Amrita Institute for Health Advisory Board
Eric Goosby, M.D.
Eric Goosby has dedicated his professional life to fighting HIV/AIDS from treating patients to running international programs. After serving four years in the U.S. State Department as Ambassador-at-Large and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, overseeing the implementation of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Ambassador Goosby returned to the University of California, San Francisco where he is Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy, Global Health Sciences.
While at the State Department, he also led the Office of Global Health Diplomacy, advancing the United States’ global health mission to improve and save lives and foster sustainability through a shared global responsibility. As CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, 2001-2009, he played a key role in the development and implementation of HIV/AIDS national treatment scale-up plans in South Africa, Rwanda, China, and Ukraine. During the Clinton Administration, Ambassador Goosby was Director of the Ryan White Care Act at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and later, served as Deputy Director of the White House National AIDS Policy Office and Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy at HHS.
In January 2015, Dr. Goosby was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis (TB). In his capacity as Special Envoy, Dr. Goosby works toward raising the profile of the fight against TB and promoting the adoption, financing and implementation of the World Health Organisation’s global End TB Strategy after 2015, and its ambitious international targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control, while pursuing the tuberculosis 2015 targets described in the Millennium Development Goals.
Taha A. Kass-Hout, MD, MS
Dr. Kass-Hout, Co-Founder of Kass-Hout Consulting, is a leader in the fields of health informatics and analytics for two decades. Previously, he served as the first Chief Health Informatics Officer of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where he created and led innovations, such as openFDA (open.fda.gov) and precisionFDA (precision.fda.gov); part of President Obama’s 2015 Precision Medicine Initiative. OpenFDA (2014) is a big data cloud platform that provides open-source Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that has allowed software developers, researchers, FDA scientists, and the public to tap into adverse events, recalls, and labeling for medical products on the market, such as drugs, medical devices, and foods. PrecisionFDA (2015) is a community sourced, cloud-based informatics platform designed to advance the science and collaboration needed to ensure that genomic tests provide accurate and reliable genetic results. Both openFDA and precisionFDA were referenced in the White House updated Strategy for American Innovation (2015). Dr. Kass-Hout also served as the chair of the Scientific and Research Domain Steering Committee across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). He holds a Doctor of Medicine and a Master of Science (Biostatistics) from the University of Texas and completed his clinical training at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Adrian Gropper MD
Dr. Gropper is CTO of Patient Privacy Rights, a global organization representing 10 million patients, and is is a pioneer in patient-centered and patient-controlled health records on the Internet. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Gropper founded AMICAS (NAS:AMCS) as the first Web-based radiology PACS and the first to provide direct links to diagnostic imaging in electronic health records. Dr. Gropper founded MedCommons in 2004 to develop software for image-enabled, patient-centered health records supporting all of a patient’s caregivers. Dr. Gropper participated in many early standardization efforts including IHE, HITSP, Liberty Alliance and the Continuity of Care Record steering committee. Dr. Gropper helped create Blue Button, Direct Project, and Blue Button Plus and speaks frequently on privacy engineering in health care. He consults and participates in numerous health data policy standards groups and as a co-founder of OpenID HEAlth Relationship Trust (HEART) to develop standards and profiles for the Public API. He served on the Board and Management Council of the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group.
Cory Kidd Ph.D
Dr. Cory Kidd is the founder and CEO of Catalia Health, a healthcare technology company focused on delivering effective patient engagement and behavior change. The company has developed a hardware and software platform that uses a combination of psychology and artificial intelligence to successfully engage patients through interactive conversations. These conversations happen through mobile, web, and socially interactive robot interfaces; together these interfaces create a relationship that can reach patients at any time they need support. The data reported back through the system gives Catalia Health’s institutional healthcare customers valuable information to understand the daily activities and needs of their patients. Dr. Kidd is a serial entrepreneur who has been working in healthcare technology for nearly two decades. Catalia Health was Startup in Residence at IDEO, the leading international design firm. His previous company, Intuitive Automata, created interactive coaches for weight loss. Prior to this, Dr. Kidd received his M.S. and Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab in human-robot interaction. While there, he conducted studies that showed the advantages of using a physical robot over screen-based interactions. He conducted an extensive study showing the efficacy of his weight loss coach in helping people to diet and did work in local nursing homes with robotic companions for elderly individuals. He also received his B.S. in Computer Science and was subsequently a research faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology. While there he was a part of the Aware Home Research Initiative, a focused research effort that was looking for ways to allow older people to live in their homes longer.
Michael Aratow MD
Chief Medical Information Officer of San Mateo Medical Center, an integrated delivery network that is part of the nation’s Safety Net institutions. Besides working on multiple IT initiatives and managing three different Electronic Medical Records, he promotes clinical innovation through piloting solutions from early stage companies. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Informatics and continues to practice. Michael received his MD degree from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and his Emergency Medicine training at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. He performed a research fellowship at UCSD School of Medicine in Orthopedics and was a research consultant at NASA/Ames Research Center in basic physiology and virtual environment projects. Michael is a Board member and Co-Chair of the Medical Working Group in the Web3D Consortium, a nonprofit organization that promotes an open, royalty free, ISO ratified standard for the display and storage of 3D data on the web. He also advises new digital health companies and is a founder of VRecover, a company using immersive virtual reality to augment physical rehabilitation.
Yoona Kim PharmD, Ph.D
Is the Head of Clinical Modeling and Analytics at Proteus Digital Health. Proteus is creating a new category of therapy, Digital Medicines, designed to provide patients with meaningful health information and give physicians unprecedented insight into the patient’s medication taking patterns and daily health habits.
Yoona is responsible for health economic and clinical analytic activities for Proteus Digital Health’s products across various therapeutic areas. Her team develops health economic value propositions from strategic conceptualization to model and business case development to actualization in the real-world, as well as build population and clinical analytic offerings, including predictive analytics and novel algorithms to support clinical decision making and population stratification. Prior to coming to Proteus, she had health economic roles at Novartis and Gilead and also worked as a consultant at Mercer Health and Benefits. She graduated from Stanford University and completed her PharmD with an emphasis in health policy and management at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her PhD. in health economics and outcomes at the University of Texas at Austin.
Anish Mohammed MD, Ph.D
Has worked as a researcher in security/cryptography both in industry and academia, with deep expertise in Security Architecture, Security of Big Data, Security Analytics, Cloud Security, Blockchain, and Cryptography. Cloud Security evangelist. Currently focusing on Big Data and Blockchain and Enterprise Architecture and Design function in security. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Blockchain Advisory Group.
Chris Seebregts Ph.D
A health informatics professional with a background in biomedical research, computer science and information systems as well as more than twenty years experience in the research and development of digital health solutions in the public, private and academic sectors. I am the founder, CEO and Executive Director of Jembi Health Systems NPC, a South African non-profit company with an accomplished track record in developing and implementing innovative health information systems in low-resource settings, particularly in Africa. I have participated in establishing health informatics academic and training programmes at two universities in South Africa and maintain honorary academic appointments at universities in computer science and health. I am also part of the leadership of several international open source health informatics communities, including the Open Medical Record System (openmrs.org) and the Open Health Information Exchange (ohie.org) communities. My research interests include biomedical and health informatics especially the development of health information systems supporting public health systems in Africa and the underlying burden of disease. I have a particular interest in the development of systems with a reusable architecture. As principle or co-Investigator on projects funded by international donors and funders, I have laid the groundwork for the development of advanced information systems supporting HIV/AIDS, TB, maternal and newborn health and, more recently, national systems, at scale, and chronic disease management programmes. The current application builds on previous work at national and sub-national level in South Africa and, internationally.