Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Florida based Founder operating in the Health Care space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Stephen Groth
Co-Founder of Boomtown Accelerators
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About Boomtown Accelerators: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
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Jim Riley
Co – Founder & CEO of iCare
Jim Riley is the co-founder and CEO of iCare and has over 15 years of leadership experience in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry. Mr. Riley had a single mission in mind when founding iCare in 2011; to create an on-demand health information management service to replace traditional enterprise software technology in the healthcare sector. Prior to founding iCare, Mr. Riley founded Learn.com, a cloud-based Human Capital Management provider where he acted as Chairman & CEO until the sale of the company. The innovative product set pioneered at Learn.com, is now part of Oracle Corporation. Mr. Riley led the company to the top of the industry in terms of customer success, analyst acclaim and product innovation. Mr. Riley received a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Florida and served as a fighter pilot in the U.S. military.
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About iCare: iCare provides cloud-based EHR solutions to healthcare facilities.
Hugo Saavedra
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hugo & Debra Natural
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About Hugo & Debra Natural: Hugo & Debra Natural is an all-natural personal body care line made from natural food-grade ingredients.
Nicoletta Tessler
CEO and Co-Founder of Be Me Health
Nicoletta Tessler is the Founder and CEO at Be Me Health.
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About Be Me Health: Be Me Health is operating in stealth mode.
Rajesh Surana
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Visionary RCM
– Rajesh founded VRCM in 2006 with a vision to build a services company specializing in healthcare RCM and medical coding services. -Prior business experience in healthcare and information technology, with array of cross functional skills and an internati
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About Visionary RCM: Visionary RCM is a HIPAA compliant, knowledge centric organization, specializing in Risk Adjustment solutions.
Ellen Latham
Creator & Co-Founder of Orangetheory Fitness
Ellen Latham is a highly trained physiologist with a lifelong passion for health and fitness. Her desire to be on the cutting edge of fitness inspired Ellen to design “The Ultimate Workout,” which became the foundation for Orangetheory Fitness – hailed by the New York Times as an effective new plateau-busting workout.Ellen is a Partner and Founder of Orangetheory Fitness, and Owner of Ellen’s Ultimate Workout gym in Florida. Inspired by her father Arthur Calandrelli, a very popular Physical Education teacher and coach in Niagara Falls, NY, Ellen has been motivating and training clients for over 35 years. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education and a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Buffalo in New York.
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About Orangetheory Fitness: Orangetheory is a science-based group personal training workout broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training.
Frank Wuco
CEO, Founder of Red Mind Solutions, Inc.
Founder of Red Mind Solutions, Inc.
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About Red Mind Solutions, Inc., Red Mind Solutions, Inc.: Proven Defense & Space Technologies for Improved Healthcare Intervention Services
Norberto Menendez
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of LifeWallet
Norberto M. is the Founder at iNewton, LLC.
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About HMBL Health, iNewton, LifeWallet: Provides employers, communities and healthcare professionals with a simple, powerful solution to assess the health of their population.
Norberto Menendez
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of LifeWallet
Norberto M. is the Founder at iNewton, LLC.
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About HMBL Health, iNewton, LifeWallet: Provides employers, communities and healthcare professionals with a simple, powerful solution to assess the health of their population.
Adam Teitelman
Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Rocket Doctor
Adam Teitelman is a Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Rocket Doctor.
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About Rocket Doctor: Rocket Doctor is a telemedicine marketplace that enables physicians to bring an advanced doctor’s office directly to patients’ homes.
Lazar Finker
Founder and Executive Director of Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation
Dr. Lazar Finker is the Chairman of the Board at Forum Capital Group, a position he has held since 2012. Forum Capital is a private equity group specializing in real estate and seafood. When not overseeing operations at Forum Capital or servicing their select group of high net-worth individuals, Dr. Finker focuses on philanthropy, primarily through his organization the Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation. Lazar Finker got his start in Russia, where he founded the country’s first community college. He was later invited to teach at Florida Community College. Originally only slated to stay for a semester, he and his family loved Jacksonville so much that they decided to move there. Though they travel often, they have come to be very involved in their community in the United States. The main mission of the Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation is to be a family-run organization of like-minded philanthropists joined in their commitment to improving the lives of others and passing the Foundation’ principles from one generation to the next. The Foundation makes an impact by supporting causes in multiple fields such as medical research, education, religious development, and children’s welfare. By emphasizing the role of family in the Foundation’s efforts, Lazar Finker has passed his passion onto his son, Eugene Frenkel, who is equally committed to making a difference through philanthropy. Over time, as this passion is passed from generation to generation, the Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation will achieve its mission. Since its founding, the Foundation has greatly expanded in scope, encompassing more causes and supporting larger projects in the area. In addition to promoting a myriad of causes through the Foundation, Lazar Finker is also involved with organizations like the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Mount Sinai. Through his connections, he strives to build a better community in southern Florida, supporting his friends and neighbors in their respective missions to improve health, religious groups, and education.
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About Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation, Forum Capital Group: The Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation funds world-changing initiatives both at home and abroad.
Alex Jimenez-Ness
Founder and Executive Chairman of Welwaze
Alex Jimenez-Ness is an entrepreneur with a strong passion for a humanistic approach to technology and science. Originally from Spain, Alex has dedicated over 20 years to build his career in private equity in the U.S., after starting his career in private banking in Europe.Alex founded Sofos Capital, a multifamily office wealth advisory group, Domus One Group, a private equity platform for real estate developments, and One Eleven Capital, a private equity firm managing capital across selected asset classes, which consequently led him to found and spearhead Welwaze Medical.The recession in 2008 brought a great deal of personal growth and Alex shifted his investment strategy focusing on companies and opportunities that have a strong social impact while creating value and return to his investors and shareholders.Alex is a early stage investor in technology startups and currently sits on the Board of three family groups. He is invited to speak to groups looking for inspiration, purpose, and growth.His continuous support to Miami’s community has earned him recognition as a Miami-Dade County Key recipient
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About Welwaze: Welwaze develop tools to empower people to manage their health, and improve the way they live.
Daniel Schoonover
Founder & Hardware Engineer of iwinks
When it comes time for words, Schoonover is no Steinbeck. But he is quite humble. One might even say the most humble! At age 28, he’s tallied an astounding stash of graduate degrees compared to number of girlfriends. Truth time? His earliest memory is a lucid dream. But dont take his word for it – lets hear some real-life testimonials! “Danny is the most talented human I know.” —Esther Schoonover (no relation).
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About iwinks: iWinks is consumer electronics company that creates precision sleep enhancement products.
Cheryl Baker
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Research Officer of BioCurity Pharmaceuticals
Baker received her B.S. summa cum laude, in Chemistry from Rollins College (Winter Park, Florida) in 1994. In 1999, she received her Ph.D in Biochemistry from Texas Tech University. She then completed her post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Cancer Biology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. From 2001-2003, she conducted research as an Instructor of Surgery at the Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Subsequently, she was an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She holds an Adjunct Professor position at the University of Central Florida Medical School. From 2005-2010, Dr. Baker served as Director of the Cancer Research Institute of MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando (formerly affiliated with Orlando Health). During her time at MD Anderson-Orlando, she established and led a team of master and doctoral students, research scientists, physician-scientists and professors in multi-disciplinary cancer research projects. Dr. Baker has conducted cancer related research for over 20 years and is the recipient of research funding from local, state, and government agencies. Dr. Baker has published over 45 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and articles.
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About BioCurity Pharmaceuticals: BioCurity Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company that changes the course of radiation therapy for cancer patients worldwide.
Randy Parker
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GeniusRx
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About GeniusRx, MDLIVE: GeniusRx is a full-service internet pharmacy designed to make it easy to get medicines, over-the-counter products, & wellness supplements.
Reed Berglund
Co-Founder of Verima
Reed is a tech startup advisor and CEO of iSnap, a SAAS company with a platform that is helping businesses collect customer video stories and gauge customer satisfaction. As an advisor, Reed supports a portfolio of companies capital, content, time and experience. The current portfolio of companies includes S4M and Hanna Essentials. Reed was CEO and Co-Founder of Fullbottle who’s company was one of the early entrants in influencer marketing across on Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. A marketplace for creating and acquiring visual content from photos to videos from creators around the Globe.
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About iSnap, Verima: Verima is an E-commerce platform that provides a wide range of health and beauty essential oils to choose from.
Gene Scheurer
Co-Founder & CEO of Clearsense
Gene Scheurer is the Executive Chairman of Optimum Healthcare IT. A trusted business partner for multiple healthcare systems across the U.S. He is a proven leader in the implementation of complex health care IT projects throughout the U.S. In the past five years, he has worked with some of the top healthcare providers to provide flexible clinical application solutions, saving providers millions of dollars in implementation costs. Currently, he and his team are overseeing training and implementation programs, from full-scale project management of large health system implementations to one-member augmentation teams. In addition, he is working closely with multiple government agencies and private sector companies to advance the role of information technology in healthcare. As Executive Director of Optimum Healthcare IT, he sets strategies and culture for the company, oversees profit and loss, sits on the board of directors, drives revenue through strategic partnerships and evaluates talent for the growth of his firm. Mr. Scheurer began his career in IT consulting, providing solutions for several large national companies before directing the staffing efforts for Fidelity Information Services, a Fortune 200 company with more than 36,000 employees. As director of staffing for the St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE), he utilized his IT background to implement an automated recruiting system that streamlined recruiting, reducing costs by more than $700,000 in the first year alone. At Optimum, their motivation and passion is about supporting their client’s success and healthy outcomes for their patients.
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About Clearsense, Optimum Healthcare IT: Clearsense is a data platform for healthcare that enables real-time insights into clinical, operational, and financial metrics.
Jason Mabry
Co-Founder & Principal of Clearsense
Jason Mabry is the CEO of Optimum Healthcare IT. In this role, Mr. Mabry oversees the corporate direction and strategy of Optimum, focusing on leadership, innovation, and partnerships with our clients. Mr. Mabry has over fifteen years in the consulting and staffing industry, the last ten of which have been in the healthcare information technology industry. He has worked with many healthcare clients nationwide throughout his career helping them achieve better care through technology. Mr. Mabry received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Florida.
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About Clearsense, Optimum Healthcare IT: Clearsense is a data platform for healthcare that enables real-time insights into clinical, operational, and financial metrics.
Luka Ivicevic
Co-Founder / CEO of Index Health
Luka is the co-founder and Chief of Staff at Penta, supporting different teams to grow the company. Previous to Penta, Luka worked at different startups as a product lead. He also writes for the NY Observer as a Business Contributor.
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About Index Health: We help people live 20 years longer. Get radically better healthcare with Index.
David Massias
Co-Founder and CEO of Shadow Health
David S. Massias is the co-founder and CEO of Shadow Health, Inc. which is a multi-disciplinary educational software developer of rich learning environments and Digital Clinical Experiences™(DCEs). Shadow Health develops these educational environments to address the critical issues facing our national and global health care systems – maintaining quality-of-care in the face of increasing provider shortages. They are positioned to reform the status quo of allied healthcare education delivery by providing a virtual, accurate, and in-depth clinical environment to practice diagnostic reasoning, communication, and procedural skills. Prior to the establishment of Shadow Health, David was a partner with the V2R Group, focused on acquiring and commercializing university technologies (i.e., ICU Data Systems, Inc., Red Lambda, Inc.), and a member of the PricewaterhouseCooper’s mergers and acquisitions group in their New York City and Chicago offices since 2000. As an adjunct Professor, David was honored with the 2008 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Masters of Science in Entrepreneurship Program at the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida and serves on education centric boards such as the University of Florida’s Innovation through Institutional Integration.
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About Draman Foundation, Shadow Health: Shadow Health provides a platform for medical, nursing and allied health students to engage in standardized simulated clinical experiences.
Hing C. Wong
Founder & CEO of HCW Biologics
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About HCW Biologics: HCW Biologics is developing immunotherapies to lengthen healthspan by disrupting the link between cellular senescence and disease.
Reginald Hardy
Co-Founder and President of Brickell Biotech
Mr. Hardy has successfully built an array of pharmaceutical companies. Prior to Brickell, Reginald was the co-founder and President of Concordia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. an oncology drug development company acquired by Kadmon Corporation in 2011. Mr. Hardy was co-founder and President of SANO Corporation, a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel transdermal drug delivery systems that was acquired by Elan Corporation. Prior to SANO, Mr. Hardy served as the President of the generics group at IVAX Corporation. Reginald has also held various corporate roles with Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mr. Hardy earned his B.S. degree in Pharmacy from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill and M.B.A. from UNC-Greensboro. Mr. Hardy is a Member of the University of North Carolina Innovation Circle whose mission is to create a robust environment for innovation and entrepreneurship throughout the university.
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About Brickell Biotech: Brickell Biotech is focused on the acquisition, development, and commercialization of drug therapies for the treatment of skin diseases.
Andrew Sklawer
Co-Founder and Vice President, Operations of Brickell Biotech
Mr. Sklawer has been involved in a number of development-stage companies and has most recently served as the Director of Operations at Concordia Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an oncology drug development company acquired by Kadmon Corporation in 2011. Prior to joining Concordia, Mr. Sklawer was the Operations Manager at Verid, Inc., a developer of security technology prior to and subsequent to its acquisition by EMC Corporation. Mr. Sklawer holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from the University of Florida and received his M.B.A. from the University of Miami.
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About Brickell Biotech: Brickell Biotech is focused on the acquisition, development, and commercialization of drug therapies for the treatment of skin diseases.
Roger Medel
Founder of MEDNAX
Roger Medel, M.D. currently serves as a Director of the Company since he co-founded it in 1979. Dr. Medel served as the Company’s President until 2000 and as Chief Executive Officer until 2002. In 2003, he reassumed the position of President, serving until 2004, and as Chief Executive Officer, a position in which he continues to serve today.Roger Medel has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. since January 2016. Roger Medel was a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami from 2004 to 2012 and served on the Board of Directors of MBF Healthcare Acquisition Corp. from 2006 to 2009. He is a member of several medical and professional organizations as well.
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About MEDNAX, MEDNAX: MEDNAX is a national medical group that comprises the broad physician services of Pediatrix Medical Group and American Anesthesiology.
Jerry Jacobson
Chief Science Officer and Founder of Magneceutical Health
Jerry Jacobson, PhD, DMD is Chief Science Officer, inventor of the Jacobson ResonanceTM equation and Principal Investigator of our past and current research studies. Dr. Jacobson is a pioneer in the development and application of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in the treatment of disease and illness. He has numerous publications spanning the fields of science, physics and electromagnetism. Dr. Jacobson holds several advanced degrees; and has been awarded 40+ patents.
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About Magneceutical Health: Chronic Pain and its 120 million office visits per year is the primary “Unmet Need” upon which we focus.
Jonathan Globerman
Co-Founder, Chief Wellness Officer of The Biostation
Jonathan Globerman is a professional health and wellness consultant in the Delray Beach, Florida area. Co-Founder, and Chief Wellness Officer at The Biostation, Jonathan Globerman consults individuals about their current health and health goals to determine an individualized plan to help them achieve holistic health. Utilizing advanced the methods of nutraceutical therapy, nutrient iv therapy, and hormone replacement therapy, Jonathan Globerman and his team of medical professional nutritionists and health and wellness consultants create a verified, scientific approach to health and wellness. Dedicated to the ideal of total wellness, Jonathan Globerman is able to live his dream spreading the lessons and joy of a healthy lifestyle to individuals from all over and every background. Jonathan Globerman also keeps a Health and Wellness Podcast you can listen to on his SoundCloud profile page.
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About The Biostation: The scientific, individualized approach to health and wellness.
R. Jude Samulski
President, Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder of Asklepios BioPharmaceutical
Richard Samulski, Ph.D. serves as the President of Chatham Therapeutics LLC. Samulski has been Scientific Co-Founder of Asklepios Biopharmaceutical, Inc. since 2003 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. In 1993, Samulski co-founded an AAV-based gene therapy company Merlin. He also co-founded Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation in 1999. He also serves as a gene therapy consultant to the FDA. Through the UNC gene therapy center, Samulski has produced within an academic setting an FDA approved AAV clinical vector used to treat children with the neurological disorder of Canavan’s disease. He serves as Professor of Pharmacology of The University of North Carolina. Samulski served at AAV for 25 years. Samulski has been Director of the University of North Carolina Gene Therapy Center for eight years. He serves as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Ceregene, Inc. He served at AAV biology as a Member of the scientific advisory board of Avigen, a new AAV research company. Samulski has over 20 patents filed or issued in the area of AAV vectors. Samulski served as a Member of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), a committee tasked with assisting the FDA with approving or disapproving gene therapy clinical trials in the United States. Samulski is a recipient of the President’s Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed Post-Doctoral training at Princeton. Samulski’s graduate work (1978-82) demonstrated the first use of AAV as a viral vector and culminated in the first US patent involving non-AAV genes inserted into AAV. Samulski received his PhD in Medical Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Florida and his research focuses on the study of the dependent parvovirus adeno-associated virus (AAV)
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About Applied Genetics Technologies Corporation, Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Asklepios BioPharmaceutical is a biotechnology company developing adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies for genetic disorders.
Elie Levy
CEO, CIO and Co-Founder of Sunwave Health
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About Sunwave Health: Sunwave is a behavioral health technology solution that provides an end-to-end platform including a CRM, EMR, and RCM.
PK Raja
CTO and Co-Founder of Quality Biomedical
PK Raja joined Quality Medical in 2016 and holds the role of Vice President of Information Technologies. Raja has over 20 years of leadership across the Information Technology discipline Raja serves as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. He is a co-founder of Meridian Biomedical Inc that acquired Quality Biomedical in Sep 2015. As CTO, Raja is the principal architect and chief developer of the company’s technology platform. Raja has over 25 years in various technology platform development roles all over the world. Some of his platform development roles include industries such as transportation, healthcare, retail, energy, and telecommunication. His passion is reducing complex business process steps to their core requirements and then automating them to further eliminate all unnecessary steps. He is also passionate in working with customers to understand and solve problems for them.
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About Quality Biomedical: Quality Biomedical helps healthcare providers improve operational efficiency.
Shannon Boye
Founder and Director of Atsena Therapeutics
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About Atsena Therapeutics, University of Florida: Atsena Therapeutics is a clinical-stage gene therapy company that develops novel treatments for inherited forms of blindness.
Sanford Boye
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Atsena Therapeutics
Sanford Boye is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Atsena Therapeutics.
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About Atsena Therapeutics: Atsena Therapeutics is a clinical-stage gene therapy company that develops novel treatments for inherited forms of blindness.
Founder and CEO of Impact Medical Strategies
Navroze Mehta, Founder of Ovation Diagnostics LLC, has over 15 years of experience in developing early stage medical devices. Most recently he was Managing Partner of MDI Partners LLC (www.mdipartners.com) where he used a unique innovation and development framework to bring devices to market. One of those spin outs is ClearSpec LLC (www.clearspecmedical.com). Prior to MDI Partners, he was the Founder and CEO of NovaVision Inc.(www.novavision.com), a venture-backed company providing neurostimulation devices to restore vision in stroke and traumatic brain injury patients. Before that he was President and CEO of Skinstore (www.skinststore.com) a successful B2C Company. Navroze is a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO), past chair of the Americas Gateway Chapter, and served as Regional Chair of the Economic Development Network. He is also an active member of the Ashoka Support Network (www.ashoka.org), a leader in the field of social entrepreneurship. Navroze also co-founded Mela Artisans Inc. (www.melaartisans.com) with his daughter Sonali Mehta Rao. Mela Artisans is a novel social for profit enterprise that was formed to create a global marketplace for artisans worldwide with a goal of preserving the livelihood of artisans. Navroze also served on the Board of Directors of Mission Markets Inc., a company that is focused on connecting impact investors to mission-focused organizations. Navroze received an MBA from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Sydenham College at the University of Bombay, India.
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About ClearSpec, Device Innovation Group, Impact Medical Strategies, KleenGel, Mela Artisans, New Day Diagnostics, Ovation Diagnostics, VenX Medical: Impact Medical Strategies is dedicated to promoting technologies that impact global health
Justin Zhou
Co-Founder, President of BLUEWAVE Technologies
Justin Zhou is the Co-Founder, President and Interim CEO at BLUEWAVE Technologies, Inc.
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About BLUEWAVE Technologies: BLUEWAVE Technologies develops a rapid disinfection device designed to clean using medical technology.
Kenneth Cherisol
Co- Founder of BLUEWAVE Technologies
Kenneth Cherisol is the Co- Founder , at BLUEWAVE.
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About BLUEWAVE Technologies, IVy Creative Labs: BLUEWAVE Technologies develops a rapid disinfection device designed to clean using medical technology.
Miles Clark
Co-Founder, Chairman of BLUEWAVE Technologies
Miles Clark is the Co-Founder, Chairman at BLUEWAVE.
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About BLUEWAVE Technologies: BLUEWAVE Technologies develops a rapid disinfection device designed to clean using medical technology.
Hunter Friedland
Founder & CEO of Hemp Hunter Labs
Hunter Friedland is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Hemp Hunter Labs.
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About Cirona Labs, Hemp Hunter Labs: Hemp Hunter Labs is a hemp processor for extracts and distillations of cannabidiols and a formulator of CBD-infused products.
Anthony I. Nunez
Co-Founder of Endotronix
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About Endotronix: Endotronix is a developer of hemodynamic monitoring technologies to help detect worsening heart failure earlier than ever before.
Joe Fava
President / Co-Founder of Animal Necessity
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About Animal Necessity: Animal Necessity develops veterinary dietary supplements through natural, holistic, and scientific methods.
R. Michael Smullen
Co-Founder, President and CEO of AltMed
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About AltMed: AltMed offers a full range of premium cannabis options developed in its vertically-integrated operations in Arizona and Florida.
Kris Siemionow
Founder and CEO of HoloSurgical Inc.
Dr. Kris Siemionow is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon and an entrepreneur, who founded and co-founded multiple medical companies, that utilize advanced technology to improve clinical outcomes. Dr. Siemionow completed residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in orthopedic surgery and a spine surgery fellowship at Rush University Medical Center. His PhD focused on the effects of inflammation on nerve cell function. Dr. Siemionow is co-founder of Global Spine Outreach a non-for profit organization whose mission is to “save children with severe spinal deformities”. Dr. Siemionow co-founded Holo Surgical Inc, a digital surgery company that developed an artificial intelligence-based surgical guidance system, which is currently in clinical use. He also co-founded Inteneural Networks Inc, a company that utilizes machine learning to diagnose neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Siemionow co-founded Kardiolytics Inc, a company that utilizes machine learning to perform a virtual coronary stress test. Dr. Siemionow has authored over 100 peer reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters pertaining to surgery and basic science research. He holds 25 patents and patent applications, which have been successfully commercialized.
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About Dystrogen Therapeutics, HoloSurgical Inc., Surgalign: HOLOSURGICAL is a Digital Surgery company focused on improving patient outcomes by bringing machine learning to the operating room
Sadasivan Vidyasagar
Chief Scientific Officer and Scientific Co-Founder of Entrinsic Bioscience
With degrees in medicine and surgery, and a Ph.D. in Transport Physiology, Dr. Vidyasagar is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Florida. His postdoctoral fellowship was at Yale University and he collaborated with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, a subsidiary of NASA. He was a Wellcome Research officer at Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, where he studied enteric diseases.
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About Entrinsic Bioscience, University of Florida: Entrinsic Bioscience leverages gold standard science and game-changing amino acid technology.
Elias Janetis
Founder & Board Member of MobileHelp
Mr. Janetis has been active in the PERS sector for nearly a decade. A natural entrepreneur, Mr. Janetis was the founder and CEO of HomeMed Systems, a provider of safety products to seniors and persons with disabilities. HomeMed serviced contracts with state and county agencies in three states and had over 40 distributors in 10 states. HomeMed Systems has been featured in Good Housekeeping and Ladies’ Home Journal. Prior to founding HomeMed Systems in 2002. Mr. Janetis was the 2006 SBDC & Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners grand-prize winner of the Big Idea business plan contest for the Alzheimer’s tracking system concept. Mr. Janetis attended Bucknell University and studied International Relations and East Asian studies.
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About HomeMed Systems, MobileHelp, Squeeze.com: MobileHelp™ is a Boca Raton, Florida, healthcare technology company.
Kingsley R. Chin
Chairman and Founder of SpineFrontier
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About AxioMed Spine, KICVentures, SpineFrontier: SpineFrontier designs, develops, and markets implants and instruments used in the treatment of spinal diseases.
John T. Treace
Founder & CEO of Treace Medical Concepts
John Treace founded Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. in January, 2014. John Treace has over 22 years of expertise in medical device Marketing, Sales, and General Management. John Treace is the former Senior Vice President of US Sales and Global Marketing for Wright Medical, Inc. (WMGI). During a 12 year tenure with Wright, John Treace served in a number of senior management roles including V.P. of Marketing and G.M. – Biologics and Extremities. Prior to Wright, John Treace was Director of Marketing for Medtronic Xomed (MDT) and Advertising & Marketing Director for start-up company, TreBay Medical Corp. John Treace also served on the Board of ENTrigue Surgical, which was acquired by Arthrocare Corporation in July, 2013.
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About Inc.com, Treace Medical Concepts: Treace Medical Concepts is a privately-funded development stage company that specializes in foot and ankle surgical products.
Jeff Olson
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Nerium International
Jeff Olson has taken Nerium from a small, passionate group and turned it into one of the top 100 direct-selling companies in the nation. Despite his reputation of being a top distributor and trainer for several prominent relationship marketing companies, he remains a passionate advocate for those who are just starting out in the industry. My favorite Nerium Core Value is: Slow Down to Go Fast because it shows that with purpose and intent, miraculous things can happen quickly. When I walk down the halls at Nerium, I’m most proud of: Our commitment to personal development. We focus on people’s needs just as much as we emphasize company growth and innovative products. I’m most passionate about: Being the best I can be physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
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About Nerium International: Nerium International offers a range of age-defying skin care products with patented ingredients to help people look younger.
Juan Salcedo
Co-Founder of Neocis
Salcedo has over a decade of experience in manufacturing and mechanical design for the medical device industry. He was a principal robotic design engineer for MAKO Surgical Corp. and was a key designer for the first concept as well as one of the main designers for the second generation systems to follow. Prior to that, Salcedo served as lead researcher for the Cardiovascular Engineering Center at Florida International University. Salcedo was also a senior manufacturing engineer for Calnetix Inc., the world leader in developing and manufacturing high speed electric motors and generators. Salcedo holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the Florida International University.
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About Cadnetix, Neocis: Neocis develops robot-assisted dental implant surgery with the aim of transforming dental surgery using advanced robotics.
Dante Panella
Co-Founder & Head of Business Development of PriceMDs.com Inc.
Mr. Panella Co-Founded PriceMDs and currently serves as PriceMDs.com’s Head of Business Development. Prior to that, Mr. Panella was a Private Equity Investor for the last decade. He was the CEO of a publicly traded Cryogenic company NASDAQ CYRX , Mr. Panella was also, SVP with Morgan Stanley, VP with Merrill Lynch, First VP at UBS Investment Bank and a NASDAQ Trader and Bond Trader. Mr. Panella attended Penn State University, graduating in Business Logistics.
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About PriceMDs.com Inc.: PriceMDs.com is Where America Shops for HealthCare.
Anil Kottoor
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of MedHOK
Anil Kottoor is president and CEO of MedHOK, Inc., one of the healthcare industry’s fastest-growing software companies. With more than 17 years of IT experience, including leadership roles at four national health plans, Kottoor is a healthcare industry leader. As a visionary and passionate innovator, Kottoor has an extraordinary series of unparalleled success to his credit. Over the years, he has accrued an impressive array of accomplishments for his prestigious Fortune 500 employers and their respective clients – accomplishments that earned him national recognition in 2005 as one of CIO magazine’s CIO 100, an annual award that recognizes top CIOs for their innovative use of IT to deliver a competitive advantage and enable growth.
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About MedHOK: MedHOK offers a single platform that provides care, quality and compliance solutions for healthcare organizations.
Nestor Plana
Founder & CEO of Independent Living Systems
Nestor Plana is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Independent Living Systems (ILS), with over 25 years of experience in healthcare and public and private development and management. Nestor previously served as a founding President and COO of Beacon Health Plan in South Florida, where he successfully implemented a long-term care waiver program under a contract with the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. He was also a senior executive with Mercy Hospital Systems, and has served on the Florida Long-Term Care Committee and held the Chairmanship of United Home Health Care. Nestor has won numerous awards for his accomplishments in structuring ILS as a driving force in healthcare innovation and services for the aging, frail, and chronically ill. In 2011, the American Federation for Aging Research awarded him the Florida Award in Distinction for his vision and leadership in making research and healthy aging a priority in Florida. In the same year, he was named one of the region’s Top Performers in South Florida Magazine’s Movers and Shakers issue. Additionally, Health Evolution Partners awarded Nestor the HealthCare Innovator of the Year Award in 2010.
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About Independent Living Systems: Independent Living Systems is a health service company that develops, delivers, and manages community-based services.
MJ Darby
Founder and Chief Development Officer of Boulder Care
MJ brings 20+ years of leadership in leading health plans, PBMs, and specialty pharmacies. Most recently, she led business development for a national provider of toxicology and pharmacy services for pain and opioid use disorder. MJ built and led the first disease management programs at Express Scripts and managed all utilization management programs UnitedHeath, both in St. Louis. Driving clinical operations for patient outreach programs across 25+ disease states. She managed 300+ nurses and 12 million patient interactions annually. MJ serves on national committees advocating for patient access to medication treatment and telehealth.
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About Boulder Care: Boulder is a telehealth provider of treatment and long-term support for people with substance use disorders
Mark Brunsvold
Co-Founder and President of Parcus Medical
Mark Brunsvold is Co-Founder of Parcus Medical, LLC and served as its President.
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About Parcus Medical: Parcus Medical develops innovative surgical product solutions that allow healthcare partners to provide patient care without compromise.
Adam Nadler
Founder and CEO of My Virtual Doctor
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About My Virtual Doctor: My Virtual Doctor connects primary care providers with their patients remotely
Phil Vasta
Co-Founder and COO of My Virtual Doctor
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About My Virtual Doctor: My Virtual Doctor connects primary care providers with their patients remotely
Sue Washer
Founder ,President & CEO of Applied Genetics Technologies Corporation
Sue Washer, President and CEO of AGTC, is an experienced entrepreneur with a strong scientific and operational background. She has a B.S. in biochemistry from Michigan State University and an MBA from the University of Florida where she was one of the first graduates from the Business School’s Entrepreneurship program. Sue has 10 years of pharmaceutical management and research experience from Abbott Labs and Eli Lilly as well as 11 years of senior management experience with entrepreneurial firms in the Gainesville area. Sue successfully raised over $15M for AGTC in their second round of funding in November of 2003.
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About Applied Genetics Technologies Corporation: AGTC is a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of AAV-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases.
William Hauswirth
Founder of Applied Genetics Technologies Corporation
Hauswirth received his B.S. in Chemistry from Stanford University and his Ph.D in Physical Chemistry from Oregon State University. After an NIH Fellowship in the Biochemistry Department at Johns Hopkins University, he joined that department as an Assistant Professor. In 1976, he joined the faculty of Molecular Genetics and in 1985 the Ophthalmology faculty at the University of Florida. While at UF. Hauswirth is, in part, responsible for determining the mechanism of replication of adeno-associated virus (AAV) DNA and the discovery of mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy in mammals. More recently he collaborated on the first successful rescue of a dominant genetic disease in animals (ribozyme treatment in a Retinitis Pigmentosa model in rats) and the first restoration of vision for a recessive retinal disease (congenitally blind Briard dogs). His current interests involve the delivery and testing of potentially therapeutic genes for Retinitis Pigmentos.
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About Applied Genetics Technologies Corporation: AGTC is a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of AAV-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases.
Terence Flotte
Founder of Applied Genetics Technologies Corporation
Dr. Flotte is dean of the School of Medicine and provost & executive deputy chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). In these roles, Dr. Flotte serves UMMS as chief academic and administrative officer of the School of Medicine, overseeing all academic activities of the basic and clinical science departments, including education and research for the School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Prior, Dr. Flotte served as Nemours Eminent Scholar, Chair, Department of Pediatrics; Specialty: Pediatric Pulmonology Education: 1986, Louisiana State Univ Med Cntr / Dept of Internal Med Residency: Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Fellowship: Peds Pulmonary, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Clinical Interests: Cystic fibrosis, pediatric pulmonology, gene therapy.
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About Applied Genetics Technologies Corporation: AGTC is a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of AAV-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases.
Soner Altiok
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Nilogen Oncosystems
Soner Altiok, MD, PhD, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Nilogen Oncosystems, is a professor of Pathology and Oncological Sciences at the Moffitt Cancer Center and the University of South Florida in Tampa. He holds an MD from the Medical School of Istanbul in Turkey and a PhD in molecular cell biology from the University of Basel in Switzerland. Dr Altiok completed his postdoctoral training in Boston at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and pursued his clinical training in pathology and cytopathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Following his training, he became an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to continue his clinical and translational research efforts and joined the Moffitt Cancer Center in 2007. As a physician scientist, he has broad expertise in diagnostic pathology, tissue procurement and processing, preclinical cancer models, such as patient-derived ex vivo platforms and mouse xenograft models, as well as designing biomarker-driven clinical trials.
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About Nilogen Oncosystems: Nilogen Oncosystems is a research organization that offers cancer drug development services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Shara Hernandez
Co-Founder and Co-President of AirAvant Medical
Shara Hernandez is a Co-Founder and Co-President of AirAvant Medical.
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About AirAvant Medical: AirAvant Medical is a privately held medical device company that develops and market innovative respiratory medical devices.
Brandon Evans
Co-Founder of Superwell
Brandon Evans is the Founder and Advisor of Superwell and Guided. He also currently the CEO, Co-Founder at 1heart and Co-Founder of Miami Made. He is a former Founder and the CEO of Crowdtap, the network for Brand Influencer Communities. Crowdtap allows marketers to easily collaborate and mobilize with their targeted brand crowd of influential consumers. Crowdtap makes real-time research, collaboration and word of mouth marketing easy by enabling brands to easily launch actions to its rapidly growing member base of “Crowdtappers†as well as integrate their own existing communities from Facebook, Twitter and CRM databases. One of the pioneers in word-of-mouth and social media marketing, Brandon Evans is well versed in emerging technology, consumer collaboration, and the evolving marketing landscape. His work has spanned three successful startups, as well as the development and execution of results-driven social marketing strategies for the likes of Pepsi, Microsoft and P&G. Previously, as Mr Youth’s Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Partner, Brandon helped to build the agency from 3 to over 120 employees in his 5 years there and establish Mr Youth as a leading social marketing agency. In 2010 Mr Youth was named as one of Fast Company’s Top 10 Most Innovative Marketing Companies and as Mashable’s Social Media Agency of the Year. Prior to Mr Youth, Brandon was a strategist at Sapient during the first Internet boom, conceiving and implementing solutions harnessing the latest technologies for Fortune 100 companies. After Sapient, Brandon explored the client side as a brand manager at SKYY Spirits and launched his own fashion line, which he grew to over $1 million in annual sales within the first year, largely via word-of-mouth. Brandon is a regular contributor to leading publications on the topics of social media, crowdsourcing and marketing. He has also written several white papers on the topics: Consumer 2.0, Millennial Mom 101 and Millennial Inc. He is a graduate of The Red McCombs Business School at the University of Texas – Austin.
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About Superwell: Superwell is an e-commerce website that provides highest quality premium superfood safe for daily use.
Alberto Perlman
co-Founder & CEO of Zumba Fitness
Alberto Perlman is Founder & CEO at Zumba Fitness.
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About Zumba Fitness: Zumba Fitness is a dance fitness program that combines Latin and international music with a workout system.
Satish Movva
Founder & CEO of CarePredict
Satish Movva is the Founder and CEO of CarePredict. CarePredict helps caregivers of seniors take timely action in any care setting. It provides a unique multi-function platform that caters to senior living operators, value-based care systems, providers of RPM/CCM services and families.
Based on the science that changes in daily activities and behavior patterns precede health declines, CarePredict autonomously understands these patterns and alerts caregivers on changes that warrant attention.
CarePredict has been proven in a peer-reviewed and published study to reduce hospitalizations by 39 percent, falls by 69 percent and improved length of stay by 67 percent in Senior Living.
Satish previously founded ContinuLink, a widely acclaimed and innovative Homecare and Hospice SaaS IT platform in the US. ContinuLink was spun out in 2009 to commercialize software that Satish had developed in 2002 while at Interim Healthcare. ContinuLink was sold in 2011.
Before ContinuLink, Satish was the CIO of Sheridan Healthcare where he created the first mobile EMR device on a Palm Pilot in 1998 and the first SaaS EMR for Neonatal ICUs in 2000.
Satish has over 35 years of experience in Information Technology, twenty-eight of them in health care technologies.
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About CarePredict: CarePredict is an AI Elder care platform that helps seniors live independently, economically and longer
Walter Groteke
Co-Founder, Chairman, President & CEO of My Medical Hub
Walter Groteke is the Co-Founder, Chairman, President, and CEO of My Medical Hub.
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About My Medical Hub: My Medical Hub is a provider of care and case management solutions aimed at all stages of musculoskeletal care cycles.
Scott Minniear
Founder, President & CEO of NeuX Technologies
Minniear has held various senior management positions in the healthcare industry and has 35 years of experience in commercialization and sales of a broad range of medical devices and equipment. He founded MetaCon, Inc, a partnership with Columbia/HCA (Hospital Corporation of America), which consolidated the contracting process and purchasing for 350 hospitals nationwide. Scott has M&A experience including the $100M rollup of Critical Care Concepts, Inc. (3Ci). Scott is involved in all facets of NeuX’s business from initial product development, clinical research, IP development, strategic alliances and fundraising.
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About NeuX Technologies: NeuX Technologies develops technologies and solutions that enable people to live an active lifestyle, free of pain, and drug dependency.
Lisa Behnke
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Asserta Health
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About Asserta Health, Vibrant Medical: Asserta Health connects employers, health plans and healthcare providers with direct, immediate cash payment.
Kirk Bane
Co-Founder of Plasmology4
Kirk Bane joined Plasmology4 as Co-Founder in 2008.
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About Plasmology4, Plasmology4: Cold Plasma Medical Technologies is a company developing medical devices.
Barry Byrne
Founder & Director of AavantiBio
Barry Byrne joined University of Florida as Professor in 1997.Byrne is a Pediatric Cardiologist clinician and Associate chair of the Congenital Heart Center at UF. He is a professor in pediatrics and molecular genetics and is currently the director of the University of Florida Powell Gene Therapy Center. His research is aimed to help those affected by genetic muscular diseases and he is currently the PI on multiple clinical trials for this effort. His primary involvement lies with disorders such as Pompe, Barth, muscular dystrophy, and the associated cardiomyopathy of these diseases. Byrne obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from Denison University in Ohio, his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, and completed his residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. He was an Assistant Professor at Hopkins after completing his training before coming to the University of Florida in 1997.
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About Applied Genetics Technologies Corporation, Muscular Dystrophy Association, University of Florida, University of Florida, University of Florida: AavantiBio is a biopharmaceutical company that provides gene transfer and gene editing therapies to treat genetic diseases.
Sean Dollinger
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Namaste Technologies
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About Namaste Technologies, PlantX: Lifeist is a wellness company
Yogi Goswami
Co-Founder and Chief Science & Technology Advisor of Molekule
Yogi is currently Professor at the University of South Florida, Director of the Clean Energy Research Center and Chairman of the Board of Advisors at ASME. Yogi is globally regarded as one of the most accomplished figures in solar technology and has published 19 books including “Principles of Solar Engineering,” which is regarded as the handbook of Solar Engineering. Dr. Yogi Goswami, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, developed and patented the groundbreaking technology behind Molekule.
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About Molekule, University of South Florida: Molekule is a San Francisco-based science and clean air company that has developed a fundamentally new approach to cleaning air.
Donn Dennis
Co-Founder & CSO of Xhale
Dr. Dennis, also a co-founder of Xhale, is a board-certified anesthesiologist and previously served in various pharmaceutical company executive positions in the San Francisco area. In addition to his work with Xhale, Dr. Dennis is a professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology, Psychiatry and Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida, where he also holds the Joachim S. Gravenstein M.D. Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology. He is also the Director of Nanomedicine at the University of Florida. He is a co-inventor on numerous patents and has published 162 full length manuscripts and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals and has edited two textbooks.
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About Xhale: Xhale features a SMART medication adherence monitoring technology and on a propofol monitor.
David Brewer
CEO & Founder of MD-Global, Inc.
As a leading sales professional in the medical products industry, David Brewer of Naples, Florida has experienced a variety of operational aspects in this field. He is known for his expertise in innovative business development strategies and sales force management. David has developed unique skills in the areas of process improvement and supply chain management, helping the companies he’s worked with to streamline operations with the goal of improving revenue streams. David currently lends his considerable talents to the role of Chief Executive Officer and founder of MD-Global, Inc., the premier contract sales organization that works with a variety of established medical companies and new business start-ups in the industry. The company’s growth is based on David’s track record of professional leadership and strategic planning expertise. Dave served as the Cardiovascular Instructor and the Catheterization Lab Manager at the U.S. Army Academy of Health Sciences Cardiovascular Specialty Course. In this role, he taught a number of non-invasive procedures to combat coronary heart disease. He was also responsible for managing an annual operating budget of $2.3 million, handled purchasing of equipment and supplies for the laboratory, and performed contract negotiations with medical equipment vendors. In 2001, David transitioned to work at Boston Scientific’s Guidant Corporation as a targeted field clinical representative (TFCR) and sales representative. In this capacity, he was responsible for developing sales and marketing plans as well as education and follow-up services for application in implanted medical devices. He and his team brought the company explosive account growth and profits exceeding $4.5 million, for which he was named the TFCR of the year in fiscal year 2003-2004. As a sales representative for St. Jude Medical’s Cardiac Rhythm Management Division, David shepherded the company through innovative sales strategies. He also handled marketing, education, and follow-on services for implanted medical devices such as pacemakers and heart failure therapy equipment. In 2004 alone, his work helped the company see 710% growth in implanted cardiac devices in the Port Charlotte region of Florida. In 2006, David Brewer joined the staff of Biotronik, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced cardiac rhythm management products. As an independent distributor for the corporation, David applied his formidable sales talents and proven marketing methods; this work saw sales expand from $102,000 in 2006 to nearly $10 million in 2009. He negotiated twelve new hospital contracts for the company as well as expanded the company’s team of sales reps to handle the increased demands. In 2014, David launched MD-Global, Inc. His vast experience in the medical field and his passion for results-driven leadership have helped the company become the leading contract sales organization in the United States and beyond. He has helped over 300 independent sales professionals identify and capitalize on new market segments. The firm also assists medical company clients with achieving financial and operational goals by advising on strategic planning, business integration methods, and process improvement. In only two years of operation, MD-Global, Inc. has quickly risen to dominate in this market sector, which serves as a testament to David’s capable leadership and experience as a medical sales expert.
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About MD-Global, Inc.: MD Global is a premier sales firm that creates bonds between established medical corporations with small business start-ups.
Shannon Balliet
Founder & Chief Inspiration Officer of Goodness Monkey
Shannon has a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and an MBA. She has spent much of the last 20 years building a successful career in marketing at public, private, and start-up companies.
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About Goodness Monkey: Goodness Monkey provides Fortune 500 level, new customer acquisition, and loyalty rewards programs.
Martin Evans
Co-Founder, President & CSO of Cell Therapy
Martin Evans is Co-Founder, President & CSO at Cell Therapy.
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About Cell Therapy: Cell Therapy Ltd is a British pioneer in Regenerative Medicine.
Prashant Patel
Founder & President of Trxade Group
Mr. Prashant Patel is an entrepreneur and a registered Pharmacist with experience in multiple aspects of the pharmaceutical supply chain. He started several starts ups including Retail/Community Pharmacy before expanding into pharmaceuticals distribution and sales, focusing on pharmaceutical disposal and reverse distribution. He has also been a consultant to several return logistics pharmaceutical companies over the years. Mr Patel possesses an excellent vision to bring transparency, efficiency and cost benefits to US pharmaceutical channel partners. His unique understanding of the complex pharmaceutical industry has led to the creation of some of Trxade’s most prized products and concepts. After graduating with a Bpharm from University of Nottingham/UK, Mr. Patel completed MSC in Transport, Trade & Finance from Cass Business School, City University, UK.
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About Trxade Group: Trxade Group is a pharmaceutical company focused on solving real-world problems in healthcare.
Brian Bernick
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of vitaMedMD
Brian Bernick is Co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer at TherapeuticsMD. Dr. Bernick is a practicing, board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist with over 20 years of clinical medical experience. Dr. Bernick currently serves on the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) national committee on Professional Liability. Dr. Bernick was the Department Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boca Raton Regional Hospital and served on that hospital’s Medical Executive Board as well as the Board of Directors of the Palm Beach Medical Society and VitalMD Group Holding, LLC, the largest physician-owned and managed obstetricians/gynecologists group in Florida. Dr. Bernick is the recipient of several national and regional awards, including recognition by his peers as one of the top doctor’s in his specialty by Castle Connolly as well as the recipient of the American Medical Association Foundation’s Leadership Award. Dr. Bernick has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as having presented original research at numerous medical conferences. Dr. Bernick holds 14 patents focusing on drug therapies and analysis. Dr. Bernick is an associate professor of Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine. Dr. Bernick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Northwestern University, received his Doctorate in Medicine from the Chicago Medical School, and completed his residency at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Florida Atlantic University, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Infertility, TherapeuticsMD, vitaMedMD: VitaMedMD is a pharmaceutical company that provides Rx and OTC nutritional healthcare products to women.
Olusegun Ilegbusi
Founder, Director of SegAna
Prof. Ilegbusi (Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCF, Orlando) is a Founder, Director and an Advisor for Segana. Dr. Ilegbusi is the Provost Research Excellence Professor and the Director of the Biomedical Research and Modeling Laboratory at UCFR, specializing in biomedical systems modeling and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Dr. Ilegbusi co-developed a novel optical coherence tomography imaging catheter for intra-coronary plaque characterization on a project sponsored by the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence. Recently he was Co-Principal Investigator on a James-Esther King TSP Grant in collaboration with the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando to study lung tumor motion. He was also a co-investigator on a US Army funded project for the design of surrogate lungs to study the effect of long-term smoking. Prof. Ilegbusi is widely published with 7 books and over 200 technical papers in scholarly journals and his research has attracted over $25 million in grants from highly competitive sources.
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About SegAna: SegAna is a medical device company that offers a cloud-based platform for improving the radiation treatment of cancer.
Anand Santhanam
Founder, Director of SegAna
Prof. Santhanam (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles) is a Founder, Director and an Advisior for Segana. Dr. Santhanam has worked on the biomechanical modeling of lungs since 2002 for different applications ranging from computer animation, virtual reality, rehabilitation, tissue engineering to radiation oncology. His PhD dissertation was focused on developing High Performance Computing based algorithms for physics and physiology based 3D lung dynamics using state of-the-art Graphics Processing Units (GPU). He was Principal Investigator for the James and Ester King 2008-10 Team Science Project grant for $1 Million in collaboration with the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, which focused on incorporating 3D biomechanical lung dynamic models for assisting in the treatment efficacy of lung radiotherapy. His research focus is on developing algorithms for 3D/4D image processing, model based lung registration, lung anatomy deformation modeling, lung deformation based elasticity estimation, tumor dosimetry and lung deformation based radiotherapy evaluation. He has published several journal papers in the field of biomechanical organ modeling.
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About SegAna: SegAna is a medical device company that offers a cloud-based platform for improving the radiation treatment of cancer.
Jihua Gou
Founder of SegAna
Prof. Gou (Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando) is a Founder and an Advisior for Segana. Dr. Gou is a Professor and Director of Composite Materials and Structures Laboratory at UCF and his research focuses on Polymer nanocomposites with the goal of developing new material formulation and synthesis, processing and manufacturing techniques for structural and multifunctional applications. Dr. Gou has developed some innovative synthesis, processing and manufacturing techniques for polymer nanocomposites, including the spray-infiltration process to make polymer nanocomposites film and 3D printing process to make polymer nanocomposites products. He has developed polymer nanocomposites feedstock for an extrusion-based 3D printing and polymer nanocomposite particles for selective laser sintering (SLS) process. Dr, Gou has also developed shape memory polymer (SMP) nanocomposite-based filaments of fused deposition modeling (FDM) for 4D printing.
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About SegAna: SegAna is a medical device company that offers a cloud-based platform for improving the radiation treatment of cancer.
Peter Antevy MD
Founder & CMO of Handtevy – Pediatric Emergency Standards, Inc.
Peter Antevy, MD is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida and the Founder & CMO of Pediatric Emergency Standards Inc. He serves as the Medical Director for Davie Fire-Rescue, Southwest Ranches Fire Rescue and American Ambulance, and is the Associate Medical Director for several other agencies. He is also the Medical Director for one of the largest paramedic training programs in the country. Dr. Antevy holds degrees from the University of Miami School of Medicine, Los Angeles Children’s Hospital and The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Antevy is revolutionizing pre-hospital pediatric care by redrawing the boundaries of care standards and challenging current thought patterns. He is undoubtedly an “out of the box” thinker with aspirations to improve the care children receive through innovation and education. In 2014 Dr. Antevy was awarded the Raymond H. Alexander Florida EMS Medical Director of the Year for his leadership efforts, and in 2015 the Journal of EMS (JEMS) named him a Top 10 Innovator. Today he continues to work tirelessly for the patients and citizens he serves.
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About Handtevy – Pediatric Emergency Standards, Inc., TeamHealth Holdings: Pediatric resuscitation platform for EMS providers and hospital systems (SaaS, EHR integration, education, durable goods).
Michael Blaber
Co Founder of Trefoil Therapeutics
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About Florida State University, National Academy of Inventors, Trefoil Therapeutics: Trefoil is a biotechnology company that brings forward novel engineered FGF-1 compounds to treat endothelial cell mediated diseases.
Butch Hofstetter
Founder & President of Align Networks
Butch Hofstetter is Founder & President at Align Networks.
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About Align Networks: Align Networks is the premier workers’ compensation physical medicine program serving your needs nationwide.
David Olson
Founder & CFO of Align Networks
David Olson is Founder & CFO at Align Networks.
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About Align Networks: Align Networks is the premier workers’ compensation physical medicine program serving your needs nationwide.
Carl Bax
Founder of Premier Orthopedic
Owner at Premier Orthopedics
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About Premier Orthopedic: Premier Orthopedics is a comprehensive orthopedic and sports medicine practice.
Sonia Guzman
Founder of Carson Life
Sonia Guzman is the Founder at Carson Life.
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About Carson Life: Carson Life is a natural health and beauty products company focused on the Hispanic market.
Cynthia Webster
Founder, Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of Covenant Kids Manor Inc.
Mrs. Webster has over 28 years of management experience and co-founded Covenant Kids Manor, Inc. As its president, she obtained CKM, Inc.’s IRS status as well as its Florida incorporation, and she developed and implemented CKM’s policies and procedures. She negotiated over 12 contracts with Department of Children and Families Lead Agencies. She is responsible for the Board of Trustee recruitment and development as well as recruiting, hiring, and ongoing training of managers and direct care staff. Mrs. Webster worked with the CFO for all current and previous group home site selection and lease negotiations. She also works closely with foster care placement offices to screen potential foster client intakes into CKM group homes. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Howard University in Legal Communications with a minor in psychology, Mrs. Webster also has 3 insurance designations (SCLA-Senior Claims Law; ACA-Associate in Claims; and AIM-Associate in Insurance Management).
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About Covenant Kids Manor Inc.: Covenant Kids Manor, Inc. (CKM), mission as a non-profit 501(c)3 publicly-supported foundation.
Scott Webster
Founder , Chief Financial Officer & Vice President of Covenant Kids Manor Inc.
Mr. Webster co-founded Covenant Kids Manor, Inc. He has over 19 years management experience including 14 years leading the financial division of CKM, Inc. As the CFO of CKM, Inc., he is responsible for financial reporting, budgeting, investment management, and debt management. Mr. Webster participates in corporate audits and works closely with the bookkeeper, the CPA, and State Financial Auditors. It was Mr. Webster’s start-up funding of $45K that launched CKM, Inc. after he had received $85K auto bodily injury settlement. After paying his attorneys fees, the balance was all used to start CKM, Inc. Mr. Webster is a proud veteran of the U.S. Air Force at Vandenberg, California, where he was a supervisor at Florida Hospital Environmental Services covering the Medical Center & Disney Cancer Center. After leaving the Air Force, Mr. Webster managed several franchised business, including Dunkin Donuts, Krystals, and Snappy Car Rental. He attended Mansfield Univ. in Mansfield, Pennsylvania.
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About Covenant Kids Manor Inc.: Covenant Kids Manor, Inc. (CKM), mission as a non-profit 501(c)3 publicly-supported foundation.
Keith Webster
President & Founder of Integene International
Keith Webster is the President & Founder of Integene International.He attended to the University of York.
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About Integene International: Integene International LLC. is a privately held Florida Corporation.
Walter Guy Scott
Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of WinProbe
Guy graduated in Physics and Engineering (BSc MIEE) from Auckland University in New Zealand in 1972. Guy began his career in ultrasound in 1975 specializing in sales of the Searle B-Scanner in Australasia. Having an electronics background I developed a radiotherapy planning system in the scanner’s embedded PDP11 microprocessor and moved to the factory headquartered in Santa Clara California. Siemens purchased the company and Guy moved with the factory to Des Planes, Illinois as the ultrasound product line manager. In 1981 Guy founded of Pie Data Medical and was instrumental in designing their ultrasound product lines while managing the establishment and marketing of the company’s products in the Americas. Guy also began the Probe Corporation for more specialty and developing areas like urology and veterinary. In 1986 the Probe Corporation grew to exceed the Pie Medical opportunities and market for Probe Inc.,and became my major effort. Guy founded the WinProbe Corporation to accommodate a group of engineers as partners in the environment created by the Probe Corporation based on our common vision of producing non-invasive medical imaging products at low cost to the end user. This vision was realizable with new technologies that have become more virtual than tangible as the intelligence of the instrumentation can reside in code instead of physical wiring. The research at WinProbe is directed to design and fabricate transducers, beamformers, correlators and user interfaces WinProbe is currently offering for sale the development product called a UltraVision Ultrasound. In 1996 Guy Founded Cross Match Corporation a fingerprint company where he designed the product. Cross Match succeeded in attaining the majority of the world wide business over the next 8 years and was eventually sold to Franciscan Partners for $240 million. Positions: 1999-present President and Founder of WinProbe Inc. Responsible for product concept and managing design team designing and developing advanced ultrasonic scanner for commercialization. The company is based on a concept of housing the console of an Ultrasonic Scanner in a PC while housing the beamformer, detector and scan converter in a connected FPGA module. 1996 – 2005 Founder and Director of Research and Development, Cross Match Technologies, Inc. Responsible for all product line concepts designs and intellectual property of current and future live fingerprint products. Achieved highest FBI certification of image quality for company’s product. The products are accepted as the premier choice by all US government agencies. Guy’s patent portfolio iat CMT is over 50 patents or patents pending. 1982-1996 President and Founder of the Probe Corporation and performed the functions of President and Chief Scientist. Initially designing and producing the Kramed series of prostate scanners and later designed the Vision Series of Ultrasonic Scanners which were licensed to factories for production in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, France and India where tens of thousands have been produced and sold. 1982-1987 President and Co-Founder of Pie Data Medical Inc. Performed the functions of President and Designer being responsible for concepts and designs of companies lines of real time sector and linear scanners. Taking the company from its genesis to a $20 million in annual sales before selling his shareholding to concentrate on The Probe Corporation. 1980-1982 Product Manager for all Ultrasound products for Siemens Gammasonics in Chicago where he developed a real time Sector system and a low cost linear array system. Responsible for product designs and concepts for Matshushita (Panasonic) ultrasonic product line. 1978-1980 Product Manager for Searle Nucleonics in Santa Clara California that was purchased by Siemens to become Siemens Gammasonics. He was responsible for product development in ultrasonic transducers until Siemens moved him to be responsible for all ultrasound products in Chicago. 1973-1978 Salesman and Engineer at Nuclear Chicago later to be become Searle Nucleonics and developed a Digital Ultrasonic Radiotherapy Mapping System based on the then Searle
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About WinProbe: WinProbe Corporation is creating new cost effective medical imaging solutions.The WinProbe Corporation originated from the founders’
Wyatt Geist
Co Founder, President & CTO of Integrity Implants
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About GeoToll, Integrity Implants: Integrity Implants focuses in developing unique expandable interbody technology.
Chris Walsh
CEO & Co-Founder of Integrity Implants
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About Integrity Implants: Integrity Implants focuses in developing unique expandable interbody technology.
Bob Leland
Co-Founder & COO of ScriptAssist Pharmacy
Co-Founder of ScriptAssist Pharmacy
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About Boxscore, Boxscore, ScriptAssist Pharmacy: ScriptAssist Pharmacy is an on-line retail pharmacy company that provides medication management with vitamins and supplements.
Deborah Mash
CEO and Founder of DemeRx
Deborah Mash is Professor of Neurology and of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the University’s Brain Endowment Bank. She has led ground breaking research into BMAA and its impact upon human health.
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About DemeRx, Nova Southeastern University: DemeRx, Inc. develops treatment for drug addiction among patients coping with chronic pain.
Brian Yusem
Founder of Organic Wellness Network
Brian Yusem is a Dealing with Representative in Canada office and has more than 20 years specialized experience offering operational, economical, and regulating visiting and inner audit services to the healthcare industry. Brian Yusem leads naturopathic physicians healthcare practice in the western region as well as a national authority role in the firm’s compliance solution. Brian Yusem has completed numerous courses in healthcare sciences including pathology, endocrinology, stem cell sciences, immune compromises, and parasitology.
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About Organic Wellness Network: Naturopathic doctor, Brian Yusem, is the founder of the National Wellness Association.
Jalil Thurber
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Symptify
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About Symptify: Symptify offers a mobile app that helps bring down healthcare costs by allowing users to evaluate their symptoms at their convenience.
Nicola Marzola
Founder & CTO of Symptify
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About Symptify: Symptify offers a mobile app that helps bring down healthcare costs by allowing users to evaluate their symptoms at their convenience.
Pierre Schiro
Founder of Symptify
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About Symptify: Symptify offers a mobile app that helps bring down healthcare costs by allowing users to evaluate their symptoms at their convenience.
Michael Murphy
CEO and Founder of Medical Scribe Systems
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About Elite Medical Scribes, Medical Scribe Systems: A medical scribe company committed to improving providers and patients lives
Brian Blackburn
Founder & CEO of Xymogen
As CEO of XYMOGEN, Brian guides the company’s growth and success in close cooperation with executive management and the board of directors. He began his career in the physician based, nutritional sciences industry more than 25 years ago, focusing primarily in the areas of research & development and natural ingredient sourcing. In 2003 he researched, developed and launched the XYMOGEN line of professional formulas. Prior to launching XYMOGEN, Brian was president of the most successful independent distributorship for the largest company in the practitioner-based nutrition market. Building on his background in biochemistry and post-graduate education, Brian has developed functional medicine continuing education programs that have been presented extensively to thousands of physicians across the U.S. since 1995. He received his bachelor of science in biochemistry from John Carroll University.
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About Xymogen: Xymogen manufactures dietary supplements and functional foods, distributing them through healthcare practitioners.
Ruth Voor
Co-Founder, President, CEO of Vivorte
Ruth worked for more than 18 years at Johnson & Johnson. Ms. Voor was the Executive Director of Drug Eluting Stent Commercialization for J&J, leading the team that took CYPHER® Drug Eluting Stent from concept to launch and global approval in less than 4 years, achieving $1B in US sales in the first 9 months.
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About Vivorte: Vivorte offers invasive, implantable orthopedic devices, and bone graft substitutes to reduce hip fractures and to fill bone voids.
Charlie Bourland
CEO/Founder of Arthrogenx
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About Arthrogenx: Acquired by Stryker Corporation. Arthrogenx developed the Cobra Arthroscopic Antegrade Suture Passer with Integrated Steel Needle.
Elizabeth J. Franzmann
Scientific Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Vigilant Biosciences
Franzmann’s innovative clinical research on selective salivary biomarkers for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma serves as the foundation for the company’s initial product. In addition to her clinical research activities, Franzmann is certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology specializing in otolaryngology and plastic surgery with the head and neck otolaryngology as an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Franzmann was also recently recognized as one of the “Best Doctors in America 2011-2012”, an honor that reflects considered by fellow physicians to be one of the most skilled in her field for and most qualified for reviewing complex medical conditions. Franzmann received her Bachelor of Science and Doctorate of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles.
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About Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Vigilant Biosciences: Vigilant Biosciences is a innovator and developer of solutions that aid in the early detection and intervention of cancer.
Bill William S. Dalton
Founder & Executive Chair of M2Gen
William (Bill) S. Dalton is Founder and Executive Chair. He is the past President, CEO & Center Director of Moffitt Cancer Center. Moffitt and M2Gen have developed one of the largest cancer tumor bio-repositories and data warehouses in the U.S. dedicated to the development of personalized medicine. In 2014, Moffitt Cancer Center, in partnership with the James Cancer Center at the Ohio State University, founded the cancer center alliance called ORIEN, Oncology Research Information and Exchange Network, with the goal of accelerating cancer research discovery by sharing information and delivering hope through collaborative learning and partnerships.
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About M2Gen: M2Gen® is a health informatics solutions company
