Stefanos Zenios is the Charles A. Holloway Professor at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. His pioneering work on maximizing the benefits of medical technology to patients when resources are limited has influenced policies in the US and Europe. He has quantified the ethical implications of technology allocation choices on patients and society as featured in the Financial Times and Times.com. At Stanford University, he was the first to introduce courses on the interface between medicine, engineering, and management in the MBA curriculum. Dr Zenios advises medical device and biopharmaceutical companies on health economics and outcomes studies for marketing and reimbursement… strategies. He is also a co-founder of Culmini Inc., a company funded by the National Institutes of Health to develop web-tools that help patients and families with difficult choices.
Todd J. Brinton is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular) and Bioengineering (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He is an interventional cardiologist at Stanford University Medical Center and investigator in interventional-based therapies for coronary disease and heart failure. He is also the Fellowship Director for the Biodesign Program, and Co-Director of the graduate class in Biodesign Innovation at Stanford University. Dr Brinton completed his medicine, cardiology, and interventional training at Stanford University. He holds an M.D. from the Chicago Medical School and a B.S. in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego. He is co-founder of… BioParadox, Inc., a venture-backed medical device company and serves on the advisory board for a number of early-stage medical device companies. Prior to medical school he was the Clinical Research Director for Pulse Metric, Inc., a medical device start-up company.
Uday N. Kumar is the founder and Chief Medical Officer of iRhythm Technologies, Inc., a venture-backed medical device company focused on developing new devices and systems for the detection of cardiac rhythm disorders. He is also the Associate Director, Curriculum of Stanford-India Biodesign and a Lecturer in Bioengineering, and has served as an Adjunct Clinical Instructor of Cardiovascular Medicine, all at Stanford University. In these capacities, he mentors, advises, and teaches students and fellows about the biodesign process. Dr Kumar completed a Biodesign Innovation fellowship at Stanford, cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology fellowships at the University of California, San… Francisco (UCSF), an internal medicine residency at Columbia University, and his medical and undergraduate education at Harvard University. He was also Chief Medical Officer and Vice-President of Biomedical Modeling Inc., a medical start-up company.