Finalists Announced for Partners HealthCare Connected Health ’15 Pitch-Off

James Ryan

9 Oct, 2015

Medstro announced today the five finalists of the Partners HealthCare Connected Health ’15 Pitch-Off: Emotion Sensing, sponsored by Partners HealthCare, the American Resident Project, Emotional Sciences, Empatica and Muse. These five finalists were chosen by a combination of crowd voting and expert judge scoring from among 14 submissions received during the online competition.

These five finalists will compete at a live event to be held on October 28 from 4:30 to 6:00 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. To reserve your free tickets to this event, which includes a happy hour reception after the presentations from the five finalists, visit the event’s ticketing site.

Now here, without further ado, are the five finalists:

	Biomarker-guided integrative behavioral medicine in the APP era: Accountability analytics Roland Carlstedt, Ph.D., ABSP Harvard Medical School & McLean Hospital (Dept. of Psychiatry) Clinical and Research Director, Integrative Psychological Services of New York City Chairman and Chief Sport Psychologist, American Board of Sport Psychology
	Valera Health: Personalizing Behavioral Health using Population Health and Individual Analytics David Mou, MD MBA Psychiatrist at Partners Healthcare
	Utilizing Emotion Sensing Technology in Coaching for Fear of Speaking and Communication Apprehension Rose Laurie Schloff Senior Coaching Partner and Director of Executive Coaching at The Speech Improvement Company, Inc.
	ForceCalm: An App to Assess and Address Emotional State in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Vishal Punwani Senior Medical Student and Teaching Fellow at Khan Academy
	Decision Support App for newly diagnosed patients with brain tumor Lara Ronan, MD Associate Professor of Neurology and Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Congratulations to all the finalists!

James Ryan

Jim Ryan has spent the past 20 years building global markets for US-based telecommunications and enterprise technology companies. Mr. Ryan exited five startups (2 IPOs, 2 acquisitions, 1 Chapter 11) and now uses his expertise as one of the three founding partners of Farpoint Ventures helping startups from the US quickly build global sales channels and bring in revenues from overseas markets. Mr. Ryan has closed over $1B in export business for startups.Mr. Ryan holds a Bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a Master's degree from Osaka University. He is a native speaker of Japanese, and is conversational in Mandarin Chinese and French.In between meetings, he has climbed Mt. Rainier three times, finished the Boston Marathon and Cape Cod Marathon, climbed Mt. Washington in all four seasons and hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon 10 times. He holds a Private Pilot license and enjoys flying his Cessna 172 around New England and beyond.