Virtual Healthcare in the mainstream
Symposium & Research Forum
2025 Speaker Line-up
Announcing Keynote Speaker:
Rajiv Kumar, M.D., Apple
Rajiv B. Kumar, M.D., is a physician-researcher on the Health team at Apple and works across a variety of internal and external research endeavors to support Apple’s Health features. He continues patient care and teaching as a faculty member at Stanford Children’s Health, where he was formerly the Medical Director of Mobile Health. Dr. Kumar completed his BS at the University of Illinois, his MD and Pediatrics residency at Loyola University Chicago, and fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes at Stanford University.
Ricky Bloomfield, M.D., Oura
Ricky Bloomfield, M.D., is Oura’s Chief Medical Officer, where he sets the vision for Oura’s global healthcare programs and partnerships, guides the company through ever-changing healthcare regulations and leads the company’s expansion in healthcare solutions. He also enables cross-functional collaboration across the organization to drive the direction of new hardware and software features to scale healthcare ambitions.
Dr. Bloomfield brings expertise in medicine, digital health, clinical informatics, and navigating the U.S. healthcare system. He joins Oura from Apple, where he served as Clinical and Health Informatics Lead. During his tenure, Dr. Bloomfield led the launch of several features, including Apple’s Health Records on iPhone and iPad.
Before joining Apple, Dr. Bloomfield was the director of Mobile Technology Strategy at Duke University Health System, where he explored the world of clinical informatics, the intersection of technology and healthcare. There, he discovered a problem worth solving: health data interoperability. To address this, he led a team to implement the first API on an Epic-based electronic health record (EHR) that used the emerging FHIR standard, with the goal of helping patients, clinicians, and researchers easily access health-record data. At Duke, he also collaborated on the largest app-based autism research study of its kind and worked as a hospitalist in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
Ricky Bloomfield, M.D., is Oura’s Chief Medical Officer, where he sets the vision for Oura’s global healthcare programs and partnerships, guides the company through ever-changing healthcare regulations and leads the company’s expansion in healthcare solutions. He also enables cross-functional collaboration across the organization to drive the direction of new hardware and software features to scale healthcare ambitions.
Dr. Bloomfield brings expertise in medicine, digital health, clinical informatics, and navigating the U.S. healthcare system. He joins Oura from Apple, where he served as Clinical and Health Informatics Lead. During his tenure, Dr. Bloomfield led the launch of several features, including Apple’s Health Records on iPhone and iPad.
Before joining Apple, Dr. Bloomfield was the director of Mobile Technology Strategy at Duke University Health System, where he explored the world of clinical informatics, the intersection of technology and healthcare. There, he discovered a problem worth solving: health data interoperability. To address this, he led a team to implement the first API on an Epic-based electronic health record (EHR) that used the emerging FHIR standard, with the goal of helping patients, clinicians, and researchers easily access health-record data. At Duke, he also collaborated on the largest app-based autism research study of its kind and worked as a hospitalist in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
Therese L. Canares, MD, MBA, Founder & CEO, CurieDx; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Therese Canares is the CEO and Founder of CurieDx, and a pediatric emergency physician, dedicated to making patient and clinician’s lives easier. She created CurieDx to solve patient and clinician frustrations arising from point of care tests which are slow and inaccessible on virtual care. CurieDx is a digital health company developing a software platform that diagnoses disease with just a smartphone image and computer vision. Their flagship product, StrepAI, screens for strep throat from a simple throat image, removing the need for swabs, labs, or long clinic visits. With other conditions like pink eye, rash, UTI, and kidney disease on the way, this is a Lab in your Pocket.
Blending her frontline clinical experience at Johns Hopkins with expertise in digital health implementation in health systems, Dr. Canares has guided CurieDx from concept to a growing platform with urgent care contracts, federal research funding, and ongoing FDA engagement. Her work demonstrates how advanced computer vision can improve access to care, reduce unnecessary costs, and support more precise treatment decisions across diverse populations.
Recognized nationally for her leadership at the intersection of medicine and technology, Dr. Canares brings a clear vision that helps patients and clinicians get a diagnosis in seconds.
Dr. Therese Canares is the CEO and Founder of CurieDx, and a pediatric emergency physician, dedicated to making patient and clinician’s lives easier. She created CurieDx to solve patient and clinician frustrations arising from point of care tests which are slow and inaccessible on virtual care. CurieDx is a digital health company developing a software platform that diagnoses disease with just a smartphone image and computer vision. Their flagship product, StrepAI, screens for strep throat from a simple throat image, removing the need for swabs, labs, or long clinic visits. With other conditions like pink eye, rash, UTI, and kidney disease on the way, this is a Lab in your Pocket.
Blending her frontline clinical experience at Johns Hopkins with expertise in digital health implementation in health systems, Dr. Canares has guided CurieDx from concept to a growing platform with urgent care contracts, federal research funding, and ongoing FDA engagement. Her work demonstrates how advanced computer vision can improve access to care, reduce unnecessary costs, and support more precise treatment decisions across diverse populations.
Recognized nationally for her leadership at the intersection of medicine and technology, Dr. Canares brings a clear vision that helps patients and clinicians get a diagnosis in seconds.
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Jonathan H. Chen, M.D., PhD, Stanford University
Jonathan H. Chen, M.D., PhD, leads a research group to empower individuals with the collective experience of the many, combining human and artificial intelligence approaches to deliver better care than either alone. Dr. Chen continues to practice medicine for the concrete rewards of caring for real people and to inspire this research focused on discovering and distributing the latent knowledge embedded in clinical data. Before his medical training, Chen co-founded a company to translate his Computer Science graduate work into an expert system for organic chemistry, with applications from drug discovery to an education tool for students around the world. His expertise is regularly featured in popular press outlets with over 100 publications in leading clinical and informatics venues and awards from the NIH, National Library of Medicine, American Medical Informatics Association, International Brotherhood of Magicians and more. In the face of ever escalating complexity in medicine, informatics solutions are the only credible approach to systematically address challenges in healthcare. Tapping into real-world clinical data like electronic medical records with machine learning and data analytics will reveal the community's latent knowledge in a reproducible form. By delivering this back to clinicians, patients, and healthcare systems as clinical decision support, he aims to uniquely close the loop on a continuously learning health system. |
Anurag Gupta, M.D., MBA, MMSc, Tembo Health
Dr. Gupta is the founder and CEO of Tembo Health, a venture-backed digital healthcare company that guides patients and caregivers living with dementia in their care, goals, and overall quality of life. Delivering a virtual wrap around care solution, Tembo combines telemedicine (care navigators, geriatric psychiatry, 24/7 urgent care), passive remote patient monitoring, and in-home diagnostics through its mobile app, allowing seniors with dementia to age healthy, happy, and at home. Tembo partners with health plans, providers, and senior care communities. Tembo is a proud participant in the Medicare Dementia Innovation GUIDE program and actively enrolling patients in all 50 states.
As a practicing emergency medicine physician, Dr. Gupta brings clinical insight along with business acumen to provide impactful solutions to healthcare systems and organizations. He has served as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at both the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Zucker School of Medicine. He received his MMSc in clinical informatics from Harvard Medical School, earned his MD and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan and, after training in emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in NYC, completed a postdoctoral NIH/NLM research fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is board certified in emergency medicine, clinical informatics, and addiction medicine.
Within his tenure at BWH and HMS, he developed multiple clinical decision support algorithms to impact real-time clinical care, resulting in improved utilization of healthcare resources; funded by the NIH, led to numerous publications. During his time at Northwell Health, Dr. Gupta led transformation teams on several initiatives improving efficiency, quality, and cost across 20 hospitals. While at the Boston Consulting Group, Dr. Gupta focused on healthcare strategy across Pharma, MedTech, and Providers, working with C-level executives to help shape long term strategic initiatives (e.g., growth strategy, organizational transformation, M&A, etc.). While at Imagen, a medical device startup building radiology artificial intelligence algorithms, Dr. Gupta served as both Head of Clinical Operations and Head of Strategic Partnerships, driving product development, managing a physician team of 30, collaborating with engineering and AI scientists on research development, and supporting FDA regulatory pathways.
Dr. Gupta's passion for innovation and curious nature have led to entrepreneurial projects, peer-reviewed publications, and speaking engagements.
Dr. Gupta is the founder and CEO of Tembo Health, a venture-backed digital healthcare company that guides patients and caregivers living with dementia in their care, goals, and overall quality of life. Delivering a virtual wrap around care solution, Tembo combines telemedicine (care navigators, geriatric psychiatry, 24/7 urgent care), passive remote patient monitoring, and in-home diagnostics through its mobile app, allowing seniors with dementia to age healthy, happy, and at home. Tembo partners with health plans, providers, and senior care communities. Tembo is a proud participant in the Medicare Dementia Innovation GUIDE program and actively enrolling patients in all 50 states.
As a practicing emergency medicine physician, Dr. Gupta brings clinical insight along with business acumen to provide impactful solutions to healthcare systems and organizations. He has served as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at both the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Zucker School of Medicine. He received his MMSc in clinical informatics from Harvard Medical School, earned his MD and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan and, after training in emergency medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in NYC, completed a postdoctoral NIH/NLM research fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is board certified in emergency medicine, clinical informatics, and addiction medicine.
Within his tenure at BWH and HMS, he developed multiple clinical decision support algorithms to impact real-time clinical care, resulting in improved utilization of healthcare resources; funded by the NIH, led to numerous publications. During his time at Northwell Health, Dr. Gupta led transformation teams on several initiatives improving efficiency, quality, and cost across 20 hospitals. While at the Boston Consulting Group, Dr. Gupta focused on healthcare strategy across Pharma, MedTech, and Providers, working with C-level executives to help shape long term strategic initiatives (e.g., growth strategy, organizational transformation, M&A, etc.). While at Imagen, a medical device startup building radiology artificial intelligence algorithms, Dr. Gupta served as both Head of Clinical Operations and Head of Strategic Partnerships, driving product development, managing a physician team of 30, collaborating with engineering and AI scientists on research development, and supporting FDA regulatory pathways.
Dr. Gupta's passion for innovation and curious nature have led to entrepreneurial projects, peer-reviewed publications, and speaking engagements.
Adil Haider, M.D., MPH, @BostonHealth.AI
A global health leader and trauma surgeon, Dr. Haider’s pioneering research at Johns Hopkins identified racial disparities in U.S. trauma care. He subsequently directed the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School and then served as Dean of Aga Khan University Medical College.
An award-winning researcher with over 450 innovative publications, he founded Boston Health AI, inspired by AI’s potential to empower providers to deliver better healthcare at scale and impact one billion patients worldwide.
A global health leader and trauma surgeon, Dr. Haider’s pioneering research at Johns Hopkins identified racial disparities in U.S. trauma care. He subsequently directed the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School and then served as Dean of Aga Khan University Medical College.
An award-winning researcher with over 450 innovative publications, he founded Boston Health AI, inspired by AI’s potential to empower providers to deliver better healthcare at scale and impact one billion patients worldwide.
Beth Percha, PhD, NewYork-Presbyterian
Dr. Bethany (Beth) Percha is Chief Data and Analytics Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Previously, she was Chief Data Officer at Summit Health/CityMD, a large multispecialty and urgent care network in the northeast, staying on after its acquisition by VillageMD to lead data engineering, governance, and operations across all markets and business lines. Prior to her role at Summit, Beth was CTO of the Precision Health Enterprise (PHE), an applied research and product development group at the Mount Sinai Health System, and head of R&D at the Health Data and Design Innovation Center (HD2i), Mount Sinai’s first Silicon Valley outpost. She was formerly Vice President of Research and Development at Kyron, a venture-backed startup building an information retrieval platform for electronic medical records. She has also served as a technical adviser for several other health technology startups in New York and Silicon Valley.
At NewYork-Presbyterian, Beth leads the Data Shared Services team, which provides consolidated data engineering, analytics, data science, informatics, registry support, and regulatory reporting across the health system and its two affiliated medical schools, the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, and Weill Cornell Medicine. She chairs the tripartite AI Governance Committee and works closely with clinical and operational leaders to promote more accurate, consistent, and comprehensive use of data in decision-making across the enterprise.
Beth received her PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University, her MPH in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of Michigan, and her BS in Physics, Biochemistry and Math (also from UM).
Dr. Bethany (Beth) Percha is Chief Data and Analytics Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Previously, she was Chief Data Officer at Summit Health/CityMD, a large multispecialty and urgent care network in the northeast, staying on after its acquisition by VillageMD to lead data engineering, governance, and operations across all markets and business lines. Prior to her role at Summit, Beth was CTO of the Precision Health Enterprise (PHE), an applied research and product development group at the Mount Sinai Health System, and head of R&D at the Health Data and Design Innovation Center (HD2i), Mount Sinai’s first Silicon Valley outpost. She was formerly Vice President of Research and Development at Kyron, a venture-backed startup building an information retrieval platform for electronic medical records. She has also served as a technical adviser for several other health technology startups in New York and Silicon Valley.
At NewYork-Presbyterian, Beth leads the Data Shared Services team, which provides consolidated data engineering, analytics, data science, informatics, registry support, and regulatory reporting across the health system and its two affiliated medical schools, the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, and Weill Cornell Medicine. She chairs the tripartite AI Governance Committee and works closely with clinical and operational leaders to promote more accurate, consistent, and comprehensive use of data in decision-making across the enterprise.
Beth received her PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University, her MPH in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from the University of Michigan, and her BS in Physics, Biochemistry and Math (also from UM).
Angelique Taylor, PhD, Cornell Tech
Angelique Taylor is the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Assistant Professor at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
Taylor is the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab (AIRLab), focusing on research at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. The AIRLab designs intelligent systems that work alongside groups of people in real-world, safety-critical environments. She designs and builds systems that interact with people, including robots, AI, and extended reality devices.
Before joining Cornell, Taylor was a visiting research scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research, working on AI to support multi-user collaboration in augmented and virtual reality. She received her Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2021 and a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2016.
Taylor has received the NSF Foundation Research in Robotics award, the Cornell Einhorn Center Community-Engaged Practice & Innovation award, the Google Award for Inclusive Research, the NSF GRFP award, the Microsoft Dissertation award, the Google Anita Borg Memorial Fellowship, the Arthur J. Schmitt Presidential Fellowship, a GEM Fellowship, an award from the National Center for Women in Information Technology, and Best Paper awards at HRI 2022, HRI 2024, and CSCW 2019.
Angelique Taylor is the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Assistant Professor at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
Taylor is the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab (AIRLab), focusing on research at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. The AIRLab designs intelligent systems that work alongside groups of people in real-world, safety-critical environments. She designs and builds systems that interact with people, including robots, AI, and extended reality devices.
Before joining Cornell, Taylor was a visiting research scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research, working on AI to support multi-user collaboration in augmented and virtual reality. She received her Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2021 and a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2016.
Taylor has received the NSF Foundation Research in Robotics award, the Cornell Einhorn Center Community-Engaged Practice & Innovation award, the Google Award for Inclusive Research, the NSF GRFP award, the Microsoft Dissertation award, the Google Anita Borg Memorial Fellowship, the Arthur J. Schmitt Presidential Fellowship, a GEM Fellowship, an award from the National Center for Women in Information Technology, and Best Paper awards at HRI 2022, HRI 2024, and CSCW 2019.