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8:30 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast and Check In

9:00 am – 9:15 am

Welcome Remarks

Anna Harvey - President, Social Science Research Council; Professor of Politics, New York University

9:15 am - 9:55 am

Sunita Desai - Assistant Professor, Population Health, NYU School of Medicine

John Lin - Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Roger Ying - Research Physician, HJF Global Infectious Diseases, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Langone

10:00 am - 10:40 am

Hengchen Dai - Associate Professor, Anderson School of Management; Co-director, UCLA Nudge Unit, UCLA

Anna Dermenchyan - Interim Chief Quality Officer, Director of Quality, UCLA Health Department of Medicine

Maria Han - Chief Medical Officer Ambulatory Care, UCLA Health

Rich Leuchter - Assistant Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine; Co-director, UCLA Nudge Unit, UCLA

Silvia Saccardo - Associate Professor, Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

10:45 am - 11:25 am

Katherine Milkman - James G. Dinan Endowed Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, Wharton School; Co-founder/Co-director, BCFG, University of Pennsylvania

Sean Ellis - Director of Analytics, BCFG, University of Pennsylvania

Dena Gromet - Executive Director, BCFG, University of Pennsylvania

Joseph Kay - Director of Research Operations, BCFG, University of Pennsylvania

Jan G. Voelkel - Postdoctoral Researcher, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University

11:30 am - 12:10 pm

Amy Finkelstein - John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics, MIT; Co-Scientific Director, J-PAL North America

Catherine Darrow - Associate Director of Research, J-PAL North America

Victoria Moura - Policy and Communications Associate, J-PAL North America

Kazi Sadia - Senior Policy Associate, J-PAL North America

1:00 pm - 1:40 pm

Health Data Platforms: Nightingale Open Science and Dandelion Health

Ziad Obermeyer - Co-Founder, Nightingale Open Science; Co-Founder, Dandelion Health; Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Nick Gossen - Head of Growth, Dandelion Health

Elliot Green - Co-Founder and CEO, Dandelion Health

Anna Zink - Principal Researcher, Chicago Booth Center for Applied AI, University of Chicago

1:45 pm - 2:25 pm

Kevin Volpp - Director, CHIBE; Mark V. Pauly President's Distinguished Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Alison Buttenheim - Scientific Director, CHIBE; Patricia Bleznak Silverstein and Howard A. Silverstein Term Endowed Professorship in Global Women’s Health, University of Pennsylvania

M. Kit Delgado - Associate Director, CHIBE; Associate Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Shivan Mehta - Associate Chief Innovation Officer, Penn Medicine; Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Harsha Thirumurthy - Associate Director for Global Health, CHIBE; Division Chief of Health Policy, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy; Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm

Closing Conversation: Innovation in Health Research

John Doulis - Distinguished Architect, Digital Transformation and Innovation, HCA Healthcare

Craig Gravitz - Director, Project Accelerator Transition Innovation Office, ARPA-H

Elliott Green - Co-Founder and CEO, Dandelion Health

Lara Mangravite - Executive Director, Digitalis Commons

Moderated by LeighAnne Olsen - Director, Medical Research Portfolio, Robertson Foundation

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Reception

12:10 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch Break

Hemmerdinger Hall, New York University (31 Washington Place)
Monday, June 2, 2025

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2:30 pm - 3:10 pm

Jonathan Kolstad - Faculty Director, CHMI; Professor, Economic Analysis and Policy; Core Faculty, Computational Precision Health, University of California, Berkeley

Maya L. Petersen - Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology; Co-Director, Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, University of California, Berkeley

Ted Robertson - Executive Director, CHMI, University of California, Berkeley