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Mark Laret is a nationally-known healthcare industry board member and advisor, with four decades of executive experience leading, building and growing premier hospitals and healthcare systems. He serves on the boards of several healthcare companies, including: Viz.ai, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, Collective Health, Regard, and the California Health Care Foundation. He is also an advisor to SEMCAP health fund and InStride, a public benefit corporation providing workforce education and training. He previously served on two public company boards: Nuance Communications (acquired by Microsoft) and Varian Medical Systems (acquired by Siemens). Throughout his career at three academic medical centers, Mark has driven advancements in healthcare quality, safety, equity, affordability, and patient experience across the continuum of care. Appointed CEO of UCSF Medical Center in April 2000, Mark engineered a financial and operational turnaround and, over 21 years, grew annual revenues tenfold to $6 billion, expanded outpatient care fivefold, doubled inpatient care, and tripled the workforce to 15,000, while achieving Top 10 U.S. Hospital recognition for two decades. He led the expansion of UCSF Health from a single hospital to a regional network of hospitals, physician groups, and outpatient clinics, and founded Canopy Health, a Bay Area health insurance company. Mark retired as President & CEO of UCSF Health in December 2021. Prior to UCSF, Mark led UC Irvine Medical Center and health system as CEO for five years. He began his career at UCLA Medical Center and spent 15 years in various leadership positions building UCLA's healthcare network. A respected voice nationwide, Mark chaired the Council of Teaching Hospitals, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the California Hospital Association.

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I grew up around healthcare with my father a doctor and my mother a nurse. The same desire to provide great patient care I saw in my parents was instilled in me. I wanted to do something impactful to make a difference. My early idea was to go into bio-mechanical engineering. In engineering school I realized I was made to be around people. I decided to change my major and go into business. Fast forward to 2009, I was already well into my aspiring career in Financial Planning. I was working with individuals and business to help create lasting financial legacies. I joined a Senior Partner at the firm whose vision matched my passions. We created Wealth and Legacy Solutions to increase endowments for non-profit organizations. During this time I went through a leadership program, and met an executive in the Health Information Technology field who tried recruiting me to his company. To be honest, I was not interested. I had a fantastic business arrangement and was doing quite well. However, it seemed like we were trying to bail out a boat with a tea-spoon. We just were not getting to the non-profits fast enough. All at once, everything was up in the air. First, the senior partner had a change in direction with his own career and decided to exit the business. Second, on December 8, 2009 on a bone chilling afternoon, I was hit by a drunk driver. I sustained torn ligaments and tendons in my upper neck and lower back from the whiplash. Over the course of the next 2 years I realized my transition care from one doctor to another was terrible. Multiple redundant tests were ordered, and I had to act like my own health information exchange; physically bringing all my charts from one care provider to another. I knew there had to be a better way. I took up the original offer to be part of the health care solution. Now I am passionate about adding value to how health care is delivered today.

With more than 17 years of experience in the life sciences industry, I am a seasoned communications executive and C-suite advisor who partners with clients to achieve their business objectives. My mission is to help life sciences companies and clients achieve their goals by delivering impactful and innovative communications solutions across various channels and platforms. I have a proven track record of success in strategic communications, executive communications/thought leadership, crisis communications, internal communications, change management communications, corporate and product communications, and social media strategy. I also leverage my expertise in global health leadership to advise and support clients on issues related to public health, health equity, and social responsibility. I am passionate about creating and executing communications strategies that align with the vision, values, and objectives of my clients and stakeholders. I am driven by the opportunity to make a positive difference in the world through effective and strategic communications.

I am an active clinician scientist with 25% clinical time and 75% research time. I have chaired the Type 1 Diabetes Exchange Clinic Registry, and currently serve as data science co-lead for the Type 1 Diabetes Exchange Quality Improvement Collaborative. I lead our hospital's TrialNet Clinical Center and I lead many clinical trials in type 1 diabetes. I also lead a large project to evaluate the utility of advanced machine learning natural language processing and deep learning used to predict near-term outcomes in diabetes. I marry those predictions to quality improvement-based interventions to improve diabetes care. In May 2019 I also became Chief Medical Officer of Glooko, Inc. Above and beyond all else, I solve problems.

Engineering manager and software architect with over 15 years of industry experience, currently leading the Patient Experience Team at Glooko Inc. Extensive expertise in mobile development, with hands-on experience in Android since 2009 and iOS since 2010. Proficient in native development and experienced with cross-platform technologies such as React Native. Long-standing experience with Java (since version 1.4), and strong backend development skills, mainly using Node.js (NestJS and Express) since 2019. Proficient in designing and deploying scalable backend infrastructure on AWS (5+ years), with additional working knowledge in React, .NET, Python, and PHP. Deep involvement across all stages of system development—from architecture and implementation to deployment and team leadership. Proven leadership capabilities, having managed and mentored engineering teams of up to 30 members in both technical lead and people manager roles. Adept at translating business goals into scalable technical solutions and mentoring engineers to grow into strong individual contributors. Self-driven and passionate about continuous learning, process improvement, and adopting new technologies. One-man army at the Nusantara project (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2190170/Nusantara/). Built the game engine from scratch, including a custom programming language used for defining game behaviour (https://github.com/globulus/nusantara-script). Owner at SwiftUI Recipes. http://swiftuirecipes.com Former team member at RayWenderlich.com - Android tutorial author and book editor. https://www.raywenderlich.com/u/gordan-glavas Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.