American Academy of Physicians, ICATCH Ann Behrmann is a Madison pediatrician who worked for more than three decades with Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin. Her interest in international child health began with a month-long rotation in her second year of a UW pediatric residency working on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. She has worked over …
Retired, Illumina Corporation Bill Checovich is an executive in the biotech industry – most recently the Vice President of Operations and Madison Site Leader for Illumina Corporation. Bill received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and completed fellowships at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Milan and in …
State of Tamil Nadu, India Dr. Gopala Krishna Dasika is a global biopharmaceutical executive leader, currently based in India, and serves as Advisor – Life Sciences to the Government of Tamil Nadu. The state of Tamil Nadu is the 2nd largest economy in the country with Chennai (Madras) as its capital. In this broad role, …
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Adelaide M. Davis joined the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as an immunization and community health specialist in 2021, including a 14-month secondment to the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership (CoVDP), an inter-agency partnership that worked to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination coverage in …
Bharat Biotech Born in Tamil Nadu, India, Dr. Krishna Ella graduated in Agricultural Sciences and moved to the US for his MS from the University of Hawaii and Ph.D., from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After working at the Medical University of South Carolina-Charleston, Dr. Ella returned to India in 1997 to establish Bharat Biotech International …
Bharat Biotech Suchitra Ella is the Managing Director of Bharat Biotech, which she co-founded with Dr. Ella in 1996. With experience in customer operations, finance, marketing and business development, Ella is a strong pillar of support and guidance at Bharat, overseeing a wide range of operations in the company. She is also the Chairperson of …
Dayton Children’s Hospital Dr. Luxme Hariharan most recently served as Chief of Ophthalmology and Chief Population Health Officer at Dayton Children’s Hospital with expertise in childhood blindness prevention both locally and abroad. Prior to this she practiced as a Pediatric Ophthalmologist at Nicklaus Children’s hospital and was appointed as a Board Member of the Nicklaus …
CHESS Health, SCI Solutions John Holton is a successful health care entrepreneur with extensive experience in design, development, sales and support of health care information systems. He founded and served as president and CEO of SCI, a cloud-based service connecting health systems to their community partners. Previously, he had founded AtWork Corporation, which became an …
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Erik Iverson is the CEO of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. There, Iverson provides vision and overall leadership for WARF; ensures that the strategic directives of WARF’s board are implemented; oversees the efficient performance of technology transfer operations and the investment portfolio; effectively communicates WARF’s mission internally by aligning and …
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Steve Landry serves as the director of Multilateral Partnerships at the Gates Foundation. In this role, he works with a select group of critical partners to ensure trategic engagement is optimized, especially for key multilateral organizations that are central to the success of the foundation’s global health and development goals. …