Visionaries Shaping Virtual Medicine

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Brennan Spiegel, MD MSHS, is Director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai, where he holds the George and Dorothy Gourrich Chair in Digital Health Ethics. He also leads the Master’s Degree Program in Health Systems Science and oversees the Center for Virtual Medicine and Health System Innovation, a…

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Mr. Chad Evans is a Machine Learning Engineer at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), where he builds mHealth interventions and AI/ML tools that advance digital epidemiology. He is co-founder and CTO of Health eLink, an AI-enabled telehealth company designed and optimized to bring…

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Daniel Kraft, MD is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for…

David E. Albert, MD, an Oklahoma native, is a physician, inventor and serial entrepreneur who has developed life-saving technologies and products over the last 30 years, turning a number of those innovations into tech startups. Today, he is a founder of three technology companies, InnovAlarm, Lifetone Technology, and…

Dr. Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, PhD is Vice Chair for Research and Education in the Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she leads the Health Language Processing Lab. Her work centers on natural language processing and machine learning to extract meaningful insights from…

Joshua Pevnick, MD, MSHS, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He has a secondary Associate Professor appointment and serves as the Co-Director of the Division of Informatics in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Pevnick is also the Director of the Clinical…

Dr. Lachlan Kent is an Australian researcher, communicator, and social innovator exploring how gravity shapes the body, the mind, and society itself. He is the creator of Mental Gravity and co-developer of Biogravitational Medicine with Professor Brennan Spiegel at Cedars-Sinai — a new framework linking physics,…

Lisa Gualtieri holds a PhD in computer science from Harvard University. Combining technology, health, and behavior change, her research focuses on medication adherence, specifically, the use of digital health to reduce unintentional nonadherence. Her newest research project focuses on improving adherence to prenatal…

Haipeng (Mark) Zhang DO, MMSc, FAMIA, is the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer of Digital Innovation and the Medical Director of the Digital Innovation Hub at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Program Director of the Clinical Informatics and Innovation Fellowship at Mass General Brigham, Palliative…

Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA is a visionary healthcare executive dedicated to transforming health and care globally through innovative technologies, strategic partnerships, and scalable solutions. With deep expertise in operations, finance, digital transformation, and market strategy, she has consistently driven high-impact…

Neil S. Wenger is Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research at the University of California, Los Angeles and a practicing general internist with an interest in patients with complex illness. He also leads the Advance Care Planning and Services initiative. At RAND, he is a…

Dr Nicholas Kalbach completed his undergraduate education at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and subsequently obtained his Medical degree at Ross University School of Medicine. This was followed by a pediatric residency at Saint Peters University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, followed by a pediatric critical care…

Dr. Slamon completed medical school in 2001 at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia PA. He then completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Nemours/duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington Delaware. In addition he serves an Associate Professor of…

Omer Liran, MD, MSHS, is a physician-innovator and Assistant Professor at Cedars-Sinai, where he co-directs Virtual Medicine and provides expert care through the psychiatry consult and liaison service. With a deep background in programming and a passion for healthcare transformation, Dr. Liran explores how emerging…

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Rohan Jotwani, MD, MBA, is an academic anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine, and practices clinically in both fields. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Extended Reality. In his roles as the Nanette Laitman Scholar in XR/AI and the Co-Director of the…

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Dr. Chugh is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist and scientist. He serves as Vice-Dean and Chief AI Health Research Officer at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles. He also serves as the Pauline and Harold Price Professor and Associate Director for Predictive Analytics at the Smidt Heart Institute. Dr. Chugh is the…

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Mr. Priselac is President and CEO Emeritus, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Health System. An advocate for improving quality and access in healthcare throughout his career, Mr. Priselac developed strategic and operational innovations to foster high-quality, safe and efficient care for patients. Under his…

Timothy J. Daskivich, MD, MSHPM, is a urologic oncologist in the Cedars-Sinai Urology Academic Program and the director of Health Services Research for the Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery. His clinical practice includes surgical treatment of cancers of the prostate, kidney, bladder and testis, with a focus on…

Virginia L Bartlett is a clinical ethics consultant, philosopher, teacher, scholar and writer. She serves as the Assistant Director for the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and is an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences. She is the author of Elements of…