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Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Rosamund Lewis, MD, CM is Head, WHO Smallpox Secretariat, Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses Unit, World Health Emergencies Programme, at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, leading on emergency preparedness and advising on health security for the agency in this very critical domain, including as technical lead for Monkeypox. She also holds an appointment as Adj...

Send us Fan Mail Mr. Eric Fournier is the Director General Innovation for the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) Program (https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/ideas-2019-2020-annual-report/introduction.html), which over the past year, has been able to invest more than $100M in organizations across Canada (now over 270 and counting)...

Send us Fan Mail Senator Joe Lieberman, is senior counsel at the law firm of Kasowitz Benson Torres (https://www.kasowitz.com/people/joseph-i-lieberman) where he currently advises clients on a wide range of issues, including homeland and national security, defense, health, energy, environmental policy, intellectual property matters, as well as international expansion initiatives and business plans...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Chris Zaino ( https://www.drzaino.com/ ) is a world-renowned speaker, author, entrepreneur, Former Mr America, Mr. Universe and IFBB Pro bodybuilder. After defying a deadly terminal disease in his late 20's, and studying Exercise Physiology & Wellness at University of Central Florida, Dr. Zaino leveraged his experience to get his doctorate and developing one of the la...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Tristin Brisbois, Ph. D., (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristin-brisbois-6b352b56/) is Director, Advanced Personalization Ideation Center, Life Sciences, Global R&D, at PepsiCo ( https://www.gssiweb.org/en/about/pepsico-life-sciences ), where she is involved in delivering actionable personalized nutrition solutions to promote the health and wellness of their consumers ( htt...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Thomas V. Johnson III, M.D., Ph. D. (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/thomas-johnson) is a glaucoma specialist and the Allan and Shelley Holt Rising Professor in Ophthalmology at Wilmer Eye Institute, at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a member of the Retinal ganglion cell (RGC) Repopulation, Stem cell Transplantation, and Optic nerve Regeneration (RReSTOR...

Send us Fan Mail Prof. Dr. Christine Stabell Benn, MD, PhD, DMSc, ( https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/cbenn ), is a physician, a professor of global health at the University of Southern Denmark, and a vaccine researcher with almost thirty years of experience in the field, where the focus of her research is "non-specific vaccine effects", defined as all those other effects,...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jessica Whited, Ph. D. ( https://hscrb.harvard.edu/labs/whited-lab/ ) is an Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University where her lab focuses on limb regeneration in axolotl salamanders and where they develop tools to manipulate gene expression during limb regeneration, and explore signaling events following wound healing that initiate the r...

Send us Fan Mail Andrea De Souza, is Associate Vice President, Research Data Sciences and Engineering, at Eli Lilly & Company ( https://www.lilly.com/ ) where over the past three years her work has focused around empowering the Lilly Research Laboratories (LRL) organization with greater computational, analytics-intense experimentation to raise the innovation of their scientists. A former neuro...

Send us Fan Mail Gina Tokar is the Vice President of Business Operations at Panasonic Connect North America (https://na.panasonic.com/us/panasonic-connect), where she is focused on growth and change leadership, business transformation and cost control in the supply chain. She leads a multi-year, company-wide transformation project with the goal of shifting Panasonic’s product focus into a strategi...

Send us Fan Mail Ambassador Dr. Román Macaya Hayes, Ph. D. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom%C3%A1n_Macaya ) is a Costa Rican scientist, entrepreneur, diplomat, and public servant, who most recently served as the Chairman of the Board of the Costa Rican Social Security, Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), the institution that finances and provides universal coverage of public health care...

Send us Fan Mail Captain Benjamin Van Buskirk is the Director of NavalX ( https://www.secnav.navy.mil/agility/Pages/default.aspx ), a fascinating organization that serves the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps as an innovation and agility cell, supporting and connecting initiatives across the Department of Defense, connecting different teams with tools, training, and resources, enabling people to think di...

Send us Fan Mail Commissioner Kenneth G. Hodder ( https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/who-we-are/#hodder ) serves as the National Commander for The Salvation Army in the United States, where he leads what is the largest social services organization in the country, with more than 7,600 centers of operations across the country, serving 23 million people annually to overcome poverty, addiction and e...

Send us Fan Mail Angela Sheffield is a graduate student and Space Industry fellow at the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School. She is on detail from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), where she serves as the Senior Program Manager for AI for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development. The National Nuclear Security Administration ( https://www.energy.gov/...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Aletta Schnitzler, PhD. is the Chief Scientific Officer at TurtleTree Labs ( https://turtletree.com/ ) where she leads the R&D teams and spearheads an innovation roadmap to bring nutritious cell-based dairy and meat alternatives to market. TurtleTree is a biotech company dedicated to producing a new generation of nutrition—one that’s better for the planet, better for the a...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, Ph. D., ( https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.vankerkhove ) is an infectious disease epidemiologist who serves as the technical lead for the COVID-19 response at the World Health Organization ( https://www.who.int/en/ ), where she develops guidance, training programs, and information products for the continuously evolving state of the pandemic, as well serv...

Send us Fan Mail Colonel Nathan P. Diller ( https://www.afrl.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/2856964/nathan-p-diller/ ) is the Director of AFWERX ( https://www.afwerx.af.mil/ ), a United States Air Force program with the goal of fostering a culture of innovation within the service, and developing effective solutions to the challenges facing the service through partnerships with private...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Cesar de la Fuente, Ph. D. (https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p9151622) is a Presidential Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he leads the Machine Biology Group ( https://delafuentelab.seas.upenn.edu/ ) whose goal is to combine the power of machines and biology to help prevent, detect, and treat infectious diseases. Specifically, he...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Nag Vaidyanathan, Ph. D. is Chief Technology Officer and EVP at Duck Creek Technologies ( https://www.duckcreek.com/ ), a leading provider of core system solutions to the Property and Casualty and general insurance industries, where via the company’s enterprise software-as-a-service solution, pioneering digital transformation, insurance carriers are able to navigate uncertaint...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Dumazedier Kabasele, MD, is the Founder of the Dumazedier Kabasele Foundation, a non-profit organization with a goal to raise awareness, and prevent, treat and beat stroke in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Dr. Kabasele earned his medical degree from the International Christian University in DRC, completed a special training fellowship in Neurology / Electro-Neurophysi...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Elizabeth Fowler, Ph. D., J.D., (https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/leadership/center-medicare-medicaid-innovation) is the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicar...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jerome H. Kim, M.D., is the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI - https://www.ivi.int/ ), a nonprofit International Organization established in 1997 as an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of safe, effective and affordable vaccines for global public health. IVI is headqua...

Send us Fan Mail Kathryn Coulter Mitchell ( https://www.dhs.gov/person/kathryn-coulter-mitchell ), is Acting Under Secretary for Science and Technology (S&T), at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where as the science advisor to the Homeland Security Secretary, she heads the research, development, innovation and testing and evaluation activities in support of the Department of Homeland...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Holly Ganz, Ph. D. is Chief Science Officer And Co-Founder of AnimalBiome ( https://animalbiome.com/home ), a company with a goal of helping cats and dogs lead longer, happier lives by using science to unlock the mysteries of the pet gut microbiome, providing access to genetic data on the health of the gut microbiome, better ways to log health and diet records, and offering re...

Send us Fan Mail Raza Khan is an Engineer and Senior Market Manager for Wireless Products in Semtech’s Signal Integrity Products Group (https://www.semtech.com/products/signal-integrity), and has over 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. In his current role, he oversees the strategy, product line development and market development for integrated circuit (IC) solutions for optical...