Core Committee
Adam Landman, MD, MS, MIS, MHS
Adam Landman, MD, MS, MIS, MHS, is the Chief Medical Information Officer for Health Information Innovation and Integration and an attending emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. He is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. An expert in information systems, Dr. Landman is currently responsible for multiple projects related to the implementation and integration of a new hospital laboratory system and enterprise electronic health record system. He also leads health information innovation programs seeking to improve health care delivery through the innovative application of information technology. Dr. Landman’s research team recently built a mobile app for securely capturing and storing clinical images and a next generation electronic medication administration and reconciliation system using a near field communication-enabled tablet.
Erika A. Pabo, MD, MBA
Erika A. Pabo, MD, MBA is a physician, strategist and social entrepreneur who loves working with people, technology and complex adaptive systems to solve challenging problems in healthcare.
Pabo works at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care. At the Center, she co-leads the Academic Innovation Collaborative, a two-year, $12 million collaborative to transform primary care delivery at nineteen Harvard affiliated practices across six hospital systems. She is concurrently completing her residency in Internal Medicine at BWH and sees patients at South Huntington, a new patient-centered medical home.
Pabo also serves as an advisor to a number of health care incubators and start-ups. She was co-founder and inaugural co-director of HMS’s Crimson Care Collaborative and previously worked at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Global Health Delivery Project. Pabo earned a BA in History from Yale College and a medical degree and MBA from Harvard.
Julien Pham, MD, MPH
Dr. Pham is a practicing nephrologist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, faculty at Harvard Medical School, and an “ecosystem entrepreneur”. He earned his MD from University of Washington and his MPH at Harvard School of Public Health. A techie at heart, Julien founded RHINNO, a skunkworks innovation lab at BWH to help launch digital health ideas into startups. Julien believes that modern medicine needs clinician-entrepreneurs to play a leadership role as architects of innovation, and that the most disruptive processes and best practices will emerge from outrospection, empathy, and the “twinning” of many cultures of innovation, specifically academic, clinical, and entrepreneurial.
Anthony Philippakis, MD, PhD
Anthony Philippakis is a physician, geneticist, and data scientist. He is currently a Fellow in Cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and in Medical Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He is also a Venture Partner at Google Ventures and a researcher at the Broad Institute.
Anthony studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Yale University, followed by a Master’s in Mathematics at Cambridge University. He completed his MD and PhD degrees at Harvard Medical School, where he developed computational methods for analyzing biological sequences under the supervision of Martha Bulyk and David Altshuler. He is passionate about applying the insights of the human genome project to clinical medicine.
Lesley Solomon, MBA
Lesley Solomon is Director of Strategy and Innovation in the Biomedical Research Institute. In this role Lesley is leading the hospital’s effort to deepen its relationship with the biotech and pharmaceutical industry while at the same time increasing awareness of the depth and breadth of the hospital’s research. She spends a lot of time working to launch the iHub and make it an integral part of BWH’s present and future.
Lesley has 20 years of experience as an executive doing work in business development, strategy and marketing at start ups, early stage, and large companies such as the Food Network, Barnes & Noble.com, and Yoga Works. Lesley received her MBA from Harvard Business School and has a B.A. in English from Cornell University.
Lesley sits on the board of Primary Care Progress and is a founding member of WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s, one of USAgainstAlzheimer’s networks aimed at mobilizing specific groups to battle the disease.
Krishna Yeshwant, MD, MBA
Dr. Krishna Yeshwant is a physician, programmer, and entrepreneur who has been working with Google Ventures since its inception.
Prior to Google he helped start an electronic data interchange company that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HP) and a network security company that was acquired by Symantec (SYMC). He also co-authored the business plan for Diagnostics For All, which won both the Harvard Business School and MIT $100k business plan competitions.
Previously, Krishna published several book chapters and journal articles in the computer guided surgery field and has developed and licensed multiple surgical devices. He has worked with the technology transfer offices of MIT, Harvard, and Partners Healthcare.
Krishna has a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University. He also earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He works as an attending at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.