Dr. Ray Dorsey

Dr. Dorsey is Associate Professor of Neurology at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Director of The Johns Hopkins Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center. After receiving a joint MD/MBA at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Dorsey completed an NIH-funded fellowship in Movement Disorders and Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on movement disorders like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease and developing new treatments for individuals with these neurological conditions.

Dr. Laura Esserman

Dr. Esserman is Professor of Surgery and Radiology at UCSF School of Medicine and directs the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. Her research focuses on bioinformatics, medical and clinical informatics, systems integration, and clinical care delivery with the goal of giving patients better access to accurate information to become partners in their healthcare decisions. Dr. Esserman has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of breast health, advocating the improvement in delivering breast cancer care. She was awarded for her research and collaboration with colleagues when she received the 2005 NCI SPORE Investigator of the Year Award.

Dr. Keith Lillemoe

Dr. Lillemoe is Chairman of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and the W. Austen Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is a world-renowned general surgeon and regarded as one of the top pancreatic cancer surgeons in the country. With over four decades in academic medicine, Dr. Lillemoe has previously held leadership positions at Johns Hopkins and Indiana University. His bibliography includes more than 300 scientific articles and 115 book chapters. In addition, he serves as editor of the leading surgical textbook, Greenfield’s Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practices, and as the Editor-in-Chief of the top surgical journal, Annals of Surgery.

Dr. Michael Link

Dr. Link is the Lydia J. Lee Professor in Pediatric Cancer and former Chief of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He recently ended his term as President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and was the first pediatric oncologist to serve in that position. Dr. Link runs multiple clinical trials at Stanford dealing with the treatment of sarcomas of bone and soft tissue, acute lymphoblastic leukemias, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s disease. In 2013 he was awarded the visiting lectureship in Pediatric Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Christopher Longhurst

As Chief Information Officer for UC San Diego Health, Dr. Longhurst oversees all operations and strategic planning for information and communications technology. He is also responsible for planning and developing all administrative and clinical information systems related to operating UC San Diego Health hospital and clinical facilities. Dr. Longhurst leads the creation and execution of a comprehensive information strategy to meet future needs of UC San Diego Health along with creating standards, architectures and policies for information technologies across UC San Diego and the UC system. His area of responsibility includes electronic health records and the MyUCSDChart system. UC San Diego Health has reached Stage 7 of electronic medical record (EMR) adoption, a ranking devised by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). This distinction is achieved by less than five percent of U.S. hospitals. Dr. Longhurst is also a key faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the UC San Diego School of Medicine. He most recently served as chief medical information officer for Stanford Children’s Health, where he led strategic efforts to improve children’s health and provider workflow using information technology. He also founded and led the clinical informatics fellowship at Stanford, where he was a clinical professor of pediatrics. Dr. Longhurst completed his residency at Stanford Medical School and earned his medical degree and MS in medical informatics from UC Davis. He holds a BS in molecular biology from UC San Diego. He is a board-certified pediatrician and clinical informaticist. The author and co-author of many publications on using technology and data to improve patient care and outcomes, Dr. Longhurst was elected a fellow in the prestigious American College of Medical Informatics.

Dr. Matthew Nielsen

Dr. Nielsen is a board-certified urologic oncologist practicing in the fully integrated Multidisciplinary Genitourinary Oncology Program at the UNC Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he is Director of the Division of Urologic Oncology. His research, focused on cancer care quality and medical decision making, was recognized with the Rising Stars in Urology Research Award and has been supported by the NIH, AHRQ, and the American Cancer Society. Dr. Nielsen received an M.S. in Clinical Research from UNC-Chapel Hill, did his residency at John Hopkins, and his received his M.D. from John Hopkins. He was selected for the American Urological Association Leadership Program and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network.

Dr. Lidia Schapira

Dr. Schapira is an Associate Professor of Oncology at the Stanford University Medical Center. Her clinical area of expertise is in breast cancer, new treatments for the disease and the special concerns for young cancer survivors. Her research focuses on the psychosocial support of cancer patients and improved communication between the patient and treating physician. Dr. Schapira has published articles in the leading scientific and academic journals in the field and is a past director of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society.