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Track Day Events
Health and Sciences Roundtable
Participate in an intimate lunch with a curated group of entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers, academics and leaders to discuss plans for Philadelphia’s Health IT future and steps to get there.
Monday, May 1, 1:00pm–3:00pmThe Future of Health Sciences
Join us! Let's jump into the conversation together. We want to highlight the strengths in Philadelphia's different health sciences sectors while peeking into the future of healthcare tech!
Monday, May 1, 3:30pm–7:30pm
Speakers
Cheryl Bettigole
@cbettigoleCheryl Bettigole, MD, MPH is the Director of Get Healthy Philly, the Division of Chronic Disease Prevention of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. She is a board certified family physician and has previously served as the Chief Medical Officer of Complete Care Health Network, a federally…
Andrew Cohen
After graduating from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2008, Dr. Cohen worked as a postdoctoral research associate funded by the Cure Huntington’s Disease Initiative, developing new multi-target tracking techniques to quantify the role that deficiencies in axonal organelle transport play in…
Genevieve Dion
Geneviève Dion is an award-winning designer with an extensive background in bespoke clothing and industrial design. Professor Dion’s research uses advanced manufacturing processes for the flexible production of mass-customizable textiles. Within this focus, her group investigates modular production…
Vidur Bhatnagar
@BhatnagarVidurVidur S. Bhatnagar is the Founder & CEO at Keriton - a breast milk management & lactation analytics company launched in 2016. An MS in Robotics candidate at the University of Pennsylvania (on LOA), Vidur was earlier the youngest product owner, employee of the year and an international fellow…
Gabriela Marcu
Gabriela Marcu, Assistant Professor, Information Science, College of Computing and Informatics Gabi’s research interests include human-computer interaction, health informatics, ubiquitous computing, action research, ethnography, user experience design, designing for social change, and organizational…