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Staff
Dennis Israelski, MD
Dennis has over three decades of diverse accomplishments in the domain of Infectious Diseases and Global Health. As an internationally recognized clinician, educator and researcher, his career has been dedicated to ensuring that most at-risk populations have access to quality, community-based healthcare services. He began his work with InSTEDD in 2007 as VP of Programs where he was responsible for overseeing program strategy and implementation. Currently, he is a Clinical Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Read more »
Wendy L. Schultz-Henry
Wendy joined InSTEDD in the Fall of 2006. Over the course of her time with InSTEDD she has worn several hats as the needs of the organization have grown. Along with her current role as COO, she manages the international regulatory requirements for our overseas operations and also serves as West Coast Liaison for Crisis Response. She is Secretary and Treasurer to the Board of Directors. Wendy brings to InSTEDD over 25 years of experience in finance and operations with expertise in audit preparation and process, cash management, budget development and quality assessment. Read more »
Eduardo Jezierski
Eduardo has spent his whole career designing, implementing and deploying software solutions on a global scale. He originally received an MsC in Informatics after initial work in nuclear engineering, and later worked in Argentina in the areas of GIS analysis, machine learning and modeling for challenges in anthropology. His Master's thesis was on robotics control, genetic algorithms and neural networks. Read more »
Nicolás di Tada
Nicolás spends most of his time as a software designer, developer and project manager, crafting software with a strong technical and scientific background. Prior to starting his company, Manas Technology Solutions, Nicolás spent 10 years as a software architect and project leader for a diverse range of organizations, including startups and large corporations, acquiring a varied background in information retrieval, machine learning, information visualization and web application development. Read more »
Brooke Estin
Brooke grew up in a small northern California town until age 9 when her family moved to Bangkok. After graduating from the International School of Bangkok, she attended university in both the US and UK on an academic scholarship where she earned a BA in International Relations. While living in San Francisco, she began working for Kiva, the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website which empowers individuals to lend to unique entrepreneurs around the globe for the sake of poverty alleviation. Read more »
Channe Suy
Channe joined the Innovation Lab in Southeast Asia as Product Manager in August 2008. Her primary focus is to capture user requirements for all aspects that affect the quality of products. In addition, she also does software usability design and testing as well as provides on-going support to the clients/partners. Throughout the years with InSTEDD she has worked closely with Cambodia Communicable Disease Control at the national level down to the rural health center level in order to strengthen group communication by using InSTEDD's technology. Read more »
Khoy Long
Khoy joined InSTEDD in 2009, bringing with her over twelve years of experience in the areas of grant management, audit, and finance as well as office administration and staff development. Khoy provided leadership in the development of the infrastructure for InSTEDD's flagship Innovation Laboratory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (iLab). In her current role as operations manager, she is the lead operations team member responsible for the overall operations management of the iLab Southeast Asia, including finance, tax & accounting, human resources, staff development, and asset and facilities management. Read more »
Julian Wimbush, PhD
Building on his extensive background in developing and evaluating health technologies, Julian has led health technology evaluation studies with several notable institutions, including Brown University Medical School, Harvard Business School, UCSF's Institute for Health Policy Studies, UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, and Kaiser Permanente. On the corporate side, he has served as a technology consultant to several Fortune 500 companies, and on the startup side, he has served as an objective C programmer, creating web, mobile device, and artificial intelligence applications for One Team Technologies, a software engineering cooperative. Read more »
Scott Teesdale, MPH
Scott is a Public Health Epidemiologist who has extensive experience working on disease surveillance and monitoring and evaluation systems throughout Africa and the Middle East. He has worked as a Regional Epidemiologist and Team Lead for Data Management with the US Centers for Disease Control, Global Disease Detection and Response Program in Cairo, Egypt. Additionally, Scott has worked as the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager for Medical Care Development International where he helped implement multiple USAID malarial control programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read more »
Bridget Sperry
Bridget is a San Francisco Bay Area native. After returning to the Bay Area from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in June 1995, she began working with several professional groups in the Finance & Accounting sector. In 2001, Bridget became a California Registered Tax Preparer and within a year, she opened a tax consulting and bookkeeping business. Her clients have included venture capital firms, executive recruiters, orthopedic surgeons, and other professional organizations. Most recently she was the in-house accountant for the Ansel Adams Gallery which furthered her love and appreciation for photography. Read more »
Outside Board Members
David Heymann, MD
David is Chair of the Health Protection Agency in London, Head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Previously he was the World Health Organization's Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment and polio eradication. Prior to this he was the Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster until 2003, the Director for WHO Programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases from 1995-1998, and Chief of Research Activities for the WHO Global Programme on AIDS from 1989 to 1995. Read more »
Robert Kirkpatrick
Robert has more than 15 years of experience developing and deploying collaboration technologies for public and private sector organizations and has spent most of the past decade in humanitarian relief and global development. His work explores ways that virtual interactions may help or hinder information sharing, trust-building, collective intelligence, and coordination. He is a strong proponent of open source software, open data standards, and grassroots technology innovation. Read more »
Eric Rasmussen, MD
Eric arrived as the founding Chief Executive Officer of InSTEDD in October 2007 and served as CEO until October 2010. Prior to joining InSTEDD, Eric was both Chairman of the Department of Medicine within the US Navy Medical Center near Seattle, Washington, and an advisor in humanitarian informatics for the US Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has led disaster response teams in more than 15 events, including the tsunami in Banda Aceh, Katrina, the Izmit earthquake, and Haiti. Read more »
Fred Bullock
Fred is a results driven, transformational marketing leader who combines the art and science of marketing to deliver business results through innovative marketing strategies and brilliant execution. His focus on “Age of Engage” marketing drives deep customer, partner and employee engagement resulting in extraordinary outcomes. For 25 years Fred has led global and regional marketing teams that successfully launched and boosted growth of new technologies, products, and internet services. His working experience spans start-ups to established companies and includes Apple, AltaVista/Yahoo!, Firefly Mobile, Nokia, and HP. Read more »
Andy Leventhal
Andy Leventhal has had over 20 years of software experience in storage, data security, open source Linux, and cleantech (energy efficiency, carbon and enterprise sustainability), with a repeated record of identifying transformational opportunities, emerging markets, deploying successful go-to-market strategies and raising capital. As an early employee at EMC, VeriSign, Red Hat and Imperva, Andy has been a driver in the development of many companies, product launches, ecosystem development, pricing, team recruiting and scaling channels in over a dozen markets around the world. Andy has held individual and management roles in sales, business development, strategic alliances, domestic and international channels throughout the US, Japan, APAC and the EU. Read more »
Consultants
Caricia Catalani, DrPH, MPH
In addition to being a senior research associate at InSTEDD, Caricia Catalani, DrPH, MPH is faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. The focus of her work is on the development and evaluation of information technology and Web 2.0 tools for global health. Caricia has 17 years of experience working on community, national, and global health projects and research with underserved populations, including undocumented Latinos, victims of disaster, the urban poor, sex workers, and people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, South Asia, West Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Read more »
Samantha Lekus
Samantha brings over 20 years’ experience in operational, fiscal and administrative leadership. She has held a variety of management positions within international and domestic-based organizations including large university, NGOs and nonprofit organizations. She brings her expertise to InSTEDD to develop and support organizational and fiscal infrastructure including Federal compliance, A-133 audit preparation, strengthening HR functions and the development and implementation of internal controls and external policies to support the smooth functioning of InSTEDD’s overall administrative and fiscal operations. Read more »