivating strategic relationships. Proven ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams to support customer needs.

Representing Exec search across Healthcare Technology: Liam Hurley 
Partner, Spencer Stuart TMT & CEO practices

An experienced corporate governance and talent adviser, Liam Hurley is a consultant and member of Spencer Stuart’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications and Board practices. Liam has conducted C-level and board director search assignments for many of the technology industry’s leading publicly traded and private equity-backed companies. In addition, Liam has expertise in public company board practices and global corporate governance trends and has extensive experience advising technology companies on board and C-suite succession.

Liam earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Connecticut College and an MBA from The American University. He has published extensively on a variety of technology and corporate governance issues, including enterprise risk management, cybersecurity, diversity, board composition, board evaluation and strategy oversight.

HSI Lunch Seminar Series Scale Up Health Part 2, Scaling - Ramp Up

Discuss key factors and best practices for successful scaling in healthcare. 

Speakers:
 

Gaye Bok
Partner | Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Fund

 Nell Buhlman, MBA
Chief Administrative Officer & Head of Strategy, PGForsta

Kara Murphy
Partner, Bain & Company

Jason Slocum
Managing Director, Sustainable Investing, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Co-Chairs:

Rebecca L. Schechter, MBA '96, Formerly at Nuance/Microsoft, Healthcare executive and CEO

Eric Berger, MBA '11, Partner, Bain & Company
 

Sparking a Data Revolution in Healthcare via FHIR: Conversations with Leaders from Government, Industry, and Innovators

The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI)  - Responsible AI in Health Care

Sparking a Data Revolution in Healthcare via FHIR: Conversations with Leaders from Government, Industry, and Innovators

BCH's Computational Health Informatics Program - Advancing the Science of Biomedical Informatics

Exiting Startup: Fuel Up
Explores challenges and strategies for transitioning from startup to growth stage.

Sparking a Data Revolution in Healthcare via FHIR: Conversations with Leaders from Government, Industry, and Innovators

Part 3: Driving Standards on the Road to FHIR Data Interoperability at 1upHealth

Speaker:
Don Rucker, M.D., M.S.
Chief Strategy Officer, 1upHealth & former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)

Dr. Rucker is an American medical informatician and emergency physician.  In April 2017, he was appointed National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.  Currently he serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at 1up.Health, a world leading FHIR Interoperability Platform vendor.

Physician leader with national clinical informatics success. Strong scientific, computational and practical background in medical computing and decision sciences. Board certified physician with broad clinical experience including at Kaiser Permanente, Beth Israel Deaconess, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Rucker has practiced emergency medicine in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.   He was Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's first full-time attending in the emergency department.   His teaching background includes 13 years as assistant professor of emergency medicine at University of Pennsylvania Health System and four years, immediately before his appointment to ONC, as professor of emergency medicine and biomedical informatics at Ohio State University.

For 13 years, Rucker was chief medical officer at Siemens Healthcare.  He was also CMO for worksite clinic provider Premise Health.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rucker

Moderators:
Anne Quaadgras, Director, MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
Doug Williams, Product Lead, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

This was part 3 of a 3-part series

Su (Sutin) Chen, M.D. Clinical Science Principal at MITRE & CodeX Steering Committee Chair

Dr. Chen is Program Manager and Clinical Director for CodeX, a not-for-profit community stakeholder-driven HL7 FHIR Accelerator optimizing data and API standards for patient care and research in cancer, genomics, and cardiovascular health. She is also a Digital Health Clinical Principal at MITRE.

As an intrepid emergency medicine physician and Stanford-educated computer scientist, Dr. Chen is a systems leader with extensive experience directing informatics in varied health settings – from serving as Director of Clinician IT in a nationwide healthcare system to being a Chief Medical Information Officer and Urgent Care Medical Director at a Federally-Qualified Health Center (FQHC) community clinic. She believes in wielding technology to create workable solutions that optimize health care outcomes, quality, and care coordination.

Moderators:
Anne Quaadgras, Director, MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
Doug Williams, Product Lead, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

This is part 2 of a 3-part series

Man Plans, God Laughs: A Personal Look At Early Stage Life Science Venture Investment

Carl Berke, PhD, MGB Ventures

Carl a Partner at Mass General Brigham Ventures and has more than 25 years of experience in the practice and management of innovation to bring new technologies from lab to market. As a bench scientist and R&D director, he worked at Polaroid Corporation and Hygeia Sciences in the development of photographic and clinical products for both consumer and professional markets – he is an inventor on six U.S. patents. He served as a Partner at Integral/Analysis Group, a consulting firm focusing on the management of innovation and growth strategy for clients in healthcare and consumer products. He has been an active private equity investor as a member of Angel Healthcare Investors LLC and is a founder of Mass Medical Angels.

Carl currently holds board roles for InStride Health, Pykus Therapeutics and SeQure Dx. He is a also currently a Board observer for Rippl Care, Tuesday Health, CardioSight and Lyndra Therapeutics and previously held board roles at Annovation [anesthetic agent], Combinent [women’s health], InfoBionic [cardiac monitoring], Kasalis [robotics], LifeImage [diagnostic image sharing], QPID Health [bioinformatics], Quosa [research literature management software], Sebacia [dermatology], Syntimmune [immunotherapy], and the Sudanese Education Fund [philanthropy].
Carl holds an A.B. degree from Cornell University and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. He also served as a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, teaching various courses on the topic of biomedical enterprise.

"Sparking a Data Revolution in Healthcare: Conversations with Leaders from Government, Industry, and Innovators"

Part 1: Creating a Global Network for AI Assurance with FHIR

Speaker:
John Halamka, M.D., M.S.
President, Mayo Clinic Platform, a digital initiative that brings together solution developers, data partners and healthcare service providers to transform healthcare.

Moderators:
Anne Quaadgras, Director, MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
Doug HSI Williams, Product Lead, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

This is part 1 of a 3-part series

Leveraging Technology in Healthcare Delivery: Overcoming Adoption Barriers

Speaker:
Joanna Brownstein, MBA’08
Founder of Brownstein Consulting, LLC
 
This talk delves into the role of technology in transforming healthcare. We'll discuss examples of innovative tech-driven clinical models and the practical challenges in their implementation. Using real work examples, we'll explore how to think about the barriers and drivers to stakeholder adoption. Ideal for those interested in the evolving intersection of technology and healthcare, this session offers key insights into leveraging technology for effective healthcare solutions.
 
Joanna Brownstein is an accomplished leader with over 20 years in the healthcare and health technology sectors, blending expertise from academia, pharmaceuticals, consulting, and entrepreneurship. She specializes in integrating disruptive technologies into healthcare settings with key roles in product management, customer success, and operational leadership. Joanna holds an MSW from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare

Join us for an illuminating seminar in medical ethics, where we delve into the complex challenges faced by healthcare professionals. Prepare to engage in a thought-provoking discussion exploring the fundamental principles of medical ethics and discuss real-world dilemmas in the age of cutting-edge medicine.

Bio: Karim Malek is a quadruple-board internist, medical oncologist, hematologist and emergency medicine physician with 30+ years experience caring for patients with life-threatening illnesses, be it in the rush of an emergency room, in the confines of a cancer clinic or more recently as a developer of novel cancer therapeutics. His career spanned over France and the United States. In addition to a Masters in Theology where he has formally studied Medical Ethics, Karim brings the practical experience gained through sitting on committees examining difficult decision making healthcare professionals face in their daily practice of medicine.

“Sparking a Data Revolution in Healthcare: Conversations with Leaders from Government, Industry, and Innovators”

Part 3:  Nov 15 - What This Means for Innovators: Cloud, Generative AI, Genomics

Speaker: Ricky Sahu, Founder @GenHealth.ai and @1up.Health, building generative healthcare AI.
* In 2017, Ricky founded 1up.Health to capitalize on the opportunity created by the new FHIR standards for healthcare data interoperability.  Building on the success of 1up.Health, Ricky recently founded GenHealth to build the next generation of healthcare solutions using generative AI to predict patient futures.

Moderators:
Anne Quaadgras, Director, MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
Doug Williams, Product Lead, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

“Sparking a Data Revolution in Healthcare: Conversations with Leaders from Government, Industry, and Innovators”

Part 2: Government’s Role and Outlook - “Igniting the FHIR”

Speakers:
Aneesh Chopra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneesh_Chopra , Co-Founder & President, CareJourney, Author, Innovative State
In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Chopra as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States. In this position, he was responsible for promoting innovation and using technology to address various national challenges. Chopra played a key role in initiatives such as the Health Data Initiative, which aimed to make health information more accessible to the public, “sparking” the healthcare data interoperability efforts via FHIR.  
In 2014, Chopra authored The Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government. Chopra became the co-founder and president of CareJourney.

Moderators:
Anne Quaadgras, Director, MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
Doug Williams, Product Lead, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Overview of the US Healthcare System:  Dynamics, Challenges, and Opportunities 

There are enormous challenges facing the failing, fragmented US health system.  Despite being an advanced economy we spend $4.3T on healthcare which represents roughly 20% of our GDP – far more than any other nation.  Despite this, costs accelerate and outcomes are lackluster. For these same reasons, there are enormous opportunities to impact lives and elevate health.  This presentation will offer an overview of the US health care system geared to the non-healthcare entrepreneur seeking to advance their understanding of the industry and successfully navigate the landscape.
 
Dr. Anthony Dowidowicz serves as the Executive Medical Director of Regence BlueCross BlueShield and is an emergency physician by clinical training.  In addition to his medical degree, Anthony received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he spent additional time pursing advanced research in system dynamics.  He is the founder of the MIT Sloan Physicians Group and serves on the Health System Initiative Board.

“Sparking a Data Revolution in Healthcare: Conversations with Leaders from Government, Industry, and Innovators”

Part 1: Healthcare Industry’s Role and Outlook

Speakers:
Jocelyn Keegan, Da Vinci Project, Program Lead, Payer Consortium
Vanessa Candeloria, Project Gravity, Program Lead, Health Equity
Dana Marcelonis, FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), Program Lead

Moderators:
Anne Quaadgras, Director, MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative
Doug Williams, Product Lead, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship