Anna is works at San Francisco General Hospital. She completed her MD and MPh at the Harvard Medical School after a year at the Harvard School of Public Health. In medical school her focus has been in community health and community-based research. At the School of Public Health she was exposed to the powerful contribution that social enterprise can have to innovation in health care delivery. With two other students she formed Unite for Health!, a non-profit working to bring powerful approaches to screening and treatment for cardiovascular disease in China. The business plan for Unite for Health! won the 1st place in the Harvard Business School Business Plan Competition, Social Enterprise Track. She also completed the Zuckerman Fellowship in leadership and public service at Harvard University, concurrent with her year at the School of Public Health. Her interests are increasingly centered on delivery quality care for people with chronic diseases, and she plans to do a residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Geriatrics. Through social entrepreneurship, she plans to contribute her clinical and public health background to the creation of feasible and evidence-based solutions for chronic diseases in resource-poor communities.

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Gabriela Voskerician, Founder & CEO, Krikorjan Gabriela Voskerician is CEO and Founder of Krikorjan. The company's mobile platform, Prevent360, is being developed to revolutionize behavior change in preventing diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Previous to Krikorjan, Gabriela led the product development cycle, clinical, and regulatory path for Proxy Biomedical, a leader in implantable medical devices. In parallel, she taught Medical Device Innovation at University of Geneva (UG), National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Presently Gabriela shares her time between establishing Krikorjan as a leader in diabetes prevention and contributing to the Biodesign Innovation Program at Stanford University in her Guest Professor capacity. Gabriela holds a BS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering awarded by CWRU and a BA in Art History from the same university. In her free time, Gabriela hangs-out with the Bandits (7-12 year-olds) at Sierra-at-Tahoe teaching them snowboard tricks in the park and pipe, while still working on her own hand plants. If you don't spot her helmet with blue flowers at Sierra, Gabriela must be X-Ray-ing a painting in the Uffizi with her friend Maurizio Seracini. She currently works as CEO at Optima Integrated Health. Gabriela is 2012 Fellow of the Startup Leadership Program of Silicon Valley.

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Joshua Windmiller received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from UC San Diego in 2012 where he was awarded with the prestigious Charles Lee Powell Foundation fellowship and was a Gordon Scholar in engineering leadership. Dr. Windmiller is the recipient of the internationally-acclaimed Printed Electronics USA 2010 Academic R&D award for his developments in textile-based printed bioelectronics. He was inducted as a Gordon Fellow in 2011 in recognition of demonstrated leadership in the engineering profession. Dr. Windmiller gained international reputation for his development of transdermal and percutaneous biosensors, printed bioelectronics, screen printed nanotechnology, and bioelectrocatalysis. He has completed a DOE-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship at UCSD's Department of NanoEngineering where his research focuses on the development of printed biosensors, bioelectronics, and biofuel cells. He currently serves as the CEO of Electrozyme , an early-stage startup focused on the development of printed epidermal biosensors for the assessment of physical activity and fitness levels. He is a 2014 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in San Diego.

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Kaartiga Sivanesan is currently a Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Fellow at Stanford University, where she is working in the field of cardiovascular medical device innovation. She is a medical student at Vanderbilt University, where she was Chapter President of the American Medical Association and was awarded an American Heart Association Health Sciences Fellowship for her research on lipid droplet maturation in fat cells. Kaartiga graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Biology and Health Policy. At Harvard she was President of her undergraduate house, Lowell House, and led a Habitat for Humanity team to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Her senior thesis was a study of the implementation of new medical technologies at Brigham & Women?s Hospital. Kaartiga is passionate about the field of cardiology and is interested in cardiovascular research as well as emerging technologies in the field.

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Neculai Archip is the Founder and CEO of Cranberry Peak Corp., a Software platform focused on improving patient-care team connectivity and on enhancing efficiency for healthcare providers. Prior to Cranberry Peak, he worked at Siemens Healthcare, where he was Associate Director. Neculai has also worked at Siemens Venture Capital, Harvard Medical School and Microsoft. He is an expert in Strategy, Medical Devices and Healthcare Information Technology. He holds a degree in Computer Science, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Medical Imaging and an MBA in Finance, Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. He is 2015 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Boston.

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