Jonathan Jackson

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jonathan Jackson is an entrepreneur and innovator with extensive health technology expertise in both developed and developing countries. He leads several efforts to build software engineering capacity in low-resource countries through partnerships and collaboration.

During his masters work, Jonathan was awarded a Department of Homeland Security Fellowship at MIT and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he developed neural network informatics software for cancer classification. While completing his degree, he also led the technical development as founder and CTO of Infinidex, an award winning contact search management startup.

Since co-founding Dimagi, Jonathan has overseen the development of multiple innovative health projects, including SmartCare, the National HIV medical record systems in Zambia and CommCare, a mobile phone based system for community healthcare workers. From 2006, he has led Dimagi’s research on patient-centered technologies and care coordination in the United States with grant funding from the NIH.

Jonathan earned bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jonathan also co-founded Cogito Health, a pioneering company using speech analytics for depression management, and Doctor Kares Hospital, a low-cost orthopedic surgical hospital in New Delhi. He is also a visiting scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Decision Systems Group, and a lecturer at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Dr. Vikram Sheel Kumar

Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Vikram Sheel Kumar is an engineer and pathologist who developed one of the earliest video games for health on a wireless mobile device. He studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and Columbia University and medicine at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Vikram completed a residency in Clinical Pathology from the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in 2007.

The son of an inventive neurosurgeon, Vikram invented a privatizing fax machine with his father at the age of 14. At Columbia, he invented and patented a software toolkit to analyze multidimensional neuronal data. Vikram did his graduate thesis at the MIT Media Laboratory where with his advisor Dr. Sandy Pentland he invented DiaBetNet that was nominated as one of the top ten designs of the decade by BusinessWorld magazine. To prove that amazing things happen when unlike minds come together, Vikram created UnLike Labs. He is also a co-founder of Cogito Health and co-founder and Director of Doctor Kares Hospital that has pioneered the use of ozone therapy for disc herniation.

At Dimagi, Vikram leads the research activities and along with Jonathan has won over $2 million in NIH grants. He is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Boston University.

Vikram has won numerous awards including being named an MIT Technology Review’s TR100 and its Humanitarian of the Year, a Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator, and a Paul and Daisy Soros New American. Vikram has been featured in the New York Times, Nature Medicine, the Voice of America and on the cover of The Week magazine. He is the health columnist for Forbes India.

Cory Zue

Chief Technology Officer

Cory Zue has expertise in many aspects of software engineering. As a graduate student working at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, he developed an automated voice over IP traffic generator. This tool was used to assess the effects of digital security on voice over IP conversation quality. He used this research to develop a model for predicting the cost of encrypting voice in poor-connectivity systems in terms of quality loss.

From 2005 to 2006, Cory worked for Oracle Corporation developing enterprise collaboration software. He designed and implemented an architecture to automatically track changes on any artifact in the system, allowing users to immediately access those documents that were important to them in a highly-efficient manner.

Cory earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Neal Lesh

Chief Strategy Officer

Neal Lesh is a computer scientist with field experience in applying information technologies to help organizations address poverty in low-income regions. He has published and lectured extensively in data visualization, data mining, and automated planning and logistics. He has developed medical record and analysis systems for Partners in Health, the government of Rwanda, and a large AIDS treatment program in Tanzania, and worked with many other Universities and NGOs. He is coordinating a Harvard-funded research project in South Africa.

Neal holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington and a masters degree in global health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Pushwaz Virk

Vice President, Medical Affairs

Pushwaz is responsible for strategy and execution of Dimagi’s health care solutions and is involved in development of health care technologies through research grants, global health partnerships and management of clinical research. He brings experience of working with life science and information technology companies, health care providers and payers. Before joining Dimagi, he was at a boutique management consulting firm focusing on life science and health care strategy consulting projects. Pushwaz worked on clinical quality, operational efficient and health informatics projects at Harvard University Health Services and Group Health Plan as a management fellow. Earlier, he was the founding member of the Life sciences & Health care practice of a global IT services and consulting company and was responsible for telemedicine projects and new product development.

Pushwaz has great interest in global health, primary care innovation, venture creation process and is involved in various organizations supporting health care entrepreneurship. He has also conducted research on innovations in global health care delivery at Harvard University and has conducted research on patient safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Pushwaz practiced as a primary care physician in India and has MBA from University of Delhi and MPH in health care management from Harvard University.

Carter Powers

Vice President, Operations & Strategy

bio forthcoming…

Dan Myung

Senior Engineer

Dan Myung is an engineer with a keen interest in developing expressive, interoperable and portable software systems specifically in the health care realm. Dan holds an ideal that there are social and societal ills that are waiting to be solved through the help of better, accessible software. Prior to joining Dimagi, Dan worked 5 years as lead developer and co-founder of 10Blade, a startup specializing in developing electronic medical records and decision systems for EMS, first responder, and critical care personnel.

At 10Blade, Dan developed alongside Harvard University’s Department of Computer Science the world’s first low powered wireless pulse oximeter running on a TinyOS based device. This led to new explorations in developing innovative new decision-support systems for the pre-hospital phase of emergency care, as well as provide critical feedback to health informatics standards bodies the need to expand existing standards’ documentation of pre-hospital data. For Boston Medical Center, Dan provided 10Blade’s electronic point of care charge capture for selected Trauma surgeons, greatly increasing billing revenue and providing a more continuous record for further research.

Dan holds an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Clayton Sims

Senior Engineer

Clayton Sims is a keen engineer with a breadth of experience in developing usable software systems. Clayton strongly adheres to the principle that software can do big things only if it is written along side, and tailored for, those who use it. At the Advanced Materials Laboratory division of Sandia National Labs, he led portions of development on multiple software solutions for use in materials science. Working side-by-side with materials engineers, he helped to create CAD/CAM software for a 3D prototyping technology selected as one the top ten materials developments by Chemical Engineering News.

Recently, Clayton has worked with MIT Engineers and Harvard University Economists to create a toolkit for economists to create highly scalable internet based game simulations. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Computer Science and Engineering at MIT’s User Interface Design group, developing software systems to enable end-users to generate electronic decision support protocols.

Clayton holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Drew Roos

Senior Engineer

Drew is an engineer who has long experience in the medical field. Prior to Dimagi, he developed EMRs for Epic Systems in Madison, WI. At Epic, he built operating room, anesthesia, and inpatient/outpatient integration systems for large hospitals and clinics across the country.

Since joining Dimagi, Drew has been a key contributor to JavaRosa, an open source data collection and decision support platform for mobile devices. He has lead integration of contributions from remote partners, provided programming mentorship, local training, and traveled extensively in the field. Drew also has a strong interest in geo-spatial applications.

Drew Roos holds a BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Rowena Luk

Senior Engineer

Rowena Luk is an engineer with a passion for developing robust, usable, and re-usable technologies to support international development in underserved regions around the world.

In collaboration with Intel Research, she led both front-end and back-end development of a telemedicine platform running on a distributed network of intermittently connected servers located throughout Ghana and the US. In so doing, she took this project from an idea to deployment in 5 major hospitals involving over 125 doctors from around the world. She has also conducted research with the Tetherless Computing Lab at the University of Waterloo on drive-by internet solutions for kiosk operators in India. Her technical background includes several years’ experience working as a software engineer for industry-leading companies such as Research In Motion and Maya Heat Transfer Technologies.

Rowena is founder of AMITA Telemedicine Inc., a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of healthcare in Africa through research, development, and deployments of information technology. She sits on the Board of Advisors for Gram-Vaani, a non-profit providing media services through low-cost connectivity in rural India, winner of the prestigious Knight News Challenge.

She holds a Masters in Information Management and Systems from the University of California in Berkeley, where she was an active member of the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) Research Group, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Anton de Winter

Engineer

Anton de Winter is an engineer with a passion for technology and how it impacts society. He strongly believes that software applications and technology can be developed and be applied to old problems in new ways, in order to improve quality of life in places that need it most. He is especially interested in turnkey, end-to-end, application systems for use in resource limited settings. He supports many of the mobile applications from Dimagi.

Anton is a graduate from MIT with Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology. During his time as an undergrad he worked jobs in several different fields including the Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL – helping to develop the Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle that won in the International Aerial Robotics Competition in 2009 – and BMW in Munich. Currently he is also in the process of founding his own company in the Renewable Energy Industry that develops cost effective solar technologies.

Danny Roberts

Engineer

Danny Roberts is a strong believer in applying his general life principle of being nice and having fun to software engineering. A Boston-area native and half-Brazilian, Danny’s interest in the world led him to study a number of languages which he speaks to various degrees of proficiency including Portuguese, Latin, German, Chinese, Romanian, and Ancient Greek.

Danny graduated from Princeton University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science and Engineering degree in Computer Science. While at Princeton, he became interested in web development as a way to “be the change you want to see in the world” after working on a few web projects. Danny joined Dimagi in 2010 to improve his knowledge of geography, to use what he knows to be the change he wants to see in the world, and of course to be nice and have fun.

Christian Ternus

Engineer

Christian Ternus is an engineer who believes in using technology to empower people to improve their health and well-being.

Christian has broad technical expertise in many fields, including operating systems, parallel computing, mobile technology, virtualization, security, and systems design. At MIT, he worked with the Carbon Group to help develop a massively parallel distributed operating system.

At Dimagi, Christian has worked on applications to connect people across the healthcare spectrum, providing insights to doctors, patients, and caregivers.

Christian holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ryan Hartford

Engineer

Ryan has deep technical experience in web and application software and an entrepreneurial passion for improving the world with technology. He has built and deployed custom software solutions for the US Government, non profits, NGOs and private industry in more than 20 countries. Prior to working at Dimagi, he led the open source release of OpenLMIS at VillageReach and launched a startup in Seattle.

Ryan holds a BA in Computer Science from Colgate University.

Biyeun Buczyk

Engineer

bio forthcoming…

Matt Theis

Field Director in Lusaka, Zambia

Matt brings an unique perspective to Dimagi, having previous engineering and program management experience in the aerospace industry. Prior to joining Dimagi, Matt focused on the development of a full-sized, unmanned helicopter. He has hands-on experience with hardware, testing and evaluation. He has developed a general appreciation for fixing whatever breaks, be it software, mechanical or electrical.

Matt holds a Bachelors degree in Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Derek Treatman

Field Investigator

Derek is a globetrotter with a knack for linguistics and interpersonal communication. Having lived in Mexico, Panama, Tunisia, and France he speaks French, Spanish, some Arabic, and is currently learning Hindi. With a background in information and communication technology, human computer interaction, and medical informatics, he is driven to explore methods of information exchange in healthcare through the use of technology that crosses linguistic and cultural barriers. His previous work at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York includes information system design for international clinical trials with research centers in New York and Taiwan.

Derek Treatman holds an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MS in Computer Engineering from l’École Supérieure d’Électricité (Supélec) in France, and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University.

Amelia Sagoff

Fellow

Amelia has helped develop and field test CommCare applications in Tanzania with Dimagi. Before joining Dimagi, she worked for Elysium Digital LLC, a technology litigation consulting firm that specializes in analyzing and explaining the technical aspects of copyright, patent, and trade secret cases. She graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Computer Science.

Nick Amland

Fellow

Nick is currently working on a deployment of CommCare in Tanzania. His work focuses on implementing a program monitoring/evaluation system and streamlining program operations. He started as a field fellow with Dimagi in January 2011 and is based in Dodoma, Tanzania.

Previously, Nick worked at VillageReach, a hybrid social enterprise working to improve the access of health services to remote, under-served communities. At VillageReach, Nick primarily worked in the information systems group and dedicated most of his time to building/deploying a logistics management information system (openLMIS.org) in Mozambique.
Nick graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a B.A. in both Business Administration and Economics.

Krishna Swamy

Fellow

bio forthcoming…

Mohini Bhavsar

Fellow

Mohini is an adventurista, who loves backpacking, learning languages, ethnic outfits and sharing her grandmother’s Indian recipes with hosts she meets along the way. She has lived in Germany and Guatemala, and speaks French, Spanish, some German and Hindi.

Mohini is interested evaluating the use of mobile tech to support and strengthen health systems in Latin America and South Asia. In 2010, she helped MobileActive.org to build a research directory for practitioners, and NGOs looking to learn more about applying mobile phones for social change. After New York, she headed south to support TulaSalud, a Guatemalan NGO using mobile data collection tools to monitor diseases in the remote highlands of Altaverapaz. Now, Mohini is working in India as a Field Fellow with Dimagi, deploying CommCare in partnership with several health NGOs around the country.

Mohini studied Biochemistry and Health Studies at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario. She has worked for Health Canada’s risk management and regulatory affairs directorate for natural health products; and University of Leipzig and Helmholtz Research Center in Leipzig, Germany.

Sam DuPont

Fellow

bio forthcoming…

Seneca Perri

Research Coordinator

Seneca is currently working on her PhD in Nursing Informatics at the University of Utah with an emphasis on electronic medical decision support for low-resource populations. She is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and is serving as the research coordinator on an NIH-funded Harvard study to improve and assess e-IMCI’s impact on patient comprehension and adherence to treatment guidelines. Seneca received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Westminster College and is an experienced newborn intensive care unit and community care nurse.

Teddy Svoronos

Public Health Consultant

Teddy Svoronos is a current MPH student at Columbia University, studying effectiveness and outcomes research. He graduated in 2008 from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he studied international health policy. A recent Fulbright Scholar in Tanzania, Teddy developed CommCare’s pregnancy module, an application to monitor safe pregnancies. The module has since been adopted by numerous organizations around the world, and has been the subject of current and future research studies. He previously conducted independent research in Rwanda on a mobile health information system that has informed national policymaking on ICT and health. As a public health consultant at Dimagi, he is involved in developing CommCare’s module for newborn care, in addition to a suite of reports to assist health professionals in managing information received through CommCare.

Dr. Animesh Sharma

Health Informatics Consultant

Animesh Sharma is a healthcare informatics specialist at Dimagi. His educational qualifications, work experience and skill sets cut across fields like clinical medicine, computer science and bioinformatics. Animesh has worked in diverse settings, holding professional positions in academia at premier research institutes in India and as a graduate student in the United States. His research has focused on applying pattern matching and other machine learning techniques to identify regulatory networks at the genomic level. On the industry side, his experience includes appointments at Infosys Technologies Inc., a leading Information Technology Services company in India. While at Infosys, Animesh was instrumental in the development and implementation of the Oracle clinical works software application.

Animesh received an MBBS degree from the prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He is an enthusiastic computer hacker and an active seeker of knowledge. Animesh is based in New Delhi, India.

Dr. Vishwanath Anantraman

Co-Founder

Vishwanath is a physician who, after having practiced medicine in rural India, decided to pursue a career in health and medical informatics. He joined the Decision Systems Group at the Brigham and Women’s hospital for a post-doctoral fellowship, and subsequently obtained a master’s degree in medical informatics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Vishwanath has been involved in a number of informatics projects in association with faculty at the AI division of MIT’s Laboratory of Computer Science, and has consulting experience from a number of large healthcare corporations.

Tarjei Mikkelsen

Co-Founder

Tarjei designed and implemented Dimagi’s first medical applications in India, South Africa and the United States. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, a master’s degree in biomedical engineering and a Ph.D. in bioinformatics from MIT. He has previously worked at HP’s Cambridge Research Laboratory and the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.