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title: Meet the IH community's top 50 Innovators in 2020
description: Who left us shook? Who blew our as-yet-unblown minds? Here is the Intelligent Health community's top 50 Innovators of 2020. 
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# [Meet the IH community's top 50 Innovators in 2020](https://blog.intelligenthealth.ai/meet-the-top-50-innovators)

 Written by [Intelligent Health](https://blog.intelligenthealth.ai/author/intelligent-health) | Dec 2, 2020 12:23:26 PM

Who left us shook? Who blew our as-yet-unblown minds? Here is the Intelligent Health community's top 50 Innovators of 2020! 

 

1. Dr. Robert Califf, Former Commissioner FDA and Head of Health and Policy, **Alphabet** (Google Health and Verily Life Sciences)
2. John Nosta, President, **NostaLab**
3. Yan Huang, General Manager - Intelligent Healthcare, **Baidu **
4. Dr. Ann Aerts, Head, **Novartis Foundation **
5. Dr. Greg Moore, Corporate Vice President, **Microsoft Health **
6. Dr. Freddy Abnousi, Interventional Cardiologist and Head of Health Technology, **Facebook**
7. Wenjun Xie, Head of AI Healthcare Strategy, **Tencent**
8. Dr. Stefan Germann, CEO, **Fondation Botnar **
9. Elena Bonfiglioli, Managing Director, Health and Life Sciences EMEA, **Microsoft**
10. Huguette Diakabana, Co-Founder and Deputy Director, **African Alliance of Digital Health Networks**
11. Junaid Bajwa, Chief Medical Scientist, **Microsoft Research **       
12. Dr. Eric Oermann, Director, AISINAI, Instructor of Neurological Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery, **Mount Sinai Health System**
13. Dr. Divya Chander, Faculty Chair in Neuroscience and & Faculty in Medicine, **Singularity University **
14. Dr. Natalie Banner, Understanding Patient Data Lead, **Wellcome Trust **
15. Dr. Sonny Kohli, Internal Med/Critical Care Physician, **Oakville Hospital**, Assistant Prof (adj.),  **McMaster University** and Co-Founder, **Cloud DX **
16. Letizia Gionfrida, CEO & Managing Director,** Arthronica **
17. Dr. James Kinross, Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Colorectal Surgery, St. Mary’s Hospital, **Imperial College London**
18. Dr. Sandip Sarkar, Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon, **Barts Health NHS Trust**
19. Dr. Jay Mandrekar, Professor of Biostatistics & Neurology, **Mayo Clinic**
20. Dr. Gabriel Krummenacher, Team Lead Data Science, **Zuehlke Group**
21. Tomas Dikk, Lead Data Science, **Zuehlke Group**
22. Dr. John Halamka, President, **Mayo Clinic Platform**
23. Dr. Chris Bates, Director of Research and Analytics, **TPP**
24. Lucy Setian, Digital and AI Stakeholder Engagement Lead, **Novartis Foundation**
25. Guy Holmes, President and CEO, **Tape Ark**
26. Mark Saroufim, AI Engineer, **Graphcore**
27. Professor Max Welling, Vice President Technologies, **Qualcomm** & Research Chair, Machine Learning, **University of Amsterdam**
28. Professor Mildred Solomon, President & Professor, **The Hastings Centre** & **Harvard Medical School**
29. Tim Whittlestone, Chief Medical Officer, **NHS Nightingale Hospital - Bristol**
30. Srinivasan Venkatramanan, Research Scientist, Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing, Biocomplexity Institute, **University of Virginia**
31. Dr. Matthew Lungren, Co-Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging & Assistant Professor of Radiology,** Stanford University School of Medicine**
32. Dr. Frnanda Zaganelli, Ophthalmologist & Occupational Health Physician, **Firjan**
33. Dr. Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, Chief Medical Officer, **Oxford Immune Algorithmics**
34. Laurent Vandebrouck, CEO, **Chronolife**
35. Matthew Stickland, Director of Strategy & Communications, **TPP**
36. Dr. Amrita Kumar, Consultant Radiologist & AI Clinical Lead, Frimley Health **NHS Foundation Trust**
37. Milo Wicinski, Business Development Manager, **Infermedica**
38. Dr. Darko Matovski, CEO, [**causaLens**](https://www.causalens.com/)
39. Dr. Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, **Microsoft Research**
40. Gidon Lichfield, Editor in Chief, **MIT Technology Review**
41. Dr. Shahram Ebadollahi, Global Head of Data Science and AI, **Novartis**
42. Vanessa Candeias, Former Head, Global Health and Healthcare; Member of the Executive Committee, **World Economic Forum**
43. Dr. Sujeeth Bharadwaj, Principal ML Lead, Azure AI, **Microsoft**
44. Frank Hester, Founder and CEO, **The Phoenix Partnership**
45. Tara Donnelly, CDIO, **NHSX**
46. Dr. Alan Karthikesalingam, Senior Clinical Scientist, **Google Health**
47. Prof. Dr. Mathias Goyen, Chief Medical Officer – Europe, **GE Healthcare**
48. Dr. Stephanie Kuku, Senior Research Fellow, **University College Hospital London**
49. Dr. Allison Gardner, Programme Director Data Science Degree Apprenticeship and Co-Founder, **Keele University and Women Leading in AI**
50. Victoria Rege, Director of Strategic Alliances & Partnerships, **Graphcore**

 

 

 

Who is your top pick? Tweet us [@IntHealthAI](https://twitter.com/IntHealthAI) #IHTop50

 

Here is your global calendar of online and physical for 2021 where you can meet your fellow Intelligent Health community members (and the top innovators!).

 

Intelligent Health UK 11 - 12 May 2021 | London  & Online

[london.intelligenthealth.ai](https://london.intelligenthealth.ai/london-tickets/)

 

Intelligent Health 8 - 9 September 2021 | Basel & Online

[intelligenthealth.ai](https://intelligenthealth.ai/)

 

Physical tickets for 2021 will be extremely limited and released in small batches to ensure the safety of our guests. (Safety, first. Always.)

 

 

Find out how you can get involved: [intelligenthealth.ai/get-involved/](https://intelligenthealth.ai/get-involved/)

Contact us: [london.intelligenthealth.ai/contact-us](https://london.intelligenthealth.ai/contact-us/)

 

 

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