Dr. Kris Vijay is study chair and the Medical Director of the Institute of Congestive Heart Failure at Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital and Heart Institute in Phoenix. He has more than 30 years of experience. he is a Fellow of American College of Cardiology, National Lipid Association, Heart Failure Society of America, and a founding member and past President of the Cardio Renal Society of America. he is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Arizona and Midwestern University.
Principal Investigator: Associate Professor of Fysiologie, School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences. Dr. Vink earned a PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Amsterdam in 1994, where he began his study of the glycocalyx. He continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia and returned to Amsterdam in 1997 to continue his work. He was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for his study of the glycocalyx from 2000 through 2005. In 2005 he became an Established Investigator of the Netherlands Heart Foundation. In 2006 he joined the department of Physiology at Maastricht University, where he continues glycocalyx research within the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM).
Principal Investigator: President and Staff Physician at Arrowhead Internal Medicine. P.C. Outpatient and inpatient care provider since June of 1997. Worked hand in hand with NP’s from Inspiris of Arizona (DBA For Health of Arizona, Inc) providing geriatric care to nursing home residents. Teach Internal Medicine clerkship for medical students from Midwestern University and Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara since 2019. Teach NP students from the ASU College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Grand Canyon University College of Nursing and Health Care Professions. Abrazo Community Health Network Arrowhead Campus, Chief of Staff, Abrazo Arizona Heart, Vice-Chief of Staff, Medicine Department Chairman, Elected positions. Hope Research Clinical Investigator, supervise phase III clinical research trials.
Investigators aim is to create a real time COVID-19 Coromec epidemiology registry to assess the feasibility of monitoring subject infection progress using Vitalbeat digital therapeutics monitoring platform for remote patient monitoring and integrated chronic disease management with mobile app, AI-bot, IoT wearables and cloud computing algorithms developed by health technology company Aventyn, Inc., in collaboration with Intel Corp., clinicians and scientists from Baylor Heart, Abrazo Health Network, Karolinska Institute, Dignity Health. Coromec registry is a real time epidemiology solution deploying Vitalbeat for pandemic public health stakeholders to enable immediate reporting, assess subject risk prediction for COVID-19 avoiding hospitalization.
Dr. Raj Bhat, MD is a Internal Medicine Specialist in Chandler, AZ and has over 28 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from University of Arizona medical school in 1992. He is affiliated with medical facilities Chandler Regional Medical Center and Mercy Gilbert Medical Center.
Navin Govind is Founder, CEO of Aventyn, an award winning Carlsbad, California based digital therapeutics company delivering innovative connected clinical evidenced solutions and services that lower health care delivery costs, improve quality and increase patient safety. Aventyn telehealth solutions enable Personalized Remote Chronic Care, Medical Imaging, Intelligent Predictive Analytics and Risk Assessment. The standards based, secure core to IoT cloud connected health solutions Lower Costs, Improve Quality, Better Outcomes for health Providers, Insurers, Pharma-lifescience Cogenetics for population health management.
Since January 2017, Fernando is at Karolinska Institutet as senior lecturer in medical technology where he had a clinical appointment as the Manager for Research, Innovation, Development and Education at the Department of Medical Care Technologies at Karolinska University Hospital. In addition, he is Docent in Biomedical Engineering Systems from KTH-Royal Institute of Technology and has been a professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Borås since 2016, where he lead the research group in Textile and Wearable Electronics for p-Health solutions.
George Runger is Director for centers of excellence and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University, College of Health Solutions. He researches analytical methods for knowledge generation and data-driven improvements in organizations. He focuses on machine learning for large, complex data, and real-time analysis, with applications to surveillance, decision support, and population health. Previously, he was a senior engineer and technical leader for data analytics projects at IBM. He holds degrees in industrial engineering and statistics. He has more than 100 publications in research journals with funding from federal and corporate sponsors. He reviews for many journals in the area of machine learning and statistics and he is currently the department editor for healthcare informatics for IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering.
Farhad Abtahi currently holds a post-doctoral position in occupational healthcare and ergonomics with the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet. He graduated from a joint program in medical technology from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and in medical science from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. His primary research is on biomedical signal processing and instrumentation. His research interests include gamification for health, biofeedback, sleep scoring and sleepiness detection, bio-electronic medicine, brain–computer interface, machine learning, ergonomic and occupational healthcare, and wearable technologies.