Google Cambridge, MA on April 23, 2014 witnessed an overflow crowd as brilliant minds focused on applications for Google Glass in the medical fields. Over 200 turned out from Physicians, Developers, Hospital Administrators and members of the press. Some even flew in from California for the opportunity to meet with the top minds working on advancing patient care and safety via the wearable heads-up, hands-free tool that is Google Glass.
Over 200 professionals discussing applications for Google Glass in MedicineThis is the future face of medicine
These are but a few of the featured speakers and panelists.
Rafael Grossmann, MD
General, trauma, advanced laparoscopic, and robotic surgeon
Rafael Grossmannn, MD, FACS, is a general, trauma, advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgeon. As a FutureMed/ Singularity University graduate, his passion is about the intersection of Innovation Technology and Healthcare. He is an avid blogger (http://Rgrosssz.Wordpress.com) and healthcare social media user (@ZGJR). He was the FIRST Person to ever use Google Glass during live surgery. Rafael was also a TEDx speaker at TEDx Dirigo 2011, TEDx Bermuda 2013, and TEDx Dirigo 2013, as well as TEDx Youth 2014. He has also participated in the prestigious MedicineX conference in Stanford, CA 2013. He is convinced that Innovation in Healthcare Technology along with the current developments in mobile and wearable platforms will exponentially improve healthcare connectivity, communication and data management, and result in a more efficient, intuitive, less expensive and ultimately better patient care.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Emergency and Informatics Physician
Dr. Steven Horng is the ED lead for the Google Glass Project at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). He and his team were the first to fully integrate Google Glass with their electronic medical record (EMR) and deploy live for clinical use in the emergency department. Their team consists of clinician-programmers who are the principal developers and architects of their EMR. Because of this, their ED can be very agile and serve as a live clinical test-bed of innovative technologies. Their team was also the first to deploy iPads live for clinical use. Dr. Horng is a practicing emergency physician at BIDMC, Assistant Director of Emergency Informatics, and Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He holds dual board-certifications in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Informatics, as well as degrees in computer science, biomedical informatics, and medicine. His research focuses on translational clinical informatics by accelerating the development and application of advanced machine learning methods to clinical care, specifically to clinical decision support. The challenge of decision support has always been getting the right information to the right person at the right time. He sees Glass and other types of wearable technology as the ideal platform to meet this challenge and deliver real-time, context-aware decision support.(Photo credit: Danielle Duffey/BIDMC)
Nayan Jain
Presidential Innovation Fellow
Nayan Jain is a Presidential Innovation Fellow working with the Department of Health and Human Services helping patients get access to their health data. This mission, also known as, Blue Button is a part of the President’s 2nd Term Management Agenda, specifically under the MyData Initiative. MyData complements the strong Open Data movement and aims to provide citizens access to their education, energy and health information. He was selected to be an Explorer during Google’s #ifihadglass campaign for his submission around disaster response and recovery. Nayan is thinking about leveraging Blue Button to making health data actionable and available on Glass.
Christopher M. Coburn
Vice President, Innovation at Partners HealthCare
Chris Coburn has responsibility for the commercial application of the unique assets and capabilities of the $10 billion, Boston based Partners HealthCare system. Representing Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and McLean Hospital, Partners HealthCare is the largest academic research enterprise in the US with nearly $1.5 billion in sponsored research. Mr. Coburn leads a team of more than 70 staff professionals. Prior to joining Partners in 2013, Coburn was the founding Executive Director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations. During his thirteen year leadership, Cleveland Clinic spun off 57 companies — before Coburn’s arrival Cleveland Clinic had none. He also led the establishment of the Clinic’s national Innovation Alliance which provides onsite innovation management for healthcare systems throughout the U.S.
Associate Director of the Healthcare Transformation Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Maulik Majmudar is a clinical cardiologist and Associate Director of the Healthcare Transformation Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He is an active member of the healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship community, with a specific interest in technology-enabled healthcare innovation. He currently serves as a medical advisor to two venture-backed startups. Dr. Majmudar was recently invited to be a Faculty Mentor for the 2014 MIT-IIT-B HealthTech Workshop in Mumbai, India. Dr. Majmudar attended Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and then completed residency training in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, followed by a fellowship in Cardiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also holds a patent and has had several publications in high-impact journals, such as Nature, Circulation, and Circulation Research.
Ozanan R. Meireles, MD
General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Digestive Healthcare Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Meireles belongs to the Weight Center and Swallowing and Heartburn Center within the Digestive Healthcare Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. His clinical interests include Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, POEM – Endoscopic Esophageal Myotomy (Achalasia), Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Paraesophageal herniasLaparoscopic / Minimally invasive surgery, Upper GI endoscopy and endoluminal procedures and Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery
Nephrology Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital, Software Developer, Informatician
Dr. Singh is the developer of Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s electronic health record prototype for Google Glass. He is studying the way wearable technologies can be used to improve patient care. He was a Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at UCLA Medical Center before becoming a Nephrology and Informatics Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Clinical Fellow in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Hashimoto is general surgery resident at MGH with an interest in surgical education and simulation. His primary research interest is on the acquisition of surgical expertise. His publications focus on methods to improve the assessment of technical skills and increase the efficiency of surgical education with the aim of shortening learning curves.With the advent of wearable technology, he has been focusing on gesture analytics and telementoring applications that can provide new ways of delivering quality education. He recently spoke at the annual meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons on the use of Google Glass as a potential telementoring device for resident education.
MD Candidate, Massahusetts General Hospital / Harvard University and Contributing Writer at in-Training
Nabeel Ali is a Medical Student and Engineer focused on improving healthcare through disruptive research, technology and venture. He is an award-winning and published researcher who has received national attention for his medical technology innovations. Outside of medical school, Nabeel serves as a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Reviewer for the Journal of Digital Imaging, Contributing Writer for in-Training Magazine, and advises a number of technology start-ups.
Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MGH/Harvard Medical School and Leadership Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
Arshya Vahabzadeh, M.D., is a Leadership Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a resident child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. Vahabzadeh is also a trained family physician.Dr. Vahabzadeh is deeply interested in neurodevelopmental disorders. He has published and presented over 50 papers, articles, posters, and book chapters, including in the NEJM, AJP, and JAMA. Dr. Vahabzadeh is also a strong proponent of mental health education, he has written numerous editorials for Boston Magazine, PsychologyToday, the Huffington Post, APA HealthyMinds, and CNN. Dr. Vahabzadeh is also the current Editor-In-Chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry’s Residents Journal.
Ophthalmic Pathology Fellow at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School
Alia Rashidis a clinician and researcher in ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary / Harvard Medical School. She is particularly interested in the molecular and pathological basis of eye diseases, and has written several book chapters on ophthalmic malignancies and other conditions, as well as numerous journal articles. Dr Rashid has presented her research both nationally and internationally, winning an award from the Research to Prevent Blindness foundation. She has participated as an investigator on several ophthalmology pharmaceutical trials, and maintains an avid interest in the application of medicine in business and technology.
Gajen Sunthara
Principal Software Architect for Boston Children’s Hospital’s Innovation Acceleration Program and Google Glass Explorer
Gajen Sunthara has over 15 years’ experience in Healthcare Information Technology and continues to be passionate about transforming and improving healthcare through novel uses of technology. Gajen’s technical leadership in R&D and software architecture, combined with laboratory medicine expertise and in-depth understanding of clinical and patient workflow enables him to cultivate and successfully implement innovative technologies in healthcare. Gajen specializes in Cerner & EPIC Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems, enterprise Java, Web 2.0 technologies, robotic & device programming and iOS & Android mobile development. Gajen has a B.Sc in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology and a Master’s in Information Technology from Harvard University. Gajen’s master thesis focused on using Google Glass to build a novel application: “GlassSurgeon”. GlassSurgeon enhances the surgeon’s workflow and improves patient safety by leveraging natural language processing using the hands-free features of Google Glass to access real-time clinical information though systems integration.
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