Dr. David Rhew is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Head of Healthcare and Fitness for Samsung Electronics America. David received his Bachelors of Science degrees in computer science and cellular molecular biology from the University of Michigan. He received his MD degree from Northwestern University and completed internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He completed fellowships in health services research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Rhew has served as CMO and Vice-President for Global Healthcare at Samsung SDS; Senior Vice-President and CMO at Zynx Health Incorporated; clinician/researcher in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Rhew has served on the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Steering Committee for Pulmonary and Critical Care quality indicators and is currently on the NQF Consensus Standards and Approval Committee. He co-holds six U.S. technology patents that enable the authoring, mapping, and integration of clinical decision support into the electronic health record.

Dr. Rhew’s interests include measurably improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care and applying technology to engage patients and consumers in their health care.

Stuart Karten is President of the award-winning product design and innovation consultancy, Karten Design. For 30 years, he has partnered with medical and consumer product companies, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations, to build their business through design. Stuart is known for an approach to design that emphasizes people and emotion. His firm studies people’s behaviors, ceremonies, workflow, and pain points to develop deep user empathy. Driven by these insights, Stuart and his creative team of 30 help leading companies seize new opportunities and create compelling products that resonate with end users, increasing adoption and enabling better health outcomes. Stuart graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. He worked for Gould Medical Products, Mattel, and Baxter Medical Products before founding Karten Design in 1984. Stuart is a founding member of the USC Center for Body Computing and serves on the Board of Regents for the Da Vinci Design High School.