Meet the Sana Team

Dr. Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MPH, MS

FOUNDER – EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dr. Leo Anthony Celi is an internist, an intensive care unit doctor, and an infectious disease specialist. After working in New Zealand for 5 years, Leo returned to Boston to pursue a master’s degree in biomedical informatics at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology and a master’s degree in public health at Harvard University, and a research post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His current research projects are in the field of artificial intelligence in medicine and strengthening health care systems in resource-constrained settings. He is now on staff at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ICU and the Laboratory of Computational Physiology at MIT.

Dr. Kenneth Paik, MD, MBA

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Dr. Paik is a clinical informatician with a comprehensive background in medicine, business management, and technology strategy, passionate about improving global healthcare access and quality through the use of innovative technologies. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School and the Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Eric Winkler

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LEAD

Eric Winkler is a software developer who holds bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Computer Science. He spent several years applying technology designed to reduce homologous blood transfusions while working in operating rooms and trauma centers in New Orleans and Washington, DC. Prior to assuming his current role, he became involved with Sana as a volunteer exploring video capture and processing. Eric is a long time enthusiast of open source software with a particular interest in how it can be utilized to provide health care to groups who may otherwise have limited access to technology.

Dr. Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc

Dr. Hamish Fraser is an expert in the development and application of medical informatics and telemedicine in poor settings and is responsible for the web-based medical record system that tracks several thousand HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Haiti, Peru, Rwanda and Lesotho. In 2006, Dr. Fraser and his team rolled out the next generation medical records system, EMR 2.0, at Partners In Health clinics in Rwanda and Lesotho. The Rwandan and Peruvian governments have also asked Dr. Fraser to expand use of the EMR system nationwide, and it will soon become standard for HIV/AIDS care in Rwanda and for care of drug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Peru. In November, Dr. Fraser’s work won him the prestigious Homer Warner award from the American Medical Informatics Association.
Dr. Fraser received his medical training primarily from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and related hospitals in Scotland. He holds a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence/Knowledge Based Systems from Edinburgh University. He completed a three-year fellowship in medical informatics split between MIT and Tufts-New England Medical Center, the focus of which was the design and evaluation of a computer program to assist with the diagnosis of heart disease.

Prof. Peter Szolovits, PhD

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LEAD

Peter Szolovits is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Professor of Health Sciences and Technology in the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and head of the Clinical Decision-Making Group within the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). For more info, please visit http://people.csail.mit.edu/psz.

Antonio Moya (MD, MPH)
Tyler Gerstenfeld
Lauren Scanlon

Ikaro Silva, PhD
Andrew Shwartz (PhD)
Marzyeh Ghassemi (PhD)
Kenneth Paik, MD MBA
Tyler Gerstenfeld
Lauren Scanlon

Alexi Matousek, MD
Lars Hagander, MD
Kenneth Paik, MD MBA
Charles Plaisimond
Bryan Ranger (PhD)

Anders Häggman (PhD)
Marzyeh Ghassemi (PhD)
Kenneth Paik, MD MBA
Alex Olwal, PhD
Bryan Ranger (PhD)

( ) = Degree Candidate

Shahid Ali, (MD, MPH)
Archit Bhise
Dr. Esteban Gershanik, MD, MPH
Joyce Gitangu, DMD
Dr. Lars Hagander, MD, (MPH)
Dr. Zarif Jabbar-Lopez, MBChB, (MPH)
Shreesh Naik
Dr. Will Perry, MD (MPH)

Dr. Freeman Changamire, MD, PhD – Zimbabwe
Dr. Radhika Chigurupati, DMD – India
Dr. Gari Clifford, PhD
Dr. George Dafoulas, MD, (PhD) – Greece
Dr. Joao Fontess, MD, (MPH) – Brazil
Juan Sebastian Osorio – Columbia
Chris Moses – Philippines
Dr. Caio Regatieri, MD – Brazil
Dr. Shabbir Syed-Abdul, MD, (PhD) – Taiwan
Natalia Tabares – Colombia

Joachim Behar
Joe Brooks
Marzyeh Ghassemi, (PhD)
Lydia Gu
Dr. Rohit Joshi, PhD
Dr. Richard Lu, MD, MPH, MS
Dr. Ikaro Silva, PhD

Elliot Cohen, (MBA)
Dr. Alexander Gruentzig, PhD
Beatrix Henize
Elinor Huang, (MBA)
Alice Newton
Charles Plaisimond
Angela Shen, (MBA)

( ) = Degree Candidate

Santiago Alfaro
Peter Bojo
Dr. Radhika Chigurupa
Dr. Sayon Dutta
Louis Fazen
Ben Geisler
Dr. Esteban Gershanik
Ben Goldthwaite
Andrew Goldstein
Geoff Graham
Dr. Shanta Griffin
Luk Hendrik, PhD
Dr. Yichuan Grace Hsieh
Sameer Hirji
Casey Holmes
Dr. Cleo Maehara
Crystal Mao
Steve Moylan
Roneeta Nandi
Dr. Trishan Panch
Manoj Patel
Ankur Puri
Ankush Sharma

Zack Anderson
John Blakeney
Steven Camina
Michal Depa
Clark Freifeld
Sidhant Jena
Meghan Kane
Katherine Kuan
Brett Lazarus
Brian Malley
Andres Monroy-Hernandez
RJ Ryan
Mark Yen
Boyuan Zhu

Eyal Abraham
Ted Chan, MBA
Dr. Gari Clifford
Dr. Rich Fletcher
Geoffrey Groesbeck
Stephen Miles
Luis Sarmenta
Jhonatan Rotberg
Jennifer von Briesen

Elliot Higger
Nicole Prowell
Max Wagenblass
Jennifer Lee Walker