Significant progress have been made over the past few decades towards developing innovative medical technologies that have improved the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat pressing diseases. Unfortunately, most of these technologies are only accessible to patients in the first world. This panel serves to discuss the various challenges related to designing and distributing medical devices to the developing world, where there is significant unmet need. With a panel of experts from both academia and industry, we will discuss the various design, financing, and infrastructure challenges that organizations have tackled in order to successfully introduce medical technologies into the developing world to close the gap.
Bill serves US, European and Asian-based clients on a range of matters, including corporate strategy, growth through both organic and M&A driven programs, portfolio restructuring through divestitures/spinoffs, and global corporate organization and leadership.
Since 1987, he has worked on some of the largest and most complex transactions in the life science sector. Examples include “mergers of equals” that create large industry-leading global enterprises, spin-offs that create pure-play competitiors and the split up of large diversified companies into separate public companies.
He serves clients on growth, particularly at the intersection of organic and M&A growth approaches. This work includes the organization of basic research organizations, rapid new product development, new product market launches, and creating and shaping markets, new product portfolio management, and global marketing effectiveness.
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He is active in scientific and social service not-for-profits, serving on the boards of Rockefeller University, the Greater Boston YMCA, the University of Virginia Darden School and the Concord Museum. He is Vice-Chair of the Board of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Massachusetts.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Bill held a variety of line management positions in the electronics industry.
Kristian Olson is the Medical Director of the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech). He is both a Paediatrician and Internist and serves as a Clinician Educator at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has` worked in Darfur, Indonesia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Uganda, and India, is a serial innovator and one of the architects of the CAMTech Innovation platform.
He completed an undergraduate degree in biology at the University of British Columbia, medical school at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and his residency training in the Combined Harvard Medicine and Pediatrics Program. He trained in the Masters of Public Health program at the University of Sydney as a US Fulbright Scholar and completed a Diploma in Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2003.
In 2009, he was named to the Scientific American Top 10 Honor Roll as an individual who has demonstrated leadership in applying new technologies and biomedical discoveries for the benefit of humanity.
Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab. Ramesh Raskar joined the Media Lab from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in 2008 as head of the Lab's Camera Culture research group. His research interests span the fields of computational photography, inverse problems in imaging and human-computer interaction. Recent projects and inventions include transient imaging to look around a corner, a next generation CAT-Scan machine, imperceptible markers for motion capture (Prakash), long distance barcodes (Bokode), touch+hover 3D interaction displays (BiDi screen), low-cost eye care devices (Netra,Catra), new theoretical models to augment light fields (ALF) to represent wave phenomena and algebraic rank constraints for 3D displays (HR3D).
In 2004, Raskar received the TR100 Award from Technology Review, which recognizes top young innovators under the age of 35, and in 2003, the Global Indus Technovator Award, instituted at MIT to recognize the top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide. In 2009, he was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2010, he received the Darpa Young Faculty award. Other awards include Marr Prize honorable mention 2009, LAUNCH Health Innovation Award, presented by NASA, USAID, US State Dept and NIKE, 2010, Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project Award (first place), 2011. He holds over 50 US patents and has received four Mitsubishi Electric Invention Awards. He is currently co-authoring a book on Computational Photography. Personal Webpage
Elizabeth is a strategy, design, and technology expert with deep international development and emerging markets experience and a passion for global health. Currently implementing new, world class medical products for the poor as Director of Product Design and Implementation at non-profit Diagnostics For All. Depth in human-centered design for developing countries as prior Director of Product Development at Design that Matters. Former IDEO lead driving innovation across medical device, consumer health, and financial services for clients including Eli Lilly, Target, Pfizer, and Becton Dickinson. Elizabeth is also a facilitator who has taught design for social impact to hundreds of organizations, from the smallest social enterprise to the largest bank in the world.
Steve has nearly 30 years of experience in medical technology companies, including CEO and SVP roles in marketing, sales, and business development. Prior to joining Gradian Health Systems he was founder and CEO of Fluid Medical, a Stanford University spin-off purchased by Volcano Corporation in 2010. Previously he was CEO of Sinia Corporation, SVP of Somnus Medical Technologies (now Olympus Medical) and VP Marketing for VidaMed (now Medtronic) and Applied Imaging Corporation. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University.