David Sable, MD

Columbia University

Jeffrey Rogers, PhD

Global Research Lead of Cognitive IoT for Healthcare

About the Speakers:

David Sable directs healthcare and life science investing for the Special Situations Funds and is portfolio manager of the Special Situations Life Sciences Fund. He is a corporate director of Genenews, a Toronto-based diagnostics company and of Hamilton Thorne, a Massachusetts-based life science company. Dr. Sable graduated from the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His medical career included residency in obstetrics and gynecology at New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center, fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and clinical practice at Harvard Medical School and MIT, before co-founding the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey. After leaving clinical medicine at age 43, Dr. Sable managed a proprietary healthcare portfolio at Deutsche Bank before joining the Special Situations group. Dr. Sable has lectured on healthcare investing, healthcare policy, bioethics and biotechnology business development at the University of Pennsylvania, NYU, Columbia and Rutgers, and has delivered keynote addresses to the American Fertility Society, the Texas Fertility Society and the Mexican Fertility Society. In addition to his academic publications, he has written for the Newark Star-Ledger, Yoga Journal, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, and Nature Biotechnology.

Jeff Rogers is a Distinguished Research Staff Member leading IBM’s global efforts in cognitive and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies for healthcare. He has held technical leadership positions in industry, government, and academia creating innovative microsystem and healthcare technologies. Prior to joining IBM, Dr Rogers was a Director of Engineering at Google where he established a cardiac care technology portfolio and a DARPA program manager where he developed and fielded tools to address battlefield brain injuries. He has also held positions as faculty at California Institute of Technology and as a scientist at HRL Laboratories. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.S. from Emory University. In 2014 he was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service and was a Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal in Science & Environment finalist. He also received the Joint Meritorious Unit Award in 2012 and an achievement award from the US Special Operations Forces in 2011.