
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

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

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
