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Dr. Robert Graboyes is a Senior Research Fellow and healthcare scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Author of “Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care,” his work asks, “How can we make health care as innovative in the next 30 years as information technology was in the past 30?” Previously, he was health care advisor for the National Federation of Independent Business, economics professor at the University of Richmond, regional economist/director of education at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and Sub-Saharan Africa economist for Chase Manhattan Bank. He has also taught health economics in graduate programs at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, George Mason University, and the George Washington University. His degrees include a PhD in Economics from Columbia University; master’s from Columbia University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the College of William and Mary; and a bachelor’s from the University of Virginia. He has chaired the National Economists Club, Richmond Association for Business Economics, and National Association for Business Economics Healthcare Roundtable. He won the Reason Foundation’s 2014 Bastiat Prize for Journalism, an international competition for “writing that that best demonstrates the importance of individual liberty and free markets with originality, wit, and eloquence.

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Tamás Haidegger received his MSc degrees from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, then PhD in medical robotics. His main field of research is on medical technologies, control/teleoperation of surgical robots, image-guided therapy and digital health technologies. Currently, he is associate professor at ˜“buda University, serving as the director of the University Research and Innovation Center (EKIK), and as the technical lead of medical robotics research at the Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics. Besides, he is a research area manager at the Austrian Center of Medical Innovation and Technology (ACMIT), working on minimally invasive surgical simulation and training, medical robotics and usability/workflow assessment through ontologies. Tamás is the co-founder of a university spin-off—HandInScan—focusing on objective hand hygiene control in the medical environment, member of the World Health Organization POPS group. He is an active member of various other professional organizations, including the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (serving as an associate VP), IEEE SMC, IEEE EMBC, IEEE SA and euRobotics aisbl, holding leadership positions in the IEEE Hungary Section as well. He is a national delegate to the ISO TC299 standardization committee focusing on the safety and performance of medical robots and the ISO TC 304 working on hand hygiene and patient safety standards, furthermore, involved in the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of Acta Polytechnica Hungarica and Associate Editor to the IEEE Trans. on Medical Robotics and Bionics, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and the Intl. J. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. Tamás is the author and co-author of over 250 scientific papers, books, articles across the various domains of biomedical engineering, with over 2000 independent citations to his work. He has been running a professional blog on medical robotic technologies for over 14 years: surgrob.blogspot.com.

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Jennifer Stoll leads government relations and public affairs for OCHIN, a national non-profit organization that provides leading-edge technology, expertise, and research to community health organizations and other providers. With more than 25 years’ experience in the health care industry, Jennifer is a leading spokesperson at the intersection of technology and health policy.

Prior to joining OCHIN, Jennifer directed government affairs and advocacy strategies for pharmaceutical companies, such as Allergan, Inc. and Sepracor (Sunovion). Based at OCHIN’s headquarters in Portland, Oregon, she travels extensively as a representative and media spokesperson for OCHIN, giving voice to its network members and the historically underserved communities they support. Jennifer holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut and serves on multiple state and national-level boards and committees, working to advance health equity through technology innovation.