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Innovators Challenge

Monday, May 4, 2025 | 10:15–11:45 am CST | NEXUS Main Stage
Don’t miss the latest innovations and solutions that are shaping the next era of healthcare delivery. Attend the Innovators Challenge, a live pitch competition featuring a panel of expert judges – and the whole telehealth industry – to determine who has the innovations that will impact care delivery and create a modernized, omnichannel care delivery system.

NEXUS Finalists
Finalists to live pitch at NEXUS 2025

Clinical Innovators
Rocket Doctor

FlexTogether

Duke Health Virtual Care Center Standardized Approach and Outcomes – Virtual Nursing, Virtual Sitting, and Virtual Clinic
Care at Home Delivery Solutions
Koda Health Advance Care Planning

Total Life, Inc.

Junction (formerly Vital) – Unified Health Data Platform
Femtech and Women’s Health
Ouma Health – Redefining Maternal Care through Telehealth Innovation

Mother of Fact – Revolutionizing Maternal Nutrition through Digital Health Integration

Myri Health
Inside the Walls/In-patient Care Solutions
Xealth: Making Digital Health Meaningful, Measurable, and Scalable

Uptiv Health

Pear Suite Empowers Community Health Workers to Provide Virtual Social Care Navigation

2025 Judges

Samir  Batra
Samir Batra (Advisor & Challenge Emcee)
Founder & CEO- BAHA Enterprises
Christine (Fernandez) Brocato
System VP, Strategic Innovation – CommonSpirit Health
Shravan S Rai
Software Engineer III – Teladoc Health
William Sheahan
SVP & Chief Innovation Officer – MedStar Health; Executive Director – MedStar Institute for Innovation
Ayse McCracken
Founder, Board Chair – Ignite
Khurram Mir
Managing Director | UCI Health Ventures and Innovation
Bo Wilkes
Chief Growth Officer – Ballad Health
Susan Solinsky
Women’s Health Entrepreneur & Investor; Strategic Operator, Kayne Anderson and Composition Capital
Dr. Kate Wolin
Behavioral Epidemiologist – Digital Health Investor & Advisor
Kristina Emery BSN, RN
Principle – Corewell Health Ventures
Matt Miller, PhD
General Partner – Headwater Ventures
Julia Monfrini Peev
Managing Partner – PACE Healthcare Capital
Maxim Owen
Partner – Wavemaker 360 Health
Emily Zhen
Principal & Health Equity Lead – Zeal Capital Partners
Sarah Jones
Chief Outcomes Officer, b.well
Sibo Gama-Morales
Investment Associate – Orlando Health Ventures
Lygeia  Ricciardi
Lygeia Ricciardi
Founder & CEO – AdaRose
Keith Winter, MBA, MS
Partner – Teal Ventures
Jon Gabriel, JD
M&A and Business Partner – Foley & Lardner LLP
Dr. Aditi U.  Joshi
Aditi U. Joshi, MD, MSc, FACEP
Executive Director – TBHI Telehealth.org
Jeff Zucker
Tekton Research