Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH, FACP, AGAF
MD, MPH, ‘App Doctor’; @NodeHealthorg and VALID AI, Professor of Medicine, UC Davis Health
Ashish Atreja, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P., A.G.A.F., is a professor, entrepreneur, and an investor who is the nation’s leading voice in evidence-based digital health and AI-led transformation. He has served as CIO and Chief Digital Health Officer at UC Davis Health that expanded the institution’s digital and AI footprint, transformed healthcare delivery and improved patient outcomes.
Within two years of his arrival, UC Davis Health became the only health system in California to be digital health most wired level 10 for both inpatient and ambulatory care. Prior to his UC Davis Health appointment, Atreja, an internist and gastroenterologist, served as the chief innovation officer, Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System. At Mount Sinai, Atreja established one of the first innovation hubs within an academic medical center to build and test disruptive digital health technologies – those that transform the industry. His pioneering work in digital therapeutics, including prescribing mobile health apps for patients, has earned him the nickname ‘the app doctor ‘.
Previously, Atreja was at the Cleveland Clinic, where he was Associate Program Director for Informatics Fellowship, led electronic health record implementation, and won an innovation award for developing one of the first virtual pager and messaging applications that was successfully licensed.
In 2016, Atreja established the non-profit Network of Digital Medicine (NODE.Health) Association to connect innovation centers worldwide and share best practices for evidence- based digital medicine between industry, payers, and health systems. As an intrapreneur, Atreja has won innovation awards at Cleveland Clinic and Mount Sinai, holds two patents (including one for creating app formulary prescribed from EHR), successfully licensed technologies from academic centers, and served as a founding CEO for a VC-backed digital health spinout that got acquired last year.
In 2023, Dr Atreja launched VALIDAI.Health: A collective of 50+ Health systems and health plans with tech partners to build capacity among healthcare organizations to co-validate, execute, and create value from Generative AI in Health. He is currently focused on incubating AI ventures through venture studio.
In addition to a medical degree, Atreja holds a master’s in public health and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Gastroenterological Association. He has served in many national roles, including as an informatics expert for the CDC HICPAC
committee, as an associate editor for the Journal of Digital Biomarkers, as an executive board member for ONC and HL7 FHIR at Scale (FAST) accelerator, and representing UCs on the California-wide Data Exchange Advisory Committee. He has been nominated among the Top 40 HealthCare Transformers in 2017, HIMSS Top 50 Healthcare in 2021 and Health Tech Magazine Top 30 Health IT influencers in 2022. Atreja has published more than 100 academic papers, has been continuously funded by NIH since 2014, and has been a keynote speaker globally on digital health transformation.
Jocelyn Campbell
CEO, Health Comply AI
As the CEO of Health ComplyAi Inc. and the creator of the Mori App, I am dedicated to revolutionizing life planning and healthcare management through innovative technology. My work empowers individuals to take control of their end-of-life decisions, ensuring that their medical, legal, and personal directives are managed with precision, security, and compassion.
Health ComplyAi was founded on the belief that everyone deserves a dignified and well-planned life journey from start to finish. Our flagship product, the Mori App, embodies this philosophy by providing an AI-driven platform that simplifies life planning, automates crisis management, and honors each user’s personal and spiritual preferences.
The Mori App is the first of its kind—a holistic sociocultural advanced care planning tool that integrates seamlessly into users’ lives, helping them navigate complex healthcare and end-of-life decisions with ease. By combining AI technology with a deep understanding of human values, Mori offers a personalized, compassionate approach to life planning, ensuring that each user’s needs are respected and fulfilled.
Under my leadership, Health ComplyAi continues to push the boundaries of what’s needed in life planning and healthcare innovation. We aim to make comprehensive life planning accessible to all, transforming how individuals and families prepare for the future, manage crises, and preserve their legacies.
Dana Castro
Senior Director, HIMSS Institute | Workforce Development & Technology Strategist
Dana Castro is a nationally recognized leader at the forefront of AI, workforce development, and digital equity. As Senior Director at the HIMSS Institute, she drives transformative initiatives that harness emerging technologies to build a future-ready health IT workforce. Dana plays a pivotal role in the NHIT INSPIRED Agentic AI Academy, a national program preparing diverse talent to lead in AI-powered healthcare innovation.
Her commitment to inclusive innovation is exemplified through her leadership in the AI Hackathon with NJ Pathways and Cooper University Health System, where students and professionals collaborate to solve real-world healthcare challenges using AI and data science. This initiative is part of her broader mission to democratize access to high-impact careers in health IT and ensure that underrepresented communities are equipped to thrive in the AI economy.
Dana’s career spans over 25 years in the tech industry, including a distinguished tenure at Hewlett-Packard, where she led the “Campus of the Future” initiative—integrating VR, AR, and data science into higher education to expand access and reimagine learning environments.
She has launched and led national programs such as the HIMSS Global Health Equity Week and the HIMSS Veterans Community, and served on the New Jersey Future of Work Accelerator, where she helped shape the NJ Pathways program to connect community college students with industry-recognized credentials and career opportunities.
Dana holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University and has completed advanced studies in international business, digital marketing, and career coaching. She is driven by a deep belief in the power of technology to transform lives and communities.
Arun Culotta, PhD
Director of Center for Community Engaged AI, Professor, Tulane University
Aron Culotta is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tulane University. His research investigates computational methods to learn about human behavior from online social networks, combining machine learning, natural language processing, and social network analysis. Examples include tracking diseases, measuring effectiveness of public health campaigns, informing crisis response, preventing online harassment, detecting deceptive marketing, and identifying unsafe products. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2008, was a Microsoft Live Labs Fellow, a Nayar Prize Finalist, and recipient of best paper awards at AAAI and CSCW. His interdisciplinary research is supported by several NSF-funded collaborations with researchers in public health, political science, marketing, and emergency management.
Raju Gottumukkala, PhD
Raju Gottumukkala, PhD, Director, Center for Applied AI & AHeAD; BORSF Professor in Applied Artificial Intelligence; Director of Research, IRI; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Dr. Raju Gottumukkala is the ORSF Professor in Applied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, with joint appointments within the Informatics Research Institute, Mechanical Engineering Department, and School of Computing and Informatics. He is the director of Center for Applied AI and the newly awarded Accessible Healthcare through AI-Augmented Decisions (AHeAD), an AI center of excellence focused on healthcare innovation.
From 2012 to 2022, he served as the Site (Managing) Director for the NSF Center for Visual and Decision Informatics – an industry-university cooperative research center. Dr. Gottumukkala’s research centers on human-centric intelligent systems, developing AI/ML-based decision support tools that deliver impactful solutions in public health, healthcare access, homeland security, and emergency management. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Louisiana Board of Regents, and several industry partners. He was one of the 37 recipients of the 2017 Ralph E. POWE Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. He has received numerous awards for his innovation, research excellence, and commitment to outstanding graduate student mentorship. Dr. Gottumukkala teaches courses in applied machine learning, intelligent systems, and optimization.
Eric Griggs, MD
Associate Vice President of Community Affairs, Access Health Louisiana
Dr. Eric “Doc” Griggs, M.D. is an internationally recognized, public health educator, and health media contributor. With over 3,000 TV segments, global outreach, and leadership roles at Access Health Louisiana, Mori.ai, and the Global Institute of Integrated Health, he brings health to the people. He is also the creator of Jamiale & Poppy and co-host of NoiseFilter podcast, and thr ‘Get Checked. Get Fit. Get Moving!’ radios show, archived by the Library of Congress. Dr. Griggs holds a Specialist Certification in AI in Healthcare from Stanford.
Jason Hill, MD, MMM, MS
Innovation Officer, Ochsner Health
Dr. Hill is a healthcare leader with a passion for applying cutting-edge technologies and data-driven solutions to improve patient care and outcomes. He has a unique combination of clinical, academic, and technical expertise that enables him to bridge the gap between medicine and innovation.
He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science, both obtained from Louisiana Tech University. He also holds a Master’s of Medical Management from Tulane University. He obtained his M.D. from Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans and completed his residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at the University of Texas at Houston. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine as well as Clinical Informatics.
Dr. Hill has served as one of the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer’s (ACMIO) at Ochsner Health, where he led system-wide projects involving transitions of care, artificial intelligence, decision support analytics, voice recognition, predictive analytics, and patient access/throughput. He has recently transitioned to the role of Innovation Officer, where he co-founded the AI center of excellence and works frequently with the innovation team, known as iO (innovation Ochsner) at Ochsner Health.
Dr. Hill is a frequent speaker at national conferences on topics such as healthcare innovation, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and clinical informatics.
Muhammad Idris, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine; Co-Director, Center of Excellence for the Validation of Clinical Algorithms, Morehouse School of Medicine
Bio coming soon.
Will Landry
SVP, Chief Information Officer, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System
Will Landry has been leading information technology and digital innovation initiatives at FMOL Health for 5+ years with prior experience at Lafayette General Health, Louisiana Blue and Amedisys. Will also leads FMOL Health’s AI initiatives and is co-lead for the health system’s AI ethics work group.
David Leingang, MPA
Director, Innovation – AI, Data Science, and Analytics, Ochsner Health
Bio coming soon.
Lee Mendoza, Ph.D.
Director – Bureau of Health Informatics, Louisiana Department of Health
Lee Mendoza is a healthcare, research, and technology professional with more than 30 years of experience. Dr. Mendoza has served as an educator and researcher, and has taught a wide range of health-related and technology courses.
He is also a professional software developer, having developed software products for healthcare practice management, electronic medical billing, and educational experience tracking. He has served as a commissioner on the Louisiana Commission for the Deaf, and is a 2023 Informatics Champion for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
He is currently the Director of the Bureau of Health Informatics in the Office of Public Health at the Louisiana Department of Health, where he and his team conduct overdose surveillance, provide clinical decision support for the parish health units, and produce a wide array of analytics and data products and tools, including the state’s Health Report Card and the Louisiana Opioid Data and Surveillance System.
Anand Paul, PhD
Associate Professor – Biostatistics & Data Science, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans
He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 2010.
His research interests encompass Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning, with a particular focus on Resilient and Robust Intelligence, including Generative AI and Artificial General Intelligence. Dr. Paul was recognized among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University and Elsevier Publisher for the years 2022 and 2024. He has been an IEEE Senior Member since 2015.
In addition to his research, Dr. Paul has served as an editor for several prestigious SCIE journals, including IEEE Access, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, ICT Express, PeerJ Computer Science, Cyber-Physical Systems (Taylor & Francis), IEEE Transaction on Artificial Intelligence. He has also held the role of Track Chair for Smart Human-Computer Interaction at ACM SAC from 2014 to 2019.
Mohit Prabhushankar, PhD
Postdoc, Georgia Tech
Mohit Prabhushankar received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 2021. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Instructor of Recording at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in the Omni Lab for Intelligent Visual Engineering and Science (OLIVES). He is working in the fields of image processing, machine learning, active learning, healthcare, and robust and explainable AI.
He is the recipient of the Best Paper award at ICIP 2019, Top Viewed Special Session Paper Award at ICIP 2020, and Best Paper runner-up award at BigData’24. He is the recipient of the ECE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, the CSIP Research award, and the Roger P. Webb ECE GRA Excellence Award in 2022 and the Research Excellence Award in 2025. He has delivered short courses and tutorials at IEEE IV’23, ICIP’23, BigData’23, WACV’24, AAAI’24, CVPR’24, ICME’24, MIPR’24., WACV’25, and AAAI’25
Joe Shepley, PhD, AIGP, CIPP/US
Managing Director, Information Risk and Governance
Alvarez & Marsal
Joe Shepley is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations in Chicago. He specializes in information governance and data privacy. His primary areas of concentration are records and information management and data minimization. With 25 years of information governance experience, Joe has performed records and information management assessments, program modernization, benchmarking and large-scale data cleanup. He has helped organizations design and implement successful information governance programs, with a focus on meeting the retention and disposal requirements of U.S. and global regulations, such as California’s CPRA, the GDPR in the E.U. and NYDFS 500.13.
Joe earned a bachelor’s degree in English, religious studies and philosophy from Connecticut College and a master’s degree and a PhD in the history of Christianity from the University of Chicago. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional U.S.; an Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional; a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals; an Advisor for the Health Sector Coordinating Council Working Group – A.I. Cybersecurity Task Group; on the executive steering committee for the Sedona Conference Working Group 13: AI and the Law; and on the board of directors for the ARMA Greater Los Angeles Chapter.
Lizheng Shi, PhD, MsPharm, MA
Neal A. and Mary Vanselow Chair in Health Management and Policy; Director, Health Systems Analytics Research Center, Tulane University
Lizheng Shi, PhD, MsPharm, MA, is the Neal A. and Mary Vanselow Endowed Chair in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine of Tulane University, and a Clinical Faculty in Tulane’s Department of Medicine (Section of Endocrinology) and Department of Psychiatry. He is the founding director of Tulane’s Health Systems Analytics Research Center (HSARC).
Dr. Shi’s current health services research interest focuses on innovative health technologies to improve healthcare quality, access, and cost of patient-centered care. Dr. Shi has used data science tools (artificial intelligence and machine learning) to improve policy evaluation and analytics.
Scott Simeone
Vice President, Experience and Digital Transformation, Ochsner Health
Scott is the Vice President of Experience and Digital Transformation at Ochsner Health, partnering in leadership of the organization’s digital vision to create a modern, seamless healthcare experience. He focuses on designing digital capabilities that enhance care, reduce friction, and deliver value across patient, provider, and employee interactions.
Scott also serves as the leader of innovationOchsner (iO), driving Ochsner’s innovation strategy through emerging technologies, novel care models, and scalable digital health solutions, as well as head of Ochsner’s AI Center of Excellence, which is focused on responsible AI development and governance to improve patient outcomes, efficiency, and clinician experience.
In addition, Scott has oversight of Ochsner’s Virtual Care Center, a centralized shared service for acute virtual care delivery, including virtual nursing, centralized virtual monitoring, and virtual critical care. His work advances the integration of virtual and hybrid acute care models to optimize efficiency, improve patient outcomes, and enhance clinician support.
With over 15 years in healthcare strategy, Scott has advised major health systems and payers on enterprise strategy, digital transformation, and operational improvement. Before joining Ochsner, he led Consulting Services at AVIA, and held consulting leadership roles at Innosight, Huron Consulting Group, and Change Healthcare.
A certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and nationally registered paramedic, Scott holds a master’s degree in Health Administration from Duquesne University, where he serves on the advisory board. He earned a dual bachelor’s degree in Physics and Emergency Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh.
Gabriela Wilson, PhD, MSc, FHIMSS, FIAHSI, SNAI
Director, Louisiana Center for Health Innovation; Professor, Dr. J. Robert Rivet Endowed Chair & Acadian Ambulance Service/BORSF Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Health Informatics, College of Nursing & Health Sciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Dr. Gabriela Mustata Wilson is a globally recognized leader in health informatics, renowned for translating advanced research into real-world solutions that strengthen health systems and promote community resilience. With a unique multidisciplinary foundation in chemical engineering, pharmacoinformatics, and public health, she pioneers integrative innovations at the intersection of public and ecological health. Dr. Wilson currently serves as the Director of the Louisiana Center for Health Innovation and as a Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she holds the Dr. J. Robert Rivet Endowed Chair and the Acadian Ambulance Service/BORSF Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Health Informatics.
A strategic force in shaping the future of health informatics, Dr. Wilson plays pivotal roles with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA®). As Co-Chair of the HIMSS TIGER (Technology Informatics Global Education and Readiness) Community and Past Chair of the AMIA Pharmacoinformatics Workgroup, she has led transformative initiatives that influence education, standards, and innovation globally. Her contributions have earned widespread recognition, including being named the 2023 HIMSS Changemaker in Health, Fellow of HIMSS, Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (FIAHSI), and Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Dr. Wilson’s work reflects a powerful blend of vision, rigor, and compassion, driving systemic change and shaping a healthier, more equitable future.
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