Social and environmental determinants of health; role of workplace physical environment and work organization as causes of chronic disease and disability

Mohsen received a BS in Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2007. His dissertation was on algorithms and models for large-scale networks. During the summers of 2005 and 2006 he interned at IBM Research and Microsoft Research respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Microsoft Research from 2007 to 2009 working mainly on applications of machine learning and optimization methods in healthcare and online advertising. In particular, he helped develop a system for predicting hospital patient readmissions and obtained a decision support mechanism for allocating scarce hospital resources to post-discharge care. Their system is currently used in several hospitals across US and Europe. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University from 2009 to 2011 with a research focus in high-dimensional statistical learning. In 2011 he joined Stanford University as a faculty, and since 2015 he is an associate professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He was awarded the INFORMS Healthcare Applications Society best paper (Pierskalla) award in 2014 and in 2016, INFORMS Applied Probability Society best paper award in 2015, and National Science Foundation CAREER award.

Dr. Milstein is a Professor of Medicine and directs Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center. The Center designs and demonstrates in diverse locations scalable health care delivery innovations that provide more with less. Before joining Stanford's faculty, he created a national healthcare performance improvement firm and co-founded three nationally influential public benefit initiatives, served as a Congressional MedPAC Commissioner, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

I am an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. I received my Ph.D. degree from California Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Physics from Princeton University.

I am currently the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Stanford Vision Lab, where I work with the most brilliant students and colleagues worldwide to build smart algorithms that enable computers and robots to see and think, as well as to conduct cognitive and neuroimaging experiments to discover how brains see and think.

I am an assistant professor at Stanford University. From 2011–2014, I did my Ph.D. at MIT, advised by Hari Balakrishnan. Previously, I spent a year at Ksplice, Inc., a startup company (now part of Oracle Corp.) where I was the vice president of product management and business development and also cleaned the bathroom. Before that, I worked for three years as a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, covering health care, medicine, science and technology. I did my undergraduate work at MIT, where I received a B.S. (2004) and M.Eng. (2005) in electrical engineering and computer science. I also received an E.E. degree in 2014.

Melissa Valentine is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Management Science and Engineering Department, and co-director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO). WTO is a world leader in producing field research (i.e., research that uses actual observation of social phenomena) to develop new understanding about the changing nature of work.

Prof Valentine's research focus is on understanding work groups and teams in organizations, particularly how they are changing in response to new industry trends and new technologies. She conducts in-depth observational studies to develop new understanding about new forms of work groups and teams. Her work makes contributions to understanding classic and longstanding challenges in designing groups and organizations (e.g., the role of hierarchy, how to implement change, team stability vs. flexibility) but also brings in deep knowledge of how the rise of information technology has made possible new and different team and organizational forms. Her research agenda is organized around two main themes: 1) temporary teams and organizations and 2) groups and teams in complex work organizations.

Prof. Valentine has won awards for both research and teaching. With her collaborators, she won a Best Paper Award at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the Outstanding Paper with Practical Implications award from the Organizational Behavior division of the Academy of Management. In 2013, she won the Organization Science/INFORMS dissertation proposal competition and received her PhD from Harvard University.

Ramesh Johari is an Associate Professor at Stanford University, with a full-time appointment in the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E), and courtesy appointments in the Departments of Computer Science (CS) and Electrical Engineering (EE). He is a member of the Operations Research group and the Social Algorithms Lab (SOAL) in MS&E, the Information Systems Laboratory in EE, the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, the steering committee of the Stanford Cyber Initiative, and the Stanford Bits and Watts Initiative. He received an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard, a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.