
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
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
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
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
Uptiv Health
Pear Suite Empowers Community Health Workers to Provide Virtual Social Care Navigation
2025 Judges

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
Founder & CEO – AdaRose

Keith Winter, MBA, MS
Partner – Teal Ventures

Jon Gabriel, JD
M&A and Business Partner – Foley & Lardner LLP

Aditi U. Joshi, MD, MSc, FACEP
Executive Director – TBHI Telehealth.org
Jeff Zucker
Tekton Research