We thank our host and conference chairs — Shaye Exner, Juliana Elstad, Lisa Earnhardt, Mick Farrell and Holly Sheffield — for their leadership and dedication in helping plan the 2025 conference. We are deeply grateful for the contributions made by every member of our conference planning committees.
Host & Local Committee
Steering Committee
Lisa Earnhardt
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Executive Vice President and Group President, Medical Devices
Abbott
Mick Farrell
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Chairman and CEO
Resmed
Program Committee
Holly Sheffield
Chair, Program 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
The Program Committee is comprised of industry professionals and AdvaMed content experts with the mission to assist in developing a top-quality and diverse educational program for The MedTech Conference.
Nadine Afari, Program Associate, The Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP)
Nasreen Al-Quaid, Global Harmonization Regulatory Policy Advocacy Lead & Analyst, Becton Dickinson
Romiya Barry, Director, Clinical & Analytical Sciences, Werfen
Pankit Bhalodia, Partner – Life Sciences, West Monroe
Robin Blankenbaker, Life Science Portfolio Leader, Siemens Digital Industries Software
Margaret Boiano, Principal, Reimbursement Access Consulting, LLC
Adam Borden, Americas Reimbursement & Policy Strategist, W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Michael Branagan–Harris, CEO HealthTech Strategist, HealthTech Strategies UK Ltd
Chandra Branham, Sr. Director, Payment & Delivery Policy, Health Policy, Johnson & Johnson
Eduardo Calazans, Health Care Compliance Officer, Johnson & Johnson
Lori Chmura, CEO, Nyra Medical
Jeff Chu, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Features Capital
Sean Coombs, MedTech Sector Technical Director, PM Group
Jaimi Gaffe, Vice President, Regulatory Law, MedTech, Johnson & Johnson
Calvin Gooley, CEO, Cicada
Eric Heinz, Managing Partner, Heinz Ventures, LLC
Randy Horton, Chief Solutions Officer, Orthogonal
Nate Hwang, Chief Compliance and Data Privacy Officer, Gore Medical
Stephen Kalinsky, CTO & Co-Founder, Augment Health, Inc.
Katherine Kim, Director, Global R&D Policy and Strategic Initiatives, Johnson & Johnson
Andrea Lee, Research Development, Innovation and Partnerships, Hamilton Health Sciences
James T. Lin, Principal Consultant, Isli Consulting
Monika McDole–Russell, Sr. Director, Global Regulatory Affairs, Medtronic
Carly McWilliams, Head of Regulatory Policy, North America, Roche
Nabiha Megateli–Das, Chief Investment Officer, Meritage Venture Group
Jared Meyers, CEO, Augment Health, Inc.
Rajesh Misra, Principal, KPMG
Gregory Montalbano, COO, MIDI Medical Development
Meher Muttanapalli, Senior Manager – SW Product Quality – RAQA, Intuitive Surgical
Ravi Nabar, Sr. VP, Compliance Group
Amy Palatiello, Sr Director, Health Policy and Reimbursement, Medtronic
Sandy Perreand, Director Regulatory Policy & Trade Compliance, bioMerieux
Shruti Rajagopalan, Regulatory Affairs Team Lead, Google
João Rocha–Gomes, Medical Product Lead, Ada Health
Cher Sanchez, Manager, Global Policy, Solventum
Prabagar Sankar, Senior Engineer, Intuitive Surgical
Tom Schumacher, VP, Lead Counsel AI, Medtronic
Maureen Shaffer, CEO, Mingletoe
Nidhi Shashikumar, Sr. Data Scientist, Outset Medical
Josh Silverstein, Director, Regulatory Science & Policy, Philips
Abhinavdutt Singh, Staff Software Quality Engineer, iRhythm Technologies
Alexandra Smythe, Director of Regulatory Affairs, IDE Group
Liz Spurgin, Head, Reimbursement & Policy, GE HealthCare
Sravani Sreeram Nagasai, Lead Technical Program Manager , Digital health and SaMD, Google LLC
Sarah Stec, Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory Law, MedTech, Johnson & Johnson
Ester Stein, Senior Director Corporate Reimbursement, Abbott
Ana Sofia Teixeira, Lead Researcher in Digital Health, University of Porto
Scott Thiel, Corporate Head of Regulatory Affairs, Hologic
Julie Tran, Technical Program Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Google LLC
Nataly Trejos, Associate Director Regulatory Policy LATAM, Johnson & Johnson
Cary Vance, President & CEO, PhotoniCare, Inc.
April Veoukas, Director Regulatory, Abbott
Bodo Wiegand, Sr. Advisor, Virdx
Leslie Wise, Head of Business Development and Market Access, Navigate Maternity
Greg Zapotoczny, Research Professor & Medical Device Clinical Trials Unit Director, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago – Consortium for Technology Innovation in Pediatrics
Jay Zhu, Partner, EY
Delphine Zurkiya, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
