Summit Planning Team

2012 Summit Co-Chair

Mohit Kaushal, MD, MBA
Executive Vice President of Business Development and Chief Strategy Officer, West Wireless Health Institute

Dr. Mohit Kaushal is Executive Vice President of Business Development and Chief Strategy Officer of the West Wireless Health Institute. As a member of the executive leadership team, he identifies and pursues strategic opportunities to advance the Institute's mission of lowering health care costs through technology and innovation.

Dr. Kaushal has had an extensive career within clinical medicine, academic research, venture capital, public health and health policy. Previously, he was Director of Connected Health at the Federal Communications Commission, where his team produced the Health Care chapter of the National Broadband Plan and initiated collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration for the regulatory streamlining of converged telecommunication and medical devices. Prior to this position, he was an investment professional at Polaris Venture Partners, and held roles with Merrill Lynch's Health Care IBD Group and the World Health Organization.

In addition to his role at the Institute, Dr. Kaushal currently serves Co-Manager of the West Health Investment Fund. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University, with a focus on connected health clinical research, and a member of the Johns Hopkins University Biomedical Engineering Industrial Liaison Advisory Board. He holds an MBA from Stanford and an MD with distinction from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.

2012 Summit Co-Chair

Simmi P. Singh
Senior Advisor, Health Innovation, Office of the Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services

Simmi Singh is a life-long student of history, human health and public policy. She is also an internationally recognized thought leader who has spent over twenty years working at the cross-roads of innovation, consumerism, care delivery and health financing – as an entrepreneur, business leader and management consultant in a range of governance, advisory and operating roles.

She is head of healthcare services at Egon Zehnder International, based out of the firm's Chicago office. In this role, Simmi serves as a trusted advisor to business and industry leaders across the globe on the topics of innovation, leadership and governance. Simmi is currently serving as Senior Advisor, Health Innovation, in the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Throughout her career, Simmi has had extensive involvement with and exposure to public policy in healthcare. Simmi is a current and former member of leading industry Boards. She was a Director, Vice-Chair and Chair of the former Center for Health Information Management (CHIM) Board and a Director on the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society Board. Her contributions during those seven years on the CHIM and HIMSS Boards were recognized as pivotal to highlighting the potential of information technology to improve healthcare outcomes and to placing this topic on the national agenda. She received numerous awards for her work including the HIMSS Annual Leadership Award for outstanding contributions to the health care information technology sector.

She has been privileged to serve as guest lecturer at the Yale School of Management Executive MBA Program on Healthcare Leadership and currently serves as a member of the Provost's International Visiting Committee at Case Western Reserve University.

Program Committee Chair

Aman Bhandari, PhD
Senior Advisor to the CTO
CMS Innovation Center
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Aman Bhandari is currently Senior Advisor to the CTO, Todd Park, at the US Department of Health and Human Services and also works at the newly formed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Previously he worked at the White House reporting directly to the US CTO, Aneesh Chopra, on a variety of domestic and global health policy issues and national initiatives that focused on the intersection of innovation, data, and technology (e.g., prizes and challenges, mobile health, open government).

While at the White House Aman co-founded the Federal Mobile Health Collaborative, advancing the development of HHS mHealth policies and programs. He also played a major role in the development of the HHS flagship Health Data Initiative (HDI), providing strategic direction, implementation and co-leading partnership development, cross-sector collaborations, and community building with entrepreneurs and policy makers. As part of HDI he co-launched the Health2.0 code-a-thon and developer challenge. The HDI is a public-private effort that encourages innovators to use health data to develop applications that improve health.

At CMS Aman sat on the Council of Technology & Innovation and the Medicare Prescription Drug Review Group, which established policies and protocols for access to drug data. Prior to CMS, he worked in a variety of public health roles from bench research in a malaria lab to clinical trials research in an urban HIV/AIDS clinic to conducting a case study of one of the only non-profit medical device manufacturing facilities in the world. In 2006 he founded one of the only independent global health and technology blogs which has been linked to or cited by various progressive sites including World Changing, Acumen Fund, the New York Times, BoingBoing, and Next Billion. Aman has published in journals ranging from Health Affairs to Innovations in Technology, Governance and Globalization. He has a deep interest in linking domestic and global innovation in public health.