MM&M has announced the 2018 classes of the Top 40 Healthcare Transformers and Top 10 Innovation Catalysts, its annual showcase of executives, investors, entrepreneurs, designers and thinkers who are ushering the industry into its new technological golden era.

 

The 50 honorees will be celebrated at a reception on the night of May 16. The next day, MM&M will hold its annual Transforming Healthcare conference, an event dedicated to helping industry go “beyond the pill.”

 

“The industry has benefited from an influx of innovative thinkers and doers, all trying to improve communications and/or health at population scale,” said Marc Iskowitz, MM&M’s editor-in-chief. “The individuals on these two lists, with their entrepreneurial spirit, are fueling change in ways we couldn’t have imagined even a year or two ago.”

 

Top 40 Healthcare Transformers

Jay Appel,

executive director, worldwide digital marketing hub,

Bristol-Myers Squibb

 

Heather Bell,

VP of corporate strategy,

Sanofi

 

Ryan Billings,

senior director, digital innovation,

AMAG Pharmaceuticals

 

Sundeep Bhan,

cofounder and CEO,

Prognos

 

Jeffrey Brewer,

cofounder, president and CEO,

Bigfoot Biomedical

 

Wout Brusselaers,

CEO,

Deep 6 AI

 

Ozgun Demir,

director, digital strategy,

Novartis

 

Nick Desai,

cofounder and CEO,

Heal

 

David Ebersman,

cofounder and CEO,

Lyra Health

 

Jamey Edwards,

CEO,

Cloudbreak Health

 

Amy Foley,

VP, product innovation and delivery,

Johnson & Johnson

 

Pablo Graiver,

CEO,

Antidote

 

Dr. Jessica Grossman,

CEO,

Medicines360

 

Grant Groves,

global customer innovation lab, US lead,

Boehringer Ingelheim

 

Dr. Caleb Hernandez,

chief medical officer,

CertaDose

 

Aaron Horowitz,

cofounder and CEO,

Sproutel

 

S. Thacher Hussain,

front end developer (also WEGO Health advisory board member),

WiserCare

 

Cliff Jones,

CEO,

AllazoHealth

 

John Jorden,

executive director, Amgen Digital Health,

Amgen

 

William King,

founder and executive chairman,

Zephyr Health

 

Missy Krasner,

special projects/disruptive innovation,

Amazon

 

Sarah Krug,

CEO,

Cancer101/Health Collaboratory

 

Kishore Kumar,

head of oncology innovation and integration,

AstraZeneca

 

Eddie Martucci,

CEO,

Akili Interactive Labs

 

Molly McCarthy,

national director, US provider market and chief nursing officer,

Microsoft

 

Chrissa McFarlane,

founder and CEO,

Patientory

 

Joe Meadows,

president,

ThinkPatients

 

Laurie Myers,

global health literacy director,

Merck

 

Doug Noland,

head, patient experience,

Astellas

 

Colleen Reinhart,

director, patient marketing and therapy awareness, transcatheter heart valves,

Edwards Lifesciences

 

Camille (Cami) Samuels,

partner,

Venrock

 

Sanjeev Saxena,

CEO,

POC Medical Systems

 

Anil Sethi,

founder and CEO,

Ciitizen

 

Omri Shor,

CEO,

Medisafe

 

Scarlet Shore,

platform lead, Project Baseline,

Verily

 

Sandra Shpilberg,

founder and CEO,

Seeker Health

 

Sue Siegel,

chief innovation officer, GE and CEO, GE Ventures,

GE Ventures

 

Tej Toor,

product,

Blink Health

 

Anne Weiler,

CEO and cofounder,

Wellpepper

 

Amy West,

senior director, patient marketing and digital health,

Novo Nordisk

 

Top 10 Innovation Catalysts

 

Duncan Arbour,

SVP innovation,

Syneos Health Communications

 

Karthic Bala,

head of data strategy,

Conde Nast

 

Justin Chase,

EVP and head, innovation and media,

Intouch Solutions

 

Edie DeVine,

SVP, U.S. director of medical and health technology,

GCI Health

 

Susan Dorfman,

chief commercial officer,

CMI/Compas

 

Kevin Johnson,

president,

Marketeching

 

Greg Matthews,

managing director, healthcare and founder, MDigitalLife,

W2O Group

 

Donna Murphy,

global CEO,

Havas Health & You

 

Dan Renick,

president,

Precision Value & Health

 

Marcus Sigurdsson,

global chief digital officer,

McCann Health

 

In-depth profiles of all 40 Transformers will appear on mmm-online.com on Tuesday, May 1.