2023 BDSIL Mentors
Vivien Bonazzi
Vivien Bonazzi, PhD, MSc, received a B.Sc. in Medical Laboratory Science from the University of Canberra, Australia, a M.Sc (prelim) in Pharmacology from the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Ph.D in Molecular Pharmacology and Computational Biology also from the University of Melbourne. She is a highly experienced biomedical data scientist who has always had a passion for understanding how data science methods and technologies can be applied to biomedical data to yield a better understanding of biology. Her work is focused on more easily being able to share, access, analyze, find and provide attribution to biomedical data and tools regardless of geographical location, size or complexity so as to enable new biomedical discoveries. She is a thought-leader concerning the development of a Data Commons - a cloud based platform that supports the ability to easily utilize FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reproducible) biomedical data. This work was started at the NIH and she is carrying that forward at Deloitte.
Kathy Kim
Katherine Kim, PhD, MPH, MBA, FAMIA, is a health informatics researcher and expert in digital health and community engagement. Dr. Kim is Principal, Consumer Health Informatics at the MITRE Corporation, a non-profit organization that works with government and private sectors to improve the safety, stability, and well-being of our nation. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of California Davis in the School of Medicine, Public Health Sciences Department. At MITRE, Dr. Kim currently leads ACTIVATE, a comprehensive model for equitable and sustainable digital health for underserved and rural communities. The ACTIVATE program provides technology and assistance to develop virtual care, remote patient monitoring, and digital health literacy that engages patients and improves health outcomes. She also serves as the Clinical Lead for MITRE’s Age Better LabTM, a connector and collaborator with academia, government, and industry for aging research and digital health solutions. Dr. Kim is an elected fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and Chair, Consumer Health Informatics Working Group. She has received numerous awards for community-engaged and participatory research related to technology and health. Dr. Kim has over 25 years of previous experience as a hospital and medical group manager, an entrepreneur--CEO of a venture-funded startup, leader of a technology incubator, and founder of a consulting firm—and in software product development with Oracle. She received a PhD at UC Davis, MPH/MBA at UC Berkeley, and BA at Harvard.
Madhav Marathe
Madhav Marathe, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity, the division director of the Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing Division at the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests are in sustainability science, network science, computational epidemiology, AI, foundations of computing and high performance computing. During his 30 year professional career, he has established and led a number to transdisciplinary groups. Recently, his group has supported federal and state authorities in their effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Before joining UVA, he held positions at Virginia Tech and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, SIAM and AAAS.
Vinay Pai
Vinay Pai, PhD, MS, MBA, is a Digital Health Specialist within the Digital Health Center of Excellence in FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation (OST), Division of Digital Health (DDH), having joined the FDA in Sept. 2019. He is currently focused on horizon scanning for new digital health technologies, evaluating existing and emerging digital health technologies and helping develop strategies for such evaluations. Prior to that, Vinay was in the National Institutes of Health, first as a staff scientist in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) (working on MRI and CT technology development and image processing, and researched cardiac function in humans and mice models) and then as an program officer and division director for biomedical imaging informatics and health informatics in the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). Before NIH, Vinay was a faculty at New York University School of Medicine developing techniques using proton and hyperpolarized helium magnetic resonance imaging to study cardiac and lung function. Vinay has a PhD in mechanical engineering from Florida State University, and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
Julia Roper
Julia Roper, BA, is a Senior Program Officer at Panorama Strategy, a social impact consultancy. She works with clients ranging from biotech companies, philanthropies, and multilateral agencies to advance their health strategies, especially pertaining to policy, program design, advocacy, and partnerships. Previously in her career, Julia worked with governments in Africa and Asia to adopt and rollout new innovations relating to immunization and to improve health service delivery systems. She has served on several advisory committees in support of global health policy work, including engagements alongside WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, and other global leaders.