Sean Duffy is the co-founder and CEO of Omada Health, a virtual-first care provider that blends clinical protocols with behavior science to help people with chronic conditions achieve long term improvements in their health. Starting his journey in healthcare nearly twenty years ago, he held positions at both Google and IDEO before founding Omada Health. Sean is recognized as a thought leader on the future of healthcare. He has published pieces in the New England Journal of Medicine and been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and TechCrunch, among other leading publications. He has spoken at notable conferences such as the World Economic Forum and HLTH. A former MD/MBA candidate at Harvard, he holds a BS in neuroscience from Columbia University.
Jennifer C. Goldsack co-founded and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing digital medicine to optimize human health. Jennifer’s research focuses on applied approaches to the safe, effective, and equitable use of digital technologies to improve health, healthcare, and health research. She is a member of the Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Previously, Jennifer spent several years at the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), leading development and implementation of several projects within CTTI’s Digital Program. She also spent five years working in research at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, first in Outcomes Research in the Department of Surgery and later in the Department of Medicine. More recently, she helped launch the Value Institute, a pragmatic research and innovation center embedded in a large academic medical center in Delaware.
Virtual first care (V1C) – high-quality healthcare delivered virtually until it cannot be – will allow both new and incumbent providers to achieve success in the redefined value chain.