Speakers 2013 Doctors 2.0 & You

Laurent Alexandre - Dynavision

President of Dynavision in Brussels, Dr Laurent Alexandre trained as a urologist and also graduated from France's ENA. A serial entrepreneur, Laurent Alexandre founded the successful Doctissimo, France's leading health web site. Laurent Alexandre is an author, keynote speaker and commentator for Le Monde.

Dr Ali Alsanousi - King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre - @sanousi

Dr. Ali Alsanousi is a healthcare IT entrepreneur  and medical informatics consultant with 10+ years of work experience. He worked as a physician Informaticist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Saudi Arabia and is currently a clinical informatics fellow at Harvard Medical School. Ali holds a master's degree in medical Informatics from OHSU, a physician executive MBA from University of Tennessee and a PhD in medical Informatics. He is a guest speaker, panel moderator,  author, TV commentator, member of editorial review boards for Informatics Journals, with an interest in business intelligence, mHealth, big data analytics.

Kathi Apostolidis - ePatient - @Kgapo

Kathi Apostolidis (@kgapo) is a Voluntary Sector Consultant and a Health Commentator. She is a two-time breast cancer survivor and a believer in the power of the internet and social media, as education and connection tools in healthcare. Kathi is interested in the ethical aspects of breast cancer, health and healthcare, and she speaks, writes and blogs at http://epatientgr.wordpress.com about participatory medicine, patient rights, informed shared decision making, health technology assessment, social media in healthcare, e-health, innovation in healthcare, e-patients and health literacy. Κathi is actively involved with cancer patient organizations in Greece and internationally.

Roberto Ascione - Razorfish Healthware - @RobertoAscione

Roberto Ascione is founder and President of Razorfish Healthware, an integrated agency focused on improving communications across the health & wellness community, with a strong eHealth and information technology focus. Founded in Italy in 1996, as Healthware, the company today is a division of Publicis Healthcare Communications Group, the largest and most innovative health related agency network in the world. Roberto has more than 16 years of experience in the consulting, media and communications industry and leads a team of more than 250 digital professionals primarily based in offices throughout Europe and the United States, all working together to serve both local and global markets and provide best in class marketing solutions across our three main service offerings: Consulting, Communications and Technology.

Sven Awege - Pharma Strategic - @svennieco

Sven Awege is the founder of Pharma Strategic, with over 20 years work experience spanning several industries, functions and roles. He is one of the early "digital pioneers" helping blue-chip companies embrace eBusiness in the 90's. The last 10 years Sven has been deeply engaged in the Pharma industry, having worked in Sales, Marketing (and multi-channel), Finance Eli Lilly and Consulting across Europe for Pharma Strategic. The last two years Sven has deepened his knowledge and expertise as a subject matter expert on social media and mobile in this unique industry. Sven is a biochemical engineer by training (MSc. from University College London), with an international MBA (ESCP Europe), and works in English or French with some basic German.

Yossi Bahagon - @YBahagon

Dr. Bahagon is an entrepreneur with over 10 years of leadership-experience in Bio-Medical Informatics and Health Information Sciences. Dr. Yossi Bahagon is  busy launching a new enterprise at present. His previous activity was as  founder of Clalit Health Services (CHS) e-Health wing. CHS is the largest HMO in Israel and second largest world-wide. The e-Health wing leads next generation, digital-based, patient-centered care services, focusing on deepening patient involvement in managing health through digital interactive tools, personalized to the individual. Yossi also serves as a Family Physician and as a lecturer in e-Health, Evidence-Based Medicine and Medical Informatics at the Hebrew University Hadassah and the Ben-Gurion Medical Schools.

Pascale Barre - Pierre Fabre

Pascale Barre is the Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmetics manager of Dermaweb, based in France. She did her undergraduate work in Social Sciences and Business and began work in the pharmaceutical industry in 1983, as a specialized pharmaceutical rep, followed by a management position in a regional medical information team. She has been an internet administrator in the company for 6 years, in charge of two information and training web sites. In its upcoming 4th version, this physician-only site will be enriched with a community platform.

Beate Bartès - Vivre sans Thyroïde - @BBartes

In 2000, Beate created one of the first French online patient communities, “Vivre sans Thyroide” (“Life without a thyroid gland”), providing understandable information, exchange of experience with other patients, and emotional support via a web forum, www.forum-thyroide.net. In 2007, Beate created the patient association “Vivre Sans Thyroide”, which is member of the international umbrella organizations Thyroid Federation International and Thyroid Cancer Alliance.

Liza Bernstein - ePatient - @itsthebunk

Liza Bernstein is a three time cancer survivor and ePatient who uses Twitter, @itsthebunk, to extend her patient advocacy work. A Stanford MedicineX patient scholar and a top 10 influencer on the Breast Cancer Social Media #BCSM tweetchat, Liza contributes to a global community of healthcare stakeholders reshaping the breast cancer agenda. Born in South Africa, educated at Sciences-Po Paris and USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, Liza is quadrilingual ! She began her career developing pioneering interactive media properties in LA as a researcher, writer, and producer. She has worked for leading edge design, production, and internet firms, and nowc consults for start-ups, helping them master the art of engagement and advocacy via social media. In her spare time, you’ll find Liza sculpting with clay, or volunteering with African refugees.

Nathalie Beslay - Law Firm owner

As a lawyer since 1996 in France, Nathalie BESLAY has developed a legal expertise in electronic health , advising institutions, pharmaceuticals, service industry, technical operators, insurance companies on the dematerialization of  health data and services. Attorney Beslay established her own law firm dedicated to health in 2003. Her expertise is based on a deep knowledge and experience of regulatory and legal constraints, on the understanding of administrative procedures, of health care professions, their challenge and risks and the understanding of applied technologies.  Nathalie BESLAY is a regular speaker on the subject of eHealth and legal constraints. At Doctors 2.0, she will be prepared to answer questions about regulatory constraints on health care, social media, and web 2.0 tools.

Stuart Blitz - AgaMatrix - @StuartBlitz

Stuart joined AgaMatrix in 2002 as a founding employee, helping to grow the company from a startup to one with 15+ FDA-cleared products and 140 employees, placing 3M+ glucose meters and 2B+ test strips worldwide to date. AgaMatrix developed the world's first hardware medical device that connects to an iPhone. He currently directs the company's strategic business development and commercial strategy. Stuart holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University.

Veronica Botet Garcia - GE Healthcare - @veronicabotet

Verónica Botet is Digital and Social Media Manager for the Global PR team at GE Healthcare. She drives the social media strategy for GE Healthcare globally and successfully leads several social media initiatives across multiple platforms like the #GetFit campaign, a worldwide competition to raise public awareness about cancer prevention recognized with external industry awards. As part of her job, Verónica also developed and currently manages the Enhanced Online Newsroom for GE Healthcare. She has over 10 years PR experience across different industries, both client side and in leading agencies.

Richard Brady - Research Active - @researchactive

Richard Brady is an NHS surgical registrar, mHealth researcher and owner of start-up ResearchActive ( mHealth technological solutions for medical sector).  Richard’s recent academic works focus on the quality of clinical app content and impact on patient safety.  A keen advocate of the progressive implementation of intelligent, peer-reviewed and evidence-based technology solutions to enhance overall patient experience and increase safety in care delivery, Richard has led the implementation of new technology and social media locally, establishing an online social network for surgical trainees in South-East Scotland and coordinating the implementation of local projects, from patient bariatric surgery information apps to trainee mentoring.

Dr Patrick Brasseur - French Ministry of Health - @Minist_Sante

Dr Patrick BRASSEUR is in charge of Information and Communication at the French Ministry of Health in Paris. He is a graduate of the Xavier Bichat Medical School in Paris and practiced general and emergency medicine before joining the Ministry of Health in 2006. Patrick Brasseur's activity in external communication is primarily related to public health and security issues, such as "crisis communication." Patrick often works with the health emergency department, whether reaching out to the public or to professionals.

Francis Bries - Challenger Group

After his degree in Commercial Sciences in Belgium, Francis published journals and launched professional journals (IMS), founded a communication and event agency (Challenger Médical), and was a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry (Challenger Consult). In 2011, Francis and his partners founded Challenger Group and developed @dvice platform, a communication channel between doctors and patients, allowing the doctor to give his patient access to practical information about his health, diseases and treatments.

Paul Buchanan - Team Blood Glucose - @t1HbA1c

Paul Buchanan (@t1HbA1c) is the founder and moderator of www.gbdoc.co.uk a weekly tweet chat for people with diabetes. (PWD) follow @theGBdoc and #gbdoc.  He is also the Founder of Team Blood Glucose, a not for profit social enterprise whose mission is to provide opportunity for all PWD and to actively engage in sports and exercise as a key tool in helping to manage, control diabetes and in some cases prevent diabetes.  Paul speaks regularly and consults on issues around patient engagement, the use of social media and technology and community engagement and outreach programs for mHealth and the ePatient.

Yvanie Caillé - Renaloo - @Renalooo

Yvanie Caillé founded Renaloo.com en 2002 - an online community of patients and their relatives devoted to kidney problems, transplants and dialysis. Less than 10 years after its creation, Renaloo is a Patient Association attached to quality of care issues well beyond web communication. Most notably, the Association is working on the notion of Health Democracy (partnerships and relationships in health), with the aim of bettering the care and lives of patients. This desire "to change the world" started in 2009 by assembling doctors, patients and various public health stakeholders through the think tank "Demain la Greffe" (A Transplant Tomorrow). Thanks to their lobbying, the Association has impacted changes in Bioethic Laws, especially with respect to the possibility of giving a kidney to a friend whilst still alive. Yvanie is today working on an ambitious  project: "Les Etats Généraux du Rein" (Estates General of the Kidney). Renaloo is leading this work and Web 2.0 is going to play a major role in making it work...

Catherine Cerisey - blogger - @CathCerisey

Catherine Cerisey learned she had breast cancer in the year 2000 and again in 2002 but has been in remission since 2002. She blogs at "après mon cancer du sein" about breast cancer news, charitable initiatives, current research.  A fan of New Technologies, Catherine can be found on Twitter (@cathcerisey, @maisonducancer, @lesbagouzamanon) and on Facebook.

Michael Chekroun - Carenity - @MichaelChekroun

Michael Chekroun is the founder of Carenity, the first Social Network for patients and ones they are close to, created at the beginning of 2011. After studying Management at Edhec and the London School of Economics, he started his career in strategy consulting in 2000, firstly at Gemini Consulting and then Kea&Partners. In 2005, Michael joined Ernst & Young as a Manager in the corporate finance team. He became Head of Health and Life Sciences where he led projects in France and internationally for the pharmaceutical Industry. Michael published articles on the consolidation of the pharmaceutical sub-contracting market and he ran conferences on the role of the Internet and Social Media within the doctor-patient relationship. In the summer of 2010, Michael left Ernst & Young to devote himself to the creation of Carenity.com.

Larry Chu - Stanford - @LarryChu

Larry Chu is a practicing physician who runs the Anesthesia Informatics and Media (AIM) lab at Stanford University. He is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia on the faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Chu organized the Fourth World Congress on Social Media and Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine and Biomedical Research (Medicine 2.0 @ Stanford) in 2011. He is the Executive Director of Stanford Medicine X, a conference that aims to explore how emerging technologies will advance the practice of medicine, improve health, and empower patients to be active participants in their own care. When not organizing conferences, Dr. Chu studies how information technologies can be used to improve medical education and collaborates with researchers in simulation and computer science at Stanford to study how cognitive aids can improve health care outcomes. Dr. Chu also has an NIH-funded clinical research laboratory where he studies opioid analgesic tolerance and physical dependence.

Jake Coniglio - WorldOne Interactive + Sermo - @W1_Interactive

Jake is Senior Vice President, Global Strategy & Corporate Development, and helped launch WorldOne Interactive in October 2011.  He is primarily responsible for global product development, strategic partnerships, business development and capital markets. Jake thrives on converting information into action, being a catalyst for behavior change and the perfect integration of art and science.  Previously as the Vice President – Emerging Solutions at Epocrates, the leading developer of mobile clinical decision support tools for healthcare providers, Jake led the commercialization of new interactive products and was a key component on the M&A team. In his free time, Jake can be found on a sunny beaches fueling his healthy addiction to surfing.

Ruth Ann Crystal - Stanford University Medical Center (Ob/Gyn) - @catchthebaby

Ruth Ann Crystal is a board certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist in Palo Alto, Ca. She received her bachelors degree with honors from UC Berkeley and her MD with honors from Stanford School of Medicine, where she has been an adjunct clinical faculty member for 12 years. Ruth Ann is also the executive producer of a documentary film, "Catch the Baby" which focuses on the history of childbirth, medical education and the interaction between young doctors and their patients in 1950s Chicago. She was the originating author for Women’s Health topics on Medpedia.com and is a founding expert on HealthTap.com. Ruth Ann is very interested in patient engagement, mobile health, innovation and enjoys Twitter chats #hcsm, #mhealth, #meded #bcsm

Kristina Curtis - Institute of Digital Healthcare (Warwick) - @KristinaCurtis

Kristina Curtis is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Digital Healthcare (University of Warwick) in the UK. Previously working as an Account Manager in Digital Marketing, she completed an MSc in Health Psychology with distinction at Coventry University. Kristina’s PhD project specifically looks into the area of health promotion Apps and how psychological models and techniques can be enabled with this technology to best reach, change and sustain families’ healthy eating behaviours. Kristina has won a small grant from NHS Warwickshire to develop a healthy eating App to support their weight management services for parents with overweight children. Kristina also lectures in eHealth and models of behaviour change used in Health & Sports Psychology.

Nick Dawson - Frontier Health - @nickdawson

Nick cares about patient experience, employee and how empathic design can create financially sustainable, future-ready health systems. He is the Patient Experience officer for Frontier Health. Previously, Nick ran hospital operations, finance teams and strategy efforts. Nick managed one of the first hospital social media programs. Exposure to empowered patients though social media, made an impact on his career in healthcare leadership. He serves on the ePatient Board for Stanford's Medicine X and is a member of Mayo Clinic's Center for Social Health advisory board. Nick lives in Charlottesville VA, USA and enjoys extreme skiing and old Land Rovers.

Fredrik Debong – mySugr.com – @mySugr, @fdebong

Fredrik has had type 1 diabetes since 1984. As a passionate IT professional since his early teens, he decided to change the face of therapy after surviving three years of diabetes burnout. Together with fellow type 1's, he founded mySugr.com and went on to develop the diabetes management system 'mySugr Companion'. The system is based on positive feedback and aims to help keep or to change behaviour. Built in collaboration with physicians, psychologists and experts in the field of health IT, it is one of the first medical apps in the AppStore carrying the CE-mark and fulfilling the quality requirements for medical devices in the EU. In March of 2013, the mySugr Companion (itunes.com/apps/mysugrcompanion) will also be made available in the US.

Pierre De Nayer - Citobi and Mediquality - @pdenayer

Pierre De Nayer is co-founder of Citobi, a CRM applications company that acquired MediQuality, a Belgian physician community in 2007. Mediquality, now the sole physician platform in Belgium is the Benelux member of the Networks in Health alliance. Pierre De Nayer holds a degree in Commercial Sciences from HEC Brussels, in Molecular Biology from the free university of Brussels, and graduated in 2008 as a philosopher at the Catholic University of Louvain. A former industry and consulting executive and serial entrepreneur, Pierre also created Growthbridge for building brands with e-communities (2009) and is an avid trekker.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor - Europa Donna Ireland

Marie Ennis-O’Connor is a PR consultant with a passionate interest in healthcare social media.  She is a board member and social media manager for Europa Donna Ireland -  The Irish Breast Cancer Campaign, an advocacy group that  is one of 46 EUROPA DONNA member countries across Europe. Marie is a regular contributor to Health Works Collective, partner of Doctors 2.0 & You. She is a featured blogger on Berci Mesko's Webicina, also a partner of Doctors 2.0 & You, and has been awarded  a top blogger accolade by Empowered Doctor.com and most inspiring writer by WegoHealth. Most recently she won the best health and wellness award in the Irish Blog Awards for her blog Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer. Marie is co-founder of #BCCEU, Europe's first breast cancer social media chat, and a committee member of Health 2.0 Dublin.

Gilles Frydman - entrepreneur - @gfry

Gilles Frydman is best known as the founder of ACOR, the Association of Cancer Online Resources, (1995), online cancer patient community with 65 000 patients and caregivers. ACOR’s 159 electronic lists demonstrate its ability to accelerate the distribution of quality information to patients. Gilles is past president of the Society for Participatory Medicine. His latest venture, Smart Patients will help him continue to bring the power of the Internet to each individual patient.

Daniel Ghinn - Creation Healthcare - @engagementstrat

Daniel Ghinn is founder and CEO of Creation Healthcare, the research and training consultancy established in 1988, advising international health stakeholders, including doctors, patient groups, pharmaceutical companies, the World Health Organization. As well as being a regular contributor to healthcare industry magazines, Daniel is Editor of Healthcare Engagement Strategy eJournal. His book, 'Pathways to Engagement for Healthcare Organizations', is based on three years of research into the pioneers of new communications channels in healthcare. Daniel has a special interest in digital engagement among doctors, and his eBook 'Activating Digital Opinion Leaders' explores the role of doctors using public social media channels to collaborate on clinical and practice matters.

Angel Gonzalez - Ideagoras - @Angel189

Advertising practitioner with 30 years of experience, the last 13 years in the Healthcare sector. He has been co-President of Publicis Healthcare Spain, heading the Madrid office by managing its change and bringing innovation to lead it to being “the reference of the market on a global scale”. Afterwards, he joined the Madrid office of Global Healthcare as partner and managing director with the responsibility of re-launching it onto the market. In January 2009, Angel set up Ideagoras, the first fully independent Social Media in Healthcare company established in Spain. He was the founder of #hcsmeuES, leading the tweet-chats during its first year.

Henri Graciès - Mediamed - @meditwitt

A practicing ophthalmologist near Paris, with a special interest in glaucoma since 1984, Henri Gracies has also been active in the following ways: as a journalist, an editor in chief, the founder of a news and web agency, an expert consultant for healthcare organizations and law firms and president of the medical staff of a local hospital. Henri created his first websites in 1995 and participated in the founding of the French Medical Webmaster's organization: MMT-Fr, of which he is vice-president. Henri is an avid  supporter of eHealth, a  blogger, and social media user.

Dr Rafael Grossmann - EMMC

Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, where he graduated from medical school, Rafael Grossman completed General Surgery Residency in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At EMMC, Rafael is a General and Trauma Surgery attending, practicing general elective surgery, acute care surgery, trauma surgery, surgical critical care, advanced laparoscopy and single incision surgery. He pioneered the Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic general surgery program at EMMC. Since 2005, he has developed a passion for the care of surgical and acutely injured patients, via “Teletrauma” and has embraced mHealth as a supplemental platform to deliver telemedicine. In 2009, this program received the “Best Scientific Award” at the annual congress of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago.

Alexane Gurwic - Roche - @Roche_com

Pharmacist by training, Alexane Gurwic has 10 years' experience in Digital Marketing in Pharma. Former president of Isidore association, she is an accomplished fencer.

John Hixson - VA Medical Center (SFO) and UCSF

John Hixson serves as clinical director for Patient-Facing health technology under the Health Informatics Initiative of the US Veterans Health Administration. He also serves as the Principal Investigator for a VHA-based clinical study examining the use of online communities and social media to improve the self-management abilities of patients suffering from seizures. Dr. Hixson is a neurologist with expertise in the field of epilepsy, and he is currently on the faculty of the University of California San Francisco. His prior medical training was at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Cedric Hutchings - Withings - @Withings

CEO of Withings, Cedric has 8 years experience in consumer high-tech marketing. Product manager at Inventel where he managed the launch of residential wireless gateways, Cedric then joined Thomson as marketing director of domestic products in charge of developing residential offers. Cedric has an engineering background from the Ecole Centrale of Paris, holds a Masters from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was recognized best Product manager of the Thomson group in 2006. At Withings, Cédric is managing director and in charge of marketing and commercial development.

Jean-Gabriel Jeannot - @medplusCH

Jean Gabriel Jeannot is an internist in Switzerland. Over the years he has acquired expertise in medical computing, with a special interest in the medical Internet.  He is the creator and operator of the Web sites Medicalinfo.ch (or health-care professionals using the Internet for medicine, CabinetMedical.ch for administrative management of the doctor’s office)and Moteur-de-recherche-medical.org and its English equivalent The-best-medical-search-engine.org, medicine & Health search engines for the general public and healthcare professionals). Jeannot also writes articles on medical Web sites for healthcare professionals and the general public and works as a consultant on computerized health records projects.

Ronan Kavanagh - @RonanTKavanagh

Ronan is an Irish rheumatologist with an interest in the interface between medicine and the rest of the world. He is particularly interested in the use of new technologies to educate himself and his patients and uses his strong social media presence on Twitter, Facebook, and his blog to do so. As a means of getting accurate information to his patients he has also developed expertise in the use of video technologies in health care and also telemedicine solutions to provide care to his patients remotely. He has acted as an advisor to a number of health technology companies  including VSnap, Clear.MD Fullhealth and Pubble. He is also a mentor on the HealthXL programme and runs innovative medical meetings for doctors.

Oxana Kolosova - Ivrach.com

Oxana  Kolosova is managing partner at iVrach.com,  social and educational network for Russian-speaking physicians, founded in July 2010 and developing new activities ever since.  A  graduate of Moscow Medial Academy, Oxana started her carrier in medical marketing with multinational pharma, before  focusing on market research and medical communications in the agency world.  Originally from Moscow, Russia, Oxana worked for several years in Ukraine and and then at Dendrite Europe in Windsor, the UK. The insight into different medical information environments helped Oxana to notice an opportunity in developing а professional online community for Russian speaking physicians.

Ilya Kupriyanov - DoctorAtWork

Ilya Kupriyanov is Business Development Director of the Russian online physician community, DoktorNaRabote.ru  which translates to DoctorAtWork. This community won the 2011 Russian "Start-up of the Year" contest and has also launched a community for medical students. Ilya has been a co-founder of 3 start-ups, with one exit, and is a pioneer in e-detailing in Russia, having created e-rep or electronic medical representative to link companies and physicians. Ilya, an MBA and law graduate, based in Moscow, is also working on a patient community start-up..

Jacques Lépine - Slow Control ‏- @slow_control

Jacques Lepine, the founder and CEO of Slow Control, inventor of the digital fork, is based in France. Jacques did his engineering studies at Ponts et Chaussées and began his career as a  patent engineer before going on to become a serial entrepreneur . He has been working on the development of the digital fork since 2004, which was recognized by  the Cap’tronic electronics award (France) and Consumer Electronics Show CES 2013 award (Las Vegas). Jacques is looking forward to the launch of the digital fork in 2013 with partner Hapilabs, the first distributor.

Tiantian (Stanley) Li - DXY.com - @Tiantian_DXY

TIantian (Stanleyà Li is the founder of DXY, the largest physician social network in China. Founded in 2006, DXY has 100+ employees in China. In DXY, he is in charge of public relation, government affair,  investment and media collaboration. Stanley has a Masters in Tumor Immunology. An almost PhD in Bioinformatics, he is interested data mining and statistics, and he leads the research 2.0 Group, focused on improving efficiency in physician's research work flow by utilizing Internet applications. Since 2006, this group has opened 30+ offline seminars in 15 capital cities in China and ~23,000 physicians have joined this activity.

Emmanuelle Lomenède - MSD

A pharmacist by training with a degree from University of Paris XI, Emmanuelle Lomenede is multi-channel product manager at MSD France and previously multi-channel marketing manager in Belgium as well as training manager at MSD France.

Jacques Lucas - French National Order of Physicians - @JcqsLucas

Jacques Lucas, a practicing cardiologist, is also Vice-president of the French National Order of Physicians, in charge of Health Information and ICT subjects. Under his guidance, the Order has published several white papers on IT and internet-related subjects and held various public meetings.

Mike Marett - World One Interactive + Sermo - @W1_Interactive @Sermo

Mike is Senior Vice President, Head of Global Business Development, and helped launch WorldOne Interactive in October 2011 .  He is primarily responsible for business development, commercial marketing, and product development.  Mike is an expert at spearheading newly launched organizations, building teams, and commercializing innovative products and services.  Previously Mike was Executive Vice President at Kyp, an integrated marketing company that specialized in technology based marketing initiatives for healthcare, which he launched in North America.  Mike has a passion for innovation and is always seeking to unlock differentiating technologies and emerging channels to amplify brand marketing initiatives and drive value.

Giovanna Marsico - Cancer Contribution - @GioMarsi

A former lawyer in Milan, Italy and representative to the European Commission in Brussels for various associations, Giovanna is responsible for the citizen pole of Cancer Campus, a permanent laboratory for innovative practices in healthcare. The citizen pole analyzes and anticipates in the cancer experience for the individual and Society. Cancer Contribution was the first Doctors 2.0 & You cause in 2011! Giovanna is also our Ambassador from Italy in France !

Claire Maurice-LexisNexis BIS-@BISlifesciences

At LexisNexis Business Information Solutions. Claire coordinates a team of consultants and analysts dedicated to life sciences. Claire has been working for 10 years in online reputation issues and market intelligence for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and  agribusiness sectors.  She holds Master degrees in Biochemistry (Paris VI), Computer Science, and  Scientific and Economic Intelligence (ESIEE,)

Didier Mennecier - @hepatoweb @MedecinGeek

Didier Mennecier is a hepato-gastroenterologist and addictologist at the French Army hospital of Saint-Mandé, as well as a member of the association of Francophone Medical Webmasters. Thanks to his military career, Didier was able to develop his passion not only as a doctor but also as a geek. Seeing the Internet as an indispensable third actor in the relationship between the physician and the patient, Didier uses his site HepatoWeb.com, to complement his consultations and is also developing new digital applications in support of patient information therapy.

Bertalan Mesko - Webicina - @Berci

Bertalan Meskó or Berci, one of the most influential physicians on Twitter, is the founder of Webicina.com, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service. A medical graduate of the University of Debrecen, Berci has also received his PhD in personalized genomics. Berci thinks medical professionals of the 21st century have to be ready to meet the expectations of e-patients: he is a medical blogger, a microblogger, a manager of medical projects in Wikipedia and an organizer of scientific events in Second Life.

Jon Michaeli - WorldOne Interactive - @WI_Interactive @Sermo

Jon Michaeli is SVP, Global Community and Marketing for WorldOne Interactive, responsible for the growth and engagement of the Sermo platform. Jon has been in the e-health industry for 2 years, bringing 15 years' experience in a variety of digital and interactive product and marketing roles, predominately in the online and mobile travel space. Jon holds a BA in Economics from Tufts University and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He enjoys competitive tennis and adventure sports when he is not spending time with his family.

Virginie Munduteguy - Janssen France

Virginie Munduteguy is medical librarian for Janssen France. She leads an e-reputation project for Janssen in France. She works on understanding emerging social web in health and how pharmaceutical industry can help patients and healthcare professionals.

Francis Namouk - Streaming Well - @StreamingWell

Francis Namouk is CEO and co-founder at Streaming Well, a health video channel reaching over 3 million patients and clinicians across Europe. Streaming Well produces health education videos and delivers them to targeted audiences through its distribution relationships with trusted online health channels. Previously creative director at Everyday Health, Francis was instrumental in the development of  a portfolio of over 25 health websites. Francis has 8 years of professional experience in healthcare , wellness, diet and fitness sectors. Francis holds degrees from the Parsons School of Design and New School University.

Marion O'Connor

Educated at the University of Ulster, Marion O'Connor is a specialist dietitian at the Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust in Oxford, UK. The lead specialist in intestinal failure and intestinal transplantation, Marion is very engaged in Social Media for Health Care.

Xavier Olba – Sanofi – @campussanofi

Xavier Olba is an economist with an MBA from ESADE. For the past 12 years, at Sanofi, Xavier has been a specialist of pharmaceutical marketing, with experience in cardiology, urology, and psychiatry.He is currently responsible for digital strategy in Spain & Portugal and enthusiastic about the benefits that digital brings to the quality of life of patients and the management of their conditions.

Bill Paquin - Vertical Health - @billpaquin

Bill Paquin is  CEO of Vertical Health, provider of physician-authored health information for the patient and the provider on endocrine and pain-related disorders. Vertical Health publishes SpineUniverse.com, PracticalPainManagement.com, DiabeticLifestyle.com and EndocrineWeb.com. Prior to Vertical Health, Bill was a Senior Executive at Medsite (acquired by WebMD), where he oversaw their growth in online physician marketing. For the last decade, Bill has helped launch start-up companies pioneering online education and community. His work includes senior positions at HorizonLive (now Wimba), an eLearning company, and Developers.Net, an IT portal facilitating learning and collaboration in the technical community.  Bill sits on the Board of Trustees for Children’s Aid and Family Services of NJ and is a proud member of the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association.

Anne-Catherine PERROY - Simmons & Simmons

Anne-Catherine PERROY has a dual qualification as pharmacist and lawyer, specializing in pharmaceuticals. Of Counsel of Simmons & Simmons law firm, she has significant regulatory expertise. A French University professor, Anne-Catherine is the Director of a Master degree in Regulatory Affairs. In December 2012, she was awarded the French National Order of Pharmacists prize for her research on pharmaceutical industry liability.

Pedro Pinto - Take the Wind - @Take_The_Wind

Pedro Pinto is co-founder and CEO of Take The Wind, created in 2008 to provide technology solutions and digital content for clinical decision support, patient empowerment and ehealth services. Prior to this, Pedro spent 15 years managing IT companies in education and health communication and was also World Bank project coordinator in Latin America. He studied Economics at Coimbra University, Portugal, and his spare time is devoted to run local social care projects. In 2012, Take The Wind was awarded the “EMF Seal of e-Excellence in Digital Media” (first prize) for its Vita Salutis™ product line.

John Pugh - Boehringer Ingelheim - @JohnPugh

John Pugh, Teamleader of the Digital Innovation Team at Boehringer Ingelheim, formerly the Director of Digital Communications is based  at the Global Centre in Germany. With a background as a journalist and Internet start-up entrepreneur, he has over 17 year’s media experience, 10 of them in digital. John is responsible for Boehringer Ingelheim’s global social media strategy and is regularly cited as a global thought leader in the field.

Sandeep Pulim – Johns Hopkins - @health4america

Sandeep Pulim, MD is a physician entrepreneur who currently is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Health for America and a mentor at XLerateHealth.  He co-founded a mHealth company focused on patient engagement and CHF readmissions.  Sandeep was also a "Floating Founder" at Blueprint Health, and a Health 2.0 code-a-thon winner.  He previously served as Senior Medical Editor at MDLinx, an award winning, physician focused web site that aggregated information from 1,200 medical journals to keep healthcare professionals up to date.  Sandeep attained his medical degree from St. George's University School of Medicine, and has trained in both the UK and USA.

Jurriaan van Rijswijk - Games for Health Europe - @jurriaanvr

Jurriaan van Rijswijk is an independent producer of more than 300 (serious) games and he is a serial entrepreneur. He’s a board member of the Dutch Games Association. In 2010 he founded the Games for Health Europe Foundation, of which he is the chairman, and he is responsible for organizing the Games for Health Europe Conferences. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Monpellier Venture a company specialized in the development of corporate game strategies and the production of applied games.

Kyle Jacques Rose - Delta PM Diabetes

Kyle Jacques Rose is managing director and founder of Delta PM Diabetes. He is a member of INSEAD's healthcare management faculty where his research focuses on CDM patient engagement and motivation for better treatment outcomes. Kyle Jacques previously worked with Team Type 1 and Team Type 2 as the global director of strategy, a founding member, and a cyclist. He has worked for and advised major healthcare companies including Sanofi, Medtronic, Abbott Laboratories, and Roche. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in New York, Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from INSEAD in France and Singapore, and was a member of the presenting faculty at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Jacqueline Rossant-Lumbroso - French National Order of Physicians - @Dr_JacJRL

Dr Jacqueline Rossant-Lumbroso is a General Physician in Nice, France. She is also member of the French National Order of Physicians and an early-uptaker of new technologies. She works closely on understanding these emerging tools  with Jacques Lucas, and is present on various Social Networks, most notably Twitter, where she answers questions on ethics that other users may ask.

Sylvie Royant-Parola - Respir@dom - @SylRP

A psychiatrist by training, Sylvie Royant-Parola chose to focus on sleep apnea, in its early days.  Her medical practice included both the mechanics of sleep and active patient listening, in order to understand and describe patient symptoms.   Subsequently, Sylvie's interest in the Internet and ICT for medicine led her to focus on blogs, social networks, and  telemedicine and gamification, thanks to Respir@dom, the sleep apnea programs she has recently launched.

Stanislav Sazhin - DoktorNaRabote - @insie_ru

Stanislav Sazhin CEO and founder of DoktorNaRabote  , network of 100 000+ Russian-speaking physicians. Winner of 2011 Russian contests Startup of the Year and Young Media Entrepreneur of the Year. Web developer, blogger, MGIMO graduate. Lives in Moscow, Russia.

Alexander Schachinger Healthcare42.com @healthcare42

Alexander Schachinger an Austrian in Berlin, is a consultant specialized in "e-patient" research. After studying digital media economy in Berlin and Toronto,  he worked both in international pharma companies and digital advertising agencies. In Germany he conducts  e-patient and digital healthcare online studies , and consulting missions. Alexander has recently  working on the issues of treatment adherence.

Jeff Schnack - 3Rock KK - @JS3Rock

Jeff Schnack is Founder & President of 3Rock KK in Tokyo. He has spent his career building both B2B and B2C businesses in the Asia-Pacific region. He now focuses on strategic healthcare consulting, with a particular interest in the digital space. Jeff also teaches Global Marketing in the CUMOT program at the Tokyo University of Technology, and Technology Marketing at the Robert T. Huang Entrepreneurship Center of Kyushu University. Trilingual in Japanese, German, and English, Jeff received his honors Executive MBA from the University of San Francisco. He also holds a Graduate Diploma in International Relations from the University of Vienna, which he attended on a Fulbright Scholarship, and a BA with Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude honors from Amherst College.

Franck Schneider - University Hospitals of Geneva - @fksc_

Renza Scibilia - Diabetes Australia - @RenzaS

Renza Scibilia works for Diabetes Australia where she is the Manager of patient and peer support programs. Her role has significantly moved from providing face-to-face support and information to the integration of new media platforms to reach people living with diabetes. In 2012, Renza co-founded OzDOC, a social media-based community of people with diabetes in Australia. Renza speaks regularly at conferences across Australia about the 'living with it' aspects of diabetes and how social media can be used to augment more traditional means of healthcare. Renza writes one of Australia's most widely-read patient blogs and contributes to print and online journals.

Michael Seres - @mjseres

A healthcare social media speaker, adviser, and author born in London, Michael was diagnosed aged 12 with Crohn's Disease. He studied law & politics at LSE before further surgery interrupted his studies. After over 20 operations and intestinal failure, Michael recently underwent a rare small bowel transplant in the UK.  Prior to transplant, Michael started blogging. To date, over 52,000 people have read his blog,  now the official patient blog of the Intestinal Transplant Association. Michael also serves on the executive committee of the Oxford Transplant Foundation and is the patient spokesperson for a national campaign establishing quality food standards in NHS hospitals. Additionally, Michael builds on line patient communities through social media. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/bdoneglobalfamily/) and recently launched the tweetchat #IBDChat. He's a patient ambassador for The Patient Association, runs the patient strand of NHSSM, a patient scholar 2012 at Stanford Medicine X,  and a UK Ambassador for Doctors 2.0 & You!  

Denise Silber - Basil Strategies - @Health20Paris

Denise Silber is an international eHealth pioneer, entrepreneur, supporter of participatory medicine, blogger. She heads up Basil Strategies digital health consultancy and Doctors 2.0 & You conferences. Her web involvement began with her first medical web sites and internet conferences in France in the mid-90's,  participation in official working groups on  quality and ethics in eHealth around the world.  Since Denise was one of the earliest proponents of Web 2.0 for Health in Europe, Basil Strategies co-launched the first Health 2.0 conference outside the U.S., in Paris in 2010.  A Smith College graduate and Harvard MBA, Denise became one of the few American citizens named to the Legion of Honor, France's highest civil decoration, for her work in advancing international eHealth. Denise teaches Digital Health at Essec Business School,  founded AQIS, the association for the Quality of Health on the Internet, as well as PharMBA. Her publications are listed on Google Scholar and she is well placed on leading Social Media platforms.

Kerri Sparling - @sixuntilme

Kerri Morrone Sparling has been living with type 1 diabetes for over 25 years, diagnosed in 1986. She manages her diabetes and lives her life by the mantra “Diabetes doesn’t define me, but it helps explain me.” A passionate advocate of all things diabetes, Kerri is the creator and author of Six Until Me, one of the first and most widely-read diabetes patient blogs. Kerri’s work can also be found at diaTribe, dLife, and in diabetes outreach like JDRF’s Countdown magazine, in addition to her  YouTube channel.  She has a sponsorship agreement with Animas Corporation, manufacturers of her insulin pump and contributes columns and videos to their website. Well-versed in social media and its influence on patients, Kerri works full-time as a writer and social media consultant. Kerri and her husband, Chris, live in Rhode Island, USA with their daughter.

John S. Stamler - Ben's Friends - @John5370 @bensfriends

John Stamler is a partner at Ben's Friends (www.bensfriends.org), where he is focused on sponsorships, member services, fundraising, partnerships with corporations, hospitals, physicians and, generally speaking, the financial side. John got involved with Ben’s Friends in June 2010, a month after successful open heart surgery to fix one of his two rare diseases, Atrial Septal Defect. In November 2010, John ran the New York City Marathon less than six months after open heart surgery to raise awareness for folks with rare diseases and money for Ben’s Friends. He’s a graduate of Brown University and lives in London. As of December 2012, Ben’s Friends had 33 rare disease support communities with 25,000 members, The organization launches new rare disease communities on a monthly basis.

Jennifer Stinson - SickKids Hospital - @sickkids

Jennifer Stinson, RN, PhD, CPNP, is a scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, a Nurse Practitioner in the Chronic Pain Program at the Hospital for Sick Children of Toronto, Ontario, and Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Toronto. She received her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from the University of Western Ontario, Master’s of Science from the University of Toronto, a Post-Master’s Paediatric Nurse Practitioner Certificate from the State University at SUNY Buffalo, and a PhD in Nursing from University of Toronto. Jennifer received the Peter Loughheed Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award for her research on using e-health and m-health to promote chronic disease self-management in youth with painful chronic and life-threatening health conditions.

Gwénaëlle Thual - Novartis Pharma - @epock_e

Gwénaëlle Thual is responsible for corporate communications at Novartis Pharma France. For several years, she has been involved in the field of care (Proximologie), developing and supporting programs to better understand and recognize the relationship between a patient, their family and entourage. She is in charge of the "Génération Proches" project, which includes reporting in the digital magazine www.generation-proches.com. Her different missions have led her to developing and managing digital tools and multi-channel marketing and communications. Gwénaëlle has a degree in philosophy, focusing on decision ethics and risk management and has a Masters, specializing in healthcare management.

Audun Utengen - Symplur - @audvin

With a background and training in classical music, international business and information technology, Audun Utengen brings a unique combination of traits to the healthcare industry. As a Co-founder of Symplur, LLC and “The Healthcare Hashtag Project“, Audun together with his colleagues pioneered the field of healthcare social media analytics. His formal education includes a BSc in International Marketing from Norway and China, and a MBA from the U.S. He is now developing proprietary tools and algorithms providing real-time insights based on social health big data.

Vincent Varlet - Novartis - @DrVarlet

Emergency Doctor and MBA graduate, Vincent Varlet is both  Executive Director for Marketing & Communication at Novartis Pharma in France, and a volunteer for causes relating to children with chronic conditions. Vincent promotes  innovative communication that will enhance the dissemination of information regarding  the quality of life and physician-patient relationships. Since the mid-90s, he has integrated new technologies in multi-channel communication, paving the way for innovation in a conservative pharmaceutical industry.

Deborah Wallet-Wodka - UPMC

Deborah Wallet-Wodka is Assistant Professor in Management at the University Pierre et Marie Curie. She is responsible for the teaching of marketing and market research in the Healthcare Marketing Master. Former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, “Agrégée” in  Economics and Management, Deborah Wallet-Wodka has a PhD in management. Her research focuses primarily on health consumer behavior in all aspects of daily life. She has conducted a dozen studies on the subject and participated in many consulting assignments in French companies and public bodies, on the subject of consumer health.