Dr. K. Ranga Rama Krishnan is the CEO of Rush University System for Health, a position he has held since May 2019. Previously, he served as Dean of Rush Medical College, where he led curriculum innovation to enhance medical education by integrating prerecorded content and simulation-based learning.

Krishnan has been instrumental in transforming Rush’s care delivery model, focusing on multidisciplinary collaboration and creating integrated service lines in liver, cancer, cardiology, neurology, and mental health. He also forged key partnerships, such as with Tempus, a gene sequencing company, to enhance cancer treatment strategies.

Before joining Rush, Krishnan was the Dean of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore, where he developed the Team LEAD method, now widely adopted. He also held leadership roles at Duke University Medical Center, focusing on psychiatric research and education.

A member of the National Academy of Medicine, Krishnan has received numerous honors, including the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and the Public Service Medal from Singapore.

Introducing Dr Dennis Streveler, a computer scientist and medical informaticist who has devoted a half-century to improving the world’s health systems, by applying digitization and computerization to the processes of healthcare – clinical, financial, and social. “We still have a long, long way to go”, he says, “in attempting to reach the same level of efficiency and productivity benefits that other industries have enjoyed for decades now.”

As a global expert in Digital Health, his work in India in the recent 5 years continues after having consulted in more than 70 countries around the globe with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the World Health Organization, GIZ German cooperation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others.

At home, in Hawaii, Dennis is Professor of Medical Informatics at the University of Hawaii where he teaches courses in Systems Design, Medical Informatics, Health Informatics and Nursing Informatics.

Dennis has served as National Technology Projects Manager for Kaiser-Permanente, the USA’s largest Health Maintenance Organization. He also worked in Silicon Valley, including as Chief Strategist for WebMD Corporation perhaps the world’s most successful consumer eHealth information website.

He holds a master’s degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the University of California medical school.

His vision for India: To deploy Digital Health to “produce better health outcomes for all Indians by rewiring all healthcare stakeholders in India to be more integrated, efficient and collaborative.”

Dr. Vijay V. Yeldandi, M.D., FACP, FCCP, FIDSA is a specialist in infectious diseases with a special interest in disorders of the immune system primarily recipients of transplants. An educator for his entire career. He is board-certified in Infectious Diseases (ABIM, USA) and is currently the head of Infectious Diseases and Public Health at SHARE INDIA www.shareindia.org and a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago www.uihealth.care . His work over the last three decades includes:

(1) laboratory research in antimicrobial resistance and molecular genetics
(2) Translational research in infectious disease diagnostics
(3) Clinical research in transplant infectious diseases; HIV epidemiology
(4) Antimicrobial development and clinical trials
(5) Public Health in India
(6) Infection Prevention and Patient Safety (7) Six Sigma (Black Belt) in health care.

His work in providing technical support to the National AIDS Control Organization of the Ministry of health and family welfare, Government of India has been funded by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:  (2005-2025).

He is a Fullbright Specialist December 2019- December 2022. His work has been recognized by several awards for excellence in teaching and leadership. He is a member of the Community of Practice for  “Implementing Public Policy” Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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Currently, a senior adviser on Social Health Insurance in Jakarta, Indonesia, Jack Langenbrunner focuses on the financial impact of healthcare for the poor and vulnerable. As a health economist, he has extensive experience working on health financing issues in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Previously, he was an officer with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a lead health economist for the World Bank. Before that he worked at the U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In the mid-1990s Langenbrunner served on the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force for the U.S. White House. The author of multiple books and articles, he holds master’s and doctorate degrees in Public Policy/Economics and Health Policy from the University of Michigan.