Convene Conference Speakers

David is Microsoft’s Global Chief Medical Officer & VP of Healthcare. He has served as Microsoft’s International Coordinator for the Pandemic Response, working with WHO to develop their World Health Data Hub, CDC to standup their vaccine data lake, and U.S. states to roll-out COVID-19 vaccines.

 
He is Adjunct Professor at Stanford University; holds six U.S. technology patents that enable authoring, mapping, and integration of clinical decision support into electronic health records; and has been recognized as one of the 50 most influential clinician executives by Modern Healthcare.

Dr. Rhew received his Bachelors of Science degrees in computer science and cellular molecular biology from University of Michigan. He received his MD degree from Northwestern University and completed internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He completed fellowships in health services research at Cedars-Sinai and infectious diseases at UCLA.

He has served as CMO for Samsung and Zynx Health and sat on National Quality Forum’s Executive CSAC Board. He is Chair-emeritus for Consumer Technology Association’s Health Technology Board and currently serves on AdvaMed’s Digital Health Board; the Governing Committee for NESTcc, the medical device advisory group for FDA, CMS, and NIH; and the Board of Directors for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Lou DiLorenzo leads Monitor Deloitte’s US AI & Data Strategy practice, is the National Leader for Deloitte’s US CIO Program and leads Deloitte Consulting’s US Generative AI Advisory practice and the US Gen AI Market Incubator.

From large corporations to small disruptive startups, Lou works at the intersection of strategy, technology, analytics, and operational transformation. With over 20 years of cross-sector operating, entrepreneurial, and consulting experience, he has a record of success in bringing key stakeholders together to help lead change, develop new capabilities, and deliver positive financial results.

Prior to returning to Deloitte as a Principal in 2019, Lou served as COO of Bright Health. The technology-enabled consumer health insurance startup raised $440M in venture capital funding during his tenure and was named to Forbes “Next Billion Dollar Startup” list in 2017.

Previously, Lou was an appointed officer of Cargill, Inc. and the Global CIO for the $35B revenue Food Ingredients & Bio Industrial division. He also led strategic planning, portfolio optimization, and finance areas for Cargill’s global information technology function, reporting to the CIO as a key member of the leadership team. Lou also served as secretary for Cargill’s corporate Enterprise Process, Data, and Technology (EPDT) Governance Committee, working for the corporate CFO to drive alignment between dozens of business units and Cargill’s strategic technology project portfolio.

Lou holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School with 2nd year honors, and BA, cum laude, in political science from Colgate University. Originally from Central New York, Lou lives in Edina, Minnesota, with his wife and three children.

Sarah Harper (Hilarious, high-functioning human dedicated to helping others) serves as Manager - AI, Analytics, and Automation, of Mayo Clinic Health System, where she collaborates with clinical and technical teams to codesign, implement, and evaluate cutting-edge solutions that improve outcomes and experience for patients and care providers. Her professional mission is to accelerate value and equity in healthcare through thoughtful, human-centered application of AI and automation.

A former K-12 teacher and coach, Instructor of Healthcare Administration in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and Adjunct Faculty in the Healthcare MBA program at the University of St. Thomas, Sarah combines her expertise in healthcare technology, lean process design, and value analysis with her passion for education to guide scalable, sustainable innovation inspired by healthcare's up and coming changemakers.

Sarah holds a Master of Arts in Hispanic Literature from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Business Administration with a healthcare focus from the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. In her limitless spare time, she parents two, two-legged children and two four-legged ones, runs as if her life depended on it, and advocates for mental health awareness. Sarah also co-hosts Tech It to the Limit, a humorous and insightful podcast on digital transformation in healthcare. Fill #YourRXforLOL at techittothelimit.fun or wherever you stream your pods!

Dr. Katra is the Global Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer and a Technical Fellow at Medtronic. He is an innovative and strategic leader focused on engineering the future of medical technologies and leads the enterprise AI Center of Excellence. With more than 25 years of engineering expertise, he specializes in leading large complex, global R&D programs, managing cross-functional teams, strategic management, competitive analysis, and positioning. He works with world-class teams globally, leveraging AI/ML, DSP, predictive analytics, and technology platforms to advance a new era of personalized and precision healthcare. Dr. Katra holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering and an MBA. He is internationally recognized as a thought leader and innovator and is co-inventor on 100+ patents granted, published, or pending. He is the author of numerous MedTech peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and reports.

Marielle Lejcher is an accomplished quality and regulatory leader with more than 20 years of experience primarily in the area of in vitro diagnostics (IVD), with risk strategy and FDA policy as her key areas of focus. She is the President of ZoaDx, an animal health CRO focused on advancing animal health to protect human health, and also serves as the Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs and Quality at CovarsaDx, a clinical research organization (CRO). In her roles, she provides strategic regulatory guidance to support both organizations' missions. Recently, Marielle has consulted at NaviDx, providing strategic Quality and Regulatory services for IVDs. Marielle has significant experience in design and development, quality systems, risk management, biocompatibility, and international and US regulatory affairs and has held a variety of positions at Seegene USA, Fang Consulting, Starkey Laboratories, Beckman Coulter, Viromed, Prevention Genetics, and Barrow Neurological Institute.

Marielle is currently an Adjunct Professor of International Regulatory in the School of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas. Marielle also serves on the Clinical Diagnostics (CDx) Executive Committee and other working groups for the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), a non-profit in Arlington, VA dedicated to collaborative efforts to address challenges and accelerate access to technologies by breaking down common barriers. She also serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for RAPS, Twin Cities Chapter and the Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools; both 501(c)3 non-profits, and as the Commissioner of the Mites/8U program for the Eden Prairie Hockey Association.

Marielle holds a B.S. in Kinesiology from Arizona State University and CORe Credential of Readiness (Economics, Accounting, Business Analytics) from the Harvard Business School (HBS).

Genevieve Melton-Meaux serves as Professor of Surgery and Health Informatics, Senior Associate Dean of Health Informatics and Data Science, and Director for the Center for Learning Health System Sciences at the University of Minnesota. She serves as the Chief Health Informatics and AI Officer for M Health Fairview leading informatics including Clinical Decision Support (CDS), and Health IT optimization and Fairview's enterprise AI program. She is a practicing colorectal surgeon, with research interests in surgical informatics, improving note usage in EHRs, evaluating technology solutions in practice, advancing learning health system capabilities and the generation of real world evidence, and clinical natural language processing (NLP). National leadership includes election to the National Academy of Medicine, the American Surgical Association, and the American College of Medical Informatics. She is Past-President of the American College of Medical Informatics, current President and Board Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association, and Chief of Health Informatics for the American College of Surgeons. 

Dr. Haider Warraich is a cardiologist working at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Most recently, he served at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a Senior Clinical Advisor for Chronic Disease to the FDA Commissioner where he helped shape policy around drugs, devices, nutrition, digital health and artificial intelligence. Previously, Warraich was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Director of the Heart Failure Program, at the Veterans Affairs Health System in Boston. He is the author of over 175 peer reviewed papers and several books.