VoyagerMed Medical Innovation Summit Announces Sponsors

The VoyagerMed Medical Innovation Summit is set for September 23, 2016 in Mid-town Manhattan at 417 Fifth Avenue and this year’s theme is “Closer to Your Cure – Medical Tourism and Innovations in Medicine”

Attracting over 350 attendees, sponsor and exhibitors will find a diverse expected audience of international attendees from over 20 countries represented from the fields of medicine, hospital administration, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, research & development, international diplomacy, business and professional athletics.

Attendees have registered for the event from over 20 countries including:

The Presenting Sponsors for the 2016 VoyagerMed Medical Innovation Summit are Justworks, Sebastian Capital Startup Health, Blueprint Health, Kastr, AAAASF and The Wagoner Law Firm.

Other service providers for the event include Lyft, FlyBlade Helicopter Service, 70 Park Avenue Hotel, and Marriott.

Justworks makes it easier and safer to grow your medical practice.
It’s a simple, all-in-one platform that automates benefits, payroll, HR, and government paperwork.

Using the power of the aggregate, Justworks gives practices top healthcare and benefits normally reserved for staff in larger practices. Justworks saves practices time, energy, and money, so they can focus on their patients and employees.
Lyft has offered $100 for new users by registering using code “VOYAGERMED”

FLYBLADE is offering $100 off their on demand helicopter service using code “VOYAGERMED”

Over twenty of the leading physicians and surgeons in the fields of cancer treatment, orthopedics, spine, fertility, cardiology, and plastic surgery will be presenting at the event in a dynamic roster of panels that will focus on medical innovations in the US and how international patient can access these medical breakthroughs.

Speaker and moderator bios for each panel:

Lunch Keynote 12:45-2pm: Steven Krein, CEO and Co-Founder of StartupHealth

Steven, a successful long time entrepreneur, is co-founder, Chairman and CEO of OrganizedWisdom, and previously cofounded and was Chairman and CEO of Promotions.com, Inc., a global online advertising, direct marketing and technology company which was founded as Webstakes, Inc. in 1996, went public on Nasdaq in 1999 and was acquired by iVillage, Inc in 2002. Promotions.com was named to Deloitte & Touche’s prestigious 2002 “Technology Fast 50”, ranking it as one of the fastest growing technology companies in New York City. In less than four years, the company generated more than $27 million in annual revenue, built a membership of more than 20 million consumers, attracted blue-chip clients and advertisers such as Kraft Foods, Bristol Myers Squibb, Citibank and NBC, raised almost $100 million from leading venture, strategic and institutional investors and achieved more than a $500 million dollar market capitalization as a publicly traded company. After the company’s sale, Krein briefly stayed on at iVillage as a senior executive before founding Transformation Ventures, where he created and coached entrepreneurs on The 10 Laws of Creating Equity Value™. From October 1994 to May 1996, Steven was Assistant Publisher of Law Journal Extra!, the first online legal news and information web site, which was acquired by American Lawyer Media and is now known as Law.com.

Steven is a frequent speaker on digital health and wellness entrepreneurship and has been featured on NBC’s The Today Show, CNN, the Fox New Channel, CNBC Power Lunch, CNBC Marketwatch and Bloomberg News.

Steven received his J.D. degree from Widener University School of Law and his B.A. degree from the University of Maryland – College Park. Steven is a Member of YPO (the Young President’s Organization) – Metro New York Chapter and lives in New York City with his wife and three daughters.

Fertility Panel 8:30 -9:30 am

Yifat Shaltiel, Esq. – Moderator

Bio: Yifat Shaltiel is the founding attorney of Shaltiel Law Group.  Yifat has been an attorney for over ten years and specializes in reproductive law, adoption law, and estate law.  Yifat takes great pride in working with all family types domestically and internationally to build and protect their families.

Dr. Joel Batzofin

Specialty: Fertility, New York, NY

Bio: Dr. Joel Batzofin is a fertility doctor in New York City and is an expert in the field of assisted reproductive technology. He focuses on egg donation and surrogacy, immunological issues related to infertile and recurrent pregnancy loss. His training allows him to handle infertility issues in both men and women. Dr. Batzofin graduated from the University of Witwatersrand Medical School in South Africa and completed his studies at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Jessica Brown

New York, NY,  Fertility

Bio: Dr. Jessica Brown is one of the top reproductive medicine doctors in New York City. She is certified in reproductive endocrinology/infertility, obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Brown’s clinical and research interests include reproductive aging, fertility preservation, PCOS and primary ovarian insufficiency/premature ovarian failure. She is a NYU School of Medicine graduate and completed her medical education at The New York Hospital-Cornell and New Jersey Medical School.

Dr. Danielle Lane

Novato, CA, Fertility

Dr. Danielle Lane of Lane Fertility Institute is a highly regarded reproductive endocrinology and fertility specialist who provides fertility services for residents of San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and Novato, California.  Patients from throughout the state of California, not to mention from throughout the entire U.S. and other countries, seek out specialized fertility treatment provided by Dr. Lane and the other highly reputable providers at Lane Fertility Institute.  Dr. Lane provides many services including IUI, IVF, fertility preservation, alternative family planning, PGD/PGS, and many other fertility services.

Dr. Lane attended McGill University before completing her medical training at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, her residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and her fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She opened the Center for Reproductive Health at Kaiser Permanente in Napa-Solano in 2005. In 2009 she founded Lane Fertility Institute. The Institute has grown to a multi-physician practice with a state of the art embryology laboratory.

Dr. Lane is committed to providing education for women about preservation of their fertility and developing lower cost models to improve access to care.  She has built an organization focused on the core values of teamwork and collaboration needed to help individuals through their fertility journey.  In addition, the continuous and rigorous professional development that permeated the culture at Lane Fertility Institute ensures that the organization’s protocols and laboratory techniques remain on the cutting edge.  This is reflected in LFI’s consistently superior pregnancy rates.

Dr. Lane has authored many scientific articles and patient articles. Her research interests include developing patient-sensitive protocols, fertility preservation using oocyte vitrification, ethnic variability in IVF response, and improving fertility awareness amongst women aged 25-35 years.

Cardiology Panel 9:30- 10:30am

Moderator: Mark Punyanitya 

Dr. Sohah Iqbal

New York, NY, Cardiology

Bio: Dr. Sohah N. Iqbal is an Interventional Cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, who treats coronary artery disease with expertise in percutaneous coronary interventions and hemodynamic assist devices. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and is board certified in both Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology.

Dr. Irving Loh

Thousand Oaks, CA, Cardiology

Bio: Dr. Irving Loh has served as the Medical Director of the Ventura Heart Institute in Thousand Oaks, CA for 36+ years. Since its opening in 1980, Dr. Loh, a board certified cardiac specialist, has focused on practicing preventive cardiology and has served as the Principal Investigator for more than 160 clinical trials that studied abnormalities, heart failure and hypertension, disease management and chronic care.

Dr. Michael Ghalchi

New York, NY, Cardiology

Bio:  Dr. Michael Ghalchi is a cardiologist in New York, New York and is affiliated with Beth Israel Medical Center. He received his medical degree from NYU School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years. He is one of 146 doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center who specialize in Cardiovascular Disease.

Dr. Herbert Insel

New York, NY, Cardiology

Bio: Dr. Herbert Insel is a cardiologist in New York City who has received his board certification in cardiovascular diseases and internal medicine. He specializes in preventative cardiology and is a leader in cardiovascular diseases treatments. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and teaches at New York University Medical Center.

Oncology Panel 10:45am – 11:45am

Meredith Oppenheim

Founder and CEO, NurtureMed

New York, NY

Harvard Business School, MBA, Cornell University, BA

The NurtureMed mission is to provide work flow and communication tools to achieve greater employee productivity, higher patient satisfaction and greater hospital profitability.

Dr. Ioannis Hatzaras

New York, NY, Oncology

Bio: Dr. Hatzaras is a board certified Surgical Oncologist with extensive experience in evaluation and treatment of patients with cancer of the Gastrointestinal (GI) system (stomach, colon, pancreas, liver). He also has expertise in melanoma and soft tissue sarcoma. I am an assistant professor of Surgery at New York University, with my research focusing on disparities of care, patient / physician communication, and predictors of outcomes in patients with GI cancer. I have co-authored more than 45 publications and have lectured extensively around the world.

Dr. Hank Schmidt

New York, NY, Surgical Oncologist

Bio: Dr Schmidt is a board certified surgeon specializing in surgical oncology and particularly in care of patients with breast cancer. His background also includes training in Molecular Medicine and Genetics, and post-doctoral experience in cell signaling, cancer biology, and translational research for development of novel targeted therapies. He is the recipient of a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health. Currently he is the director of the Cancer Risk program (CaRE) at the Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai and has expertise in management of patients at high risk for breast cancer and other malignancies.

Orthopedics Panel 11:45 – 12:45

Moderator – Anthony Girand, CEO of VoyagerMed

Duke/Fuqua School of Business, MBA

University of Baltimore, JD

Duke University, BS

Co-founder and leader of the first online marketplace focused exclusively on travel to the US for care by some of the top surgeons and physicians in the world. The company has grown to include over 2.5M healthcare providers in its database and 600 members of its Board of Medical Experts. Through this growing platform, VoyagerMed fields inquiries from over 120 countries worldwide and connects patients through its proprietary algorithm and extensive relationships with doctors throughout the world. As it’s moto states, VoyagerMed and Anthony’s mission is to bring you “Closure to your cure.”

Dr. Alejandro Badia

Doral, FL, Orthopedics

Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS is a hand and upper extremity surgeon at Badia Hand to Shoulder Center in Doral, Florida previously serving as chief of hand surgery, Baptist Hospital of Miami. Dr. Badia studied physiology at Cornell University and obtained his medical degree at NYU, where he also trained in orthopedics. A hand fellowship at Alleghany General Hospital in Pittsburgh was followed by an AO trauma fellowship in Freiburg, Germany. He runs an active international hand fellowship, serves on the editorial board of two hand journals, and organizes a yearly Miami meeting for surgeons/therapists that is devoted to upper limb arthroscopy and arthroplasty. This international meeting is held at the world renowned Miami Anatomical Research Center (M.A.R.C.), the world’s largest surgical cadaveric training lab which Dr. Badia co-founded in 2005. He is a founding member of the American Hand Institute, a think tank and medical device start-up company focused on minimally invasive solutions to hand, wrist and elbow pathology.

In 2008, he completed the Badia Hand to Shoulder Center, a fully integrated clinical facility for the upper limb also encompassing the Surgery Center at Doral, Integra Rehabilitation and an MRI imaging facility. More recently, Dr. Badia inaugurated OrthoNOW, the first immediate orthopedic urgent care center in south Florida, which is staffed by surgeons from the International Orthopedic Group (IOG); a group of surgeons from lower extremity, upper limb and spine subspecialties, who also treat elective orthopedic problems in international patients. OrthoNOW was officially franchised in early 2013 and is actively engaging healthcare entrepreneurs and surgeons, here and abroad to open orthopedic urgent care facilities.

Dr. Badia is past worldwide president of the International Society for Sport Traumatology of the Hand (ISSPORTH), was named to 100 Latinos Miami, and was featured on the Hispanic Entrepreneur website. He is a member of multiple national subspecialty medical societies (AAOS, ASSH, AAHS), honorary member of more than 10 international hand surgery and arthroscopy associations, and served as honored professor at the prestigious Philadelphia Hand Course in 2012.

Dr. Struan Coleman

New York, NY, Orthopedics

Bio: Struan Coleman MD, PhD, is a world-renowned, board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in hip preservation and sports medicine at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and the Vincera Institute in Philadelphia. Dr. Coleman earned a medical degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and holds a D.Phil in Microbiology from Oxford University, England. He completed both his residency in Orthopedic Surgery and a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery. During his fellowship, Dr. Coleman worked as an assistant physician for the New York Giants football team and is currently the Head Team Physician for the New York Mets baseball team.

Dr. Dan Guttman

Taos, NM, Orthopedics

Bio: Dr. Dan Guttmann is a board certified orthopedic surgeon in Taos, New Mexico and currently serves as the Chief of Upper Extremity Sugery and the Hip Arthritis Service at the Taos Orthopedic Institute. Dr. Guttmann graduated from Temple University and Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. He focuses on upper extremity surgery and hip arthritis. Dr. Guttmann serves as orthopedic consultant to the Taos Ski Patrol, Red River Ski Patrol and Angel Fire Ski Patrol.

Dr. Mark Klion

New York, NY, Orthopedics

Bio: Dr. Mark Klion is a board certified orthopedic surgeon practicing in New York, New York. He is a sports medicine, arthroscopic surgery, and reconstructive shoulder and knee surgery specialist and a clinical instructor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Klion has been practicing for over 25 years and treats a wide variety of conditions including fractures, dislocations, sprains, osteoarthritis, spinal stenosis, and scoliosis to name a few. He is also an expert in spinal surgery, shoulder surgery, and ankle and wrist problems.

Dr. Derek Ochiai

Arlington, VA, Orthopedics

Bio: Dr. Derek Ochiai is a graduate with honors from Cornell University. He attended Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where he received several awards, and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society. Dr. Ochiai is fellowship trained in sports medicine and arthroscopic surgery. He completed his orthopaedic residency at Albany Medical Center and his fellowship training at the Nirschl Orthopaedic Center and Georgetown University. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons and specializes in injuries to the upper and lower extremities, including hip, knee, and shoulder arthroscopy. Dr. Ochiai uses both non-surgical and minimally invasive surgical techniques to help his patients return to their active lifestyles. He has been performing cutting-edge hip arthroscopies since 2003.

Spine Panel – 2pm to 3pm

Moderator – Polina Hanin, Director of StartUp Health

The University of Chicago – Booth School of Business, MBA

Wesleyan University, BA

Polina is an integral part of the StartUp Health team and is one of the leads for their 130 portfolio companies that are transforming healthcare. Prior to StartUp Health, Polina was with Merrick Ventures, where she performed market opportunity analyses on healthcare IT platforms, such as clinical trial management software, personal health records, picture archiving and capture software, and orthopedic-focused platform technologies and initiated due diligence for potential add-on acquisitions for Merrick’s portfolio companies.

Dr. Gordon Donald

Eatontown, NJ, Spine Surgeon

Bio: Dr. Gordon Donald is board certified in both orthopedic and spine surgery, and serves as the Medical Director for the NJ Spine Group. His interests include spinal deformities and tumors, scoliosis, herniated discs, reconstructive spinal surgery, and also minimally invasive spinal surgeries.

Dr. Sheeraz Qureshi

New York, NY, Spine Surgeon

Bio: Dr. Sheeraz A. Qureshi is a board certified orthopedic spine surgeon in New York City. He is renowned for his work in disc replacement, spinal cord repair, neuroplasty, and spinal fusion. He is currently the Chief of Spinal Trauma at Elmhurst Hospital Center and is an Associate Professor of Spinal Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Dr. Joseph Shehadi

Columbus, OH, Neurosurgery

Bio: Dr. Joseph A. Shehadi is board-certified neurosurgeon with 19 years of experience located in Columbus, OH and serves as the Chief of Neurosurgery, Neuro Oncology, and Neuro Trauma at Grant Medical Center. Dr. Shehadi’s special expertise is in back injuries, spinal fractures, head and neck disorder and epilepsy. Dr. Shehadi believes in providing the most advanced surgical care with compassion for every patient of his. Some of the procedures he conducts include Spinal Decompression Surgery, Posterolateral Lumbar Fusion and Spinal instrumentation segmental fixation.

Plastic Surgery Panel 3pm – 4pm

Dr. Sophie Bartsich

Specialty: Plastic Surgery, New York, NY

Bio: Sophie Bartsich was born and raised in New York City. She completed her premedical studies at Columbia University and her medical degree at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Dr. Bartsich is an assistant clinical professor of surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. In 2010, Dr. Bartsich was awarded a research grant to pursue studies in implant-based breast surgery. This research won two awards at the national Aesthetic Meeting in 2011, and ultimately became the basis of her current academic endeavors.

Dr. Samuel Lin

Specialty: Plastic Surgery, Boston, MA

Bio: Dr. Samuel Lin is a double-board certified plastic surgeon that performs aesthetic and reconstructive surgery in Boston. Dr. Lin earned his medical degree and completed his residency training at Northwestern University, before going on to finish his fellowship training at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He is the Associate Program Director of the Residency Training Program at Harvard University, and also serves as the Co-Director of the Aesthetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Fellowship program.

Dr. Miguel Medina

Specialty: Plastic Surgery, Titusville, FL

Bio: Dr. Miguel Medina III is a board certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Cleveland Clinic in Weston, FL. He has trained at Johns Hopkins, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Along with the traditional cosmetic and reconstructive procedures, Dr. Medina also performs facial aesthetic surgery, craniofacial surgery, and reconstructive microsurgery.

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About VoyagerMed

VoyagerMed is a medical tourism marketplace for traveling and international patients seeking high-quality medical care in the United States. We connect patients to a curated network of top medical specialists from leading institutions in the U.S. Through VoyagerMed, patients can connect directly with specialists for virtual consultations, second opinions and treatment. The company is based in New York City. For more information visit voyagermed.com, call 212-470-4559 or email info@voyagermed.com.