Powering Healthcare through Data Science

Pallaw Sharma is the Chief Data Science Officer at Johnson & Johnson. He is a leader with an extensive track record of digital transformation and impact by Data Science. Some of his focus areas include Natural Language Processing, Image Analytics, Forecasting, Simulation & Optimization, Segmentation, and Anti-Fraud Analytics. Sharma leads the Johnson & Johnson Data Science Council responsible for designing and building common platforms, practices, and solutions spanning the entire global enterprise. Outside of J&J, Pallaw is a notable board member of the Innovation Board of GS1, a global standards organization for business communications. He holds multiple patents and has collaborated with renowned researchers utilizing data science techniques to transform a variety of business functions in numerous industries.

Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Pallaw was Head of Advanced Analytics for Customer Services and Support at Microsoft, and Chief Marketing and Analytics Officer at ShopYourWay, a Sears Holdings Company.

Amita Joshi, Ph.D., is an Executive Leader at Genentech with more than 25 years of experience in Clinical Drug Development. Her Clinical Pharmacology team is responsible for identifying the right dose/regimen for Genentech medicines. They apply the principles of quantitative pharmacology and advanced analytics to understand the pharmacokinetics of medicines and better define drug exposure-response (safety/efficacy/ pharmacodynamics) relationships in order to determine the dose/regimen for patients and dose adjustments for special populations (eg: pediatrics, elderly, ethnicities). Amita received the SF Business Times “100 Most Influential Women in Business Award” in 2016, and the “Malle Jurima–Romet Mid-Career Leadership Award" from ASCPT in 2018.

Dr. David Nace is Chief Medical Officer at Innovaccer, a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company that uses its health cloud solution to organize healthcare information and make it accessible, useful, and actionable. Prior to joining Innovaccer, Dr. Nace served as the Chief Medical Officer at MarkLogic and Lantern. Dr. Nace is a national healthcare thought leader who has been involved in healthcare reform and managed care strategies since the early 1990s. Dr. Nace has more than three decades of executive management experience in senior leadership roles including VP of Population Health at McKesson Corporation, Chairman of the Board at Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, and Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer roles at both UnitedHealth Group and Aetna. Dr. Nace completed his medical education and residency training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he subsequently served as junior faculty in his early career.