Overcoming Medical Discrimination Against Transgender Patients in Healthcare »
11 Jun, 2018
UncategorizedStatistics say that many providers do not possess the diversity training or knowledge necessary to provide adequate care to transgender patients. Susan Boisvert, senior risk specialist at Coverys, hopes to change the numbers
Jitin Asnaani on Data As Power in Today’s Healthcare Ecosystem »
Jitin Asnaani sees energy and passion around truly improving patient care. “Physicians want to provide the best care," he says. "Hospitals, health systems and care givers truly want to innovate and lower the cost of care." Still, for all that excitement, Asnaani says a basic commodity is still lacking: data. “It’s like home builders building…
Richard Parker on Global Payment Models & His Big Career Transition »
Dr. Richard Parker, former Chief Medical Officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization (BIDCO), is a man of many talents. In addition to working as a physician, medical director and board member at BIDCO, he has also worked as a political consultant. Now, after working for the Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization for more than 15 years, Parker…
Say Goodbye to the Lazy Eye: David Hunter’s Pediatric Vision Scanner »
Dr. Hunter uses the Pediatric Vision Scanner in his office. For almost twenty years, Dr. David Hunter, Chief of Ophthalmology at Children’s Hospital Boston and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has been working to better detect medical conditions that lead to a loss of vision in children. Recently, all this…
Tackling Orthopaedic Surgery Support with Mobile Phones: A Wearables in Healthcare Pilot Challenge Submission »
Photo via UCD Dublin. Brian Caulfield, Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at University College Dublin, has advanced to the Wearables in Healthcare Pilot Challenge Final Smackdown with his idea to use the sensors on smartphones to monitor the quality of rehabilitation therapy and patient adherence. "Our concept is…
Meet the Wearables in Healthcare Pilot Challenge Finalists: Team Memorandum »
Nisarg Patel. Nisarg Patel may still be at the beginning of his career - he's a first year medical student at Harvard - but he has some big, career-making ideas. Along with team members Manav Sevak, Kunaal Naik, Manjinder Kandol and Kurt Carpenter, Patel pitched his idea for using wearables to improve medication…
A New Kind of Academic Research: the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance »
A few weeks ago, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh announced that they will be teaming up with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) to tackle big data in healthcare. Through this partnership, called the "Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance," researchers like Carnegie Mellon's Eric Xing, PhD, will work to develop new technologies,…
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Dr. Leonard Glass on Physician Retraining and Reentry »
Leonard W. Glass M.D., president of Physician Retraining & Reentry. Photo provided. When Dr. Leonard Glass, a board certified general surgeon, plastic surgeon and reconstructive surgeon, retired ten years ago, he thought he was leaving medicine for good. But then he read about the shortage of family medicine doctors in America and…12
40 Under 40 Contributors
Abigail Ballou
Abram Guerra
Adnan Chowdhury
Aine Cryts
Ajay Major
Alexandra David
Dr. Ami Patel
Ammu Thampi Susheela, MD
Amy Pollard
Andy Oram
Anokhi Saklecha
Anoop Raman
Arshya Vahabzadeh, MD
Austin Chiang, MD
Bonnie Clipper DNP, RN, MA, MBA, CENP, FACHE
Benjamin Miller
Brendan Pease
Brittni Brown
Bryce Fricklas
Casey Nugent
Charlene Soucy
Christine Coulter
Dana Barberio
Dana Hatic
Danielle Jones
David Perlo
David Brick
Brian Levine
Dr. David Shaywitz
Monica Miller
Stephen Schimpff
Edward Egan
Edwin Raffi
Elaine Khoong
Emem Udoh
Emily McNeiece
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH
Felicia Gans
Gina Siddiqui
Giovanni Marinelli
Harish Lecamwasam
Hilary Ginsburg
James Ryan
James A. Gardner
Jaskaran Singh Dhillon
Jayson Marwaha
Jennifer M. Joe, MD
Jenni Whalen
Joe Mullings
Joseph Shonkwiler
John D'Amore
Joshua Liao
Julia Karron
Karishma Desai
Katherine Rourke
Kathryn Hughes
Katie Clark
Kenny Lin
Kenrick Vezina
Kijana Knight-Torres
Kirti Patel, MD, MHL
Krina Patel
Laura Henze Russell
Lea Hachigian
Lisa Dukart
Marissa Cooper
Maulik Majmudar MD
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Meher Iqbal
Michael Tetreault
Mike Pierce
Nathan Cowan
Nayan Jain
Neel Shah, MD
Nicole Yang
Olivia Japlon
Olivia Tardif
Pamela Bump
Paula Sokolska
Pothik Chatterjee
Raj Reddy
Ramin Lalezari
Richard Parker, MD
Robert Schultz
Rohit Khanna
Samuel Anthony
Sara Dawit
Sarah Schroeder
Sean Gritters
Shannon Moore
Sharon Marable, MD, MPH, FACP
Shreya Iyer
Soniya Shah
Sony Salzman
Stephen Huey
Dr. Steven Munevar
Stuart Hochron
Timothy Aungst
Tom Salemi
Ursheet Parikh
Usman Sattar MD
Vidya Viswanathan
Vijaysree Venkatraman
Xining He, MD
Zach Shapiro
