Jay Baruch, MD

Jay Baruch, MD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University, where he also serves as the director of the Program in Clinical Arts and Humanities, co-director of the medical humanities and bioethics scholarly concentration, and director of the ethics curriculum.
His collection of short fiction, Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers (Kent State University Press, 2007) was Honorable Mention in the short story category in ForeWord Magazine’s 2007 Book of the Year Awards. His short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous print and online literary, medical and humanities journals.He is a former Faculty Fellow, Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University. His academic work draws on his experience as an emergency physician and a writer, and involves program development with a central focus that emphasizes the role of humanities and creative thinking as medical instruments to produce better healthcare providers. His present work is exploring the role of narrative and humanities as a means for community engagement on healthcare issues. His teaching and curriculum projects at Alpert Medical School are rooted in interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations. Examples include bringing medical students into conversations with law students at Roger Williams University Law School, art students at Rhode Island School of Design, and acting students with the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program. He has also taught undergraduate medical humanities seminars at Brown University.

He lectures nationally on topics ranging from creative writing, the medical humanities, and medical ethics. More information on Jay Baruch can be found at www.jaybaruch.com

Marc Triola, MD

Dr. Marc Triola is the Associate Dean for Educational Informatics at NYU School of Medicine. He directs the NYU School of Medicine Division of Educational Informatics (DEI, http://dei.med.nyu.edu), one of the largest medical educational technology laboratories in the country. Dr. Triola’s research experience and expertise includes computer-based medical education, the use of Virtual Patients, and the assessment of change in knowledge and attitudes resulting from computer-assisted instruction. He chairs numerous committees at the state and national level focused on the future of health professions educational technology development and research.

DEI has played a key role in transforming medical education locally and is recognized internationally as a leader of innovation within medical education. Dr. Triola and DEI have been funded by the NIH, the IAIMS program, the National Science Foundation Advanced Learning Technologies Program, the Centers for Disease Control, and the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Triola is currently the Principal Investigator of a grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation to support the development of NYU 3T: Teaching, Technology, Teamwork, which provides NYU medical and nursing students with longitudinal exposure to a diverse patient population and systematic interdisciplinary education in the competencies of team-based care; the first large scale medical-nursing education collaborative at NYU. He recently gave a ‘TED Talk’ at TEDMED 2012 and his first textbook, “Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences”, was published by Addison Wesley.

Dr. Triola is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the NYU School of Medicine. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at NYU School of Medicine and subsequently served as Chief Resident for the Internal Medicine Training Program. He completed a Research Fellowship in Medical Informatics at the NYU and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Yuri Millo, MD

Yuri Millo is a physician with over 20 years of experience in healthcare innovation, leadership, and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Millo Co-chair the American College of Surgeons committee on technology and standards, he is alumni of Singularity University medical executive program and presenter at Future Med. He in member of several organization including the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is a sought-after speaker, presenting internationally on the topics of simulation, training and innovation.

Dr Millo area of innovation is the junction of Technology, Training and Healthcare.

Dr Millo recently founded Millo Group, a consulting and service group focused providing medical simulation and modeling solutions based on innovation, research and evidence based science.

Until recently in his position as Director and Founder of SiTEL of MedStar Health, for ten years he provided the unifying vision for the development of advanced education and training technologies at MedStar Health a $3.8 billion, not-for-profit organization in the greater Baltimore-Washington area with nine hospitals.

The area of innovation was in design and operation of new simulation centers, integration of serious games in healthcare training and development of advance talent management systems.

In 2000, prior to launching SiTEL, Dr. Millo founded the Internet Academy for Medical Education. It was one of the first providers of synchronous and asynchronous online continuing medical education.

Dr. Millo completed medical school at Caregi Faculty of Medicine, Florence, Italy and trained in general surgery and vascular surgery in Tel Aviv and plastic surgery in Jerusalem, Israel. He completed a fellowship in pediatric plastic surgery in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Dr. Millo served in the Israeli Air Force as a Rescue Team Commander.

Dr. Millo donates time and expertise to Operation Smile, an international children’s medical charity that treats childhood facial deformities including cleft lips and cleft palates.

Louise Aronson, MD

Louise Aronson is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the author of A History of the Present Illness, linked stories which take readers into the lives of doctors, patients, and their families, providing a portrait of health and illness in America today. An academic geriatrician and medical educator, Dr. Aronson directs the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center, the UCSF reflective learning curriculum, and the Pathways to Discovery Program, and serves as associate editor for the JAMA Care of the Aging Patient series and director of Public Medical Communication for the Program for the Aging Century. She is the recipient of the California Homecare Physician of the Year award, a Geriatric Academic Career Award, the Cooke Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, the Lieberman Scholar Award, and the AOA Edward D. Harris Professionalism Award. Dr. Aronson also holds an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and her writing has appeared in both literary and medical journals, in the lay press, and increasingly, on blogs. She has won the Sonora Review Prize, the New Millennium Short Fiction Award, three Pushcart nominations, and has been awarded UCross, Ragdale and Hedgebrook Foundation residencies. Find her at http://louisearonson.com/ or on twitter @louisearonson.

Louise Aronson is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). A geriatrician and medical educator, Louise cares for frail older adults, directs the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center, the UCSF reflective learning curriculum, and the Pathways to Discovery Program, and serves as associate editor for the JAMA Care of the Aging Patient series and director of Public Medical Communication for the Program for the Aging Century. She is the recipient of the California Homecare Physician of the Year award, a Geriatric Academic Career Award, the Cooke Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, the Lieberman Scholar Award, and the AOA Edward D. Harris Professionalism Award. Dr. Aronson also holds an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and her fiction has appeared in both literary and medical journals including Bellevue Literary Review, Northwest Review, Fourteen Hills, The Literary Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. She has won the Sonora Review Prize, the New Millennium Short Fiction Award, multiple writer’s residency fellowships, and three Pushcart nominations. A History of the Present Illness is her first book.

Alexa Miller, MA

Alexa Miller is a recognized expert in aligning medical training with education methodologies in the visual arts. She is the principal of Arts Practica, a medical education consultancy committed to improving quality in care providers’ attention. Over the past decade, she has worked with hospitals, medical schools and other health care organizations to create and facilitate museum-based workshops and programs. Alexa is co-creator of the Training the Eye Program at Harvard Medical School, a preclinical course focused on the physical exam and the process of diagnosis, and has contributed to research on the impact of arts training on medical students. Alexa is adjunct faculty in Brandeis University’s Education Department, where she works closely with the Rose Art Museum. Formerly curator of education at the Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Alexa created professional development workshops, taught courses in arts learning, and conducted research on undergraduates’ museum experiences.
A frequent presenter to medical and general audiences on the impact of aesthetic experiences on clinical engagement, Alexa has written and contributed to research in peer-reviewed publications, including Journal of General Internal Medicine and the Journal of Museum Education.
Alexa received her BA in art history from Swarthmore College and MA in studio painting from the Wimbledon School of Art. She has received awards from Creative Center for People with Cancer and New England Museum Association. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband (a biologist) and toddler (a professional trainspotter) among many picture books.

Fred Trotter

Fred Trotter is a healthcare data journalist and author. He is a technical blogger for O’Reilly Radar and is the co-author of the first Health IT O’Reilly book Hacking Healthcare. Fred’s technical commentary and data journalism work has been featured in several online and print journals including Wired, Forbes, U.S. News, NPR, Government Health IT, and Modern Healthcare. As a technology entrepreneur he is an alumni of multiple successful technical startups including Rackspace, Exault (purchased by Verisign), and ClearHealth (the top Open Source EHR company). Fred Trotter is deeply involved in the e-patient movement, the quantified self movement, the health 2.0 community. In all of those environments, Trotter has focused on building tools that help empower patients to improve their own health.

He is a founder of Not Only Dev, which is a not-only-for-profit Data Journal and Software Development company. Not Only Dev focuses on creating on creating game-changing healthcare data sets and software, sometimes at a loss, but usually not. Not Only Dev is behind the crowdfunding success, the new Open Data set DocGraph. DocGraph shows how doctors and hospitals work together in the United States, and is an Open Source Eventually data set. He currently serves on the Consumer Technology Workgroup for the Health IT standards committee which advises the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

Rich Baraniuk, PhD

Rich Baraniuk is currently the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, a member of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) group, and Director of the Rice center for Digital Learning and Scholarship (RDLS). He is Director of Connexions, a non-profit educational and scholarly publishing project he founded in 1999 to bring textbooks and learning materials into the Internet Age.  Connexions makes high-quality educational content available to anyone, anywhere, anytime for free on the web and at very low cost in print by inviting authors, educators, and learners worldwide to “create, rip, mix, and burn” textbooks, courses, and learning materials from its global open-access repository. Each month, Connexions’ free educational materials are used by over 2 million people from nearly 200 countries. His career apogee was probably opening for Peter Gabriel at TED 2006 (talk). His signal processing materials in Connexions have been viewed over 5 million times. Since 2002, Connexions has been supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Maxfield Foundation, NSF, and Rice University.  Some recent press on Connexions is available here and here. His Connexions author profile page is here.

In early 2012, Connexions launched OpenStax College, a non-profit initiative to develop high-quality free college textbooks for some of world’s most at-risk students. Currently, Dr. Baraniuk is developing advanced machine learning algorithms and a software platform for a personalized learning system called OpenStax Tutor that  integrates text, video, simulations, problems, feedback hints, and tutoring and optimizes each student’s learning experience based on their background, context, and learning goals. This work is funded by the NSF Cyberlearning program and by Google through their Research Awards program.

Greg Matthews