Speaker Bios & Headshots

Dr. Karen DeSalvo

Dr. Karen DeSalvo is Chief Health Officer at Google where she leads a team of health professionals who provide guidance for the development of health research, products, and services across Google. Karen’s career has focused on improving health and eliminating disparities and she leans on deep experience working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and information technology. Before joining Google, Dr. DeSalvo was National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Assistant Secretary for Health (Acting) in the Obama Administration. During her time at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. DeSalvo focused on creating a more consumer-oriented, transparent, and value-based health system. Dr. DeSalvo served as the New Orleans Health Commissioner following Hurricane Katrina. She was previously Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at the Tulane School of Medicine where she was a practicing internal medicine physician, educator, researcher, and leader. She serves on the Council of the National Academy of Medicine.

Greg Corrado

Greg Corrado is a Distinguished Scientist at Google Research. He joined Google to push the frontier of biologically inspired computing, and in 2011 he co-founded the Google Brain Team, which has helped to catalyze the broad adoption of deep neural networks across technology companies worldwide. Within Google, he spearheaded teams which applied deep learning to image recognition, machine translation, search ranking, text synthesis, advertising, and recommendation systems. As an academic, he has published in a wide array of fields ranging across behavioral economics, neuromorphic device physics, systems neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and scalable machine learning. Greg has a deep and abiding passion for applying AI for social good, and presently leads the Google’s Health AI division, whose charter is to maximize the positive human impact of AI technologies in health.

Jackie DeJesse

Jackie DeJesse is a Product Manager at Google, leading efforts on Local Health Search. Currently, Jackie is focused on helping people discover and identify local healthcare providers that best fit their needs. She has a deeply rooted motivation to increase equitable access to local health information, which is most recently demonstrated in her efforts to expand the global footprint of COVID-19 vaccine locations on Maps and Search.

Tony Faranesh

Tony is a research scientist with a focus on using wearables for health assessment and disease screening and monitoring. He directs the Disease Detection Initiative within Fitbit Research. His training is in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, and he has spent much of his career in cardiovascular imaging. Before joining Fitbit he was a research scientist at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland.

Lee Hadlow

Lee joined YouTube in 2007 after 4 years in ads marketing at Discovery Networks. For the last 14+ years, Lee has collaborated with multiple teams and worked on a number of launches, spending a large portion of her YouTube career focused on Top Creators. For the last two years, she has worked on building the new health vertical at YouTube with Dr Garth Graham and currently serves as the Director of North American Health Partnerships on his team.