Adam Boris is a visionary leader and operations executive with broad experience in Fortune 500 companies (Ameritech Cellular, Motorola, Northrop), and high-growth, venture-backed technology companies. Adam has domain experience in healthcare services, analytics software, and wireless technology, providing services to clients as an interim CEO, COO, Strategic Advisor, and Board Member.
Adam has decades of experience bringing innovative technology and service solutions to the marketplace and building strong cross-functional teams to improve processes and deliver results. He excels at strategic marketing and new market development, developing and launching new products, and leveraging innovative technology to improve performance and enhance the customer experience.
As the CEO of ICNet Systems, Inc., Adam led the North American market penetration strategy for this UK analytics software company, building sales, operations and support teams and achieving the highest customer rating in the KLAS report for this innovative clinical decision support software solution. More than 1200 hospitals and clinics globally benefitted from ICNet services via faster outbreak detection, automated reporting, real-time clinical data analytics, surgical infection surveillance, and pharmacy medications management to prevent adverse drug events. His strategic initiatives culminated in a successful sale of the global ICNet enterprise to Baxter International.
William N. Kelly, PharmD, FISPE
Pharmacist Advisor
William N. Kelly possesses expertise in pharmacoepidemiology, medication safety, evidenced-based medicine, and pharmacy practice. In addition to his role in Vivace Health Solutions, Inc., he is President of William N. Kelly Consulting & Publishing, Inc., a company devoted to advancing medication safety and the practice of pharmacy.
Prior to starting his company in 2005, Dr. Kelly was Chairman of Pharmacy Practice and a tenured and Full Professor at the School of Pharmacy at Mercer University. He was also a Guest Researcher at the Immunization Safety Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to this, he was Assistant Vice President and Director of Pharmacy at Hamot Medical Center, a 550-bed facility located in Erie, PA. He is also a past board member of ASHP.
He earned a BS in pharmacy from Ferris State University, a doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree and residency certificate in clinical pharmacy from the University of Michigan, and completed a fellowship in Executive Management at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lester Martinez-Lopez, MD, MPH
Clinical Advisor, Family Practice and Military Medicine
In 2005, Dr Martinez-Lopez retired from the U.S. Army with the permanent rank of Major General as the first Hispanic to head the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland. His responsibilities included directing the Army’s worldwide research portfolio that included cancer, trauma, infectious diseases, biodefense, chemical defense, nutrition, environmental health, aviation medicine, and telemedicine research. He was also the Commanding General of the Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine at Edgewood, Maryland. In this assignment he directed a worldwide public health organization responsible for preventive medicine, health promotion and wellness, global medical surveillance, occupational and environmental health, and health risk communication. His awards include the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with Three Oak Clusters, The Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Army’s Meritorious Service Medal with three oak clusters, the Senior Flight Surgeon Badge, the U.S. Surgeon General’s Medal, and the Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Government Service from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Martinez-Lopez graduated from the School of Medicine in the University of Puerto Rico and later completed his Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. In addition he has a Doctorate in Education (Honoris Causa) degree from the Caribbean University in Puerto Rico. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
Donald A. Gagliano, MD, MHA, FACHE, CPE
Clinical Advisor, Ophthalmology and Military Medicine
Don has served at the CEO level of leadership as the Commander of the US Army Ocular Hazards Research Laboratory, the US Army Clinical Investigations Research Office, the 5th MASH (Airborne), 28th CSH (Airborne), and the Fort Bragg MEDDAC (Air Assault). From 2002–2004 he served as the Commander of the 30th MEDCOM and was the Coalition Command Surgeon during the initial occupation of Iraq and throughout the remainder of OIF-1.
In November 2008, Don was recalled from military retirement by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and appointed as the first Executive Director of the Joint Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Vision Center of Excellence (VCE). He was responsible for establishing the Congressionally-mandated VCE and overseeing the clinical care, research, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of military eye injuries in the DoD and VA healthcare systems. In April 2013, Dr. Gagliano retired after 38 years of military service and joined Bausch + Lomb (B+L) as the Vice President for Global Development Operations. He served in this capacity until November 2013, departing when B+L had been fully acquired by Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
Don is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point (BS), the Chicago Medical School (MD), Penn State University (MHA), the US Army War College and the US Air War College. Following medical school, he completed a residency in Ophthalmology and a fellowship in Retinal Diseases and Surgery. He is the author of multiple publications and book chapters, a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and a longstanding member of the Retina Society and the American Society of Retinal Specialists.
David Whitehouse, MD, MBA
Strategic Advisor, Healthcare Innovation
David Whitehouse, MD MBA is Chief Medical Officer at UST Global. His past positions include time in the PBM industry where he served as Executive Medical Officer for Catamaran after being the CMO at Catalyst; the managed healthcare industry where he was CMO for Strategy and Innovation at Optum and before that Medical Director and SVP for the Employer Services Division at Cigna. He has consulted internationally with CIGNA on their Global Health Strategy and EAP deployment in Japan; with United on medical tourism and insurance deployment in India and also as part of Ingenix consultation to Trusts in the NHS in England. He has presented extensively at large national forums such as the National Business Group on Health, and has been quoted in publications from the Wall Street Journal to Business Insurance.
As a physician he has worked in every setting from extremely challenged underserved rural poverty areas, and general hospitals, to academic centers of excellence. He has served on the clinical faculty at Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale. He holds an MD degree from Dartmouth, an MBA from the University of Connecticut, a Doctorate and Masters in Theology from Harvard University and a MA and BA from Cambridge University in England. He sits on the Board of Brain Net the largest integrated research database on the human brain, and the Healthcare Management advisory Board at the University of Connecticut School of Business.
Amit Uppal, MD
Clinical Advisor, Pulmonology
Dr. Amit Uppal, MD is the Co-Associate Chief of Medicine and Director of Critical Care at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. He also serves as the senior clinical advisor on Critical Care for the NYC Health and Hospital Public Health network. He is the co-chair of the NYC H+H Sepsis Taskforce and a member of the New York State Department of Health Sepsis Advisory Committee.
Dr. Uppal earned his B.S. at John Carroll University and his MD at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health. He completed his Internal Medicine internship and residency at the University of California, Irvine; he then completed a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at NYU.