Marquesa is a Founding Partner at P2Health Ventures, a startup ecosystem and venture fund supporting entrepreneurs building public health tech solutions. Public health tech is any tech or tech enabled service that prevents the onset of disease or addresses the needs of medically vulnerable populations. She is also the Blockchain Health Lead for the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society where she works on their blockchain health initiatives and is an active thought leader in leveraging blockchain technology to improve equity and access. Previously, Marquesa worked on improving diversity and inclusion in tech through entrepreneurship at the Kapor Center for Social Impact and at the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), disseminated global health interventions in the Palestinian West Bank. Upon returning from the Middle East, she continued to work in digital health at Kaiser Permanente, building their first app analytics program.

Marquesa studied Art History and Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and earned her Masters in Public Health (MPH) in Global Health at The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health in Washington, D.C.  She is a San Francisco native, a classical pianist, and ballerina.

Jim is the CTO of The Dinocrates Group, a Maryland-based boutique strategy and advisory firm, and the founder of the Institute for Healthcare Financial Technology. He is a senior professional with over 25 years combined experience in risk management, technology and cyber security for numerous organizations in various industries, emphasizing healthcare and public sectors.

As CTO, Jim leads the Dinocrates Transformational Technology Services to assist public and private sector clients understand and adopt the latest advances in technology and processes such as Blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA) and cyber risk.

Given the dramatic changes in technology and healthcare delivery, Jim recently founded the Institute for Healthcare Financial Technology, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the healthcare value chain to reduce costs and streamline access and delivery of healthcare. IHFT builds on the innovations of financial, insurance and healthcare technology, especially in such concepts as distributed ledgers, blockchain, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Jim is also the chair for the Healthcare Committee for the Government Blockchain Association, and co-lead of the HIMSS Healthcare Blockchain Working Group. He is an Advisory Board member to Grapevine, a Healthcare Blockchain start-up, and guest lectures on Blockchain and technology at Universities and Industry.

Previously, Jim has worked with large and small companies focusing on Agile development and project management, cyber security and healthcare information technology. Prior to that, Jim was Senior Director for Interoperability at HIMSS, a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

Delivers multi-million dollar opportunities business consider essential to success. Business execution expertise. Adds senior level bench strength and a working knowledge of the delivery of care and health,

Launched an innovative $200 million multi-facility outreach strategy and collaborative health information initiative for $4 billion, 11 hospital, regional healthcare system. National provider experience includes Tenet Health, Mariner Post Acute Care, Health Images, Inc.

Sustainable start-up business experience includes advising healthcare blockchain business delivery, telehealth, precision medicine, genomic data supply management and ambulatory care business models,

Industry advocate. Technology pivots promoted innovation in point-of-care, personal wellness data and mobile health. Directed global healthcare at Polycom, Inc. and served as a charter member at Washington D.C. based change agent The Center for Health Transformation.

Career accomplishments reflect a passion for innovative business approaches that transform the patient and the way wellness and care are delivered: MedProGO; Inc. the first peer reviewed, point-of-care physician EMR app; PlexiaCare; stroke intervention using telemedicine; and Neotonus-Wellness for Seniors, Inc., a VC backed medical device start-up,tackling incontinence as on-site outpatient urological rehab service.

Thileepan is the member of foundation council, Patientory Stiftung. He is also Co-founder & CTO of Maax Market, an all-in-one marketing automation platform using Artificial Intelligence. He graduated with Honors from Sastra University where he founded companies that primarily offered SaaS products to for the global consumer. Previously he worked at Virtusa Software as a Consultant, and prior as a Technical Manager at the Vembu Technologies.

Dr. Alonzo Sexton believes that information is the new asset class and that healthcare organizations are uniquely situated to manage through technologies such as blockchain. Dr. Sexton is a board certified Orthopedic Surgeon with over 10 years of clinical experience.

Dr. Sexton has a fascination and working knowledge of blockchain technologies and believes that this technology in addition to machine learning and IoT hold great potential to transform the healthcare industry. His experience utilizing multiple EMR systems and various healthcare applications qualify him to evaluate the strengths and weakness of many different project types. He can provide both the physician perspective to developers as well as speak the language of physicians when explaining complex technical ideas. Having experienced clinicians involved in projects provides insight in terms of how particular applications can work in the real world and how they might affect workflows in the clinical setting. Dr. Sexton’s passion for new technology, clinical experience and knowledge base regarding blockchain technologies make him uniquely qualified to function in this capacity as an ambassador.

Dr Suhail Chughtai FRCS

• Orthopaedic Surgeon
• Medico Legal Examiner
• Microsoft Certified Specialist
• Tele-Health Services Expert
• Creative Medical Software Designer

As an Orthopaedic Surgeon

• Fellow of Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow, UK since 1993
• Higher Specialist Training in Orthopaedics & Trauma in UK (1989-1995)
• Orthopaedic Surgeon (20 years consultant level experience in UK, Pak, Saudi Arabia)
• Former Assistant Professor in Orthopaedics & Trauma, FJMC Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan
• Consultant Medico-legal Examiner for Orthopaedic Injuries in UK since 2006

As a Medical IT Expert – Founder Director: Medical City Online

• Microsoft Certified Specialist since 2001
• Designed 20+ Medical Software Projects including Doctors247 Online range of Tele-health Services currently being used by client firms in multiple countries
• Instructed 60+ Medical Computing Courses/lectures since 2000 (UK, UAE, KSA, Pak)
• Medical I.T. Instructor at Health Asia Conferences from 2001-2004
• Regular Speaker at International Tele-health and Patient Experience Conferences with Instructional workshops on several occasions (UK, UAE, Pakistan)
• Speaking engagements throughout 2018 in UK, UAE, USA & Pakistan over Tele-Health Innovations, Clinical adaptation of Telemedicine, Telehealth based Healthcare solutions etc
• Currently leading a team of 15 Web Developers working on multiple Tele-health projects of Medical City Online

Founder of various businesses in UK as an Entrepreneur  

• Medico-legal Firm (M L Professionals) in 2008 which won the business award of the year for Innovation in UK due to it’s industry revolutionizing Medical Reporting Software
• Video Broadcasting and Filming Company (Apex Video Professionals) in 2014
• Online Live Video Broadcasting Firm (Web Broadcasting Services) in 2016
• Wide experience of managing Medical Projects and Businesses setting up a cohesive operating ground for various teams assigned on one project

Ángel Rabines graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the National University of San Marcos, Peru. Upon graduation, he began his professional activities in primary care and health management in a Non-Governmental Organization. Subsequently, he focused on health insurance issues, accumulating experience in both health providers and payers.

After previous experience, he came to occupy the position of Consultant in health insurance and medical audit in an important Peruvian Consulting firm, was the nexus between clients, providers and health payers, ensuring the realization of the best health practices in a cost-effective and sustainable manners for all stakeholders. He decided to move to Spain, where he ventured into other care areas such as emergency medicine and nuclear medicine through an official specialization program, maintaining contact with patients and their needs. Simultaneously, he obtained the master’s degree in Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics, which allowed him to develop and publish studies on economic evaluation.

Currently, he has decided to use the experiences acquired at different levels of healthcare and link it to his passion: the information and communication technologies (ICTs). For this, he has started the process of creation of his first startup in health tech. Ángel is convinced that the new ICTs must be an instrument in the achievement of true universal health, focused on the needs of people and their environment, without losing the scientific, academic, economic, social and ethical perspectives.

Dr Mazin Gadir is a Senior Consultant and an Advisor at the Executive Office for Organizational Transformation in Dubai Health Authority since June 2016. He is an Expert in Strategy development/implementation and Organizational Transformation. Dr Mazin also was a Senior Manager in the Healthcare Technology Consulting Practice at PwC Middle East in Dubai for 2 years from 2014 to 2016 overseeing and leading projects across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and the Middle East. Dr, Mazin has over 18+ years of Digital Health Innovation, Health Informatics workflow optimization, eHealth Regulatory Framework and Compliance, Health Information Systems/Health Information Exchange, Digital Maturity and Accreditation according to International Standards, Project and Change Management experience in Healthcare IT Transformation Programs in the UK, France, Australia, UAE and the Middle East.

Dr Mazin worked for Cerner UK and Cerner Middle East from 2006 to 2012, leading and assuming different roles such as Cerner Millennium Project Manager, Integration Architect and Implementation Support consultant, Healthcare IT Transformation and Change Management practice manager across the UK, UAE, KSA, Qatar, Australia and France.

Dr Mazin has deep and wide experience in Organizational Development and Strategy Consultancy, stakeholder engagement and knowledge management & skills in the areas of: Strategy Development, Organizational Development & Design, Corporate Policy Development, Human Capital Development, Business Process Re0engineering, change enablement and Organizational Excellence whereby one can add value & make a real difference through consultancy, operational engagement and hands-on involvement.

Faith Whittier is an Entrepreneur, Freelance Writer and an M.D. A Mother raising two teenage sons, whom she adores. Dr. Faith, as her patients lovingly call her, has built her reputation on her good works, kind words, and caring way she cares for her patients and those with whom she works.

An Obstetrician & Gynecologist Fellowship trained in Integrative Medicine she is a passionate advocate for women’s healthcare. Both in her clinical practice serving in an underserved community of East Houston and in Healthcare policymaking having served on the Medical Committee of The Women’s Health and Family Planning Association of the State of Texas. Her work in policymaking began her journey in highlighting and uncovering many of the inefficiencies of today’s siloed healthcare system. Helping spark her interest in Blockchain technology and its capacity to disrupt healthcare with its potential to bring real change, improving upon many of the pain points of the current system in which she cares for and treats patients on a daily basis. She is also the founder and CEO of Blockchainfreshmd consulting.

Dr. Faith believes that life is a big learning journey and that her journey has just begun. She believes in the integration of traditional and integrative medicine to achieve optimal health and well being and enjoys blogging about her passions Integrative Medicine, Healthy Living, Blockchain Technology and Life. You can find her writing about those passions on her blog BlockchainFreshMD.com. Embracing the notion that life is like an
amusement park giving herself permission to ride more than one ride.

Dr. Faith is bilingual, grateful to have been raised in a Spanish-speaking household. She knows that no matter what language you speak, medicine isn’t a one size fits all solution, and that’s what makes her an excellent Physician. Dr. Faith is excited to see what this next phase of her journey brings continuing her daily practice advocating for Women’s healthcare but also keeping an eye on what’s to come. Looking ahead to the future of
Medicine. Speaking, advocating and bringing awareness to the power and benefits of Blockchain technology and its ability to positively impact our healthcare system and the care we bring our patients.

She is a Board Certified OB-GYN, a member of FACOG and ACOG, and has served as a policymaker on the Medical Committee of the Women’s Health and Family Planning Association of the State of Texas. An active member of Houston’s Blockchain Alliance. She has appeared frequently on TV and Radio in both English and Spanish as an expert on the topics of Women’s health, Blockchain Technology and healthcare.

Ajay Sharma has 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical arena, first as a pharmacist in the UK building upto pharmacy Superintendent of his own pharmacy chain and retail business in the UK. With a successful exit and share sale he began his journey of discovery in the pharmaceutical raw ingredients business in Hyderabad, India working closely with manufacturers and finished dose pharmaceutical plants.

The next phase of his career started with the sales of Active pharmaceutical ingredients into CEE and CIS zone, namely into Poland, Serbia, Macedonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Kazakhstan. This gave him a seasoned experience of the business and diversified portfolio of pharmaceutical companies as clients in these target countries.

His next step was to move into pharmaceutical finished dose licensing and supply simply to his already vast network of clients. We moved into other geographic areas of the world to include Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

Created a business unit into West Africa where he is currently adviser to Sierra Leone
government on pharmaceutical procurement and biosimilar products and policy. Fizerchain is also working closely with Indian and Sri Lankan governments on proposals for procurement. We have won the contract to supply pharmaceuticals to a group of three private hospitals in Sri Lanka, project value $600 million by a Turkish construction partner.

Ajay has moved into advising Ministry of Health and government departments on advanced healthcare programs and IT infrastructure that will enhance the capabilities of his people and benefit the individual nations in promoting health outcomes and value for money.

Ajay Sharma is available for your A.I, Blockchain, IOT solution requirements and private consultation on various fields. You can reach Ajay Sharma on mobile: +44 7507 625076 or email: ajay@fizerchain.com and please visit my company web: www.fizerchain.com for more information.

Shivam believes the healthcare industry needs to focus on patient satisfaction and improving the quality of care for patients. Shivam has monitored patients in the outpatient rehab setting and identified inefficiencies that help patient flow move seamlessly. Shivam has improved patient satisfaction through surveys and focused to create an open stream of communication with the patient and the therapist.

Shivam currently works as an analyst for a hospital in the revenue department. Shivam understands the importance of secure information being transferred from one platform to another. He has experience using multiple electronic health record software. He has a thorough understanding of Medicare, Medicaid, and numerous individual insurances. He is a current ambassador to the local community. Shivam strives to optimize patient care by making all of the processes throughout healthcare more efficient.

Dr. Tiffany R. Gray, DrPH, MPH has over 9 years of experience in the field of public health, regulatory compliance and behavioral health research.

Dr. Gray holds a Doctorate in Public Health in Health Behavior and a Master’s in Public Health in Maternal and Child Health, from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

She is a public health advisor for the DC Department of Health and Research & Science Advisor to Axes and Eggs, a Dubai based blockchain think tank, focused on the applications of distributed ledger technologies in public health, global health and healthcare administration. She is also an advisor for TruDiary, which is a tech-based application focused on improving health and reducing health disparities and inequities among women of color. In addition, Dr. Gray is an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Blockchain, and a Blockchain in Healthcare Global-IEEE Research Subgroup Committee Co-Chair and Fellow. Dr. Gray is also a board member of the Black Women in Blockchain.

Dr. Gray’s areas of research expertise include mental health and wellness, behavioral health, substance use, and examining tobacco use behaviors among vulnerable populations, including youth and young adults, addressing cessation, prevention, and intervention efforts.

Max is a seasoned Computer Scientist who started in the nineties to develop interactive systems for the health industry. He started as entrepreneur in Italy to grow the business in Europe since 2013, when his group had been acquired by McCann Health, part of Interpublic Group. The arising risk of personal data breach and his passion for technology pushed him towards DLT and blockchain solutions to empower patients control on their owned data.

Also, he is co-founder at CysEd (Cyber Security Education) which focuses in training employees and managers to adopt responsible professional and personal behavior when interacting with mobile devices; he also continues the experience at McCann Health as Innovation Advisor.

Mohamed Osman “MoSman” is the founder of Sudan Blockchain Community and the 1 st Sudanese (2 nd in Africa) to be certified in Blockchain Solution Architecture from Blockchain Training Alliance, having a main objective to form the official Blockchain Association of Sudan.

Backed with 15+ years of professional ICT multinational expertise across Middle East &Africa with extensive experience into Technical Business Consulting and Digital Transformation, he has been successful at expanding his network of connections within government, private sector, regional ISPs and Telecom providers in addition to several African Tech-Hubs and Innovation Labs.

His great passion for Digital Technology has motivated him to develop an advanced technical and business knowledge of Blockchain platforms (e.g. Hyperledger, Ethereum, Corda, etc.) with a focus on Enterprise Blockchain, furthermore a solid understanding of Industry 4.0 and related technologies and implications (Cloud; IoT; AI; Big Data).

MoSman is an active member of Sudan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Network (SIEN) which is a network of innovators, mentors, startups and entrepreneurs with a common goal to collectively reform and develop the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in Sudan and Africa in general through effective and valuable collaboration.

Domingo Liotta is director of healthcare innovation at Cluster Blockchain S.A.S. He has over 30 years of experience in the healthcare area.

He’s focused on building “eHealth Conversations”. Information management, dialogue and knowledge exchange to approach the Universal Access to Health.  He is currently working to expand the implementation of e-health and m-health use in medical education and telemedicine. He has managed for more than 10 years a Stress Exercise Laboratory as a Clinical Researcher and Assisting Physician. He also teaches Medical Informatics and Physiology at the largest private University in Argentina.

His specialties:
– Stress Exercise Test: evaluation of different patients’ subgroups:
– End stage heart failure for heart transplant or LVAD
– Hypertension, Hemodynamic procedure, Coronary Unit prior to begin physical activity as Rehabilitation Program
– Heart Risk Factors: sedentary, overweight, Hypertension
– Normal or Athletic people

Medical Informatics Specialist:
– Information Retrieval via Search Engines
– Medical Applications
– Institutional Promotion via TIC
– Open EHR Clinical Archetypes

Michael Marchant has spent the last 25+ years implementing complex technology and integrating data in his leadership roles for leading healthcare organizations. Michael has spent time working with and for application vendors, provider organizations and government entities leading teams and delivering needed solutions, advancing technology, improving workflows and supporting interoperability within his organization and with others locally and nationally. As former member of theHIMSS Interoperability and HIE Committee and in his current roles serving on the HIMSS BlockChain Task Force, Carequality and ConsenSys Health Advisory Boards, and Health Technology Alliance Steering Committee, he is involved in shaping organizational directions, policy, content and messaging as well as helping raise awareness of emerging trends and technologies in healthcare. Michaels current role as Director of Health Information Exchange and System Integration for UC Davis Health regularly challenges him and his team to solve complex technology and interoperability challenges for his organization and community.

Michael is passionate about moving technology forward that connect patients and their health information and allows them to control who has access, where and when through his work.

More than 13 years’ experience in business development, Telecom, information technology-security systems, blockchain, and data science, datacom industries. Strong skills in the areas of project management, quality control, quality assurance, auditing people management, systems design, implementation, technical support, commissioning, training, and troubleshooting. Excellent qualities such as business development, data analysis, leadership, negotiation, and communication.

Luis is the Business Development Manager of SmartPeople Technology, an Argentina and Chile based company, focused on healthtech solutions development and integration for the international market. He is a senior professional in the field of ICT for Healthcare with over 20 years of experience in projects for hospitals and healthcare institutions.

Passionate for HealthTech, Luis also acts as Leader of healthtech workgroup of Chiletec, chilean association of information technology companies, and representing to this organization, is also director in CENS, Center for Information Technologies in Healthcare, a consortium of 5 biggest universities in Chile, mandated by the chilean government to conduct the healthtech improvement, for people, hospitals, and industry growing. Actually also is co-founder and board member of ACHAlliance (Americas Connected Health Alliance), a non profit organization, aimed to develop shared information between hospitals, universities and healthtech companies, connect the dots, developing healthtech ecosystems in different countries in latin america and connect them between countries, inside Latam and with other organizations, like ECHAlliance, a similar organization in Europe.

His experience includes projects in different public and private hospitals, ICT companies, and as an academic in different universities. Luis is Electronic Engineer from Universidad de Concepción and MBA from Loyola University in Maryland.

A South African entrepreneur and Founder at E-Center for Women’s Cancers and Maternal Health Outstanding cross-cultural skills from business development work in the telecom’s industry in Portuguese speaking Africa. Successful achievements in several other key Africa markets.

Thorough understanding of government regulations related to the health sector and through his volunteer work with international NGOs.

Has led full turnkey telecoms infrastructure programmes across the fixed and mobile telecoms in the emerging markets where he has operated

Mr Mhlongo is a dedicated leader with a BEng Hons degree from the University of Pretoria, S. Africa, with more than 10 years business experience, in Information and communications technology (ICT), with improved best value results.

Dr Richard Sadig [(MBBS, MMed, B Pharm (hons), ANZCCP] is a medical doctor, with a passion in advancing the frontiers of medicine – this includes the recent focus of technology in the field of cryptomedicine and blockchain technology as well as in corporate medicine.

Dr Sadig aims to facilitate the growing mass adoption of the decentralized blockchain systems involving the intersection of medicine; such as Metaverses, NFT’s, virtual clinics and decentralized storage of medical information. Dr Sadig aims to be involved with the training of the next generation of “crypto doctors”.

Dr Sadig has received various awards and distinctions including the St George Individual Award and has published in scientific literature with over 9 publications and 30 citations – as well as having discovered new receptors in the body. Dr Sadig has presented at local, national and international levels at conferences. Having programmed automated robots from his past-time hobbies , Dr Sadig believes that technology must always serve an existing problem without creating more problems than it was originally designed to solve; and to always retain the precepts of humanity and bioethics at every step of the silicon ladder rung to ascension. Progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged -remembering that technology are tools designed for the enhancement of humanity not at the expense of humanity.

Dr Sadig is currently an official ambassador for Patientory in the Australian region and preparing the way for mass adoption and “crypto fever” down under.