Whole-Person Care 101: CH. 1 Behavioral Health

Eyal Shemesh, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is the Chief of the Division of Behavioral and Developmental Health in the Department of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital.  Trained as both a pediatrician and a psychiatrist, Dr Shemesh has published several dozens of scientific articles on the emotional impact of chronic medical conditions on children and adults.  His federally funded research concentrates on the use of remote strategies to deliver interventions and engage patients in care.

Dr. Nina Vasan is the Chief Medical Officer at Real, a mental health care company building a new therapy model. Outside of her work at Real, Dr. Vasan is a psychiatrist and professor at Stanford and is the founder and Executive Director of Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health and Innovation. She has worked as a healthcare advisor to the UN, the WHO, and the Obama and Biden presidential campaigns. She earned an AB and MD from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Dr. Vasan has co-authored the #1 Amazon best-selling book: Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action and Innovation and was named a 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovator by MedTech Boston.

Marshall E. Jackson, Jr. focuses his practice on transactional and regulatory counseling for clients in the healthcare industry, as well as advises clients on the legal, regulatory and compliance aspects of digital health. He advises healthcare providers, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and technology companies involved in digital health on a variety of legal, regulatory and compliance matters, including telehealth, telemedicine, mobile health and consumer wellness. Such engagements include assisting clients in developing and implementing telehealth programs by advising on issues related to professional licensure, scope of practice, informed consent, prescribing and reimbursements. Marshall assists clients in all aspects of healthcare transactions, including M&A, joint ventures and strategic affiliations.

Nishi Rawat, MD, MBA, is a critical care physician and health leader working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and technology. As Chief Clinical Innovation Officer at Bamboo Health, Rawat’s focus is on developing innovative solutions and products that improve whole person care by bridging healthcare silos and reducing fragmentation across the healthcare industry that will improve patient outcomes and reduce costs across the healthcare industry. Dr. Rawat began her healthcare career as an emergency medicine and critical care physician, faculty member, and researcher at Johns Hopkins. Clinically, she experienced the frustration of locating definitive care for patients with behavioral health conditions, which led to the development in 2015 of OpenBeds, a software platform to expedite access to care, now a solution at Bamboo Health. As of 2022, the OpenBeds system serves 15 states to improve access to behavioral health and crisis care.  Rawat completed her residency and fellowships at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, M.D at Queen's, B.Sc. from McGill, and MBA from Georgetown. 

Ian Tong, MD is Chief Medical Officer at Included Health (formerly Doctor On Demand and Grand Rounds Health). In this role, Ian leads all clinical care delivery including clinical products and service lines, clinical quality and practice performance.