2023 Speakers

Leaders, executives and trailblazers speaking at this year’s Medical Innovation Forum.

2023 Speakers

Speakers To Be Announced Soon!

2022 Speakers

Haleh Armian, MSc.

Director of Biomedical Innovation Ventures, CATALiST Hoag Hospital

Bobak Azamian, MD, PhD

CEO, Tarsus Pharmaceuticals

Gita Berry

EVP and GM, Immersive Healthcare, Penumbra, Inc.

Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD, FACR

Senior Physician Executive, The Ron and Sandi Simon Endowed Chair, Executive Medical Director, Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute, Hoag Hospital

Quita Beeler Highsmith, MBA

Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Genentech and Board Director

Dominique Worthington

Vice President CSF Management and Critical Care, Medtronic

Bill Carpou

CEO, Octane

Mark Domyahn, MBA

Partner, JD Lymom

Steve Hanle

Partner, Stradling

Rod “RJ” Swartwood

President, HR Prime, LLC

Xandra Laskowski

Founder, OSEA Angels

Robert Louis, M.D., F.A.A.N.S.

Program Director, Skull Base and Pituitary Tumor Program, Empower360 Endowed Chair in Skull Base and Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Hoag Hospital

John Lyon

CEO and Co-Founder, HMDmd

Tim Pratt

Executive Director Clinical Development, Syneos Health

Aidan Raney, MD, FACC

Director of Structural Heart Disease, Providence Health, Southern California

Steven Wang, MD

Director of Dermatologic Oncology & Dermatologic Surgery, Hoag Hospital

Lauren Westberg

EVP, Managing Director at PRECISIONeffect

Jamie Wheeler

Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Edwards Lifesciences

Scott Whitcup, MD

Founder & CEO,  Whitecap Biosciences

Alon Zuckerman

President & COO, Surgical Theater, Inc.

Nima Ziraknejad, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Chief Executive Officer, NZ
Technologies Inc.

Scott Sandland

CEO, Cyrano

Saina Danner, MSc

Health Care IT Implementation and Founder, YaYaYee

Michelle J. Patterson
Founder & CEO, Touchpointe, Patterson Protocol
CEO, California Women’s Conference
Tom Evegan

Principal, Strategy & Management Consulting, RSM

Rabi Narula

Partner, Knobbe Martens

Deepak Kumar Sahu, MBA

Partner, Alira Health

Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, MACP

Chair, UCI Department of Medicine & Executive Director, Hospital Medicine

Edward S Kim, MD, MBA, FACP, FASCO

Physician-in-Chief and Senior VP, Orange County, City of Hope

Jason Tester

CFO, The Horowitz Group

Greg Brooks, B.Sc

Chief Business Officer, Cloudbreak Therapeutics

Jeffry Weinhuff

Managing Partner, Visionary Venture Fund

Tenley Koepnick

VP Clinical Affairs, Edwards Lifesciences

Daniela Bota, MD

Vice Dean for Clinical Research, School of Medicine UCI

Jyoti Malhotra, MD, MPH

Director of Thoracic Medical Oncology, City of Hope

Jeff Evanson

Chief Commercial Officer, Outlook Therapeutics

Synthia Laura Molina

Managing Director, Central IQ

Chance Scott

Partner, Life Sciences, Guidehouse

Marcy Dewalt

Executive Director, Professional Relations, Allergan

Jacqueline Jacques

Chief Research Officer, Special Situations at Thorne HealthTech

Benjamin Esque

Founder & CEO, RESQ Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH MS

Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer, Founder and Medical Director, The Sharon Disney Lund Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute (MI3), CHOC

Zeeshan Subzwari

Managing Director, Healthsocal.ai

Susan Walsh, PhD

Director of the Life Sciences Concentration and Associate Professor of Molecular/Cell Biology, SOKA

John Wicker

Shareholder, Stradling

Natalie Harney

Certified Business Performance Advisor, Insperity

Doug Fauth

Sr Director, Global Talent Acquisition & Development, Microvention

Ian O. Williamson, PhD

Dean, The UCI Paul Merage School of Business

Kip Roberts

Senior Director, M&A & Strategy, Cranial & Spinal Technologies, Medtronic

Fauad Hasan

CEO and President, Bonti

Peter Ullrich

CEO, Titan Spine

Ohki Murai

Managing Director, PWC

Ramin Mousavi

CEO, & Board of Directors, Cathworks

Jason Lee

Partner, K&L Gates

MK Raheja, Ph.D.

Head of R & D, Surgical Instrumentations, Johnson & Johnson Vision

Scott R. Filer, MPH, MBA, CTBS

CEO, ProMedix Inc.

Topher Kinsella

Co-Founder, CEO, Watershed Therapeutics

Joshua Host

CEO, ThriveLab

Dr. Karen Cross

Co-founder and CEO, MIMOSA Diagnostics Inc.

Dr. Marc Curial

CEO, March32

Sherif Soliman

CEO, Matregenix

Richard Austin PhD, MBA

CEO, Reglagene

Dave Talenfeld, JD MBA MGM

CEO, Botanisol Analytics

Allen J. Ruszkowski

President & CEO, CVAC Systems

Sam Young

Founder, President, and CEO, NuEnerchi, Inc.

Dr. Julie Kenner

Founder & CEO, Skin Happy

Jeremy Koff

Founder & CEO, Trillen Medical

Mandana Veiseh
Founder, President, and CSTO, Polybiomics
Bill Colone

CEO, Single Pass, Inc.

Luca Emili

CEO, InSilicoTrials

Nima Ziraknejad, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Chief Executive Officer, NZ Technologies Inc.

Dr. Ida Pavlichenko

CEO, President, and C0-Founder, PionEar Technologies, Inc.

Ying Zhao

CEO, CTO & Founder, Xense

Chad Conner

CEO, Mycrodose Therapeutics

Elmar Nurmemmedov

Cofounder, NerdBio

Patty Bollenbach

Founder & CEO, RxPlace

Max G Ostermeier

CEO, Implandata Ophthalmic Products

Tamera Jackson

CEO and Co-Founder, Rootines

David Maricich

Chief Operating Officer, JAL Therapeutics

Bradley Beach

Founder & CEO, Covellus

Pierre Wijdenes

CEO & Co-Founder, Neuraura

Dr. Gary Chen

CEO & Co-Founder, AitMed

Eddie Massey III

Founder & CEO, Catalyst Robotics

Mike Stone, CFA

CIO and Partner, Sunstone Management

Kenneth Barton

President & CEO, SafetySpect

Jay Lenker, Ph. D.

President and CEO, Indian Wells

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