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OUR TEAM

Our team combines experienced healthcare informatics professionals with expert clinicians from leading AMCs

An Illumina Accelerator company, we have partnered with leading Academic Medical Centers to develop the world’s leading AI-powered clinico-genomic platform for rare disease drug research and development
Meet our leadership team
CEO / Founder
Simon Kennedy
VP, Data and Analytics
Vlad Valtchinov, PhD
Director, Health Strategy
Bennet Lane, MD
Senior Advisor / Co-Founder
J. Marc Overhage MD, PhD
Meet our scientific advisory team
Rare Disease Patient Advisor
Jonathan White, MD
Senior Advisor
Robert Epstein, MD
BioPharma Discovery Advisor
Tanya Moreno, PhD
Scientific Advisory Board for Pulmonary Rare Disease
Massachusetts General Brigham
Aaron Waxman, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell
Evelyn Horn, MD
The University of Arizona
Franz Rischard, DO
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Michael Risbano, MD
Mount Sinai
Raymond Benza, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Roham Zamanian, MD

Simon Kennedy

CEO / Founder
  • Senior Advisor, Bain & Company, ZappRx
  • Senior Advisor/Operations Partner Symphony Technology Group, a Private Equity firm
  • Executive Chair, Evidera (acquired by PPD 8/16); Director, SHS (acquired by PRA Health Sciences 8/17)
  • Senior Partner and Managing Director The Boston Consulting Group; Founder/ Global Leader BCG HCIT practice
  • Led the development of the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) for BCG, PhRMA, FDA, and the NIH
  • Established the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) a JV between BCG, the Karolinska Institute and the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard

Vlad Valtchinov, PhD

VP, Data and Analytics
  • Founding CTO for two successful-exit clinical informatics, decision support and RWE/AI analytics start-ups
  • Adjunct academic faculty at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Part-Time
  • Thought leader in multiple subject-matter areas related to data science, predictive analytics, machine learning, advanced statistics, bioinformatics, and genomics with over 60 peer reviewed publications.
  • Sub-areas Co-PI for federally sponsored research: i2b2, the National Center for Biomedical Computing Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside, Medical Imaging Demonstration (MID) commissioned by US Congress
  • Co-founded a boutique IT consulting, custom software development and implementation, data science and analytics company

Bennet Lane, MD

Director, Health Strategy
  • Practicing emergency medicine physician and critical care transport medicine physician
  • Active, grant-supported researcher in health economics
  • Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group
  • Completed medical school at Harvard Medical School and graduate research training in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University

J. Marc Overhage MD, PhD

Senior Advisor / Co-Founder
  • Chief Health Informatics Officer, Cerner & Siemens Healthcare
  • President & CEO, Indiana Health Information Exchange
  • Director of Medical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute
  • Director of Development, DOME software
  • Primary Investigator, Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership
  • Director Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HiMSS), National Quality Forum, and  American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA); member HIT Standards Committee

Jonathan White, MD

Rare Disease Patient Advisor
  • EVP R&D, PatientsLikeMe
  • Former Corporate VP of Strategy and Product Development and a member of the Senior Leadership Team at IMS-Quintiles, where he launched products for rare diseases and for digital health care management
  • Former EVP of Research and Development and member, Executive Committee of Haemonetics, a manufacturer of blood diagnostics and services
  • Former SVP of Innovation and Chief Information Officer, and on the Executive Committee of Pfizer
  • Trained as a Neurosurgeon at the University of Cambridge
  • Dr. White is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and holds an MBA from INSEAD in France

Robert Epstein, MD

Senior Advisor
  • Former President, Medco Advanced Clinical Science and Research and CMO, Medco Health Solutions
  • Director at Illumina, Proteus, Fate Therapeutics, Veracyte and Mindstrong Health
  • Former elected President, International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
  • Member Federal CDC EGAPP (Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice & Prevention) Stakeholder Committee and the AHRQ CERT (Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics) Committee
  • Has published more than 50 peer-reviewed medical articles and book chapters and serves as a reviewer for several influential medical journals

Tanya Moreno, PhD

BioPharma Discovery Advisor
  • VP of Clinical Sciences, Research and Development in multiple clinical laboratories, technical expert in use of advanced genomic technologies for precision medicine
  • Published widely in peer-reviewed journals on consumer and clinical genomics research, inventor of novel genomic applications with multiple patents pending and granted
  • Trained in molecular genetics, developmental biology and neurobiology at the California Institute of Technology and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Aaron Waxman, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Brigham
  • Executive Director of the Center for Pulmonary Heart Diseases at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center
  • Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School with appointments in the Division’s of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Ph.D. in anatomy and neuroscience, Albany Medical College
  • MD, Yale School of Medicine

Evelyn Horn, MD

Weill Cornell
  • Director of the Perkin Heart Failure Center of Weill Cornell
  • Director of the Circulatory Physiology fellowship program
  • Director of Clinical Services for Heart Failure
  • Associate Director of the combined Pediatric & Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Center
  • Director of the Pulmonary Vascular program of the Center for Advanced Cardiac Care
  • MD, Mount Sinai Medical School

Franz Rischard, DO

The University of Arizona
  • Professor, Medicine – (Clinical Scholar Track)
  • Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
  • Interim Associate Dean for Clinical & Translational Medicine, College of Medicine – Tucson
  • DO: Western University of Health Sciences

Michael Risbano, MD

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  • Director of the UPMC Advanced Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Program (ACPET)
  • Director, UPMC CLC Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
  • MD, Boston University

Raymond Benza, MD

Mount Sinai
  • Director of Pulmonary Hypertension Cardiology Health Systems at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians and the American College of Cardiology
  • MD, University of Florida College of Medicine

Roham Zamanian, MD

Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Director, Stanford Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Service, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease
  • Clinical Director, VMWC Pulmonary Hypertension Database, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease
  • MD, UC Irvine School of Medicine