Our Team
Below is a listing of some of the Aurora Forge Advisors
Leadership

Ross Mason
Chief Executive Officer, The Aurora Forge
Angel Investor and Healthcare Entrepreneur

Cynthia Petrone-Hudock
Chief Strategy Officer

Katrina Barillova Koop
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Advisors

Ricardo Azziz, MD, MPH, MBA
Chief Science & Strategy Officer,
EVP for Operations
The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation

Sameer Badlani, MD, FACP
Chief Digital Officer & Executive Vice-President for Technology Services
M Health Fairview

Robert Bart, MD

Chad Brisendine
Vice President and
Chief Information Officer
St. Luke’s University Health Network

Saad Chaudhry
Chief Information Officer
Luminis Health

Zafar Chaudry, MD, MS, MIS, MBA, CITP
Senior Vice-President and
Chief Information Officer
Seattle Children’s Hospital

Lisa Dykstra
Senior Vice President and
Chief Information Officer
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Ophir Frieder, MS, PhD
Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics Faculty
Georgetown Medical Center
Fellow of AAAS, ACM, AIMBE, IEEE and NAI

Dustin Hufford
Senior Vice President and
Chief Information Officer
Cooper University Health Care

Mir Imran
Chief Innovation Officer
InCube Labs

John M. Kravitz
Senior Vice President and
Chief Information Officer
Geisinger Health System

Matt Kull
Chief Information Officer
Cleveland Clinic

Russell Medford, MD, PhD
Chairman, Board of Directors, Center for Global Health Innovation
Chairman and CEO, Covanos, Inc.

Kristin Myers
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Dean for Information Technology
Mount Sinai Health System

Emil Peters
President
Cerner Global