We thank our host and conference chairs — Nicole DeKort, Kevin Lobo, James Brodie and Holly Sheffield — for their leadership and dedication over the past year. We are deeply grateful for the contributions made by every member of our conference planning committees.
Host & Local Committee
Nicole DeKort
Chair, Host & Local Committee
President & CEO
Medtech Canada
Steering Committee
James Brodie
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
General Manager
Johnson and Johnson MedTech
Kevin Lobo
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Chairman and CEO
Stryker
Program Committee
Holly Sheffield
Chair, Program Committee
President
CooperSurgical
James Brodie
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
General Manager, Johnson and Johnson Medtech
Kevin Lobo
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Chair and CEO, Stryker
Holly Sheffield
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
President, CooperSurgical
Thank you to our Steering Committee
Chuck Adams, Vice Chairman, Global Head of Healthcare, Consumer & Retail Banking, Citi Group
David Amor, Director, Global Regulatory Affairs, Apple Health
John Babitt, Partner – Life Sciences, Ernst & Young LLP
Dehlia Blanchard, GM, Service Canada, GE Healthcare
Mike Canzoneri, CEO, Canadian Hospital Specialties ULC
Randy Clark, President, Vicarious Surgical Inc.
Patrick Crampton, President & COO, Cerebra Health
Jennifer Cummings, VP of Sales, The Stevens Company Limited
Patrick Daly, Global Vice President & General Manager, IQVIA
Jan De Witte, President & CEO, Integra Lifesciences
Nicole Dekort, President & CEO, MedTech Canada
DeChane Dorsey, Executive Director, AdvaMed Accel
Michele Delia, Executive Director Medical Access & Policy, Roche Diagnostics
Sumbul Desai, VP of Health, Apple
Juliana Elstad, CEO, Vibrato Medical
Richard Fabian. President & CEO, FUJIFILM SonoSite, Inc.
Mick Farrell, Chairman & CEO, ResMed
Jason Field, President & CEO, Life Sciences Ontario
Colm Foley, Managing Director, Blackstone Life Sciences
Scott Garrett, Dx Porfolio, WaterStreet Healthcare Partners
Antoinette Gawin, President & CEO, Terumo BCT
Jennifer Hawks Bland, CEO, NewYorkBio
Brian Johnson, Executive Director, MassMEDIC
Justin Klein MD, JD, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Vensana Capital Management
Paul LaViolette, Managing Partner & COO, SV Health Investors
Karen Long, Sr. Managing Director, KCK MedTech Investment Group
Stephen MacMillan, Chairman, President & CEO, Hologic
Shaye Mandle, Executive Director, AdvaMed
Jennifer McCaney, Executive Director, UCLA Biodesign, UCLA Biodesign
Lee McDonald, Founder, President, CEO at Southmedic Inc.
Maureen L. Mulvihill Ph.D., President & CEO, Actuated Medical, Inc.
Caroll Neubauer, Executive Advisor, Water Street Healthcare Partners
Kirsta Ortwein, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Olympus Corporation of the Americas
Dave Pacitti, President & Head of the Americas, Siemens Healthineers
Ivy Parks, President, BD – Canada, BD
Bakul Patel, Sr. Dir. Global Health Strat & Reg, Google Health
Joseph Panetta, President & CEO, BioCom California
Bakul Patel, Senior Director Global Health Strategy & Regulation, Google Health
Scott Phillips, Founder, CEO, Starfish Medical
Todd Pope, Partner, Revival Healthcare Capital
Zach Rothstein, Executive Director, AdvaMed Dx
Kent Savage, CEO, PhotoPharmics
Kathryn Godburn Schubert, President & CEO, Society for Women’s Health Research
Russell Schuster, President, Cardinal Health Canada
Martha Shadan, Chair of Board, BrilliantStrings Therapeutics
Kris Shah, President, Baylis Medical
Holly Sheffield, President, CooperSurgical
Carl St. Bernard, CEO, ALTA Biomaterials
Winthrop Thurlow, Executive Director, LifeSciencesNY
Pam Traxel, Senior Vice President, American Cancer Society
Kwame Ulmer, Founder, Wavemaker360
Todd Usen, Chairman, MassMEDIC
Cary Vance, President & CEO, PhotoniCare, Inc.
Venk Varadan, Co-Founder & CEO, Nanowear Inc.
Scott Whitaker, President & CEO, AdvaMed
Christina Wurster, CEO, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Cynthia Yee, Principal, Vensana Capital Management
Thank you to our Program Committee
Philip Agress, Senior Vice President, Global Strategy & Analysis, AdvaMed
Nasreen Al-Quaid, Global Harmonization Regulatory Policy Advocacy Lead & Analyst, Becton Dickinson (BD)
Jennifer Archer, Director of Market Access, Artera Inc.
Sarah Arth, Vice President, Education & Diversity Programs (DEIB), AdvaMed
Romiya Barry, Director, Clinical & Analytical Sciences, Werfen
Steven Bipes, Vice President, Global Strategy & Analysis, AdvaMed
Carol Blackford , Executive Vice President, Payment & Health Care Delivery Policy, AdvaMed
Adam Borden, U.S. Reimbursement & Policy Strategist, W.L. Gore & Associates
Michael Branagan – Harris , CEO, Device Access UK Ltd
Chandra Branham, Sr. Director, Payment and Care Delivery, Health Policy, Johnson & Johnson
Jennifer Brearey, Chief Financial and Operating Officer, AdvaMed
Patrick Brennan, Vice President, AdvaMed Accel & Investor Engagement, AdvaMed
James Brown, Sr. Principal Systems Safety Engineer, Werfen
Tara Burke, Vice President, Payment & Health Care Delivery Policy, AdvaMed
Eduardo Calazans, Health Care Compliance Officer, Johnson & Johnson
Khatereh Calleja, Senior Vice President, Technology & Regulatory Affairs and Department Deputy, AdvaMed
Nate Carrington, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Specimen Management, BD
Carla Cartwright, Head, Global Digital and Regulatory Policy, Johnson & Johnson
Terry Chang, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Director, Legal & Medical Affairs, AdvaMed
Lori Chimura , CEO, Nyra Medical
Kyle Churchman, Associate Vice President, Global Strategy & Analysis, AdvaMed
Autumn Collasius, VP, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, QIAGEN
Heather Colvin, Director, Evidence & Outcomes Policy, Johnson & Johnson Medtech
Sean Coombs, Medical Technologies Technical Director, PM Group
Austin Dirks , Former CEO & Founder, GreenLight Medical
Dechane Dorsey, Executive Director, AdvaMed Accel
Gabriella Erdosy, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Werfen – Bedford Headquarter and Technology Center
Patrick Fogarty, Deputy General Counsel & Senior Vice President, Legal, AdvaMed
Suneela Frary, Director of Marketing, Clinical Affairs, Market Access, HydroCision
Jaimi Gaffe, Vice President, Regulatory Law, MedTech, Johnson & Johnson
Joseph Gatewood, Vice President, Global Strategy & Analysis, AdvaMed
Nick Halzack , Director, Health Policy , Roche Diagnostics
Andrea Hechavarria , Head of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy, Terumo
Randy Horton, Chief Solutions Officer, Orthogonal
Katherine Kim, Global R&D Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Johnson & Johnson
Marty King, Senior Software Design Quality Engineer, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Stuart Kozlick, Founder & CEO, Fractional Executive, Professor, Kozlick Medical
Andrea Lee, Lead, Research Development & Innovation, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
Shaye Mandle, Executive Director, AdvaMed Digital Health Tech
Tom Mclain, President, Renalytix
Carly McWilliams , Head of Regulatory Policy, North America, Roche Diagnostics
Jared Meyers, CEO, Augment Health, Inc.
Ashley Miller, Executive Vice President, Global Strategy & Analysis, AdvaMed
Rajesh Misra, Principal (Partner), KPMG
Ida Nassar, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Compliance & Ethics, AdvaMed
Anita Nosratieh, Vice President, Technology & Regulatory Affairs, AdvaMed
Amy Palatiello, Director, Strategic Reimbursement, Medtronic
Geeta Pamidimukkala, Vice President, Technology & Regulatory Affairs, AdvaMed
Moline Pandiyan, Medical Technology Practice Lead, RTI Innovation Advisors
Bobby Patrick, Vice President, State Government, Regional Affairs, & Alliance Development, AdvaMed
Sandy Perreand, Director, Government Affairs Health Policy & Strategy, BioMerieux
Frank Pokrop, Director, Regulatory Affairs, QuidelOrtho
Abby Pratt, Senior Vice President, Global Strategy & Analysis and Department Deputy, AdvaMed
Dinesh Puppala, Regulatory Affairs Lead, Google LLC
Liz Richardson, Senior Manager, Public Policy , Amazon
Sarah Holt Richardson, Senior Litigation Counsel, W. L. Gore & Associates
João Rocha Gomes, Medical Product Lead, Ada Health
Zachary Rothstein, Executive Director, AdvaMedDx
Stephen Saine , Former CTO, GreenLight Medical
Tom Schumacher, Vice President, Chief Legal Counsel, Data & Privacy, Medtronic
Kristina Shultz, Associate Vice President, AdvaMedDx
Sarah Stec, Senior Counsel, MedTech Regulatory Law, Johnson & Johnson
Ester Stein, Director, Corporate Reimbursement, Abbott
Scott Thiel, Corporate Head of Regulatory Affairs, Hologic
Pam Traxel , Senior Vice President, ACS CAN
Janet Trunzo, Senior Advisor to the President & Senior Executive Vice President, Technology & Regulatory Affairs, AdvaMed
Kirsten Tullia, Senior Vice President, Payment & Health Care Delivery Policy and Department Deputy, AdvaMed
Cary Vance, President & CEO, PhotoniCare, Inc.
April Veoukas, Director, Regulatory, Abbott, Inc.
Deidre Washington, Director, Health Equity, AdvaMed
Christopher White, General Counsel & Chief Policy Officer, AdvaMed
Brian Williams, Medtech Segment Leader, EPAM
Jamie Wolszon, Vice President, Technology & Regulatory Affairs, AdvaMed
Rumi Young, Director, Regulatory Policy, BD
Grzegorz Zapotoczny, Medical Device Clinical Trials Unit Director, Consortium for Technology Innovation in Pediatrics – Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Jay Zhu, Partner, EY
Delphine Zurkiya, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
