Javier Colás
Javier Colás is the Additum Blockchain president, the ESADE Business&Law School Health Care Institute Innovation director and the non-executive president of Health in Code. He studied Telecommunication Engineering and medical studies, was a member of the Spain-United States Council and co-director of the M-Vision program in Spain, initiative of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for the promotion of entrepreneurship in Health Technology. He has participated in numerous publications and scientific activities and he has been a member of the European and Spanish Societies of Cardiology, of the Advisory Council of the House of the Heart and of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE. He has also been a member of the AIOTI (The Alliance for the Internet of Things Innovation), promoted by the European Commission, and the coordinating team of the Activage project (Active and Healthy Aging with Internet of the Things) of the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission.
Javier Colás was previously Managing Director of Medtronic Spain, France and Portugal, President of Health-in-Code and General Director of the Division of Hospital Information Systems and Medical Technology of Hewlett Packard in Spain. He has also been Vice President of FENIN (Federation of Health Technology Companies) and President of the Technology and Health Foundation. He is interested in facilitating the access to the Health Care market of innovative products on Bio-Medical, Bio-Engineering and Digital Medicine that can contribute to the quality and the efficiency of the National Health Services and to the development of Medical Technology Industrial tissue.
Mario Álvarez
Mario Álvarez is specialist in General Surgery and Digestive System in the Colorectal Surgery Unit of the La Paz Hospital in Madrid. Mario A. is a member of the Innovation Platform at La Paz Hospital (Idipaz), since its foundation in 2015 and he is actually the director of this platform, which works to establish itself as a leader in the national and international translational biomedical research and to promote and develop programs, research projects and training. Mario A. also holds two patents for medical devices, and he has completed a clinical trial testing one of them. He has participated in different Innovation Health programs, and has led different innovation projects. He is an active member of the Innovation Committee of the Spanish Surgical Association.
María Fernández-Velilla
María Fernández-Velilla Peña is specialist in Radiodiagnosis. Since 2008, she has been working at La Paz Hospital in Madrid. She is part of the cardio-thoracic image section, with special interest in oncological and cardiac images. From 2005 to 2008 she worked at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital, specializing in pediatric imaging. From 2008 to 2013 she collaborated with the diagnostic imaging service of the Madrid Sanchinarro Hospital. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Navarra in 2000. In 2016 she passed the “European Diploma in Radiology” of the European Society of Radiology. In 2017 she obtained a PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonoma University of Madrid, with an outstanding grade of “Cum Laude”. She has also completed the “Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy” program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and is a member of Idipaz.
