Speakers & Moderators
Keynote Speaker
Shiv Rao, MD
Founder and CEO of Abridge
2026 Speakers
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Zaid Altawil, MD
Co-director, Emergency Medicine Innovation Collaborative; Emergency Department Medical Director
Merrimack Health, Methuen and Haverhill Hospitals -

Scott Campbell, MD, MPH
San Francisco Emergency Physicians Association
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Uli K. Chettipally, MD, MPH
Founder; Founder & President
Sirica Therapeutics; InnovatorMD -

Melissa Cohen, MBA
Chief Innovation & Transformation Officer; General Partner
Cayuga Health; Copilot Capital -

Jared Conley, MD, PhD, MPH
Harvard Medical School
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Linda V. DeCherrie, MD
DispatchHealth
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Kit Delgado, MD
Executive Director for Transformation Science and Behavioral Insights
University of Pennsylvania -
Elizabeth M. Goldberg, MD, ScM, FACEP
Associate Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus -

Stephen Gradwohl, MD, MSCI, MSACI
Washington University School of Medicine
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Emily Hayden, MD, MHPE
Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
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Lawrence Hofmann, MD
Chief of Industry Partnerships
Stanford Health Care -

Cynthia Horner, MD, FAAFP
Chief Medical Officer
Amwell -

Joshua Joseph, MD, MS, MBE
Medical Director, Emergency Medicine Enterprise Data Analytics
Harvard -

Damon Kuehl, MD
Vice Chair of Research and Academic Affairs
Carilion Clinic -

Andrew Marshall, MD
Instructor in Emergency Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital -

Christopher McStay, MD
Vice Chair of Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine
Columbia University Irving Medical Center -

Anne Merritt, MD, MS
Stanford University
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Rebecca Mitchell, MD
Managing Partner
Scrub Capital -

Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD
Chairman, Founder; Professor of Neurology
Ceribell, Inc.; Stanford University School of Medicine -

Kavita Patel, MD
Policy / venture / internal medicine
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Jesse Pines, MD, MBA
Chief of Clinical Innovation
US Acute Care Solutions -

Sowmya Sanapala, MD, MBA, MS
Weill Cornell Medicine
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Rohit Sangal, MD, MBA
Emergency Medicine Physician and Associate Medical Director
Yale University -

Nicholas Stark, MD, MBA, FACEP
Chair of Emergency Medicine and Director of Acute Care Innovation; Clinical Instructor and Director of Acute Care Innovation Strategic Partnerships
Mercy Medical Center Merced; UCSF -

Tim Sweeney, MD, PhD
Co-Founder & CEO
Inflammatix -

Minang Turakhia, MD, MAS
Stanford Health Care
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Vance Vanier, MD
Founder/Managing Partner
Chicago Pacific Founders -

Alexei Wagner, MD
Mobius Group
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Lulu Wang, MD
Program Director, Digital Health and Innovation Fellowship
MedStar Health / Georgetown University -

James Williams, DO, MS
Senior Medical Director; Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
AstraZeneca
Previous Speakers
Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD, is Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft
Rodney D. Altman, MD, MBA — Assistant Professor, Stanford EM; Director, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital
Zaid Altawil, MD — Co-founder, EM Innovation Collaborative
Melissa Cohen, MBA — Chief Innovation & Transformation Officer, Cayuga Health
Jared Conley, MD, PhD, MPH — Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Editor, NEJM Catalyst
Andy Chu, MD — Assistant Professor, Stanford EM
John Dayton, MD, MBA — Assistant Professor, Stanford EM; Healthcare VC
Dheeraj Duggineni, MD — Administration Fellow, Stanford EM
Joshua W. Elder, MD, MPH — VP, eHealth Clinical Operations, SCP Health
Nicholas Gavin, MD, MBA, MS — Chief Clinical Innovation Officer, Mount Sinai Health System
Sara Gotheridge, MD — Chief Medical Officer, Array Behavioral Care
Emily Hayden, MD, MHPE — Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Lawrence Hofmann, MD — Chief of Industry Partnerships, Stanford Health Care
Cynthia Horner, MD, FAAFP — Chief Medical Officer, Amwell
Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD — Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft (Keynote)
Rana Kabeer, MD — Assistant Professor, Stanford EM
David Kim, MD — Assistant Professor, Stanford EM
Joshua Joseph, MD, MS, MBE — Medical Director, EM Enterprise Data Analytics, Mass General Brigham
Justin Norden, MD, MBA, MPhil — Co-Founder and CEO, Qualified Health
Christopher McStay, MD — Vice Chair of Operations, Columbia University EM
Anne Merritt, MD, MS — Assistant Professor, Stanford EM; Senior Product Manager, Google
Jesse Pines, MD, MBA — Chief of Clinical Innovation, US Acute Care Solutions
Ryan Ribeira, MD — Assistant Professor, Stanford EM
Fran Riley, MD — Assistant Professor, Stanford EM
Rohit Sangal, MD, MBA — EM Physician and Associate Medical Director, Yale University
Sowmya Sanapala, MD, MBA, MS — Weill Cornell Medicine
Sam Shen, MD — Vice Chair of Operations, Stanford EM
Nicholas Stark, MD, MBA — Chair of EM, Mercy Medical Center Merced
Brian Suffoletto, MD — Professor, Stanford EM
Lulu Wang, MD, FAAEM — EM Physician, Georgetown; Founding Director, Telehealth Education
Jane Wang, MD — General Partner, MedMountain Ventures
James Williams, MS, DO — Professor, Texas Tech University
Dong-han Yao, MD — Assistant Professor, Stanford EM