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Adrian Gropper, M.D.
Chief Science Officer
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| Adrian has pioneered the use of computers and the Internet to deliver diagnostics to all physicians. For over 25 years, Adrian has used a combination of engineering and medicine to transition sophisticated diagnostics out of the specialist's lab and into everyday practice. Today, he's at the forefront of making diagnostics accessible directly to patients over the World Wide Web
Adrian's career as a medical device developer began with undergraduate education in mechanical engineering and computer simulation at MIT, graduation from Harvard Medical School, and internship at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center. Adrian served as Director of Biomedical Research at Orion Research, Inc, Adrian pioneered the field of "physician's office" diagnostics with the first whole blood analyzer designed for use outside of a laboratory setting. Adrian was co-founder of Analytix, Inc. and developer of the first robotic blood analyzer.
Adrian's work on imaging and affiliation with Massachusetts General Hospital began in 1991 with early work on the Center for Innovative Minimally Invasive Therapy, a joint project of the MGH departments of radiology and surgery. As Chief Technology Officer of RSTAR, Inc,he ran pioneering telemedicine projects throughout the world that spawned first generation of commercial diagnostic Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS).
In 1995, Adrian Gropper and Sean Doyle founded AMICAS(NYSE:AMCS) Inc, to bring diagnostic quality images to physicians outside of the radiology department PACS by using Internet technology. AMICAS' 1997 FDA-clearance of its flagship product preceded the next Web-based image management system by some 18 months. Today, AMICAS' Web-based PACS technology is installed in over 400 facilities including such flagships as MGH, Boston Medical Center, New York Presbyterian and Cornell Medical Centers and The University of Chicago. |
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Bill Donner
CEO
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Bill Donner's career has focused on designing, building, financing and promoting the development of large scale online transaction processing systems for large user communities. After a obtaining a BSEE from MIT, he joined Digital Equipment Corporation, Bill built and ran Precision Business Systems; a Wall St. based Systems Integrator. PBS built and installed a variety of innovative systems including global communications switches and networks for Goldman Sachs, Bankers Trust, Chase Manhattan, and Bank of America, securities clearance systems for Bank of New York and Security Pacific, money transfer systems for Citibank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Irving Trust and others, a Japanese facsimile switching network for Nikko Securities, an airline check in network for VASP, the Brazilian state run airline, and the PriceWatch trading room systems for Chemical Bank in London, SGB in New York, and the floor system for the Montreal Stock Exchange.
Precision Business Systems was sold to the Bank of America in 1988 and subsequently, a division was sold to Reuters, PLC where Bill ran the Reuters Dealing 2001 and 2002 Trading Services. These proprietary networks service 30,000 online traders at 8,000 banks and brokerages in a 7*24*365 network. Bill was also Chief Architect of Reuters
Through Reuters investment group, and later through Fenway Partners and as an angel investor, Bill has helped to fund several successful startups including Intertrust, digital rights management (IPO), Digimarc, content watermarking (IPO), Verisign, public key infrastructure security (IPO)Tradeum, an exchange software provider (sold to VerticalNet), Supplier Market, a procurement network for custom built products (sold to Ariba), Odigo, a cellular instant messaging infrastructure provider (sold to Comverse), and iRobot, a robotic products company (IRBT), WebLogic, inventors of the Java application server (sold to BEA Systems), AMICAS, a leading PACS vendor. Bill currently serves on the board of DG Fastchannel (DGIT) which operates a national network for media spot distribution. |
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Simon Sadedin
CTO
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Simon's career as a Software Engineer and Architect has focussed on solving the toughest systems and database problems in each domain he has worked in. Upon graduation from the University of Melbourne in 1995 with Bachelor of Engineering (Elec) and Science (Physics). Simon was telecommunications software engineer at the Telstra Research Laboratories in Australia. After relocating to the US Simon served as a consultant working in the logistics and supply chain industry. He joined Elogex (later One Network Enterprises) as a Lead Engineer and delivered solutions for transportation logistics, supply chain optimization and distributed caching for scaling database architectures.
Independently, Simon developed his own innovative product for automated testing of web applications and founded his own business, Badboy Software, to distribute Simon's own line of tools for testing: Badboy, an automated playback and recording tool and Wave Test Manager, a solution for managing, executing and controlling quality assurance tests. Simon works full time at MedCommons where he has served as both a personal contributor of both client and server side code using a variety of web2.0 technologies, and as Chief Technology Officer coordinating the development of the distributed MedCommons architecture and the project level activities of disparate contributors to the MedCommons Appliance. |
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| Doug Klinger
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Doug Klinger is President of Bee Mountain LLC, an advisor to fund managers and companies in the healthcare services, internet media and enterprise software sectors. Previously, Doug was President of Monster North America, leading Monster Worldwide's (NYSE: MNST) operations in the U.S. and Canada, including Monster.com, Monster.ca, and Monster Government Solutions.
Previously, Doug served for 10 years with CIGNA Corporation (NYSE: CI). Doug was President of CIGNA Health Services, leading a $6 billion specialty health care operation engaged in pharmacy benefit management, behavioral health, medical, disease and rehabilitation management, dental and vision care, and clinical informatics. Doug also served as President and CEO of CIGNA Dental Health. Before entering healthcare, he served as SVP, Distribution & Development of CIGNA Retirement & Investment Services,.where he led the nation's 3rd-largest Defined Contribution operation. He was a founder and Board member of CIGNA Financial Services, Inc., a discount securities brokerage firm.
Before CIGNA, Doug spent 7 years with PNC Financial Services Group (NYSE: PNC), as Managing Director, Marketing for PNC Investment Management and Research and as Vice President, Corporate Markets for PNC Institutional Management Corporation.
Doug started out in investment banking and venture capital with Butcher & Singer, Keystone Venture Capital Fund, and Kidder Peabody. He has a BA in Economics from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. |
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| Jim Forster
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Jim Forster is passionate about extending the Internet. He started at Cisco when it was quite small and spent 20 years there, mostly in IOS Software Development and System Architecture, and becoming a Distinguished Engineer. While at Cisco he started working on projects and policies to improve Internet access in developing countries, speaking at conferences in Africa including the East Africa Ministerial Broadband Workshop in Kigali, Rwanda in 2007; and the TEDGlobal event in Arusha, Tanzania. Now he engaged in both for-profit and non-profit efforts to extend communications in Africa and India. He is on several Board of Directors, and an Angel investor in US and international projects, including MedCommons in the US, Esoko Networks in Ghana, and ApnaNet in India.
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| Bob Pasker
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Bob Pasker is one of the IT industry's leaders in middleware and online transaction processing. As one of the founders of WebLogic, the first independent Java company (acquired by BEA Systems in 1998), he was the chief architect of the WebLogic Application Server. Bob has provided technical leadership and management for numerous award-winning technologies, including the TribeLink series of routers and remote access devices, and the TMX transaction processing system. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from San Francisco State University and holds a Masters degree from Brown University. Bob serves as a Venture Advisor to Azure Capital partners. |
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| Keith Batchelder, M.D.
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Keith Batchelder is the founder and CEO of Genomic Healthcare Strategies, a company focused on the changes in healthcare resulting from advances in molecular medicine. During a career that has spanned medical research, clinical practice, and management in start-ups and large organizations, Dr. Batchelder focuses on the practical application of advanced healthcare innovation and its economics. He has served as chief technical officer of WorldCare International Clinical Trials, where he used biomarkers as surrogate endpoints for successful FDA approvals; as CIO of Harvard Salud Integral, where he helped to raise funding and grow a start-up HMO in Mexico City; as a principal of AMICAS Corp, where he took a web-based radiology system from concept to a venture-funded and profitable software company; and at Massachusetts General Hospital for eight years, where as a staff member he conducted industry sponsored research in innovative drug discovery, invented novel techniques and published in peer reviewed journals.
Dr. Batchelder was educated at Middlebury College, the Hahnemann University School of Medicine, received postgraduate training in Medical Informatics at The Boston VA Hospital and completed a fellowship at the Food and Drug Administration. He also holds a masters degree in biomaterials from New York University.
Dr. Batchelder, acting on his belief in the potential of personalized medicine, is one of the first ten volunteers to have their full duplex genomes sequenced and published in Harvard Genetics Professor George Church's Personal Genome Project. |
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| David Berkoff, M.D.
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Team Physician for Duke University; Assistant Clinical Professor; Department of Surgery, divisions of sports medicine and emergency medicine;
Dr. Berkoff received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, and completed his medical training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY in 1997. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Beth Israel Medical center in New York, and a residency in Emergency Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. Dr. Berkoff worked for 2 years in the private community as an ED physician in New York, and was the medical director for the New York Triathlon Club. While in New York he owned a private business doing bicycle fitting, performance testing and custom bike designing. In 2001 Dr. Berkoff moved to Chapel Hill and began working at Duke and completed his Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at Duke.
Dr. Berkoff's clinical interests are non-operative orthopedics with a focus on cyclists, runners and triathletes. He also spends time working in the Michael Krzyzewski Human Performance Lab doing endurance and cycling related research and bike fitting. |
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| Hugh Taylor, M.D.
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| Dr. Taylor, a member of Family Medicine Associates in Hamilton and has been a member of the medical staff at Beverly and Addison Gilbert hospitals for more than 25 years and during that time has remained actively engaged in working with physicians and the Hospital to improve the quality of care for patients and their families. Dr. Taylor is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in family medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland in Cleveland, OH and is board certified in both family medicine and geriatric medicine.
Dr. Taylor is an active member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and past president of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians, an organization which recognized him as 'Family Physician of the Year' in 2007. Dr. Taylor is the most recent recipient of the Philip D. Herrick Award, given to a physician who is recognized by his or her peers for outstanding achievements, professional accomplishments, commitment to community service, dedication to the mission of NHS and the ability to inspire the general medical staff. |
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