Dr. Craig Woods has been invited to moderate the “Whole Health Revolution” session at the 2025 AZAdvances Health Innovation Summit, being held on October 16, 2025 at the ILUME INNOVATION CENTER in Scottsdale, Arizona. The panel includes:
- David Engelthaler, PhD, Executive Director, Health Observatory, ASU Knowledge Enterprise and Director and Professor at TGen North;
- Joe Feldsein, President, PDS Medical Group; and
- Stephen Albert Johnston, PhD, Founding CEO, Calviri, Inc.
About AZ Advances: AZAdvances is a division of the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation (OTEF), an Arizona-based 501c3 public charity that was established in 2005 to provide entrepreneurial education, mentoring and support to individuals and organizations based in Arizona. The AZAdvances Today Fund™ invests in Arizona-based life science innovations and partners with ecosystem support organizations to mentor the innovators and develop our future workforce.
AGENDA: 2025 AZAdvances Health Innovation Summit
8:00 AM: Registration Opens & Networking and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM: Welcome
Leo Divinsky, Managing Director, Stockdale Capital Partners
Joan Koerber-Walker, Chairman, Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation; President & CEO, AZBio
9:15 AM: The Whole Health Revolution
David Engelthaler, PhD, Executive Director, Health Observatory, ASU Knowledge Enterprise
Director and Professor at TGen North
Joe Feldsein, President, PDS Medical Group
Stephen Albert Johnston, PhD, Founding CEO, Calviri, Inc.
Craig Woods, DVM, MS, MBA, CoFounder, One Medical Group (Moderator)
9:45 AM: Investing in Innovation
Mara Aspinall, Partner, Illumina Ventures (Moderator)
Jordan Burton, Associate, Lifespan Vision Ventures
Chris Burwell, Manager of Research, Bluestone Venture Partners
Marc Martin-Casas, Global Head of Illumina Ventures Labs
10:30 AM: The Impact of AI
James Bates, CEO & Founder, AdviNow Medical (Moderator)
David Ebert, PhD., Chief AI and Data Science Officer, The University of Arizona
Tyrone Lam, Chief Business Officer, GATC Health
Shaye Mandle, Executive Director, AdvaMed Digital Health Tech™
11:15 AM: Innovation Champions
Joan Koerber-Walker (Moderator)
Tiffani Shaw, CEO of Stead Impact Ventures & Foundation
Jerre Stead, Chair, Stead Impact Ventures; Co-chair Stead Foundation
12:00 PM: Networking Lunch
Connect and engage with speakers and attendees over lunch.
1:00 PM: Advancements In Alzheimer’s
A discussion with Arizona Bioscience Pioneer, Dr. Eric Reiman
Dr. Reiman serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institutes, overseeing and spearheading initiatives at the Alzheimer’s institutes in Phoenix and Tucson and Banner Sun Health Research Institute in Sun City. He is also Director of the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium, Clinical Director of Neurogenomics at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona and University Professor of Neuroscience at Arizona State University.
1:30 PM: Advancing Health Innovation in Arizona:
University Research
Jennifer Barton, PhD, interim vice provost for health programs and the Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair at the College of Engineering The University of Arizona
Heather Bimonte Nelson, PhD, President’s Professor in the Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology program in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University
Joan Koerber-Walker (Moderator):
2:00 PM: Networking Break
2:15 PM: Focused Investing
Kiran Avancha, Chief Innovation Officer, HonorHealth
Stuart Bracken, Managing Director, Northeast Georgia Health Ventures
Rick Heinick, CEO and Chairman, SLAM Bio (Moderator)
Azin Radsan-van Alebeek, Co-Founder & General Partner, Emmeline Ventures
3:00 PM: Arizona’s World Class Hospitals
Arizona hospitals deliver world class care and are recognized leaders in clinical research.
3:45 PM: Changing The Paradigm:
AZAdvances & The Arizona Health Innovation Trust Fund
A conversation with The Honorable Kimberly Yee, State Treasurer of Arizona and trustee of the Arizona Health Innovation Trust Fund.
4:15 PM: Washington Watch:
Public Policy and the Health Innovation Landscape
Joan Koerber-Walker (Moderator)
Kristen Murphy, Vice President, Federal Government Relations, BIO
Steven Potts, PhD, Drug Developer and Patient Advocate
5:00 PM: Ponte Cura: The Bridge to Cures
Closing Networking Reception
Share ideas and take aways, build relationships, support health innovation
7:00 PM: Ponte Cura & Summit Concludes