MedCity Invest 2023 | MedCity events | 22 May 2023 | The Ritz-Carlton, Chicago, At Water Tower Place, 160 E Pearson St, Chicago, IL 60611, USA

INVEST 2023 will unite active investors with corporate business development executives to facilitate investment opportunities with the most promising healthcare startups.

For more than a decade, biopharma, diagnostics, health IT, medical device and health services startups have presented to leading investors: AbbVie, Baird Capital, BCBS, Mayo Clinic Ventures, 7WireVentures, UnityPoint Health Ventures, Venrock and others.

2023 Speakers

William Brady
SVP - STARs, Quality and Performance Improvement, UnitedHealthCare

Elizabeth Klodas, MD
Founder, Step One Foods

Jose Prince, MD
VP & System Chief, Pediatric Surgical Services, Northwell Health

Anita Allemand, Pharm.D
Chief Transformation and Integration Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance

John Fryer
SVP, Head of Growth and Market Development, Lumeris, President, Tribus

Sal Lo
Co-Founder and CEO, Jorie Healthcare Partners

Alvia Siddiqi, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Enterprise Population Health, Advocate Health

Dan Gebremedhin MD
Partner, Flare Capital Partners

Dipa Mehta
SVP, Corporate Development & Ventures, Advocate Health

Beth Mosier
Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences, West Monroe

Ulili Onovakpuri
Managing Partner, Kapor Capital

Mike Spadafore
Managing Director, Blue Venture Fund

Arundhati Parmar
VP & Editor-in-Chief, MedCity News

Harry Glorikian
General Partner, Scientia Ventures

Oliver Keown, M.D.
Managing Director, Intuitive Ventures

Julien L. Pham, MD
Founder and Managing Partner, 3CC | Third Culture Capital

Nathan Linsley
Senior Vice President, Government & Individual Markets, Health Care Service Corporation

Feyi Olopade Ayodele
CEO and Co-Founder, CancerIQ

Shannon Skaggs
President, Quantum Health

Kate Wolin, ScD
Principal Owner, Circea, Partner, PACE Healthcare Capital

Ellen Herlacher
Principal, LRVHealth

Shreya Kangovi, MD
Executive Director, Penn Center for Community Health Workers

Ashley Perry
Chief Strategy and Solutions Officer, Socially Determined

Steven Collens
CEO, MATTER

Ala Stanford, MD
Founder, Black Doctors Consortium

Raffi Boyajian
Principal, Cigna Ventures

Kelsey Maguire
Managing Director, Blue Venture Fund

Jay Rughani
Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Bruce E. Brockstein, MD
Medical Director, Kellogg Cancer Center, NorthShore University HealthSystem

Lynelle Hoch
Senior Vice President, Cell Therapy Franchise Lead, Bristol Myers Squibb

David J McLean, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, Emerging Therapy Solutions

Alice Valder Curran
Partner, Hogan Lovells LLP

Nebeyou Abebe
SVP, Social Determinants of Health, Highmark Health

Richard Bennett
CEO, Epicured

Jay Bhatt
Managing Director, Deloitte Services LP

Elizabeth Klodas, MD
Founder, Step One Foods

Jasmi Shah
Managing Director, Cigna Ventures

Andrew Elbaz
Co-Chair, Canadian Capital Markets & Securities, Cozen O’Connor

George Khalife
Vice President, U.S. Capital Formation, Toronto Stock Exchange

Kelsey Tsai
VP, The Blue Venture Fund

Daniel Barchi
EVP, Chief Information Officer, CommonSpirit

Jeri Koester
Chief Information Officer, Marshfield Clinic Health System

Shafiq Rab, MD
Chief Digital Officer, CIO, and EVP, Tufts Medicine

Jay Rughani
Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Matt Loven
Partner, Maslon LLP

Dan Tardiff
Partner, Thompson Coburn LLP

Jonathan Wolf
Attorney, Reporter, Above The Law

Maia Hightower, MD
EVP, Chief Digital Technology Officer | UChicago Medicine, CEO, Co-Founder | Equality AI

Taha Kass-Hout, MD
Chief Technology Officer, GE HealthCare

David McMullin
Chief Business Officer, Anumana

John Beadle
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Aegis Ventures

Elizabeth Sheesley Martin, LMFT
Workplace Violence Prevention Counselor, UC Davis Health

Andra Medea
Founder, C3 De-escalation

Jose Prince, MD
VP & System Chief, Pediatric Surgical Services, Northwell Health

Angelique Richard, PhD, RN
Chief Nursing Officer, Rush University Medical Center

Parth Desai
Principal, Flare Capital Partners

Ayush Jain
Vice President, Rise of the Rest

Kelly Kaihara, PhD
Director, Life Science Tools & Diagnostics, General Inception

Shawn Ellis
Managing Partner, Distributed Ventures

Prateesh Maheshwari
Managing Director, Maverick Ventures

Marissa Moore
Investor, OMERS Ventures

William Brady
SVP - STARs, Quality and Performance Improvement, UnitedHealthCare

Alyssa Jaffee
Partner, 7wireVentures

Stephen Smith
Chief Executive Officer, NOCD

Yuri Goryunov
Partner, McKinsey & Company

2023 Sponsors

GOLD:
• Jorie Healthcare Partners
• World Business Chicago

SILVER:
• Canada
• Cozen O'Connor
• Quantum Health
• Thompson Coburn
• TMX
• TriNet Pharma
• West Monroe

PARTNERS:
• IBIO
• Matter