Workshop on Networking Humanitarian Technology for Healthcare (NetHealth)

Vimla L. Patel

Prof (adjunct) Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, New York and College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University (ASU) in Arizona.
Senior Research Scientist and Director, Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health, New York Academy of Medicine

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Professor Vimla L Patel is a professor (adjunct) of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University in New York, and the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University (ASU) in Arizona. She is also a Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health at the New York Academy of Medicine. A graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Dr. Patel was a Professor of Medicine and Psychology and Director of McGill Cognitive Science Center. From 2007-2009, she served as the Professor and Chair of Biomedical Informatics in the Ira Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. Her early research related to cognitive mechanisms underlying expertise and medical decision-making. Her studies over the past two decades are on decision support technology and errors in complex clinical environments, addressing the role of cognition in biomedical informatics (human-computer interaction, cognitive design, distributed cognition, and team decision making) for a safer clinical workplace.

Professor Patel is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences), the American College of Medical Informatics, and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. She is the editor of the Springer Book Series on Cognitive Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine. She is on the Journal of Intelligence-based Medicine editorial board and a past associate editor of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and assistant editor of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. She has 350+ scholarly publications spanning books and journals in biomedical informatics, education, clinical medicine, and cognitive science.

Rajat Garg

CEO Myupchaar

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Rajat is a serial entrepreneur having founded companies like Shimply.com and SocialAppsHQ prior to starting myUpchar.com, India’s biggest and the single largest portal providing credible information and creating health awareness in Hindi and 5 other languages. After graduating from Stanford University, Rajat joined Amazon as a Product Manager, leading efforts to deliver new initiatives to enable Amazon’s entry into new markets to drive incremental traffic to its website.
Rajat’s stint at Amazon was followed by a key role at DataSphere Technologies where he headed the real-estate segment. That is when the entrepreneurship bug bit him and Garg started Shimply, an e-commerce venture that sold authentic and artisanal Indian products sourced from smaller vendors who had limited access. Soon after the website became operational in Hindi, a sudden spurt was witnessed with Ayurveda contributing 50% to the business. A little bit of research and the reason for this spurt was known. The fact that the content was made available in a language that most Indians communicated had played the trick. This, coupled with the realisation that ‘healthcare is one of the most researched topic online’, resulted in the birth of myUpchar.
Rajat launched myUpchar in 2016 to cater to the widespread demand for credible regional content and consultation services while solving the evils – access, affordability and availability of good healthcare in India. myUpchar now serves 2 crore users every month and provides a host of services both online and offline.
Rajat graduated from the Delhi College of Engineering and subsequently completed his Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

N. Viswanadham

INSA Honorary Scientist, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

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N. Viswanadham is INSA Honorary Scientist in the Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science. From 1967-1998, he was faculty at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Professor Viswanadham was Professor and Executive Director for The Center of Excellence Global logistics and manufacturing strategies in the Indian school Of Business, during 2006-2011. He was Deputy Executive Director of The Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific and Professor in Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering at the National University of Singapore during 1998-2005.

He is the recipient of the 1996 IISc Alumni award for excellence in research. He was conferred the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009 by IISc. He was awarded the 2012 Prof S K Mitra Memorial Award by the INAE. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering, and The World Academy of Sciences.

Professor Viswanadham has made significant contributions to the areas of manufacturing, logistics and global supply chain networks. He is the author of Four Textbooks, Nine Edited Volumes, over two hundred forty journal and top tier conference papers. His current research efforts are on use of new technologies for Future Supply chain network design using blockchains and smart contracts and design of Competitive Business Models and applications to Healthcare, Agriculture, Pharma and Green supply chains.