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
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