Prior Event: TEDxSF: 7 Billion Well
November 10, 2012

Our 3 session themes:
- Reframing global health
Now more than ever, innovation in global health is a strategic imperative that can solve the world's most pressing health crises. What innovations are working and which aren't in the medical sciences and beyond? What new framework can best serve the health of 7 billion lives? - Going beyond medicine
Taking revolutionary ideas and solutions from Silicon Valley's latest technology to the best practices of the business world to formulate strategic actionable implementation for the health of all. Taking thoughts beyond the traditional framework of Western medicine to incorporate an accessible, cutting-edge, and multidisciplinary approach to ensure we can envision a world of 7 billion well. - Simple solutions with big impact
The notion of the magic bullet--does it truly exist? Where can we find these hidden simple solutions with big impact? Let's shift the current paradigm to a “conviction of can-do”--that the impossible is INDEED possible! From an individual to a societal level, what actions can one person take to empower themselves and others to create real change in the world? How have others created big impact from simple changes in lifestyle, science, and technology?
Why global health and why is it important now?
Global health does not only encompass the maternal deaths in Zambia or underweight infants in Guatemala, it's about you and me--it's about every single human being on the planet. It's about us being able to envision 7 Billion Well. From the bottom to the top, we can make a difference in the lives of every person. We often hear about global health as a distant topic, but nothing can be further from the truth. This is because WE can make a real impact in each others' lives regardless of distance now more than ever before in our history. Imagine a world in which each human being not only saw health as their responsibility but had rightful access to better sanitation and water, adequate nutrition, and healthcare. What if you knew you could help make this happen?
Join luminaries in academia, technology, medicine, entertainment, business, and beyond in envisioning a world of 7 Billion Well. Hear inspiring stories of innovation, revolution, and change in global health, from saving children's' lives in the most remote areas to shifting your mindset and lifestyle.
Speaker Bios:
Jaime
Sepulveda, MD, MPH, DrSc
Executive
Director, UCSF Global Health Sciences
Dr. Jaime Sepulveda is the Executive Director of UCSF Global
Health Sciences. Previously he was Senior Fellow in the Global Health
Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sepulveda
worked closely with key foundation partners—including the GAVI
Alliance, where he currently chairs the Executive Committee—to increase
access to vaccines and other effective health solutions in developing
countries. Sepulveda served for more than 20 years in a variety of
senior health posts in the Mexican government. As Mexico's
Director-General of Epidemiology and later Vice-Minister of Health,
Sepulveda designed Mexico's Universal Vaccination Program, which
eliminated polio, measles, and diphtheria by more than doubling
childhood immunization coverage in two years. He also modernized the
national health surveillance system and founded Mexico's National AIDS
Council. Sepulveda holds a medical degree from National Autonomous
University of Mexico and three advanced degrees from the Harvard School
of Public Health.
Naveen Jain
Entrepreneur,
Philanthropist, and Tech Pioneer
Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and technology
pioneer. He is the founder of World Innovation Institute, Moon Express,
Inome and InfoSpace. Naveen is a regular contributor to the Forbes,
Huffington Post, and Inc. He is a trustee of the board for the X Prize
Foundation and Singularity University where he is focused on using
innovation and entrepreneurship to address the global challenges. He is
a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and The
Explorers club.
Naveen Jain has been awarded many honors for his entrepreneurial
successes and leadership skills, including "Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year," the "Albert Einstein Technology Medal" for
pioneers in technology, "Light of India Award" for Business Leadership,
"Top 20 Entrepreneurs" and "Life Time Achievement Award for
contribution to Technology and Entrepreneurship" by Red Herring, "Most
Admired Serial Entrepreneur" by Silicon India, and "A Visionary for the
21st Century" by Leaders Magazine.
Vinod Khosla
Entrepreneur,
Investor, and Technology Fan
Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures, focused on
impactful clean technology and information technology investments. Mr.
Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy systems and founding CEO of Sun
Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC
processors. One of Mr. Khosla's greatest passions is being a mentor to
entrepreneurs, assisting entrepreneurs and helping them build
technology based businesses. Mr. Khosla is driven by the desire to make
positive impact through scaling alternative energy, achieving petroleum
independence, and promoting a pragmatic approach to the environment. He
is also passionate about Social Entrepreneurship. Vinod holds a
Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT, New Delhi, a
Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and
an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Michele
Goodwin
Everett Fraser
Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota
Michele Goodwin is the Everett Fraser Professor in Law at
the University of Minnesota. She holds joint appointments at the
University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Minnesota
School of Public Health. Professor Goodwin served as a Visiting
Professor at the University of Chicago and as a Visiting Scholar at the
University of California-Berkeley. She was honored with a Distinguished
Visiting Professorship at Griffith University in Australia. Prior to
law teaching, Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman post-doctoral fellow at Yale
University. Professor Goodwin serves as a member of the Editorial
Advisory Board of the Journal of Law and Social Inquiry. In addition,
she is a reviewer for Cambridge University Press,
New York University Press, the Journal
of Population Economics, Law and Society Review, Law
and Politics Review, and the Journal of Law,
Medicine, and Ethics.
Amy Lockwood
Deputy Director
of the Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University
Amy Lockwood brings experience in management, strategy and
international development focused on issues of globa health to
Stanford. Previously, Amy was the Executive Director of Project Healthy
Children, which works with governments and local industries in Haiti,
Honduras, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal and Rwanda to develop and implement
comprehensive food fortification strategies to combat micronutrient
malnutrition. Amy has also worked with the Clinton Foundation as the
Director of the Global Pediatric HIV/AIDS Program and Deputy Country
Director for India, where she was responsible for supporting
governments to develop strategies and implementation plans; design
guidelines; build systems, procure drugs and diagnostics; and deliver
care to HIV-positive children and adults. In addition to receiving her
MBA from Stanford, Amy holds a B.Sc. in Communication Studies and a
M.S.in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern University.
Dean Ornish,
M.D.,
Dean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the
non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Clinical
Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
For over 34 years, he has directed clinical research demonstrating that
comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse severe coronary
heart disease, without drugs or surgery. He was appointed by
President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and
Alternative Medicine Policy and by President Obama to the Advisory
Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public
Health. He was selected as one of the "TIME
100" in integrative medicine and by Forbes
as "one of the seven most powerful teachers in the world." He received
his medical training from the Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He earned a
B.A. in Humanities summa cum laude from the University of Texas in
Austin.
Jess Ghannam
Clinical
Professor, Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences, UCSF Global Mental
Health Consultant
Dr. Jess Ghannam is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and
Global Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at UCSF. His research
areas include evaluating the long-term health consequences of war on
displaced communities and the psychological and psychiatric effects of
armed conflict on children. Dr. Ghannam has developed community health
clinics in the Middle East that focus on developing community-based
treatment programs for families in crisis. He is also a consultant with
the Center for Constitutional Rights, Reprieve and other international
NGO's that work with torture survivors. Locally he works to promote and
enhance the health and wellness of refugee, displaced, and immigrant
populations from the Middle East,North Africa and South Asia and has
established a community-based Mental Health Treatment Programs to
support these communitiesDr. Ghannam did his fellowship at Stanford
University, and he received his PhD from University of California,
Berkeley, and his BA from University of Michigan.
Raghava KK
Artist
Raghava KK began his career in art as a newspaper cartoonist,
and the cartoonist's bold line -- and dead-on eye for truth -- still
powers his art. His work spans painting, sculpture, installation, film
and iPad art, always linked by his challenging opinions on identity,
conformity, gender, celebrity, ceremony. His early work as a painter
made a complete break with his cartoon career -- he painted watercolors
on canvas using only his hands and feet. Since then, his work has grown
to knit together aesthetics from both worlds, as collage and
complication play against flat color and precise lines. He shows in
galleries and performance spaces around the world and often
collaborates with other artists, most recently with musicians Paul
Simon and Erykah Badu. In 2011, he launched his children's iPad book,
Pop-it, shaking up the concept of an ideal family.
Gotham Chopra
Author
Co-founder & Managing Partner of Liquid Comics
Global Wellbeing Media Maven
Mr. Chopra is the co-founder of Liquid Comics (formerly Virgin
Comics and Virgin Animation) and serves as the Liquid's,
"Producer-in-Residence." He is the author of three books, including the
comic book Bulletproof Monk. Formerly an award winning journalist and
documentary filmmaker, Gotham reported from countless warzones and has
interviewed a wide range of Global leaders - from President Bush to the
Dalai Lama. He also served as researcher and lyrical adviser to Michael
Jackson on the multi-platinum albums Dangerous and HIStory. As a
founder and partner in Chopra Media, Gotham oversees a wide range of
integrated media initiatives including currently developing a daily TV
series for his father, celebrated writer and spiritualist Deepak
Chopra. He is also currently producing over half a dozen feature films
with personalities including John Woo, Guy Ritchie, Nic Cage at the
likes of Warner Brothers, New Regency Films, Summit Entertainment,
Reliance Entertainment and more.
David Ewing
Duncan
Author
Journalist, TV, Radio and Film Producer
Correspondent
David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of
eight books published in 19 languages; he is a journalist and a
television, radio and film producer and correspondent. His most recent
book is When I'm 164: The new science of radical life
extension, and what happens if it succeeds. He also wrote Experimental
Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our
Toxic World. He is a correspondent for The
Atlantic and the chief correspondent for NPR Talk’s Biotech
Nation. David writes for The New York Times,
Fortune, Wired, National Geographic, Discover and many other
publications. He is the founding director of the Center of Life Science
Policy at UC Berkeley. He has been a commentator on NPR’s Morning
Edition and a contributing editor for Wired,
Discover and Conde Nast Portfolio. He
is a former special correspondent and producer for ABC’s Nightline
and a correspondent for NOVA’s ScienceNOW!
David’s work has won numerous awards, including Magazine Story of the
Year from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His
articles have twice been cited in nominations for National Magazine
Awards, and his work has appeared twice in The Best American
Science and Nature Writing.
Dr. Piya
Sorcar
Founder &
CEO, TeachAIDS
Adjunct Affiliate, Stanford’s School of Medicine
Dr. Piya Sorcar is the founder and CEO of TeachAIDS, and also
an Adjunct Affiliate at Stanford’s School of Medicine and a Visiting
Scholar in Stanford’s Department of Communication. She leads a team of
world experts in medicine, public health and education to develop
software that solves numerous persistent problems in HIV prevention.
She has been an invited speaker at many universities, including
Caltech, Columbia, Tsinghua, Utrecht and Yale. She holds a Ph.D. in
Learning Sciences and Technology Design from Stanford University. In
2011, MIT Technology Review named her to its TR35 list of the top 35
innovators in the world under 35.
Patrick T.
Lee, MD, DTM&H
Founding
Director, Global Primary Care Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Patrick Lee is the Founding Director of the Global Primary
Care Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. The Global Primary Care
Program teaches the next generation of health care leaders how to use a
global-local systems approach to transform primary care at home. It is
the first fully integrated global health and primary care residency in
the world. At Harvard Medical School, Dr. Lee co-founded and co-directs
Clinical Topics in Global Health, a practical introduction to the top
ten causes of global burden of disease and cross-cutting systems
issues. With the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, he
consults on the development of learner-driven approaches to teaching
optimal care delivery. Dr. Lee has served as Medical Director of
Tiyatien Health, a health non-profit that provides clinical care and
social services in rural Liberia, and Clinical Mentor for Partners In
Health in Rwanda. He graduated BA from Princeton University and MD from
the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his residency
in internal medicine and primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital
and holds an advanced diploma from the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine.
Atul Butte,
MD, PhD
Researcher in
Biomedical Informatics
Assoc. Professor, Stanford's School of Medicine
Biotechnology entrepreneur
Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Medicine
(Medical Informatics) and Pediatrics at the Stanford University School
of Medicine, and a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist.
Dr. Butte's laboratory focuses on solving problems relevant to genomic
medicine by developing new biomedical-informatics methodologies in
translational bioinformatics. Dr. Butte has authored more than 100
publications and delivered more than 120 invited presentations in
personalized and systems medicine, biomedical informatics, and
molecular diabetes, including 20 at the National Institutes of Health
or NIH-related meetings. Dr. Butte received his undergraduate degree in
Computer Science
from Brown University.
Dr. Butte received a Ph.D. in Health Sciences and Technology from the
Medical Engineering / Medical Physics Program in the Division of Health Sciences and
Technology, at Harvard
Medical School and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Elissa Epel,
PhD
Assoc. Professor,
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Founder & Director, UCSF Center on Obesity Assessment, Study,
and Treatment (COAST)
Elissa S. Epel, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Psychiatry at UCSF. She is also a faculty mentor in the
Health Psychology Postdoctoral Program, the Osher Center for
Integrative Medicine, and the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society
Scholars Program on population health. She is a co-founder and now
director of the UCSF Center for Obesity Assessment, Study, and
Treatment (COAST), Assistant Director of the Center for Health and
Community, and Director of the Aging, Emotions, and Metabolism Laboratory.
She received a BA in psychology from Stanford University, and a PhD in
clinical psychology from Yale University, with a focus on health
psychology. Through her research on stress and training in the Yale
Center for Eating and Weight disorders, she became interested in the
intricate relationships between chronic psychological stress, eating
behavior, and energy balance. She completed a clinical internship
focusing on Behavioral Medicine at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto
Health Care System. With interdisciplinary colleagues, she is involved
in clinical trial studies testing effects of stress reduction and
mindfulness training on outcomes such as weight loss, rate of cellular
aging, and birth outcomes. She is particularly interested in innovative
ways to promote stress reduction using technology.
Daniel Whitman
Founder &
CEO, GlobalTap
Daniel Whitman grew up in Chicago before attending the
University of Colorado where he earned a Bachelors Degree in Psychology
in 1984. After several years of global travel, he attended the Illinois
Institute of Technology, graduating in 1991 with a Masters Degree in
Architecture. From 1990-2000 he established his own architecture firm,
focusing on projects to renew neglected urban communities. From
1999-2008 Daniel developed the International Children's Foundation
Centre to empower children, and youth with leadership skills, while
connecting them with nature. In 2009 Daniel founded GLOBALTAP as a
mission based company to provide an innovative way for people to
connect with each through easier access to clean, free drinking water
in cities, and schools. GLOBALTAP has implemented projects in numerous
municipalities, and recently partnered with HBO in conjunction with
their Weight of the Nation documentary to provide tap stations in
schools throughout the US to combat childhood obesity with water as a
healthy alternative. Daniel is honored to be the visionary behind
GLOBALTAP, and will continue to further its mission to make clean
drinking water available to all people around the world. http://www.globaltap.org
Robert
Wolcott, Ph.D.
Founder &
Executive Director, Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN)
Senior Lecturer, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Center for Research in Technology & Innovation (CRTI)
Kellogg School of Management
Robert Wolcott is Co-Founder & Executive Director of
the Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN) and a member of the faculty of the
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He teaches
corporate innovation and entrepreneurship for Kellogg in Evanston,
Miami and Hong Kong (with HKUST), and is formerly a visiting professor
at the Keio Business School (Japan). He also serves on the advisory
boards of Nordic Innovation for the Nordic Council, Oslo, Norway, and
GE’s Innovation Accelerator. Wolcott’s work has appeared in MIT
Sloan Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age,
Business Week, The Financial Times(European Edition), The
New York Times and numerous overseas publications. He is a
frequent speaker at events worldwide. In 2003, Wolcott founded the
Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN), a network of senior executives
dedicated to driving sustainable innovation. The KIN’s annual summit,
KIN Global, takes place in late spring and includes leaders from around
the world from business, government, academia, non-profits and the arts
who collaborate around issues of significance for their organizations
and for humanity (www.kinglobal.org).
Jeff Tangney
Co-founder and
CEO of Doximity and former President & COO of Epocrates
Kellogg School of Management
Jeff Tangney is the Founder and CEO of Doximity,
and former Co-Founder, President, and COO at Epocrates (Nasdaq: EPOC).
Jeff’s 15-yr career has focused on mobile software tools for
physicians. The Epocrates drug guide is used by over 50% of U.S.
physicians and helps avoid over 2 million adverse drug events per year.
Founded in 2010, Doximity is simplifying the way physicians collaborate
and already counts 1 in 7 U.S. physicians as active members. Before
founding Epocrates, Jeff did stints as a healthcare consultant/banker
at Goldman Sachs and ZS Associates. Jeff holds an M.B.A. from Stanford
and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin.
Suellen
Miller, PhD, CNM
Professor,
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Director, Safe Motherhood Programs, UCSF
Dr. Miller is a maternal health specialist with over 35 years
of experience in reproductive health care. She is currently the
Director of the Safe Motherhood Program, Bixby Center for Global
Reproductive Health, and Professor with appointments in the Department
of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of
California, San Francisco and the School of Public Health, Maternal and
Child Health Program, University of California, Berkeley. She is
co-author of the Hesperian Foundation's "A Book for Midwives," an
obstetrical first aid training manual in use in dozens of developing
countries. She has conducted Safe Motherhood projects in Nigeria,
India, Mexico, Tibet, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Zambia, and
Zimbabwe. She has been the Principal Investigator of the NASG
intervention studies in Egypt and Nigeria as well as a Randomized
Cluster Trial currently underway in Zambia and Zimbabwe. She has
published over 50 journal articles and hundreds of international
presentations on the Non-pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) and has
trained over 7,000 providers in the use, protocols, data collection,
monitoring and evaluation necessary for NASG implementation.
Shefali
Tsabary, PhD
Author
Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with a
private practice in New York. She received her doctorate in Clinical
Psychology from Columbia University, New York. She is the author of the
multi-award-winning, The Conscious Parent. Heralded as a game-changer
in the parenting genre, this book turns the traditional parenting
paradigms on its head and revolutionizes how we raise our families. She
has been exposed to Eastern mindfulness at an early age and integrates
its teachings with Western psychology. This blend of East and West
allows her to reach a global audience. Her ability to appeal to both a
psychologically astute and consciousness-driven audience establishes
her as one of a kind in the parenting field. She lectures extensively
on mindful living and conscious parenting around the world and is in
private practice. She resides with her husband and daughter in New York.
Victoria
Hale, PHD
CEO of
Medicines360 and MacArthur Fellow
Dr. Hale is the Founder of Medicines360, a pharmaceutical scientist and global health social entrepreneur. Her passion is the development of important new medicines for all of humanity, with the specific goal to reduce health inequities. Dr. Hale is Founder & Chair Emeritus of One World Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the US. She founded the company in 2000 and served as its first Chairman and CEO (2000-2008). Under her leadership the organization developed a new cure for visceral leishmaniasis, launched a novel approach to treat dehydrating diarrhea, and developed a platform technology to reduce the cost of malaria drugs by more than 10-fold. She earned her PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from University of California San Francisco, where she presently maintains an Adjunct Associate Professorship in Biopharmaceutical Sciences. She was recently elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academies (2007), and was granted the MacArthur “Genius” Award (2006).
Michael Blum, M.D.
Chief Medical
Information Officer and a Professor of Medicine in Cardiology, UCSF
Dr. Michael Blum is the Chief Medical Information Officer and
a Professor of Medicine in Cardiology at the University of California,
San Francisco. Dr. Blum is responsible for the strategic design,
implementation, and optimization of enterprise clinical applications
for the Medical Center. He is also an active clinician, specializing in
preventative cardiology as well as the care of patients with congestive
heart failure, valvular heart disease, and general cardiology. Dr. Blum
is passionate about wellness and the prevention of heart disease
through a heart-healthy lifestyle that includes diet, exercise and
stress reduction, as well as early detection of heart disease and
aggressive medical intervention to reduce its impact and the need for
invasive procedures. Prior to his medical career, Dr. Blum was trained
as an engineer and applies his expertise in technology to health care
as UCSF’s Chief Medical Information Officer. He is currently overseeing
a $160M enterprise deployment of Epic’s electronic health record and
the development of a large scale research data repository. He has a
special research interest in clinical decision support technology and
its impact on the quality and cost of patient care and population
health.
Sandeep Sood
President of
Monsoon Company
Screenwriter
Gavin Yamey,
MD, MA, MRCP
Leader of
Evidence-to-Policy Initiative(E2Pi), for the UCSF Global Health Group.
Gavin Yamey spent the last 15 years working as a physician,
global health journalist, and journal editor, picking up training in
public health along the way. He now puts all these skills together in
his leadership of e2pi, the Evidence to Policy initiative, in UCSF’s
Global Health Group. e2pi believes that millions of lives could be
saved if global health decision-makers made better use of research
evidence. The e2pi team delivers timely and targeted evidence to key
policymakers to foster evidence-informed policymaking. Yamey was one of
the founding editors of PLOS Medicine and PLOS Neglected Tropical
Diseases, two open access journals that have revolutionized biomedical
communications. He has been a regular commentator on NPR, including on
Science Friday and This American Life, and his writing has been
published widely, including in the BMJ, the PLOS journals, The Lancet,
and the UK newspapers The Times and The Telegraph. His new book, The
Handbook of Global Health Policy, will be published by Wiley-Blackwell
in 2013.
Aza Raskin
CEO of Massive
Health
A serial entrepreneur and renowned interface and product
designer, Aza Raskin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Massive Health. Aza
has been the Creative Lead at Mozilla and has founded two companies:
Songza—a music meta-search company, and Bloxes—a company which sells
cardboard furniture. In 2012, he was named to both Inc and Forbes
30-under-30 and Fast Company’s 2011 Master of Design and top 40
influential US designer.
Fang "Jenni" Lee
Chinese adoptee
featured in "Somewhere Between" documentary
Jenni "Fang" Lee is featured in the award-winning documentary
"Somewhere Between" which follows the lives of four adopted Chinese
girls and explores the intrinsic question "Who am I?". Abandoned at age
five on the streets of China as a result of the One Child Policy, she
remembers the vivid details of her past life. Jenni was raised in
Berkeley, is fluent in Mandarin, and continues to return to China every
summer to volunteer in rural orphanages. A double major in sociology
and economics, Jenni is currently studying at Mount Holyoke, a premiere
liberal arts college for women.
Daniel Kraft,
MD
Executive
Director, FutureMed, Faculty chair for Medicine, Singularity University
Dr. Daniel Kraft M.D. is a Stanford and Harvard trained
physician-scientist with over 20 years of clinical, research and
innovation experience. Daniel is Executive Director for FutureMed
& chairs the Medicine track for Singularity
University. Daniel has multiple inventions, including the
MarrowMiner, and is founder of RegenMed Systems and IntelliMedicine.
Rabia Hayek
Rabia Hayek is the founder & visionary of Do As One, a non-profit organization whose mission is to raise the awareness of optimal, conscious and synchronous breathing on the planet. In meditation late one night in October 2006, Rabia had the vision of one billion people synchronously breathing together, which sparked the beginning of Do As One. On 7/7/07 DoAsOne.org was born and people all over the Internet started breathing in unison, literally as One. Rabia is a master breath worker who has studied conscious breathing around the globe with many gurus, medical doctors and healers to gather the secrets of breathing and make them known to human kind. He travels the globe teaching his Conscious Flow and Simultaneum breathing methods to audiences of hundreds to thousands of people. A Webster University degreed singer and composer, Rabia taught the art of voice professionally for over a decade. In workshops, conferences, expos and other engagements, Rabia enlivens crowds as a dynamic and inspiring speaker. He is widely regarded as a leading expert on conscious breathing, specifically for using the breath as a tool to cultivate optimal wellness and experience oneness. Rabia is committed to making sure that humanity will remember the power of conscious breathing forevermore.
Reese Jones
Board Trustee at
Singularity University
Reese Jones' academic background is biophysics and human brain research (10 years at Berkeley biophysics, then Lester Fellow in innovation and entrepreneurship at Haas School of Business). Reese is experienced in inventing, patents, starting and growing successful infrastructure companies for broadband, mobile internet, health, digital media, and serving synthetic biology (programming in DNA). Reese is an associate founder and serves as a Trustee for Singularity University at NASA Ames research park in silicon valley. He also serves as a member of the Genetics Advisory Council at Harvard Medical School, supports open education, Wikipedia, EFF, Chabot Space/Science Center and posts actively on Facebook.
Ankur Jain
Philanthropist
and Entrepreneur
Ankur Jain is a philanthropist and entrepreneur, with a focus on leveraging innovation and entrepreneurship as a means to solve global problems. He is the Founder and CEO of Panjia, a company that brings innovative technologies into new markets in the United States, China, and Middle East. Jain is also the Founder and Chairman of the Kairos Society, an organization of young entrepreneurs working to create billion-dollar solutions to the world challenges. Ankur Jain graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in May, 2011 – the same year in which Inc Magazine named him "30 Under 30" and the "Best Connected 21-Year-Old in the World".
Priyanka Jain
Philanthropist
and Entrepreneur
Priyanka is the founder and President of iCAREweCARE, a student-run non-profit that leverages the power of social media for social good. iCAREweCARE helps high school and college students connect with friends who CARE about the same causes, provides them with meaningful opportunities in their local community, and makes social change a social effort. She serves as a Youth Champion for the United Nation’s Foundation Girl Up campaign to inspire other young girls to get involved in their communities. She was one of two high school students working with QuestBridge to connect bright, low-income girls to educational opportunities at the nation’s leading colleges.
Michele Hunt
CEO of Vision
& Values, Former Clinton Appointee
Michele Hunt is a strategic adviser on leadership, team development, HR and organizational transformation. Her clients include IBM, Motorola, Banco Popular, EVERTEC, SRA International, BHP of Australia, the US Veterans Administration, the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Customs Service, The Association of Human Resources of Brazil, Junior Achievement of New York, World Vision International, and Harvard's Episcopal Divinity School. Michele has served as an advisor to leaders across sectors, including: Max De Pree, Herman Miller; William Pollard, ServiceMaster; Richard Carrion and Roberto Herencia, Banco Popular; Felix Villamil, EVERTEC; Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education; Frances Hesselbein, Leader to Leader; and Rodrigo Baggio, The Center for Digital Inclusion in Brazil.
Yasmina Zaidman
Director of
Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Acumen Fund
Yasmina Zaidman is the Director of Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Acumen Fund, a global non-profit venture fund working to change the way the world tackles poverty by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders and breakthrough ideas. She leads Acumen Fund's external communications work globally as well as its efforts to engage with strategic corporate and academic partners that share Acumen Fund's commitment to supporting entrepreneurial approaches to tackling poverty. Previously, Ms. Zaidman initiated and managed the Water Portfolio at Acumen Fund, where she oversaw $3 million in investments in start-up water and sanitation enterprises in India and East Africa. Ms. Zaidman has worked in the arenas of international development, corporate sustainability and social entrepreneurship for fifteen years including three years at Ashoka working with its environmental fellows. She received a BA from Vassar College and her MBA from Stanford's GSB with a certificate in Public Management.
Boback Emad
Sculptor
Boback Emad has worked as a sculptor for 25 years, with memory and place as recurring themes throughout his works, some of which are monumental. His pieces express a powerful geometric language, juxtaposing curves and straights with negative space. There is an inherent yearning for a sense of belonging and connection that is evident in his public sculptures. His focus on compositional expressions and geometric exuberance have been shown worldwide and are displayed in private and public collections in North America and Europe, Including Melinda French Gates Children's Hospital. Boback attended California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, and graduated with a degree in Art and Architecture in 1991. See the works at www.bobackemad.com.
David Bolinsky
Faculty at
FutureMed Conference - Singularity University Partner, XVIVO Scientific
Animation
A former lead medical illustrator at Yale University, David
Bolinsky is the co-founder of XVIVO, which produced the movie The Inner
Life of the Cell. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Medical
Illustration at Ohio State University and launched his first
illustration company, Advanced Imaging Inc.
http://www.xvivo.net/who-we-are/bios/david-bolinsky/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bolinsky
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