Funding Pharma 2.0: Foundations, Grants, Challenges and Incubators

In this event we will explore various what foundations do to support medical research, how they select projects to fund, and how they themselves operate.

Capacity is limited.

Please note earlier start time of 5:30pm.

See below for presenters from Aetna, RWJF, and more!

Preliminary Agenda:

5:30-6:00 pm Networking, meet, tweet and greet
6:00-6:15 pm Introductions and opening remarks
6:15-7:20 pm Presentations
7:20-7:30 pm Break
7:30-8:20 pm Panel Discussion moderated by Talya Miron-Shatz
8:20-8:30 pm Closing remarks and networking

Out terrific presenters and panelists:

Anuj Desai

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Anuj Desai is the Vice President of Market Development for the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC). In this role, he is responsible for developing and managing strategic relationships and alliances with the various vendors and partners that interact with NYeC. He also leads the New York Digital Health Accelerator, the multi-state/multi-vendor EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup, work related to development of an API, and the incubation of new capabilities within the statewide network.

Anuj brings over 13 years of experience in business development, strategy, and relationship management experience in the health care industry. Most recently, he worked in a business development role at Johnson & Johnson focused on developing whitespace strategy and forming business cases for M&A and organic growth in health technology. Previously, he has worked for a software consulting company developing clinical data management tools for pharma and biotech clientele. He received his MBA from University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and his undergraduate degree in Biotechnology from Rutgers University. He was recently named a member of Crain’s New York Business 2013 Class of “40 Under 40.” This list recognizes the top young rising leaders in the New York City business community.

Topic: SHIN-NY: Driving Innovation of Clinical Data by Building an Ecosystem of Partners

The goal of the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is to create health information technology that ensures fast, secure, accurate, and accessible patient data. NYeC helps providers shift to EHRs, coordinates a state network of healthcare providers (SHIN-NY), and builds an ecosystem for developers to get access to this data. NYeC has deployed the first clinical API affording standardized access to the SHIN-NY with appropriate security and privacy policies. In this talk, Anuj Desai, VP Market Development at NYeC will discuss the various program NYeC has developed to provide resources to entrepreneurs including APIs, the Accelerator, Hackathons, and Developer Forums.

Dr. Henri Wei

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/8/d/6/event_241903222.jpegHenry Wei, MD is Aetna’s Senior Medical Director for Clinical Innovation. He recently served with the White House, V.A. and HHS/ONC as an inaugural Presidential Innovation Fellow on project Blue Button. Henry is also clinical faculty at Weill-Cornell Medical College. Prior to his role at Aetna, Henry served as Sr. Medical Director for Clinical R&D at ActiveHealth Management. He has worked as a consultant in the healthcare practice of McKinsey & Company. Henry Wei completed his Internal Medicine residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital, along with Informatics training at Harvard Medical School and Stanford University. He holds his medical degree from Cornell, and Master's and undergraduate degrees from Harvard. Dr. Wei has won the Health 2.0 Developers World Cup, as well as the NYC-Columbia Health Code-a-thon, and is on the medical advisory board of Doximity. Henry lives in New York City with his family.

Topic:Aetna Innovation Labs

Aetna’s new Innovation Labs identifies clinical and technology ideas 2-3 years ahead of the market, dedicated to identifying clinical and technology ideas 2-3 years ahead of the market, proving out the concepts, demonstrating measurable value, and propelling them in the marketplace. Find out how Aetna’s Innovation team works with startups to accelerate and test out their innovations – both within the health insurance and non-insurance space; and, hear the story of how two doctors and a pharmacist at Aetna rolled up their sleeves, took a huge set of data of nearly 5 million lives’ worth of de-identified data, to create an automatic system capable of automated pharmacovigilance and comparative effectiveness studies.

Lori Melichar, Ph.D.

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/6/b/4/event_241906772.jpegLori is a Senior Economist at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Pioneer Portfolio.

Lori Melichar, Ph.D., M.A., is a labor economist and senior program officer in the Foundation’s Research and Evaluation Unit, working with the Pioneer Portfolio and Human Capital Portfolio. Since joining the Foundation, Melichar has managed several programs to help create a well-trained health care workforce. She is also engaged in the Foundation’s efforts to advance the science of quality improvement (QI) research and evaluation. Melichar manages three programs to develop human capital: Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative, RWJF Investigators in Health Policy, and RWJF Health Policy Scholars. Melichar has worked for six years to engage researchers from a range of disciplines and backgrounds to increase what is known and understood about how to improve the quality of care provided by nurses in hospitals and other settings. From 2008-2010. Melichar served as the research director of the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine. A common thread in Lori’s work with the Pioneer Portfolio, which seeks innovative projects that catalyze fundamental breakthroughs in health and health care, is an interest in bringing in perspectives of other fields — e.g., network analysis, engineering, data science, economics — to address the challenges faced in health and health care. Melichar joined the Foundation in 2002, after experience with the National Institutes of Child Health and Development and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park and a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. An Oklahoma native, she now resides in New York City.

Topic: Innovation in Health and Health Care: The Pioneer Approach

Health and health care have witnessed a tremendous explosion of innovation over the last several decades. New technologies, new procedures, and new ways of connecting people and information all have the potential to transform health and medicine. In 2003, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation created the Pioneer Portfolio—a clear commitment to harnessing this pipeline of emerging ideas to serve the social good. Learn how philanthropy can play a unique and vital role in driving innovation that can improve the health and health care of all Americans.

Dr. Chidi Ngwaba

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Dr Chidi is the UK’s No.1 ‘Lifestyle Doctor’ . Trained in surgery, general practice & Lifestyle Medicine , he shows that by changing people’s lifestyles he can help eradicate and reverse many of the chronic illnesses today such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer as well as helping people lose weight.

Dr Chidi, trained at University College London (UCL) medical school, he also has degrees in Physiology & Pharmacology .He trained as a surgeon at two of the UK’s leading hospitals, Cambridge Addenbrookes & Papworth Hospital. Working within Orthopaedic, Cardiothoracic, Neurosurgery & General surgery, he also worked within Pediatrics , Geriatrics and Accident & Emergency . He has also lectured at UCL.
He regularly writes for such publications as ELLE magazine, The Daily Express & Top Sante
Regularly on national & international radio & TV shows. Has been an international motivational Health speaker for 20 years including a TEDx talk at Kings College London in April 2013
Follow on twitter @drchidi247

Dr. Chidi will talk about: "Helping to Heal": How we can use the best medical treatment & Lifestyle change to help keep the public Healthy

Your Pharma 2.0 Series Coordinator and Panel Moderator:

Talya Miron-Shatz, PhD.

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/9/c/b/0/event_241900112.jpegDr. Miron-Shatz is a decision scientist who focuses on behavior changer in consumers and providers. Talya puts her extensive knowledge of decision making to use in her role as co-founder and CEO of CureMyWay (http://curemyway.com/), a start-up company that promotes behavioral change towards better health. She chairs the startup panel at the Medicine 2.0 conference and leads the Pharma 2.0 series. She brings her unique insights on patient adherence and prescriber behavior and barriers to her work with big pharma: Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Novartis, BMS, Edelman PR, Draftfcb, and other health and media companies. Talya will be the keynote speaker in Donate Life America's annual conference, and will talk about using decision science to increase organ donation.

She has a PhD. in social psychology, and did her post-doc with Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman at Princeton University, 2005- 2009. She taught consumer behavior at Wharton, is the founding director of the Center for Medical Decision Making at the Ono Academic College. She publishes extensively in peer reviewed journals and books.

And our generous hosts: CohnReznick LLP

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Headquartered in New York, NY, CohnReznick serves its clients with more than 280 partners, 2,000 employees, and 25 offices nationwide. The firm is a member of Nexia International, a global network of independent accountancy, tax, and business advisors. For more information, visit www.cohnreznick.com (http://www.cohnreznick.com/)