Panel: “Data as Fuel for Innovation”
Adam Lyons
Founder, The Zebra & EIR, Bill Wood Ventures
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Tim Murphy
Business Leader, One SRC Services Philips Healthcare Sleep & Respiratory Care
Tim leads the One SRC Services group for the Philips Sleep and Respiratory Care group. This business offers a series of Clinical and Business management software as a service applications, data sharing services, data driven analytics and supporting services for a global set of customers serving individuals with Sleep and Respiratory disorders. Tim has lead a series of diverse businesses over a career spanning 27 years with Philips.
In addition to serving in these leadership roles Tim is on the Board of the March of Dimes supporting the Western Pennsylvania region.
Rebecca Nugent
Associate Department Head, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Statistics and Data Science Department Carnegie Mellon University
Rebecca Nugent is the Associate Department Head and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies for Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science. She received her PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington. Prior to that, she received her B.A. in Mathematics, Statistics, and Spanish from Rice University and her M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University. She has won several national and university teaching awards, including the American Statistical Association Waller Award for Innovation in Statistics Education, and serves as one of the co-editors of the Springer Texts in Statistics. She recently served on the National Academy of Sciences study on Envisioning the Data Science Discipline: The Undergraduate Perspective and is the co-chair of the current NAS study on Improving Defense Acquisition Workforce Capability in Data Use. She is the Founding Director of the Statistics & Data Science Corporate Capstone program, an experiential learning initiative that matches groups of faculty and students with data science problems in industry, non-profits, and government organizations. She has worked extensively in clustering and classification methodology with an emphasis on high-dimensional, big data problems. Her current research focus is the development and deployment of low-barrier data analysis platforms that allow for adaptive instruction and the study of data science as a science
Christina Weir
Vice-President, Enterprise Clinical Operations Highmark Health Clinical Transformation Office
Christina currently serves as the Vice President of Enterprise Clinical Operations at Highmark Health, reporting directly to the Chief Clinical Transformation Officer. In this role, Christina is responsible for the development and implementation of transformative clinical strategies and innovations that span the integrated delivery system and finance model. She joined Highmark Health as the Director of Innovation in 2017 where she led multiple areas of healthcare innovation and transformation, including clinical transformation strategy and the development of Accelerate 25, a Human Centered Design Innovation accelerator.
Prior to joining Highmark in 2017, Christina led Business Innovation & Digital Health at Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, where she was responsible for the development of digital therapeutic and connected health strategy and market operations. Prior to joining Boehringer-Ingelheim, Christina spent seventeen years with Pfizer Inc., holding various roles and gaining experience in leadership, commercial effectiveness planning, product strategy and development, customer segmentation and go-to-market planning in the bio-pharmaceutical and medical device technology industries.
Moderator: Bob Monroe
Teaching Professor of Business Technologies, Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon
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