Using technologies to combat COVID


Open Health Network

Session 160

13:00–14:00 CEST (UTC+02:00), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 Thematic Workshop

Let’s take a look at different ways technologies can help people all over the world to combat COVID and other infectious diseases. We will get an overview of digital health solutions, wearables, perspective from healthcare organizations on how and why works. We will have discussions on future needs and opportunities in this area.

Panellists
Tatyana Kanzavel
Tatyana Kanzavel CEO Open Health Network Moderator

Tatyana Kanzaveli is the founder and CEO of Open Health Network - integrated digital health platform. Tatyana has been recognized as one of the top 10 Influential Women in Healthcare IT in 2015 and by Forbes as one of the top 50 women-led startup in tech founders. She held executive management roles at large international corporations and startups. She is a mentor at 500Startups, ASTIA and Richard Branson Entrepreneurial Center.


John Rogers
John Rogers Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey

John Rogers is a member of the faculty at Northwestern University, where he is the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, with affiliate appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemistry.  He is also Director of the recently endowed Institute for Bioelectronics, and organization and promotes and funds research at the interface between medicine and engineering.  He has published more than 750 papers, is a co-inventor on more than 100 patents and he has co-founded several successful technology companies.  His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), and most recently the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019).  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Dr. Aditi U. Joshi
Dr. Aditi U. Joshi Emergency Medicine Physician and Telehealth expert

Dr. Aditi U. Joshi is an Emergency Medicine Physician and Telehealth expert working on improving healthcare and equity through technology. Through over 7 years of working in Telemedicine and digital health on both a startup and academic hospital. Her position at TJUH is multi-faceted in telehealth and tele-intake: working in operations, quality assurance, provider training, resident and medical education and implementing new programs and use cases for telehealth. She runs a Telehealth fellowship aimed at training future physicians interested in leading virtual care. Nationally, she serves at the Chair-Elect for the Telehealth committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians, helping expand the role of telehealth within the specialty. She is part of ATA's research review committee, UMMC's tel-emergency summit and will be speaking and chairing a section at SAEM's upcoming consensus conference, all of which aim to formalize the future of research in digital and telehealth for quality and validation.


Dr. Azizi Seixas,
Dr. Azizi Seixas, Assistant Professor New York University’s Langone Health Center

Dr. Azizi Seixas is an  Assistant Professor at New York University’s Langone Health Center, but Dr. Azizi Seixas’s career can’t be summed up in one title. Dr. Seixas (Say-shas) is also a seasoned biomedical researcher, scientist, communicator, health-tech innovator, sought-after speaker, and consultant to some of the world’s most recognizable organizations, from NBC Health News, where he’s the in-house sleep expert, to the Department of Defense, where he serves on the Mental Health Task Force.


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