BrainXAI Consultants
We offer consulting services for all levels on AI workforce, platforms, tools, and frameworks specifically designed for healthcare applications.
Our team of clinician and AI experts is engaged in all areas of AI in healthcare, from early-stage development to clinical deployment and devising clinical studies. Our resources accelerate the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and patient outcomes.
Our experts work closely with clients to identify and prioritize key areas for AI implementation.We design and implement tailored solutions that address specific pain points, improve operational processes, enhance decision-making, and unlock new opportunities for growth and innovation.
Our Experts
Edward W. Marx
The youngest child of Holocaust survivors, Ed moved to the United States at age 10. At 16, he served as a medical clinic janitor where he discovered his healthcare calling. Ed took successive positions as combat medic, anesthesia tech, strategic planner and technology manager. He quickly learned how the convergence of clinical, business and digital saved lives. His passion ignited, he jumped feet first into technology and operations in the C-Suite of Cleveland Clinic, NYC Health & Hospitals, Texas Health Resources and University Hospitals.
Intermixed, Ed served the supplier side as well. He was CEO for consulting firm Divurgent, global CDO for Tech Mahindra Health & Life Sciences and CIO of the Advisory Board. Concurrently, he served 15 years as an Army combat engineer officer and combat medic. Today, Ed is focused on his own advisory practice.
Ed does a fair amount of speaking, writing and podcasting. He authored healthcare bestsellers including “Voices of Innovation” and “Healthcare Digital Transformation”. He is currently writing a book for Mayo Clinic on “Patient Experience” and “Voices of Innovation - Payers”. His podcast “DGTL Voices” is “Top 3%” globally. His Blog, CEO Unplugged, surpassed 1M views. Ed recently started a YouTube channel to expand his audience.
TERESA A. RINCON, PhD, BSN, RN, FCCM
Dr. Rincon earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing with minor studies in Applied Healthcare Informatics from the University of Kansas. She is a recognized expert with more than 20 years in clinical leadership, informatics, human-centered design, data collection and management, predictive analytics, sepsis, virtual care models, and nursing practice.
DWARIKANATH MAHAPATRA, B.Tech., Ph.D
Dwarikanath Mahapatra is a Senior Research Scientist and Research Manager for the Applied Computer Vision group at the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, UAE. He obtained his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and as a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Australia. Dwarikanath's research interests are in applying AI methods to the healthcare domain particularly for medical image analysis, decision support systems and computer aided diagnosis. Dwarikanath has published more than 100 papers in prestigious conferences and journals, holds 13 patents, been recognized in the top 2% scientists in the world, and top 25 computer science scientists in the UAE. He has won 4 best paper awards at prestigious conferences and journals, recognized by IBM Research with two “Manager’s Choice Awards” and multiple patent awards.
AVNEESH KHARE, MBBS,MD,DNB,MNAMS,PDCC,MBA
Dr Avneesh Khare is a Physician turned MedTech (Emerging Tech - AI) Consultant and Educator from India with a decade of past clinical experience in Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Management. He holds an MBA degree in Hospital and Health Systems Management from BITS Pilani, India and a Certificate in Healthcare Leadership from Duke University, USA. He is certified by the American Board of AI in Medicine (ABAIM) and has also served as a member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), India Taskforce on AI in Healthcare.
CHINTAN DAVE, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Dave is a dual-certified internal medicine and critical care physician with expertise in ultrasound and medical AI development, research, and implementation. He is passionate in creating and studying innovative ways to translate promising medical AI development into real-world impact on patient-important outcomes.
ALOK KOTHARI
Alok Kothari has spent the last 10 years in artificial intelligence (AI), working at research and development organizations across India, Middle East, Europe and US. He helped build the natural language understanding backend which powers Apple’s AI assistant Siri. He co-founded a blockchain company in a Silicon Valley garage whose cryptocurrency is listed on major exchanges like Binance. Alok is now working on his second startup in AI and Healthcare. In his free time, Alok likes to hike and learn new languages.
Tomasz Rogula, MD, PhD, FACS
Tomasz Rogula, MD, PhD, FACS is a professor of surgery at the Jagiellonian University I Department of Surgery, Chief of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Division, Krakow, Poland and a part-time Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, United States. He is also a professor of surgery at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland. Prof. Rogula is a former Staff Surgeon and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic – Bariatric Metabolic Institute, a former Chief of General Surgery Division and Co-Director of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery at the University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center in Cleveland-Chardon, OH, USA. He graduated from the Jagiellonian University School of Medicine in Krakow, Poland and was trained in weight loss and general surgery Fellowships in the United States (Mount Sinai School of Medicine – New York, University of Pittsburgh, PA), Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Canada, United Kingdom and Japan. In addition to bariatric surgery, his specialty interests include advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery and hernia repair. He performed the first robotic assisted gastric bypass for obesity and initiated single incision laparoscopic bariatric surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Rogula has done pioneering research on novel weight-loss surgery procedures. He published numerous articles and book chapters on topics of bariatric and laparoscopic surgery and is a peer reviewer for many journals. He was an invited speaker for numerous national and international surgical meetings and workshops.
Avirup Guha, MD, MPH, FACC, FICOS
Dr. Guha is the Inaugural Director of Cardio-Oncology at Medical College of Georgia. Dr.Guha is a physician-scientist who has dedicated his clinical and research work to the emerging field of cardio-oncology with over 100 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals such as Circulation, European heart journal, Journal of American College of Cardiology, and Blood. Dr. Guha is arising star in the field of cardio-oncology with a recent American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network Grant in disparities in cardio-oncology. He was honored with the rare distinction of Fellow of the International Cardio-Oncology Society. Specifically, he is interested in the use of deep learning in reducing the redundancy and error in cardiac care of patients (especially those with cancer). He is an avid coder and has created the Cardioonc bot (https://twitter.com/cardioonc_bot) using Python to spread cardio-oncology knowledge using the Twitter bot platform. Many of Dr. Guha's research projects have used supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms along with traditional biostatistical techniques.
RAGHAV AWASTHI, M.S.,Ph.D.
Raghav is currently a postdoc scholar at Case Western Research University,USA. He completed his Ph.D. from IIIT-D working on AI in Healthcare. Prior to joining this institute, he completed Masters in Mathematics from IIT Kanpur where he was the rank opener for the batch.He also outperformed in CSIR-JRF which approved his funding for Ph.D. His Ph.D. thesis is currently focused on Causal Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Healthcare. His focus is to build data-driven decision support that is explainable and effectively deployable.He is highly motivated to explore the applications of Mathematics in Healthcare.
SHREYA MISRA M.S., Ph.D.
Shreya is a postdoc research scholar at the Cleveland Clinic after completing Ph.D. at the Centre for Computational Biology, IIIT Delhi, India in the area of Data mining and algorithm development in genomics. Her research is focused on developing algorithms for Big Data Mining with Graph Analytics for Genomics data including various omics datasets. She is keen to develop time and space-efficient algorithms to reduce the computational complexity of omics data.
TY VACHON, MD
Dr. Vachon is a practicing radiologist, venture backed co-founder, speaker and author on machine learning in medical imaging and healthcare. He is determined to provide clinically useful tools for his healthcare colleagues to best leverage the vast amounts of data generated daily. He advises several companies and lives in San Diego California.
KLAUDIA PRONIEWSKA, Ph.D.
Klaudia Proniewska earned Ph.D. in Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow in 2014 with her doctoral dissertation titled “ Identification of human vital functions based on selected cardiac and respiratory signals”. During the doctoral studies, Dr, Proniewska received multiple awards, recognitions, and scholarships including a regional scholarship "Doctus", Mortar scholarship (in the USA) awarded for innovative solutions in the field of patient cardiac monitoring. As part of internships, she researched at the Thoraxcenter Heart Disease Center, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, at the American Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, and the Top500 Innovators at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the United Kingdom in 2013, 2014 and 2015 respectively. During the Top500 Innovators internship, Dr. Proniewska acquired extensive knowledge in the management of scientific projects and their commercialization.
Currently, Dr. Proniewska is a researcher and faculty, at the Bioinformatics and Telemedicine Department of the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum (UJCM). Dr. Proniewska's scientific interests include biomedical engineering, in particular biomedical signal processing, coronary and cardiac imaging, and telemedicine solutions aimed at the prevention of chronic diseases. Since 2017, she has been working on the implementation of innovative methods of visualization of medical data utilizing augmented reality and 3D space mapping. Since 2021 Dr. Proniewska is the head of a newly established UJCM Mixed Reality Laboratory. – which was developed in collaboration with Microsoft to advance pre-procedural planning, monitoring as well as advanced medical education utilizing 3D visualization. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1360706959301045044-jumc-higher-education-azure-en-poland
SUNDHIRAJ SHARMA
Advisor,BrainX
Sundhiraj (“Sunny”) Sharma is the head of the North America office for Khazanah, a Sovereign wealth fund from Asia with over $20B under management. He is based in San Francisco and invests in innovative firms in technology and a variety of other verticals. He was previously with Khazanah in Malaysia and worked on multiple transactions to build and later list IHH Healthcare Bhd., the largest listed hospital operator in Asia by market capitalization, and board member of Xeraya Capital, a global Life Sciences fund.
Prior to joining Khazanah, he was at UBS Investment Bank in New York where he worked on Healthcare and Renewable Energy related M&A, Debt, and Equity transactions across the US and abroad. Prior to that, he worked at Capital One Financial Corporation in Virginia, where he led product strategy and credit strategy and helped turn-around its affinity credit cards business. He also worked at McKinsey & Company in New Jersey as a strategy consultant.
He has an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. He also obtained an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also a Research Fellow, and published multiple peer-reviewed papers. He has an integrated Bachelors and Masters in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and is also a CFA and CAIA charterholder.