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Biomedical Informatics Entrepreneurs Salon: Colin Hill, GNS Healthcare
May 24th, 2017 ~ 12:30pm - 02:30pm
A monthly conversation about medicine, biology, computers, entrepreneurship, and pizza. Hosted by OTD and by the HMS Dept. of Biomedical Informatics.
Featuring Colin Hill, MS, Chairman, CEO, and Cofounder of GNS Healthcare.
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About the speaker:
Colin Hill co-founded GNS Healthcare in 2000 and has served as Chairman & CEO since then. He brings impressive leadership experience and a solid track record in commercializing machine learning technology and precision medicine platforms in the biopharmaceutical and managed care industries. In 2016, he was appointed to the board of directors of a leading publically traded mobile health company that pioneered remote cardiac monitoring – Biotelemetry Inc. (formerly CardioNet) (NASDAQ: BEAT). He was appointed in 2015 by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker to the board of directors of the Center for Health Information and Analysis. He is also a founding board member of Transforming Medicine: The Elizabeth Kauffman Institute, a non-profit foundation (501c3) dedicated to the advancement of personalized medicine. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of AesRx, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of new treatments for sickle cell disease (acquired by Baxter in 2014). Colin was the founding chairman of O’Reilly Media’s Strata Rx in 2012, the first healthcare big data conference in the industry. Colin was the founding chairman of big data quantitative trading firm Fina Technologies and served from 2008 to 2011. In 2004, Colin was named to MIT Technology Review’s TR100 list of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in physics and earned Master’s degrees in physics from both McGill University and Cornell University.
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