Moderators
Chungyuan Standard Time (CST)
Stephen Lee, Director for Early Innovation Partnering for North Asia, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Biography: Stephen is responsible for the deployment of Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s strategy in North Asia by identifying opportunities (in pharmaceuticals, consumer health and medical devices) and building networks within the innovation ecosystem.
Stephen has over 20 years of experience in the life science sector. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Stephen was the Managing Director of Kybora EM (formerly Torreya EM) where he was responsible for Asia Pacific business development focusing on licensing and M&A advisory services. Stephen is experienced in bringing together investment opportunities and funding. He has been the founder and CEO of CASiGEN Pharma (a Ventac portfolio company) and BioMatrix Dx. He also served as a partner at Ventac Partners where he played a key role in portfolio company building, strategy, marketing, product analysis and IP development. He has also worked as a consultant for 3V SourceOne Capital, Applied Strategies Consulting, First State Investments, and as a patent examiner for the USPTO.
Stephen received his D.Phil. in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford, Merton College. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Central Europe Time (CET)
Jerome Mouly, Team Lead Analyst, Sensing & Actuating, Yole Développement
Biography: Jérôme Mouly is Team Lead Analyst in the Sensing & Actuating team within the Photonic & Sensing Division at Yole Développement (Yole).
Jérôme manages the expansion of the technical expertise and market know-how of the team. He actively supports and assists in the development of a dedicated collection of market & technology reports as well as custom consulting projects.
He has conducted more than 100 marketing and technological analyses for industrial groups, start-ups, and institutes in the field of MEMS and sensing technologies.
Jérôme has been also deeply engaged in Yole's finance activities with a dedicated focus on the commercial exploitation of smart system technologies and access to funding opportunities.
Jérôme is regularly involved in international conferences, with presentations and keynotes.
Jérôme Mouly earned a Master of Physics degree from the University of Lyon (FR).
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
Regina Shia, Research Psychologist, Air Force Research Laboratory
Biography: Regina M. Shia is a research psychologist for the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, OH. She received her PhD. in 2008 in Human Factors Psychology from Wright State University where she studied the interaction of affect and fatigue on cognitive performance. She worked as a full-time research scientist at NTI, Inc in Dayton, OH from 2002-2006, where she studied the development of cognitive testing procedures for the identification of performance decrements due to various stressors. During her time at NTI, she assessed cognitive decrements due to fatigue, acceleration force, and simulated Special Forces tactical exercises.
Dr. Shia recently led a comprehensive, diverse effort to test biomarker relationships of Battlefield Airmen stress resilience, providing foundational data for the development of near real-time biosensing. This work was also conducted across other DoD Special Operations training organizations. Dr. Shia is also recently led a performance and safety initiative for real-time physiological sensing during early Battlefield Airmen training that currently led to ~90 mitigations of heat stress/injuries. In addition, Dr. Shia initiated a program to develop technology that will record SpO2 and heart rate in aquatic environments. The objective of this program is to reduce the number of shallow water blackouts. Dr. Shia has a multidisciplinary approach to solving DoD Special Operations problems by collaborating with Spec Ops Subject Matter Experts, Exercise Physiologists, Material Engineers, and other professionals in AFRL, ARL and the NAMRU. Dr. Shia is currently serving as a Program Manager for the Advanced Development Team for AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate supporting human wearable technology for the aerospace environment.
Speaker 1: Maulik Majmudar, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Biofourmis
Digitally Enabled Care: The Time is Now
Abstract: Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, there was a growing interest in transitioning from the traditional brick and mortar care delivery approach towards one that is more convenient, accessible, and equitable by leveraging digital technologies. However, the pandemic has rapidly accelerated the demand for, as well as adoption of, digitally-enabled care.The real promise of remote and decentralized care models include consumer empowerment, equitable access, reduced variation, lower cost, and improved health outcomes. In this presentation, I will share some advances being made in the area of digitally-enable care across the patient care continuum of acute care, post-acute care, and chronic care, along with the technologies that are enabling these advances. The presentation will place particular emphasis on the hospital-at-home program as an example of an innovative digitally enabled care model.
Biography: Dr. Maulik Majmudar is a cardiologist and Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder at Biofourmis, a rapidly growing technology-enabled care delivery and digital therapeutics company. Prior to joining Biofourmis, he was a Medical Officer at Amazon, responsible for the development and launch of Amazon Halo, Amazon’s first health and wellness focused membership service. Dr. Majmudar was also Associate Director of the Healthcare Transformation Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, where he was responsible for the identification, validation, and implementation of digital health solutions to improve care delivery as well as the patient and provider experience. While at MGH, he was awarded an education grant from the Aetna Foundation to launch a new Fellowship in Healthcare Innovation, aimed at fostering the next generation of clinician innovators.
Dr. Majmudar attended Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and then completed residency training in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, followed by a cardiovascular medicine fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also holds two patents and has had several publications in high-impact journals, such as Nature, Circulation, JAMA, and Journal of Healthcare Delivery and Implementation Science.
Speaker 2: Anh Bourcet, Director, SPAC Market Access & HEOR, Johnson & Johnson
Can Digital Health Technologies Address the Gaps of Healthcare Access Inequity in Remote & Rural Areas?
Abstract: Patient living in remote an rural areas face many challenges to access the appropriate health care in a timely fashion. Digital Health Technologies hold the promise to address these gaps, improving significantly the care delivery. So how can all stakeholders from industry to policy makers, healthcare professionals, providers and others can harness their potential to create a better, more equitable healthcare, especially in the post-pandemic world?
Biography: Anh Bourcet is currently ASPAC Director, Health Economics & Market Access, in Johnson & Johnson. In this role, Anh has been driving the Asia-Pacific access strategy for Global Orthopedics. She is Chair of the Asia-Pacific Medical Technology Association Digital Health Committee Reimbursement Working Group. Anh is a global healthcare leader with 12+ years of experience and an in-depth understanding of healthcare systems in Asia-Pacific and Europe, both in the medical devices and pharmaceutical industries. Her various roles in Medical Affairs, Regulatory Policy, Health Economics & Market Access enabled her to have a broad perspective on levers of access. Data-driven, she has authored and reviewed many publications and spoken in various scientific and healthcare conferences to advance knowledge & collaboration. Anh is passionate about making an impact on patient care by enabling change and access to innovation, with improved patient outcomes, evidence-based medicine and digital health.
Speaker 3: Kathleen Quinn, PhD, Associate Dean for Rural Health, MU School of Medicine & Senior Program Director for Health and Safety, MU Extension and Engagement, University of Missouri
Tracy Greever-Rice, Director, MU Center for Health Policy
E. Rachel Mutrux, Sr. Program Director, Missouri Telehealth Network & Show-Me ECHO
Dena Higbee, Director, Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Clinical Simulation Centers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, and the Essig Simulation center, Sinclair School of Nursing
Using Health Care Workforce, Community, and Health Indicators to Inform Policy, Education Methods, and Programming for Rural Providers Through Technology to Improve Health Outcomes in Missouri
Abstract: In January 2020, the University of Missouri School of Medicine (MU SOM) and the MU Office of Extension and Engagement formed a collaborative partnership that demonstrates MU's integrated approach to community health as well as its commitment as a land-grant institution to improve the health and well-being of all Missourians. The implementation of the Office of Health Outreach, Policy and Education (HOPE) brings together divisions from both the MU School of Medicine and MU Extension and Engagement to include the Rural Track Pipeline Program, Missouri Telehealth Network, the Center for Health Policy, Continuing Education for Health Professions, and Community Health Engagement and Outreach. HOPE was created as a focused and deliberate partnership to help carry out the vision of the collaboration. It is unique in that it is the only focused directive of its kind at a Land Grant University. HOPE will work to translate MU SOM research and initiatives to practice, increase connections and outcomes with internal and external partners, develop health promotion resources, partner with the Shelden Clinical Simulation Center within the MU SOM to provide simulation education and resources and offer technical assistance to Missourians helping them to thrive at every stage of life.
Kathleen Quinn's Biography: "For the past 21 years, Dr. Quinn’s career has focused on meeting the needs of rural and underserved Missourians by addressing physician workforce shortages.
In January 2020, Dr. Quinn led the implementation of the Office of Health Outreach, Policy and Education (HOPE) bringing together divisions from both the MU School of Medicine and MU Extension and Engagement to include the Rural Track Pipeline Program, Missouri Telehealth Network, the Center for Health Policy, Continuing Education for Health Professions, and Community Health Engagement and Outreach. HOPE will work to translate MU SOM research and initiatives to practice, increase connections and outcomes with internal and external partners, develop health promotion resources, and offer technical assistance to Missourians helping them to thrive at every stage of life.
Tracy Greever-Rice's Biography: Dr. Tracy Greever-Rice is the director of the Center for Health Policy (CHP) in the Office of Health Outreach, Policy and Education (HOPE) in the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Trained as rural sociologist, Dr. Greever-Rice's work focuses on scholarship and policy support research at the intersection of population health, the social determinants of health, and health care access. She is currently the program director for Missouri KIDS COUNT and the principal investigator for the MU MoHealthNet Data project, the Missouri Health Care Workforce project, No Kid Hungry Missouri, a member of the Show Me ECHO evaluation team, and co-principal investigator on the Missouri Census Data Center. Dr. Greever-Rice also serves on the board of Kids Win Missouri and is a member of the Rural Health Subcommittee of the Missouri MoHealthNet Oversight Committee.
E. Rachel Mutrux's Biography: Rachel Mutrux is the Senior Program Director of the Missouri Telehealth Network and the Show-Me ECHO project, at the University of Missouri – School of Medicine. Rachel has 18 years of experience in telehealth and she knows that telehealth and ECHO improve access to and quality of health care for underserved Missourians. Rachel has designed and managed many telehealth programs throughout the years. She was instrumental in founding the Show-Me ECHO program and attaining sustainable funding and recently partnered with the Missouri Department of Economic Development that provides more than 12,000 hotspots to patients of Federally Qualified Health Centers and Community Mental Health Centers for telehealth. When she’s not working, Rachel spends time enjoying the outdoors at her childhood home, in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Texas County, MO.
Dena Higbee's Biography: Dena K. Higbee, EdS, MS, CHSE is the executive director of simulation for the Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Clinical Simulation Centers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, and the Essig Simulation Center, Sinclair School of Nursing. She has worked in medical education over twenty years and has brought national attention to MU’s simulation program. She and her team reach over 10,000 learners annually, spanning pre-admissions through continuing medical education, across multiple disciplines including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dietetics, athletic training, social work, veterinary medicine, and health administration.
Dena is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator. She is a member of the Central Group on Educational Affairs, Association of Standardized Patient Educators (currently serving as Vice President of Finance), SimGHOSTS, and the Society of Simulation in Healthcare. She regularly presents and conducts workshops both nationally and internationally. She was part of a team of colleagues who were recognized for interprofessional safety simulation and awarded the 1st Place Duncan Neuhauser Curricular Innovation Award in Healthcare Improvement at Academy for Healthcare Improvement’s 17th Annual International Scientific Symposium on Improving the Quality and Value of Health Care.
Speaker 4: Jean-Charles DRON, e-Meuse santé COO, Département de la Meuse
E-Meuse santé, a Large-scale Transformation Project, Rooted in Territories, to Address Major Health Issues of the Population, Thanks to Digital, Organizational and Economic Innovations
Abstract: Funded by a national innovation program led by the French Prime Minister Cabinet and the support of several territorial partners, e-Meuse santé objective is to run an experimental territory (in the French Great East Region) to test, validate and assess the opportunity for generalization of innovative solutions combining digital and technical, organizational and medico-economic innovations.
This project is co-constructed with several stakeholders including healthcare professionals, patients, local to national authorities, research and university, and economic players.
In doing so, e-Meuse santé also opens the opportunity for strong support for the creation of a French e-health sector and its industrial development.
Operationally launched in 2020, e-Meuse santé has a budget of 26 million euros to carry out this mission.
Biography: Graduate from Lyon Management School (MBA) and National Agronomic Institute Paris Grignon (Master’s Degree in Technology and Innovation), Jean Charles has been working for twenty years for advisory companies in France and Luxembourg. His main field of competence and intervention concerns health IT project definition, development, and management (eHealth projects, telemedicine, Hospital IT,…).
He has notably been involved in in the definition and the development of the national eHealth program deployment in Luxembourg for the Ministry of Health and in the definition, of the biology and medical imaging parts of the French national electronic health record. Jean-Charles has also been part of several start up creation in the field of clinical testing, medical devices and big data management in the healthcare sector.
Jean-Charles started working in 2018 for the Meuse County Council to answer a national call led by French Government with an innovation project dedicated to address growing health challenges, especially in rural areas (e-Meuse santé, e-Meuse Health). Winner of this call in 2019, e-Meuse santé is now undergoing its operational phase, and Jean-Charles is now COO of the program.