JAL Foundation Founder

David LaBorde, MD, MBA has over 14 years experience in healthcare. He is a physician with clinical training in neurosurgery and he has worked for McKinsey & Company, a prominent management consultancy, where his focus was advising large healthcare provider organizations on strategic planning and operations improvement. Dr. LaBorde has also worked for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, leading bulge bracket Wall Street investment banks, where he provided large healthcare companies with corporate finance advisory services. He has experience with leading early stage healthcare facing web based database driven software product development efforts and has advised multiple Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing senior design teams on product development in this area. Dr. LaBorde has expertise in clinical informatics and is actively involved in research on the deployment of information technologies in academic healthcare organizations. He earned an MD degree from Yale University, an MBA degree from Harvard University, and a BS degree in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Biomedical and Clinical Research & Biostatistics

Michael Fost is currently working towards his M.S. degree in Mathematics at Georgia State University, focusing on biostatistics and expects to graduate in August, 2011. He also works as a Graduate Research Assistant at Justice for Children, a committee of the Supreme Court of Georgia, where his responsibilities include conducting analysis to identify preferred foster care practices. Mike is also a Statistical Consultant to the Emory University Department of General Medicine and works in various volunteer capacities.

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Healthcare Information Technology and Informatics & Healthcare Operations Research

Pinar Keskinocak is the Mary Anne and Harold R. Nash Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Institute of Technology. She also serves as the Associate Director for Research at the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on applications of operations research and management science with societal impact (particularly health and humanitarian applications), supply chain management, pricing and revenue management, and logistics/transportation. She has worked on projects in several industries including automotive, semiconductor, paper manufacturing, printing, healthcare, hotels, and airlines. Her research has been published in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, and Interfaces.

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Healthcare Information Technology and Informatics

George Mathew is the Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine within the Department of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. His interest is Patient Safety.

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Healthcare Information Technology and Informatics

Shamkant Navathe has been a faculty member at Georgia Tech since 1990. His present research interests include database modeling, design and integration in the context of emerging applications - engineering design, biological (particularly human genome) databases, document and text databases, and collaborative applications. He is also interested in knowledge representation, data mining and knowledge discovery, tools and methodologies for information system design and visualization and user interfaces for better information retrieval.

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