Dr. Gwadry-Sridhar is the founder and chief executive officer of Pulse Infoframe. Dr. Gwadry-Sridhar is a pharmacist, epidemiologist and methodologist with over 25 years of experience in clinical trials, health analytics, clinical disease outcomes, and registries.

Roger has over 25 years of experience in finance and technology building and leading high performing global teams and projects. He held senior executive positions at BlackBerry with global responsibility for finance operations leading projects to structure global operations work.

Marc, a research and development leader, brings 30 years of experience in data operations, analytics, epidemiology, biostatistics, engineering and clinical computational platforms. Marc has held academic faculty clinical and research positions, and leadership positions with government health institutions and private life science organizations.

Mike brings over 35 years of technology executive experience. Previously, Mike was the CTO for QuantiaMD, VP of Engineering at Soliloquy Learning, and co-founder of the Mesa Group, a software product development company, which was acquired by Microsoft. Subsequently he served as a Software Development Manager for Microsoft Exchange.

Paul brings over 30 years’ experience. Previously, Paul was a senior member of the technology team at Concerto Health and was the chief architect of the Oracle Cancer Research Cloud initiative.

Jim, a health start-up entrepreneur, has served in a variety of executive leadership roles for healthcare institutions and organizations for more than twenty years.  Starting his healthcare career in the field of emergency medicine, he served in Fire Department EMS, hospital Advanced Life Support and medical aviation-based settings.

Carlos is a systems thinker and business innovator committed to enabling individuals to discover how their behaviors, biology, and environment impact health outcomes. He’s on a mission to align revenue generation to societal good.

Dr. Handelin is the co-founder and CEO of Audacity Therapeutics. She has a 30+ year career as a pioneering medical geneticist, and serves the research management needs of rare disease patient organizations.

Eric has been at the forefront of disruptive innovation in technology for nearly 40 years building several startups and in executive roles in leading companies including Lotus, Microsoft and Qualcomm. For the past 15 years, Eric has focused exclusively in healthcare using real world data and machine learning to advance patient lives. He advises a select group of health-related companies and serves as advisor to the Carnegie Mellon UPMC Center for Machine Learning and Health.

Jay is a principal in Atria Global Health Advisory Services. His primary work has been advising on Governance, System Development and Strategy for organizations ranging from single entities to National healthcare systems.

Dr. Stupka is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Life Sciences business unit at Health Catalyst and a technical advisor at Pulse Infoframe. He is a visionary leader in digital health with a passion for innovation in health and life sciences and 20 years of experience across industry, academic and clinical settings.

Jean is a Principal at JF Campbell Consultants, a company whose mission to offer the non-profit health community and the for profit pharmaceutical and biotech industries, a wide range of services to enhance their mission and vision to better serve their constituents. With 17 years of experience working within the rare disease community to increase their visibility on the national and international healthcare scene coupled with advising the for-profit sector on the best way to interact with this community, JF Campbell Consultants has the knowledge, expertise and understanding to make significant connections that will improve the quality of life for this underserved population. 

Mark is the Board Chair of the DC based EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases, a science-based advocacy organization dedicated to accelerating biotech innovations for rare disease treatments through science-driven public policy. Mark is also the founder and Executive Director of the Ryan Foundation. Mark’s family’s journey has been documented on CBS 60 Minutes, CNN, Biography Magazine, Readers Digest in 13 languages around the world, Golf Digest, and numerous news outlets globally. 

Laurence is the founder and director of On The Pulse: an independent, strategic consultancy providing specialist insight to UK and global healthcare providers and multi-agencies on the development and rollout of patient activation campaigns in haemophilia and rare diseases. Laurence has extensive patient advocacy experience, having advised on and implemented a broad scope of community awareness, research and educational initiatives for commercial partners and third-sector organisations. 

Dr. Feuer has a passion for working with individuals living with chronic medical illness as a clinical health psychologist, healthcare consultant, and speaker. Through her work, she helps patients live healthier, more resilient lives while coping with medical difficulties. She has experience with a wide range of medical diagnoses, and specializes in individuals living with the unique challenges of rare, ultra-rare, and/or genetic diseases. Dr. Feuer believes that health is more than just the sum of our physical ailments, and aims to help clients develop and increase an overall sense of well-being in their daily lives. 

Kathleen worked in the biotech industry for the last 20 years managing relationships within the rare disease patient community while working at Sanofi Genzyme.  Prior to that, she worked as a licensed clinical social worker in pediatrics at Tufts Medical Center. Her deep commitment to patients, rare diseases, and supporting the patient community while also trying to bring innovation and new technology remains a priority.  Working in Patient Advocacy at Pulse is a perfect match supporting those two priorities.

Deepti brings over a decade of sales and operations experience. She recently worked at Wolters Kluwer Health, an industry-leading clinical decision support solution provider. She is currently doing her MBA from Babson College with a concentration in business analytics and entrepreneurship. Her strengths in developing processes and focusing on solution selling help her achieve win-win outcomes for all stakeholders.

Sarah leads Pulse Infoframe’s client implementation delivery, platform support, and standards and policies oversight activities. With over a decade of professional service, Sarah brings extensive expertise to Pulse’s expanding client base and suite of platform services.

Marilou began her career over 25 years ago as a Medical Laboratory Technologist in a diverse hospital setting. She has gained a certification in genetics and is a certified Quality Auditor. Prior to joining Pulse, Marilou has worked in healthcare, academics, pharma and NHP industries. She has experience with FDA, Health Canada, and other regulatory bodies.

Joshua’s expertise is in building relationships and fostering collaboration across diverse groups of stakeholders, with a specific focus on supporting underrepresented populations and advancing the development of treatments for underserved diseases.

Dan’s varied background in rare disease advocacy began when he and his wife founded the Cure & Action for Tay-Sachs (CATS) Foundation in the UK, after their daughter Amélie was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs. Dan has over ten years of experience in medtech and advocacy, and he has also served as Chairman of the European Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff Charity Consortium since 2012. Dan is fully aware of the patient voice, and he consistently puts patients and their needs at the forefront of clinical discussion.

Denise began her career as a Medical Technologist working in a hospital laboratory environment. She made the transition to the pharmaceutical industry, and after more than 25 years she has held positions in basic and clinical research with successful submissions to the FDA for multiple drugs and biologics, as well as creating and facilitating training for Barnett International for the past 21 years.

David is currently completing his Master’s degree in biotechnology management and entrepreneurship at Yeshiva University and aiming to devote himself to the healthcare industry to better transfer clinical outcomes and data into valuable resources that can help patients. Before that, David had two years of BD experience in the PU & PE industry and wet lab experience in structural/protein biology in college.

Alaa has completed a Master of Management of Applied Science in Global Health Systems at Western University. She is a pharmacist by profession and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for more than six years. Prior to beginning at Pulse, she was a project coordinator for the Wastewater Initiative surveillance at Western University. 

Nina is a dynamic and engaging leader passionate about delivering products to market that will have a direct impact on the care quality for patients. She is experienced in product management, product marketing and business operations in a variety of fast-paced healthcare technology companies.

Ryan graduated from Clark University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Marketing and a Master of Business Administration. He has had prior marketing experience for creative agencies and consulting companies and was also a teaching assistant during his final year of undergrad.

Dr. Young has over 20 years experience in oncology research in the areas of pathology, DNA damage responses, medical genetics, epigenetics, and precision medicine, and over 8 years experience in oncology clinical trials. Leah’s therapeutic areas of expertise include lung cancer, HNPCC, skin cancer, lymphoma, and pediatric oncology (leukemia, solid, CNS).

Dr. Rakibuz-Zaman is a medical graduate (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and epidemiologist (MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Western Ontario) with over 20 years of progressive experience working in clinical research, longitudinal cohort studies, public health and bio-specimen research (laboratory setting).

Michael has spent the last decade working with real-world evidence data as a statistician, working at CROs and collaborating with both pharmaceutical companies as well as academic and research institutions. During that time he has lead and published numerous studies in oncology, rheumatology, nephology, and other treatment areas. He holds an MPH with a focus on biostatistics from Boston University.

Beth is a Graduate of Computer Science, Bioinformatics at the University of Western Ontario. During graduate work, she was a University Instructor in software engineering, computer organization and architecture, and algorithms.

Logan graduated from the Computer Programmer Analyst program at Fanshawe College. He has full stack industry experience developing websites and desktop applications. Logan is also a firefighter with his local volunteer fire department.

Angel is a biostatistician with nearly two decades of experience designing, analyzing, and synthesizing results from clinical research studies. Throughout her career, she has worked in both academic and non-academic environments and collaborated on numerous peer-reviewed publications. She received her master’s degree in biostatistics from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Amy is a creative product manager with over 8 years of experience connecting user problems to software solutions. She received her master’s degree in Epidemiology from The Ohio State University. After her studies, she began her career at IQVIA Biotech, where she developed reusable specifications and code used to generate CDISC data sets. She has also worked on the pharma side, at Merck/MSD, where she used her expertise in clinical data standards to review regulatory submissions. Amy also contributes to the clinical data standard community and is a regular presenter at industry events. 

Daniel has worked as a software engineer building and designing custom solutions for many enterprise applications. Not only is Daniel a Software Engineer, he has worked with IoT devices, built custom firmware, and even provided tech support for Geek Squad.

Erica graduated with an advanced diploma in Computer Programming Analyst at Fanshawe College along with a Bachelor of Arts. She worked as a database analyst for 5 years in the financial field before she developed a strong passion for software engineering.

Thien is a software developer and recently graduated with an advanced diploma in the Computer Programmer Analysis program at Fanshawe College. He has been working in the software development field for more than 5 years. In addition, he has hands-on experience in designing and developing website projects.