Speakers
Innovation Catalyst |
Disruptive Techpreneur
Digital Health Innovation
Advisor (Ingenium)
Physician
Mayo Clinic
Owner/Manager
Reconnect4health
Remote Patient Monitoring
Advisor (Ingenium)
Founder, President & CEO
Ingenium Digital Health
Digital Health Transformation
Advisor & Consultant
Digital Health Strategist
Digital Mental Health Project
Digital Mental Health Strategy
Advisor (Ingenium)
CEO
Community Care Network
Principal, Transformational
Views Consulting
Acute & Critical Care
Advisor (Ingenium)
CEO
TheTeledentists
Founder, CEO
Adaptive Telehealth
Tele Behavioral Health
Advisor (Ingenium)
Principal,
McMenamin Law Offices
Digital Health Legal
Advisor (Ingenium)
Founder, CEO & CMO
USA Doctor Consult
Founder,
HealthPro Consulting
Healthcare Consumer
Advisor (Ingenium)
Principal
Letendre & Associates
Organizational Excellence
Advisor (Ingenium)
Executive Director Of Operations
CFG Health Network
President/Owner
MedFocus Consulting
Occupational Medicine
Advisor (Ingenium)
Owner
Dr. Wagner Consulting
Digital Health Strategy
Advisor, EU (Ingenium)
Advisor & Consultant
Ingenium Digital Health
Telehealth Strategy & Implementation
Telehealth Consultant
Sam Lippolis Consulting
Physician Practices Telemedicine
Advisor (Ingenium)
Healthcare Business Development Consultant
Digital Health Marketing
Advisor (Ingenium)
Principal & CEO
Tom Davis Consulting
Physician Telemedicine
Advisor (Ingenium)
Anuraj Gambhir, BE, eMBA
Innovation Catalyst | Disruptive Techpreneur
Digital Health Innovation Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Anuraj Gambhir is an internationally recognized Strategic Business & Startup Advisor, Technology Visionary & Exponential Thought Leader. He has over 28 years’ global experience working across 5 continents. His practical knowledge spans executive management, innovation, entrepreneurship, conscious leadership, exponential technologies, design thinking and holistic wellbeing. Key domains of focus include the future of Health/Wellness, Learning/Education, Transportation, Telecom & Space as part of emerging Smart Cities/Communities.
He is an Innovation Evangelist, Business Strategist on the outside and Altruist, Philosopher on the inside, and a million things in between. He is focused on shaping the future of humanity from ‘mindset to heartset’.
As an Innovation catalyst and Transdisciplinary expert Anuraj assists organizations to spearhead their innovation agenda using exponential technologies. He is particularly passionate about developing frugal innovations for helping bridge the digital divide (transforming it into digital opportunities) and empower under-privileged communities.
Ashokakumar M. Patel, M.D.
Physician | Mayo Clinic
Speaker’s Bio
Dr. Ashok Patel is a consultant in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine at the Mayo Clinic. He was born in Kampala, Uganda and trained at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta as well as Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. For over 25 years, he has had a busy and active clinical practice at Mayo Clinic focused around the integrated management of airway disorders such as asthma and COPD. He also enjoys educational exchanges with all types of learners, including visiting clinicians, medical students, residents, nursing and allied health professionals. Since 2005, he has expanded his scope of clinical educational outreach to include underserved global health and worked with several of our colleagues in preparing responder teams for complex humanitarian emergencies.
Bonnie Britton, MSN, RN
Owner/Manager Reconnect4health
Remote Patient Monitoring Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Bonnie is recognized as a pioneer and expert in Remote Patient Monitoring. She has dedicated the past 23 years of her career as a nurse, advancing the adoption and implementation of Remote Patient Monitoring and Telehealth, both nationally and internationally.
Bonnie was the 13th inductee into the American Telemedicine Association’s (ATA) College of Fellows, is a previous ATA Board Member, and chaired multiple ATA Committees.
She currently serves as a Board Advisor and Consultant for the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center (MATRC). Bonnie is the co-founder and CEO of Reconnect4Health, which is a RPM service provider organization and RPM consulting company.
Christian Milaster, MS
Founder, President & CEO | Ingenium Digital Health
Digital Health Transformation Advisor & Consultant
Speaker’s Bio
Christian Milaster optimizes Telehealth Services for health systems and physician practices. He serves as a Digital Health & Telehealth Advisor to startups and established Digital Health companies.
Christian is a Master Builder of Digital Health and Telehealth Programs and the Founder and President of Ingenium Digital Health Advisors, a boutique consultancy focused on enabling the effective delivery of extraordinary care through workflow optimization and the judicious use of technology.
Born, raised, and educated as an Engineer in Germany, Christian started his career at IBM Global Services before joining the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where he worked for 12 years in various roles before launching Ingenium in 2012.
Craig DeLarge, MBA, MPH
Digital Health Strategist/Digital Mental Health Project
Digital Mental Health Strategy Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Craig A. DeLarge is a digital healthcare strategist and mental health advocate at The Digital Mental Health Project, where he produces education programs and research which help behavioral health professionals improve adoption of their services using digital technology.
In his career, as a digital & healthcare marketer, strategist and educator, he has managed in and with world-class firms like Novo Nordisk, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Takeda and Johnson & Johnson, as well as teaching at Temple University, Philadelphia University, Chestnut Hill College, St. Joseph’s University and Penn State University. His career is focused on “improving health” & “developing leaders”.
He holds bachelor’s and master’s degree in Marketing and Design Management from Philadelphia University (USA) (BSc), and from the University of Westminster (UK) (MBA). He is currently a graduate Public Health student at King’s College, London. He is also a certified professional coach and published author of The WiseWorking Handbook (2014).
He resides in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Dick Courcelle
CEO, Community Care Network
Speaker’s Bio
Dick Courcelle has over 30 years of leadership experience and has been been employed by the Community Care Network for 10 years. Prior to his role as CEO, he served as the Director of Rutland County Head Start as well as Director of Organizational Excellence for Rutland Mental Health Services. Prior to his employment with CCN, Dick served as the Chief Financial Officer for the Vermont Achievement Center in Rutland, Vermont.
Erkan Hassan, PharmD, FCCM
Principal, Transformational Views Consulting
Acute & Critical Care Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Erkan Hassan couples 19 years of bedside clinical experience with 20 years of designing and implementing innovative technologies within integrated health delivery systems to deliver quantified patient centered clinical and financial outcomes. Erkan helps healthcare innovators maximize clinical acceptance.
Key areas of expertise include:
- Ability to couple clinical subject matter experience with business acumen to achieve quadruple aim goals.
- C-suite leadership engagement to identify and develop strategy to meet current key challenges
- Healthcare transformation partnership with client(s) to address workflows, metrics, training, and critical success factors with clinical programs to improve the quality or cost efficiency of care.
Erkan has served in various leadership roles within critical care and critical care pharmacy.
Howard Reis, MBA
CEO
TheTeledentists
Speaker’s Bio
Jay Ostrowski, MA, LPC‑S
Founder, CEO Adaptive Telehealth
Tele Behavioral Health Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Jay Ostrowski is the CEO of Behavioral Health Innovation where he develops and deploys telemental health, telebehavioral health and teleMAT programs and designs HIPAA-secure software applications such as Adaptive Telehealth.
He also serves as a telehealth consultative and implementation partner for the Mid Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center and is the Director of the Telebehavioral Health Center of Excellence.
Joe McMenamin, MD, JD
Principal, McMenamin Law Offices
Digital Health Legal Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Joseph P. (“Joe”) McMenamin, MD, JD is a physician-attorney and the principal at McMenamin Law Offices, PLLC, a healthcare boutique in Richmond, Virginia concentrating on the law of digital health.
Joe advises institutional and individual telehealth service providers, academic medical centers, remote monitoring services, trade associations, telehealth platform companies, investors, and telecoms on a broad array of medico-legal questions arising from distance care and, more recently, from the application of augmented intelligence to health care in general and to telemedicine in particular. He writes and lectures extensively on these and related topics.
He also serves as general counsel to the Virginia Telehealth Network, and as a member of the Legal Resource Team of CTeL, the Center for Telemedicine and eHealth Law. He is board-certified in Legal Medicine, an Associate Professor of Legal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Fellow of the College of Legal Medicine.
John Guha, MD
Founder, CEO & CMO | USA Doctor Consult
Speaker’s Bio
Dr. Guha is the founder, CEO and CMO of USADoctorConsult and LGBTQ.clinic. In his over 30 years of emergency medicine experience, Dr. S John Guha has developed a reputation for his empathetic bedside manner and his fast and accurate diagnoses. He is passionate about bringing his experience and skills to people who need medical care when and where they need it most.
Judy Chan, MPH
Founder, HealthPro Consulting
Healthcare Consumer Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Judy has been the founder and president of HealthPro Consulting for over 25 years. HealthPro Consulting helps organizations improve care delivery to the diverse new healthcare consumer and local communities. Judy works with organizations to be more competitive through innovation with today’s non-traditional healthcare companies.
She now offers clients a new approach that uses sentient factors to formulate strategy quickly in today’s disruptive and volatile environment. Strategy can be developed in less than a week and implemented immediately.
An expert in the healthcare consumer, Judy explains why healthcare is deeply affected by the consumer’s behavior, and how healthcare companies can create a great consumer-centric experience in her book, The Patient Paradigm Shifts: Profiling the New Healthcare Consumer.
Judy has a BS with honors in public health from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s in public health (MPH) biostatistics and health planning analysis from the University of Hawaii.
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Kathy Letendre, MHSA
Principal Letendre & Associates
Organizational Excellence Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Kathy Letendre creates transformative experiences for her clients, catapulting leadership and organizational performance to new heights.
Kathy is an expert in organizational excellence, leadership excellence, and performance excellence. As an experienced healthcare executive and champion of transformational improvement, she shares her expertise with leaders, helping them achieve unprecedented levels of excellence for themselves and their organizations. She has a reputation as a collaborative and passionate agent of change, particularly when met with resistance.
A graduate of Duke University and the University of Michigan, Kathy is the President and Founder of Letendre & Associates where she advises organizations and leaders to create their excellence advantage.
Clients benefit from Kathy’s executive experience in healthcare where she generated unprecedented results. Her ability to forge a path to excellence in that highly regulated and risk-filled industry positions her to advise clients in every domain.
Ken Wolstenholme, BS
Executive Director Of Operations CFG Health Network
Speaker’s Bio
Ken started his career in healthcare in 2005 when he took the position of Sr. Director of IT for Bancroft Neurohealth in Haddonfield, NJ. After having served in the USAF for 11 years, working in the Finance Industry and running his own IT Consultancy, Ken settled into Healthcare and hasn’t looked back. Although Ken has spent many years in HeatchTech, he currently serves as a F-COO and offers services in Technology, Physician Recruiting, HR, Credentialing and Billing.
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Mike Toth, DO
President/Owner MedFocus Consulting
Occupational Medicine Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Dr. Toth was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. After medical school he started a rural family medicine practice that included a high volume of Worker’s Compensation care. It soon became apparent that there had to be a better way to deal with the paperwork and hassle of the Worker’s Compensation system and providing occupational medicine services. This became the genesis of a multi- decade career focused in occupational medicine.
His CV includes occupational medicine clinic start-up projects and several Medical Directorships, including with Mayo Health Systems. He also has experience in Pain Management and functioned as Department Chair in Urgent Care.
Dr. Toth’s medical career has also included foreign service work aboard the M/V Caribbean Mercy Hospital Ship as the Chief Medical Officer and later in Health Care Administration for Mercy Ship’s global operations. He later served as a Project Director during the early phase of construction and development of a world class medical and dental center located in the east African nation of Tanzania.
He currently lives in southern Minnesota and is the president/owner of MedFocus Consulting, Inc. which is dedicated to creating and fine tuning occupational medicine clinical delivery systems throughout the country.
Oliver Wagner, MD, PhD
Owner Dr. Wagner Consulting
Digital Health Strategy Advisor (EU) (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Dr. Wagner is surgical specialist and has a track record of more than 30-years of international experience in the healthcare services industry covering clinical medicine, management consulting as well as executive strategic and operational work in different healthcare ventures throughout the industry.
After his medical training on three continents and his postgraduate clinical training in hospitals of all care levels Dr. Wagner gained experience in leading positions in international healthcare consulting and as CMO of a leading hospital group in Germany. In the following years, he obtained extensive experience in corporate leadership as shareholder, CEO and managing director of operating and holding companies for hospitals, outpatient surgery centers and private specialized clinics in several European countries. Due to his concurrent activity as deputy chairman of the supervisory board of a listed company he is also familiar with corporate governance topics.
Peter Caplan, MPCD, MS
Advisor & Consultant Ingenium Digital Health
Telehealth Strategy & Implementation
Speaker’s Bio
Peter Caplan is a Telehealth Strategy and Implementation Advisor with Ingenium Digital Health Advisors and the Founder and Managing Consultant of eHealth Systems & Solutions, a consulting firm founded in 2005 specializing in telemedicine, telehealth, and information technology solutions for hospitals, rural clinics, and physician practices.
With a background as a strategic planner and healthcare economist and over 30 years’ experience, Peter has worked with a variety of healthcare associations, health systems and telehealth networks.
Peter is a member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA); Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the National Rural Health Association; and the Colorado Prevention Center. He holds graduate degrees in Planning/Community Development and Economics from the University of Colorado and has completed post-graduate research in public administration, health information technology, and physician practice management.
Sam Lippolis, MPA
Telehealth Consultant Sam Lippolis Consulting
Physician Practices Telemedicine Advisor & Consultant (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Sam Lippolis is a telehealth consultant and trainer specializing in video visits, remote patient monitoring, eConsults and all aspects of virtual care. When she isn’t training for organization groups of 250 clinicians she’s coaching 1:1 with providers to redesign their practice for a virtual first model.
After 11 years of telehealth planning and implementation with academic and large health systems, Sam’s enthusiasm is infectious. And her real world knowledge is sought after as an advisor and trainer. Her unique view on telehealth is focused on human connection, exceptional clinical care and a better lifestyle for providers.
Sam is known for having fun while conveying complex information that everyone can understand and put into action. Sam has presented and contributed to Modern Healthcare, Healthcare Informatics, MGMA and SG2 Healthcare Intelligence.
Stacey Robertson, MFA
Healthcare Business Development Consultant
Digital Health Marketing Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Stacey is a strategic growth consultant who applies tools borrowed from the digital advertising industry to help medical practices expand. She plans and executes strategic development plans including the implementation of telemedicine, web-assisted patient access, retention policies, phone and service improvements, new vendor relationships, and improved patient experiences.
Her team creates marketing presence and community awareness to help medical practices expand their regional footprint. Stacey’s teams work with practice administrators to manage web design/SEO, develop creative multi-media campaigns, organize community events, work with EMRs and patient correspondences, and encourage new medical programs.
Clients include Primary Care/Multi-Specialty Practices and Specialist Medical Practices ranging in size from 5 to 40 providers.
Tom Davis, MD
Principal & CEO Tom Davis Consulting
Physician Telemedicine Advisor (Ingenium)
Speaker’s Bio
Since completing specialty training in telemedicine in 1994, Dr. Tom Davis MD FAAFP has advocated and mentored clinicians and organizations throughout the country.
Emphasizing system development, clinician mentorship, and patient care, Dr. Davis supports clients who understand that telemedicine is a tool which can, when leveraged within well-designed systems, generate phenomenal value for patient, clinician, and organizations alike.
Author of the 2017 Amazon “Hot 100” publication “Telemedicine Confidential — Keeping Your Family Safe”, Dr. Davis advocates for the idea that virtual care delivery is a discipline completely separate from face-to-face care delivery, requiring entirely new skill sets and techniques to be executed with success.