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Cleveland, Oh, Us

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Xploro is an award-winning interactive patient education platform that uses an avatar guide, 3D interactive experiences and a set of games to help young patients feel engaged, empowered and informed about their healthcare journey while having fun at the same time. In my role as Chief Strategy Officer and as Xploro’s first US employee, I am taking a lead role in shaping company and product strategy as well as heading up operations in North America. Areas of intensive effort include enhancing the platform to maximize app enrollment, leading pilot projects and evidence development activities, engaging clinical advisors to help shape strategy, and cultivating channel partnerships to expand sales traction.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

In this role, I am helping to elevate research activity at one of the country's top business schools, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary collaborations with hospital systems and other healthcare players. I am also supervising corporate-sponsored research projects, supporting grant proposal preparation, and engaging the start-up community through accelerators and other initiatives. I also serve as Adjunct Professor and currently teach two courses -- a course on Digital Innovation in Healthcare in the healthcare-focused online MBA program, and a course on Leading Design in Organizations in the Executive MBA program.

United States, Us

Project Medtech provides a comprehensive set of resources and support services for med/health-tech start-ups as well as the institutions from which these opportunities often originate. I provide guidance to clients on a variety of matters including development road-mapping, intellectual property strategy, advisory board creation, research study design, negotiation of licenses and other deals, and the navigation of healthcare institutions for assistance and collaboration. I also support strategy development and operations for innovation/venture programs within healthcare institutions and ecosystem organizations.

Youngstown, Oh, Us

Youngstown Business Incubator aims to leverage entrepreneurship expertise and its resource network to meaningfully impact and facilitate economic development and community wealth, specifically in the Mahoning Valley as well as in northeast Ohio more broadly. As an EIR, I help support innovators and entrepreneurs working on tech-based business opportunities in the healthcare and/or digital sectors, building upon YBI’s depth of resources in advanced manufacturing.

Next Milestone Innovation is my personal consulting practice. I work with clients ranging from start-up companies to innovation and venture ecosystem groups. I enjoy building productive client relationships and helping in whatever way I can. I can focus my effort on advancing a single technology opportunity or cultivating an innovation ecosystem in an organization or region.

Akron, Ohio, Us

I developed and oversaw an Innovation Center for Akron Children’s Hospital that 1) supported creativity and ideation (via think tanks, innovation challenges, “future of” initiatives), 2) developed and commercialized staff inventions (“tech transfer” functions such as development road-mapping, IP protection, licensing, spin-off formation), and 3) served as the connection point for the business community for innovation-related engagements (including co-development collaborations and investments). In less than 4 years, we more than doubled the rate of staff innovation disclosures, substantially increased patent activity, and grew annual licensing revenue from nil to above the median amongst a peer group of institutions with research budgets several times larger than Akron Children’s. In an era of increasing pressure on healthcare margins, a central aim of this role was to leverage the organization’s intellectual assets to generate alternative revenue streams while simultaneously advancing the mission of the hospital, supporting staff growth and talent attraction, and contributing to regional economic development.

Akron, Ohio, Us

In this role I created a new Patient Experience team and function. This was a culture change journey focused on getting the organization richly in tune with the voices of patients and families, and using these insights to drive improvement. The department included patient feedback/survey activities, improvement consultants/resources, patient relations/complaints, interpreter services, community health workers, and parent advisor/mentor programs. Through this effort, the importance of patient experience as a core component of clinical quality became recognized, leading to its inclusion as a true north objective in the organizational strategic plan as well as a pillar of a new Quality structure. During this period, I also developed infrastructural elements and pilot projects in telehealth and telemedicine that provided a foundation for the later Virtual Health program.

Akron, Ohio, Us

The Research Institute is the hub for research activity at Akron Children’s Hospital. As an institute Associate Director, I served as an advisor on various research projects and I assisted in developing and executing the institute’s overall strategic plan. I also assisted in developing the IP/tech-transfer function for the organization.

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, Ae

I created and led an intensive hands-on learning experience simulating a real-world high-pressure design challenge for first year students, during the formative years of this innovative global university. The experience became known as the “Superlab” and was part of the Design and Innovation course in the Department of Engineering. Students developed and built a polished working prototype of a digital communication product in a limited amount of time. The experience rapidly introduced basic electronics, sensors, actuators, microcontroller programming, and physical fabrication techniques and included threads on idea generation, field work, design development, and presentation skills. Final projects were presented to an external audience.

Gb

I was the founding leader of this research and innovation initiative based in the beautiful highlands of Scotland. As its first employee, I developed the Lab’s research agenda and directed all aspects of its operation while growing it from a literally empty office suite to a hive of creative activity employing 15 researchers and staff from all over the world at its height. Projects involved creating technology and design innovations to address challenges in rural and remote areas within the domains of healthcare, education, relationships, and cultural heritage. I was responsible for developing university relationships, an industry partnership program, dissemination programs, licensing activity, and commercial spin-offs that could enhance the regional economy. I also nurtured a key relationship that ultimately led to the Lab’s absorption into the Glasgow School of Art, a renowned higher educational institution in Europe.

During this period, I was commissioned by this regional economic development agency in Scotland to develop plans for Distance Lab and I played a role in securing its £3M seed funding commitment. I also aided the agency in forming and extracting value from a sponsorship relationship with MIT, and I advised regional companies on business model and technology strategy issues.

I was one of the founding research directors at this European sister of the MIT Media Lab. I cultivated a research program entitled “Human Connectedness” that focused on exploring the future of human relationships as mediated by technology. I recruited 18 talented research assistants and associates from all over the world during the lifetime of this program and guided the development of 24 unique projects and product concepts. Several projects led to prestigious international awards and academic publications. As a Principal Research Scientist, I also contributed to management functions including communications and business development.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

I was a researcher in the Object-Based Media group while pursuing MS and PhD degrees at MIT. I created a programming language called Isis for rapidly prototyping digital media applications, and I collaborated on a range of projects including a hyperlinked television soap opera, a video conferencing and collaboration system, and a tool for creating television programs that re-edit themselves based on viewer preferences and profile information.

Phd, Media Arts And Sciences

Ms, Media Arts And Sciences

Ba, Computer Science