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Send us Fan Mail Steve Rader ( https://www.nasa.gov/people/steve-rader /) serves as the Program Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation ( CoECI - https://www.nasa.gov/coeci/ ) and the NASA Tournament Lab ( NTL - https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-tournament-lab/ ), which are working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federa...

Send us Fan Mail Patty Keating is Executive Director of the HypoPARAthyroidism Association ( HPA - https://www.hypopara.org/ ), an advocacy organization that works to improve the lives of people impacted by hypoPARAthyroidism through education, support, research, and advocacy. Patty comes to HPA as a post-surgical hypoPARAthyroidism patient since 2015. She spent over 30 years in leadership roles w...

Send us Fan Mail H.E. Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky, Ph. D. is Chairman of the Egypt Healthcare Authority ( EHA - https://eha.gov.eg/en/about-eha/ ) and a prominent figure esteemed for his visionary leadership and expertise across clinical and managerial domains.  As the Chairman of the EHA since 2020, Dr. El-Sobky has founded the guiding principles of the organization and led transformative measures to enha...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Heather Ikemire, Ph. D. is Executive Director of Lifetime Arts ( https://lifetimearts.org/ ), a national service organization focused on accelerating the impact of creative aging nationwide and leading this national, multi-sector movement to establish creative aging as an essential driver of older adult health and well-being. The vision of Lifetime Arts is to imagine a world w...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nikolay Kukushkin, Ph. D. ( https://www.nikolaykukushkin.com/ ) is Clinical Associate Professor of Life Science and a research fellow at the Center for Neural Science, at NYU ( https://liberalstudies.nyu.edu/about/faculty-listing/nikolay-kukushkin.html ).   Dr. Kukushkin studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory formation and his research has been exploring that...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ian Simon, Ph. D. is the Director for the Office of Long COVID Research and Practice ( https://www.hhs.gov/longcovid/index.html ), in the Office of Science and Medicine, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The Office of Science and Medicine harnesses the power of collaboration, scientific analysis, data-dri...

Send us Fan Mail Eli Mohamad is a prominent figure in the biotech, space, and AI industries who has co-founded several successful startups and has a real passion for groundbreaking ventures that focus on the development of futuristic technologies. Currently as a Core Team Member at CryoDAO ( https://www.cryodao.org/ ), a decentralized organization focused on sourcing and funding research in cryopr...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD is a board-certified infectious diseases physician who is the Founding Director of BU Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases ( https://www.bu.edu/ceid/about-the-center/team/nahid-bhadelia-md-mald/ ) as well an Associate Professor at the BU School of Medicine. She served the Senior Policy Advisor for Global COVID-19 Response for the White House COVID-19...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Debra Whitman, Ph. D. is Executive Vice President and Chief Public Policy Officer, at AARP ( https://www.aarp.org/ ) where she leads policy development, analysis and research, as well as global thought leadership supporting and advancing the interests of individuals age 50-plus and their families. She oversees AARP’s Public Policy Institute, AARP Research, Office of Policy Dev...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Marcia McNutt, Ph. D. is President of the National Academy of Sciences ( https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/marcia-mcnutt-6apamq/ ), where she also chairs the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and serves a key role in advising our nation on various important issues pertaining to science, techno...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nina Siragusa, Ph. D., MBA, is the Strategy, Business, and Data & Digital Lead within the global R&D organization of Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. In this role, she leads strategic projects, manages business operations, and drives digital transformation. Previously, she served as Chief of Staff to Dr. Laura Matz, Chief Science and Technology Officer at Mer...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jackie Kunzler, Ph. D. is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Research and Development (R&D), and member of the Executive Management Committee, of Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies ( https://www.terumobct.com/ ), where she focuses on innovation and development leading the way for unlocking the potential of blood and cell collections in varied sectors, including blood...

Send us Fan Mail Sam Murray, MT-BC, CADDCT, CDP, is a Music Therapist at Goodwin Living ( https://goodwinliving.org/ ), a non-profit senior living and healthcare organization, located in Northern Virginia, that serves more than 2,500 older adults in the National Capital Region (Northern Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland) and more than 25,000 older adults across the nation who participate in t...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. David Feinberg, M.D., is Chairman of Oracle Health ( https://www.oracle.com/health/ ), where he and his team are committed to making healthcare more accessible, affordable and equitable, building an open healthcare platform with intelligent tools for data-driven, human-centric healthcare experiences to connect consumers, healthcare providers, payers, and public health and life...

Send us Fan Mail Robert Stone is the CEO of City of Hope ( https://www.cityofhope.org/robert-stone ), a premier cancer research and treatment center dedicated to innovation in biomedical science and the delivery of compassionate, world-class patient care. A seasoned health care executive, he has served in a number of strategic decision-making roles since he joined City of Hope in 1996, culminating...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Sudip Parikh, Ph. D. ( https://www.aaas.org/person/sudip-parikh ), is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals and has spent the last two decades at the nexus of science, policy, and business. Prior to joining AAAS, Dr. Parikh was senior vice president and managing di...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Abigail Stevenson is Chief Science Officer (CSO), at Mars ( https://www.mars.com/ ), the multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products, and a provider of pet care services, where she champions Mars’ involvement in global, cutting-edge science discovery, drives external partnerships with academia, start ups, non-governmental organizations and pe...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Blank is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford and Co-Founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation (https://gordianknot.stanford.edu/people/steve-blank). He has been described as the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement and the curriculums for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps and Hacking for De...

Send us Fan Mail Professor Carlos Duarte, Ph. D. is Distinguished Professor, Marine Science, and Executive Director, Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform ( CORDAP - https://cordap.org/ ), Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology ( KAUST - https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/carlos-duarte ), in Saudi Ara...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. James L. Madara, MD, is CEO and Executive Vice President of the American Medical Association ( https://www.ama-assn.org/about/authors-news-leadership-viewpoints/james-l-madara-md ), the United States' largest physician organization. He also holds the academic title of adjunct professor of pathology at Northwestern University ( https://www.pathology.northwestern.edu/Facult...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Amal Al-Maani, MD is Director General for Diseases Surveillance and Control at the Ministry of Health of Oman ( https://moh.gov.om/en/hospitals-directorates/directorates-and-centers-at-hq/directorate-general-for-disease-surveillance-and-control/ ), senior consultant in pediatric infectious diseases in the Sultanate, and is the focal point for the Global Antimicrobial Resistanc...

Send us Fan Mail Michael J. Burton is the CEO of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation ( https://diabetesresearch.org/ ), a philanthropic organization which funds the Diabetes Research Institute, one of the largest and most comprehensive research centers dedicated to curing diabetes. A passionate nonprofit executive, Michael has more than 30 years of experience in leading high-impact philanth...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Legena Henry, Ph. D. is a Lecturer for Renewable Energy at University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados ( https://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fst/cmp/faculty-and-staff/academic-staff/physics/legena-henry.aspx ) with research specializing in Renewable Energy, Ocean Engineering Analysis, Ocean Wave Statistics, Marine Hydrodynamics, and Applied Mechanics.  Dr. Henry is also...

Send us Fan Mail Linda Jiang is Head of Strategy and Government Partnerships, Healthcare, at Lyft ( https://www.lyft.com/healthcare ), where she’s responsible for accelerating the growth of the business, driving public sector strategy, and partnering with policymakers and regulators to bring access to the rideshare service to millions of people who need it for healthcare access. Previously, Linda...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Demurjian is CEO And Chairman of Aspargo Labs ( https://aspargolabs.com/ ), which he co-founded in 2019, which is a distinguished pharmaceutical and med-tech company committed to developing innovative oral spray formulations and drug delivery systems. Mr. Demurjian brings extensive experience across finance, manufacturing, sales & marketing, logistics, and general mana...