Meet the Judges
Final Round Judges
Lalit Chordia, PhD
CEO
Thar Process, Inc.
Christopher A. Gessner, MBA, MHA
President
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Diane Hupp, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Vice President, Operations & Patient Care Services
Chief Nursing Officer
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Christine Kretz, MBA
Research Industry Leader
IBM Research
Joseph Marks, PhD
Executive Director, Center for Machine Learning and Health
Carnegie Mellon University
George V. Mazariegos, MD, FACS
Division Chief, Pediatric Transplantation
Jamie Lee Curtis Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
Hillman Center for Pedatric Transplantation
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Professor of Surgery and Critical Care
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Tami Minnier, MSN, RN, FACHE
Chief Quality Officer
UPMC
Guru Ramanathan, PhD, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
GNC
Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, MBA
Chief Innovation Officer
UPMC
Executive Vice President
UPMC Enterprises
Srinivasan Suresh, MD, MBA, FAAP
Chief Medical Information Officer
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Visiting Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Thomas Tull
Founder and CEO
Tulco
Semi-Final Round Judges
Gaurav Arora, MD
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Associate Vice Chair of Pediatrics
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Tomer Borenstein, MS
Co-Founder and CTO
BlastPoint
Alexi Charalambides, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Lifeware Labs
Eshan Chordia
CEO
Nootry
Priyansh Chordia
COO
Nootry
Dave Conover
Chief Technologist
ANSYS, Inc.
Michael Corcoran, MBA
Corporate Environmental Manager
PPG
Michael Degnan
Head of Technology Innovation
PNC Bank
Joy Gero, PsyD
Manager, Patient Relations
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Matthew Miller, MBA
Senior Venture Partner
Healthcare, JumpStart
Don Morrison
Chairman of Deal Flow
BlueTree Allied Angels
Audrey Russo, MPA
President and CEO
Pittsburgh Technology Council, Fortyx80
Luke Sossi
Regional Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences Cloud Business
Microsoft
Jessica Trybus, MET
Founder and Chief Games Officer
Simcoach Games
Andrew Urbach, MD
Medical Director, Patient Experience and Development
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Alethea Wieland
Founder and President
Clinical Research Strategies
Courtney Williamson, PhD
CEO and Founder
AbiliLife
David Wolfson, MD, FAAP
Medical Director, Children's Community Pediatrics
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Nigel Wright, MBA
Product Manager
Bombardier Transportation
JJ Xu, MBA
Founder and CEO
TalkMeUp
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