When a friend’s mother developed infections upon consecutive hospital visits, an idea was born to assist in verifying every clinical procedure using digital technology. A previous career in a highly regulated business environment provided Ernest with the technical know-how.

Having lost close friends, 19 and 34 years old, from routine hospital stays, and not to mention her years of experience as RN at Southern California hospitals, Marie was inspired to co-found a Health IT enterprise.

The Wharton School

MBA, Business Administration and Management

University of Illinois Chicago

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry

University of San Francisco

Bachelor of Business Administration

PhD, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT.

MS, Electrical Engineering/Robotics, Carnegie Mellon.

BS Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech.

President, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.

Founding member of Microsoft’s Vision Technology Group.

IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow.

Founder of Caugnate, an Assistive Tech. startup.

PhD, Health Informatics, University of Athens, Greece.

Associate Professor at Texas Tech University.

Research and teaching experience in Health Informatics, focusing on Health Information Systems, databases and data analysis in healthcare, and Assistive Technologies.

MSc Leadership & Strategy, London Business School, Sloan Fellow.

Internationally experienced, results oriented commercial finance & strategy professional.

FACP, FACC, FACMI.

Doctor of Medicine (MD) Harvard Medical School.

SB, Economics, Politics & Science, MIT.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Physician Investigator, Laboratory of Computer Science, Mass. General Research Institute.

Senior Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Co-developer of DXplain, a medical diagnostic decision support system.

Board member of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.

Dr. Hoffer has spent his career combining clinical practice of Cardiology and Internal Medicine with cutting-edge research in medical informatics.

Doctor of Osteopathy, New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.

Founding pediatrician at Concierge Pediatrics in Long Island, New York.

Affiliated with Northwell Health Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and South Nassau Communities Hospital.

B.S. Cornell University.

Regional Medical Director, PM Pediatrics, Long Island, New York

Pediatric Emergency Attending, Stony Brook University

Board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine

MD, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University.

PhD, Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Activities and societies: IEEE - Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society).

Research: Bio-Medical Engineering / Signal Processing.

Former Director of Product Management, Motorola.

MBA, Finance, Marketing, Strategic Management; The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

BA, English, Business. Washington State University.

Supplier Performance Principal, Vizient, Inc.

Sales, Marketing, Operations.

General Electric, Merck, Pfizer, Vizient, Blue Shield of CA.

Certified Professional Healthcare Quality.