Leadership Team
Lopez-Jimenez
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Max Leca
With an extensive history of building and managing large-scale digital health services, Max has significantly impacted patient care. His personal stake in the fight against heart disease, a prevalent condition in his family, deeply motivates his efforts to innovate and improve access to heart care.
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Mike Furino
Mike, an experienced healthcare executive, has navigated strategic finance and expansions, both for a global health conglomerate and a rapidly scaling digital health company which went onto serve millions of patients. His journey reflects a genuine passion for positively affecting lives through healthcare innovations.
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Jaclyn Rappaport
Jaclyn is a health care operator and manager, with extensive experience leading large teams and multi-million dollar portfolios across the US and Canada in the areas of health systems operations & strategy, digital health implementation, quality improvement, and clinical change management.
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Kelsey Paarmann
Kelsey serves as the secretary of MNACVPR and actively contributes to AACVPR committees. With previous experience at Mayo Clinic and other health systems, she is certified as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist (CEP) by ACSM and a Certified Cardiac Rehab Professional (CCRP) by AACVPR. Kelsey holds a Master’s in Clinical Exercise Physiology and a Bachelor’s in Exercise Science. She is dedicated to enhancing cardiac health and fostering lifelong healthy habits.
Scientific Advisory Board
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Fatima Rodriguez
Dr. Rodriguez holds multiple administrative appointments, including Director of Population Health at Stanford Medicine, and has received numerous awards for her clinical research and teaching excellence. In addition to her clinical practice, she is an Associate Editor for the NEJM.
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Francisco Lopez-Jimenez
Dr. Lopez-Jimenez is also a Professor of Medicine at Mayo College of Medicine, and the Co-Director of Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology at Mayo Clinic. He is also the Chair of the International Committee for the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
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Laura Cohen
Dr. Cohen is a general cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital with a particular expertise in medication management programs for patients with heart failure. She graduated from Harvard Medical School where she holds a faculty appointment. She is involved in numerous research and programmatic endeavors to improve nutrition, exercise, and other lifestyle factors for cardiac patients, which has led to further interest in digital health programs.
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Brian Potter
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Dr. Potter is an interventional cardiologist and researcher at the CHUM with research training in epidemiology, decision science, and cost-effectiveness. His current research interests include the optimization of acute cardiac care resources, quality of care for interventional services.