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Speakers:

Dr. Ned Sahin
CEO, Brain Power LLC

Dr. Ned T. Sahin completed his PhD at Harvard in cognitive neuroscience, and was awarded the Richard J. Herrnstein prize for the year’s best PhD dissertation at Harvard. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at UC San Diego Medical School, then received an NIH training grant to be a Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute and the Institute for Neural Computation. Some of his research into the biological basis of language was published as a report in Science magazine, with an accompanying “Perspectives” piece and much popular-presscoverage. Dr. Sahin is now directing an academically-flavored neurotechnology company focused on transforming consumer-targeted wearables like Google Glass into neuroassistive devices.

Sahin did his undergraduate work at Williams College, in biology and neuroscience, studied for a year at Oxford, and did a Master’s at MIT in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department. During grad school, he maintained a collaboration and physical presence at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Martinos Biomedical Imaging Center. There, he learned to do fMRI and ICE research, applied these methods to studies of human language, and also wrote software to automate the analysis and display of fMRI and ICE data. He was appointed to be the student member at the MGH faculty meetings for part of this time, and was appointed to an institutional training grant (in brain imaging) that linked MGH and Harvard Psychology. While post-doctoral fellow at the University of California San Diego & Salk Institute, he was also an adjunct post-doc at Harvard.

Dr. Sahin has presented his research in ten countries, at many universities and conferences. He recently chaired a symposium session on applying ICE research to human cognition, at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Barcelona.

During grad school, he was Principle Investigator on an SBIR grant project (Phase I and II) at a technology company. The project combined several neurological and physiological methods toward a wearable sensor system to predict and avert cognitive overload in high-stress workers such as pilots, soldiers, and surgeons.

Dr. Sahin has won several teaching prizes (undergraduate and graduate level), and in the first year at Harvard served as the head teaching fellow for a new 300-student course in the Core Curriculum, overseeing 10 teaching fellows. Sahin’s graduate supervisor was Steven Pinker, PhD, his primary post-doc supervisor and long-time mentor is Eric Halgren, PhD, and his secondary supervisor was Terry Sejnowski, PhD. For mental diversion, Ned enjoys writing poetry, photography, world travel, rock climbing, and rowing.

At the end of 2013, Dr. Sahin founded an academically-flavored company called Brain Power, to turn some neuroscience innovations into tangible products that can benefit many people in their daily lives. Specifically, he chose to address the challenges of autism, and to apply the newest in brain science from MIT and Harvard in the context of the newest in wearable technologies, Google Glass. His group is research-focused yet practically minded and includes many students from both universities. The project has been featured in TechCrunch, on CBS TV, by Autism Speaks, and many other outlets; and has been praised by Google.

Chip Ach, MBA ’09
Senior Architect, athenahealth

Chip Ach is a Senior Architect at athenahealth who leads a team developing athenahealth’s API and works with our More Disruption Please (MDP) partners. Prior to his work on MDP, Chip was the architect for athenahealth’s Communicator product. He has a background in system administration and networking as well. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and their cocker spaniels.

John O. Moore, MD, PhD
Co-founder and CEO, Twine Health

John Moore, MD, PhD, is the co-founder and CEO of Twine Health. Moore’s passion for a better healthcare system started during his medical training where he was frustrated to learn that the best diagnostic and treatment capabilities did not result in healthier and engaged people. To be successful, Moore realized patients had to be in control of their own care, but also recognized the clear need for expert support. Moore came up with the idea for Twine Health during six years at the MIT Media Lab where he studied the healthcare delivery model and created a revolutionary approach to care: technology-supported apprenticeship. Bringing together advances in health psychology, learning science and human-computer interaction, Twine is designed to become the primary tool for teamwork between patients and clinicians. Before attending medical school, Moore received a BS in Biomedical engineering, and was a Fulbright Scholar.

Jason Sibley
Principal, Flare Capital Partners

Jason is a Principal at Flare Capital Partners. Jason joined the Flare team with more than 13 years of venture and principal investing experience.

Prior to joining Flare Capital Partners, Jason was a Director at GE Ventures, a corporate venture capital firm focused on healthcare, energy, and advanced manufacturing technology. At GE Ventures, Jason led healthcare technology investments in Iora Health, Valence Health, Aver Informatics, Jiff, Quantum Health, MedAware, NanoString Technologies (Nasdaq: NSTG), and Labcyte. He also led GE’s digital health partnership with StartUp Health and the New York City Early Stage Life Science Co-Investment Program.

Previously, Jason was a Vice President at Gleacher Partners, Senior Associate at American Capital, and Associate at Morgenthaler Partners.

Jason received his undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary.
Moderator: John Tremblay, E’92, MBA’98, Practice Lead, Mobile Integrity Consulting, LLC

Key Takeaways:
Learn more about the Digital Health value chain, including new technologies, therapies and care delivery models
Better understand the current industry maturity and progression of various forms of Digital Health innovation
Listen to dialog from experts in the field regard startup strategies, means for technology adoption, design considerations and deployment options,
Gain insight into investor perspectives for this high impact new facet to the industry