David Bates

Chief Innovation Officer of Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH)

David Bates is an internationally renowned expert in patient safety, using information technology to improve care, quality of care, cost-effectiveness and outcomes assessment in medical practice as well as care redesign and innovation science.

In addition to serving as a practicing general internist and chief of General Internal Medicine, Bates also is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he co-directs the Program in Clinical Effectiveness. He also serves as medical director of Clinical and Quality Analysis for Partners Healthcare. He directs the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and serves as external program lead for research in the World Health Organization’s Global Alliance for Patient Safety.  He is the editor of the Journal of Patient Safety.

At a time when patient safety has become a key driver for focusing national attention on health care quality, Bates’ work has not only shown the magnitude of the problem, he has also provided a blueprint for helping solve it. He led a seminal study on the epidemiology of drug-related injuries, demonstrating that the most effective way to prevent serious medication errors is to focus on improving the systems, and has performed many studies on how computerized, evidence-based guidelines can improve quality and efficiency.

Bates is a graduate of Stanford University, and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He began his fellowship general internal medicine at BWH in 1988, and he received an MSc in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1990.

Shubha Bhat

Clinician, Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH)

Shubha Lakshmi Bhat grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from Harvard College in 2009 where she studied economics and health policy. In undergrad she founded Health Advocacy Program to promote health behavior change in under-served communities. She received her medical degree from Stanford University, where she conducted clinical research on diabetes and obesity and studied health entrepreneurship and design at the Graduate School of Business and Institute of Design. Currently she is a resident in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and has developed a resident curriculum on design thinking that launched in November 2014. In the future she plans to pursue a career at the intersection of clinical primary care and systems redesign.

Janet Campbell

Vice-President of Patient Engagement at Epic

Janet Campbell is a software developer and Vice President of Patient Engagement at Epic, which creates enterprise medical records for mid-size and large medical groups, hospitals, and integrated healthcare organizations. In her thirteen years at Epic, Janet has led the creation and development of several products and initiatives, including open.epic, a plug & play initiative to integrate and embed outside health apps and other innovations within Epic using standard technologies such as SMART and FHIR. She represents Epic in national conversations on interoperability, usability, meaningful use, and patient engagement. She is Chair of the Electronic Health Record Association’s Clinical Experience Workgroup and has been a member of several U.S. government advisory working groups focusing on standards for exchange.

A native of Kentucky, Janet graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science from Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. She currently lives in Madison, Wis., where she enjoys running and photography, though usually not at the same time.

Zen Chu

Co-Founder of MIT Hacking Medicine

Zen Chu believes that now is the best time in history for healthcare entrepreneurs and engineers to create the data, systems and products to help medicine scale and serve more patients with higher quality at lower cost. Zen created and teaches the MIT Healthcare Ventures graduate courses within the pioneering Health Science & Technology (HST) program, a joint initiative between MIT, Harvard Medical School and the Boston academic hospitals  As faculty director for the HackingMedicine.MIT.edu health innovation leadership initiatives, Zen mentors physician entrepreneurs, early-stage startups and health corporations adapting to global digital healthcare transformation, changing healthcare incentives, growth in emerging markets, and new disruptive technologies that re-engineer medicine.

As Managing Director of Accelerated Medical Ventures and its subsidiary Boston Digital Health Foundry, Zen specializes in building early-stage medical technology and healthcare service companies, usually serving as co-founder and first investor. Alongside four world-renowned MIT biomaterials professors, Zen co-founded 3D-Matrix Medical Inc.,serving as the first CEO for the venture-backed MIT regenerative medicine company whose injectable gel drug delivery products are treating patients and enabling new regenerative medicine research, with a successful IPO in 2011.

Zen earned a Masters of Public & Private Management from Yale University and a BS in biomedical/electrical engineering from SMU. He’s married to a serial entrepreneur/venture investor and they areraising three aspiring entrepreneurs in Brookline, MA.

Hether Danford

Enterprise Sales Director, Healthcare and Life Science at Microsoft

Hether leads the Enterprise Health and Life Science sales team for Microsoft’s Northeast District.  In this role, Hether manages a team of Account Executives and Technology Specialists covering key, strategic HLS accounts across New England.  Her team is responsible for innovating on and deploying Microsoft’s entire portfolio of enterprise products and services, as well as leveraging service partners to evangelize HLS solutions.  Hether joined Microsoft in 2010 covering strategic accounts in the Healthcare industry.  She has spent her career in account management and sales management roles at software, services and technology research organizations.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Hether spent 6 years at The Info Pro (451 Group) as a Regional Vice President, and as West Coast VP of Sales for Jupiter Research – Forrester Research.  Hether holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from St. Lawrence University.