Catalyst Award Advisors

Ibrahim Sezan PhD, M.Sc.

Senior Director, Technology, Qualcomm

Sanjay Shah MBA

Director of Strategic Innovation, Dignity Health

Biren Shah MBA

Senior Director, Alliance Management at BeiGene

David Shaywitz MD, PhD

Chief Medical Officer, DNAnexus

Key Y. Shin JD

Of Counsel, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Jordan Shlain MD

Medical Doctor, Entrepreneur, Investor, Healthloop, Discover Health Medical Partners

Stephen Shrewsbury MD

Founder, Shrewsbury Clinical Consulting

Nancy Shulman MD

Executive Medical Director - Infectious Disease/Hepatology Development, Abbvie

Jonathan Singer MD, MS

Ajit Singh PhD

Managing Director and General Partner, Artiman Ventures

Alexander Smith MD, MS, MPH

Ira Smith PhD

Associate Director, Alliance Management and Innovation

Betty Smoot DPTSc

John Sninsky PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, CareDx, Inc.

Rhona Snyman

Chief Strategy Officer at CDHI

David Spellmeyer PhD

Biotechnology Entrepreneur

Ravi Srinivasan PhD

Cofounder, Biomedical start up

Julia Steinberg PhD

Caroline Stephens PhD

School of Nursing
Community Health Systems

David Steuer

Executive Director, Healthcare Practice Lead at frog design

Pilar Stillwater JD

Counsel, Crowell & Moring

Buck Strom MD, PhD

Charles Strom Consultants, LLC

David Strong PhD

Managing Partner, Far West Capital Management

Lisa Suennen MA

Managing Partner, Venture Valkyrie Consulting, LLC

Anne Suskind MD, MS

School of Medicine
Urology

Wendy Swenson PhD

Principal, Drug Development Consulting

Michael Swit JD

Senior Director, Legal, Regulatory at Illumina

John Teeter MD

Director, Pfizer, Inc

Melanie Thomas MD, MS

School of Medicine
Psychiatry

Lisa Thompson PhD

Whittemore Tingley MD, PhD

Clinical Development, Genentech

Alex Tkachenko PhD, MBA

Founding CEO, BlackThorn Therapeutics, Inc.

Shelley Trimm

Regulatory Strategist and Design Control Expert, RCQ Consulting Services

Delphine Tuot MD, MAS

Andy Uchida MBA

Director, Program Management, Bowers and Wilkins

Laura Van 't Veer PhD

Professor, Laboratory Medicine, UCSF

Trudy Vanhove PhD, MD, MBA

VP, Head of Technical Assessment, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Peter Virsik MBA

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, ESSA Pharmaceuticals

Eric Vittinghoff PhD

Frederic Waldman MD, PhD

Consultant, SF Bay Area

Jessica Waldura MD, MAS

Conrad Wang MD, MBA

Principal, HealthCare Royalty Partners

Ralph Wang MD

School of Medicine
Emergency Medicine

Kevin Wasserstein MBA, MS

Founder and Principal, MentorCatalyst

Dan Weberg PhD, MHI, BSN

Director, Nursing Innovation , Kaiser Permanente IT

David Wells

Partner, GreatPoint Ventures

Cameron Wheeler PhD

Principal at Deerfield Management