Leadership

Dr. Nwaubani is a board-certified geriatric pharmacist. She is the CEO and founder of PharmD Live. Dr. Nwaubani has a working history delivering high-quality and cost-effective medication management and chronic care services to patients in various healthcare settings.

Dr. Nwaubani designs, develops, and deploys innovative population-health management solutions that use telehealth and AI technologies. Her vision is within reach under her leadership. She and her team are developing engaged and empowered patients who self-manage their diseases. In merging personalized healthcare and her proprietary technology, her vision of eliminating preventable adverse drug events is tangible.

Dr. Nwaubani applies her start-up experience with solid business acumen to improve CMS quality metrics and increase practice revenue. Her dedication to improving patient health rounds out her versatile skill set, mentoring and leading high-achievers who share her vision and passion.

She graduated as a Doctor of Pharmacy with honors from Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Research. Dr. Nwaubani earned a Graduate Certificate in Leading with Finance from Harvard University.

Ms. Flores has 20 years of experience as a healthcare technology executive. Her start-up experience includes health system integrations with multiple successful exits. She completed six joint venture partnerships deals and served as Chief Administrative, CTO, and CIO. Ms. Flores is the recipient of Becker’s 2015 Hospital CIO of the Year award.

Highly adept at leveraging technology and strategy, resulting in best practices, revenue generation, cost control, quality, and value for the organization, Ms. Flores has proven herself again at PharmD Live. As a no-nonsense, multitasking, and competent executive,  she remains focused on scale, cost control, revenue generation, exceptional customer service, and delivering cloud and analytics-based enterprise-level technology solutions.

Dr. Eidenberg has made his mark as a chief medical officer in harsh conditions. Marshall is a board-certified emergency medicine physician interested in trauma, improving efficiency and flow, and wellness in the community and healthcare settings. He graduated with a bachelor’s in Biology from Western Maryland College and earned his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy.  Dr. Eidenberg additionally received a Healthcare Management MBA from Walden University.

David Whitehouse, MD is an accomplished Senior Executive with demonstrated success spanning the healthcare industry. Leveraging extensive experience as a strategic, outcome-focused clinical entrepreneur with a record of innovative solutions, actionable plans, and measurable results for large companies facing competitive market challenges, Dr. Whitehouse has been a leader in the field in the areas of technological innovation in medicine, system transformation, personalized medicine, integrative neuroscience, tele-medicine, and clinical research. His broad areas of expertise include planning, population health, outcomes-focused & value-based deliverables, risk mitigation, sales, marketing, organizational alignment, and process improvements.

Dr. Whitehouse has held a number of leadership positions. At present, he serves as Independent Consultant with David Whitehouse Associates, Ltd, where he works closely as an advisor and consultant to innovative healthcare companies such as Senscio, the leading delivery system in augmented home-based monitoring and remote complex care management company, as well as Total Brain and CerraCap Ventures as it relates to the company’s health investments. Previously, Dr. Whitehouse held the titles of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Head of Digital Health Transformation with UST Global, a leading digital technology services company that provides powerful solutions for Global 1000 companies, helping them navigate critical digital transformations to derive higher business value. Dr. Whitehouse also acted as Executive Medical Officer and CMO with Catalyst RX (now Catamaran) and was CMO for Strategy and Innovation at Optum Health Behavioral Solutions. He was responsible for increasing revenue by 300% during his tenure at each, while guiding the development of the first use of avatars in the mobile health space. He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, as well as broadcast media and publications including a regular column in the past for DMEC.

Dr. Whitehouse holds an MD from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, a ThM and ThD in Religion from Harvard University, an MBA from the University of Connecticut and both a BA and MA in Medicine and Theology from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Whitehouse is a seasoned board member, who has served on a number of other BODs including brainNet, TaoConnect, CerraCap, PSI International, Spring Health, and Vivace.

Mr. Dekshenieks is an innovative senior executive who thrives in complex environments that require constant innovation and business transformation. He has proven leadership experience from business development through sales, delivery, account management, and client success.

By empowering teams at the convergence of design, technology and operations in strategic business initiatives, he led the growth of several national and international cross-functional organizations with P&L responsibility for 200 resources and revenue greater than $300M with 20% year-over-year growth. In addition, he transformed numerous client business relationships from underperforming into high-performance, productive business opportunities.

Mr. Dekshenieks pursued, won, delivered, and managed performance-oriented multi-year business solutions with ACV up to $65M, and led strategic minority investment, acquisition, and global integration activity across internal teams, platform consolidation, and client migrations.

Dr. Leroy Pascal is a practicing Emergency Department physician with over 25 years of ED management experience. His particular focus is leveraging technology to improve patient outcomes as well as follow up. He currently serves on the Medical Executive Board at a large
Healthcare Organization and is co-Founder and CMO at Pasnett Healthcare. As an early investor in two innovative healthcare companies, he understands the startup landscape. In his free time, he enjoys hiking and spending time with his wife and three daughters.

A specialist in neurology and neuroscience, Dr. Freeman has extensive training in the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program, Medicare Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program, and is committed to heart health through the Million Hearts® initiative.

He earned an MBA with honors The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and has an entrepreneurial mindset. He is an experienced investor in venture capital/private equity.

Dr. Freeman is a neurologist in Washington, D.C., and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the District, including Johns Hopkins Medicine-Suburban Hospital and Johns Hopkins Medicine-Sibley Memorial Hospital. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 16 years.

Dr Zalzala combines the unique qualities of an experienced doctor passionate about disease prevention and longevity, with the strategic vision and skills of a serial entrepreneur. Sajad has been passionate about slowing and reversing age-related diseases for 20 years. Sajad is one of the rare MD’s personally licensed in all 50 States, as well as Washington D.C. and Ontario. He has extensive experience working with startup companies in the telemedicine/telehealth field.

Dr. Joyesh Thomas is a physician leader with extensive experience in ER operations including clinical quality, safety, and performance improvement initiatives. Dr. Thomas continually delivers business value based upon patient satisfaction, improved clinical outcomes, and quality of life.

Dr. Thomas embraces new models of care delivery, strategic partnerships, bold new approaches to improve population health, and re-define value-based care. He serves as the Chief Executive Advisor at Fedo.AI and also a Partner at Antlegs. Previously, Dr. Thomas served as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee.

Experienced President Of Physician Group and Hospital Vice President of Physician Services. Enjoy working collaboratively with physicians and health systems to connect all the resources to provide outstanding healthcare to patients and communities. Adept and successful in leadership, growth, development, all areas of Physician Practice Management.

Kevin R. Hawkins, Ph.D. has 25 years of experience designing, conducting, and managing health services research. Dr. Hawkins has contributed to a variety of research and evaluation projects, specifically health-economic, quality-of-life, disease burden, pharmacoeconomics and retrospective database analyses. Dr. Hawkins has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles and presentations, and is a reviewer for several medical-scientific journals. Before joining PharmD Live, Dr. Hawkins worked for Optum, IMS Health, Medstat, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Dr. Hawkins received his Ph.D. in Health Economics from Wayne State University.