Chairman – Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Wold is the former chair of the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, the Mayo Collaborative Services Board and Mayo Medical Ventures Board. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Mayo Clinic Foundation. He is also the chief medical officer of VitalHealth Software where he helps advise the company’s long-term market strategies for care collaboration, disease management and patient engagement.
Chief Medical Officer and SAB Member
Dr. Rosen graduated from MIT with a degree in electrical engineering before deciding to pursue a career in medicine. He is a practicing vascular surgeon and complex wound surgeon in the Boston area. He currently serves as chief medical officer for swyMed. Dr. Rosen brings both his tech-savvy and clinical experience facing the evolving healthcare landscape to swyMed and the SAB. Prior to joining swyMed, he served as assistant director of the Tufts Medical Center for Vascular, Wound Healing, and Hyperbaric Medicine. Noah is also the founder of SuraMedical, a company that has developed a wearable device for managing would healing more effectively and was recently named to Boston’s Top Doctors list for Vascular Surgery and Wound Care.
SAB Member
Dr. James McCarthy is a clinical nephrologist and emeritus Mayo Clinic physician. His primary clinical focus has been decreasing hospitalizations, improving survival and the quality of life for patients with chronic kidney disease. He previously chaired, as physician leader, the Mayo Clinic Health System’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Oversight Group, and was among the top 1% of U.S. physicians in 2011 as ranked by U.S. News & World Report’s “Top Doctors” list.
SAB Member
Dr. Ronald Merrell is a surgeon with a long interest in telemedicine. He is the former clinical director of VCU Health Systems Telemedicine program. Currently, he serves as editor-in-chief of Telemedicine and E-Health, an official journal of the American Telemedicine Association and the International Society for Telemedicine and e-Health. Additionally, Dr. Merrell has worked on telemedicine programs in several countries around the world.
SAB Member
Phil is President of Ellis Health Policy where he consults on health policy issues and performs analysis for clients in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. He spent most of his career at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and served as a leader of CBO’s health team during the debate over the Affordable Care Act in 2009-10 – focusing primarily on estimating the effects of the law’s provisions governing insurance coverage. In October 2009, the Washington Post said he “may be the most powerful guy you’ve never heard of in the health-care debate.” Phil’s research and writing has covered a wide range of topics in health care, including health insurance reform, payment reform, Medicare, Medicaid, telemedicine, and prescription drug coverage. He has worked on health policy issues at Acumen LLC and UnitedHealth Group, under the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at HHS, and at the Treasury Department. He has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.
