FUTURE OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Inaugural VIP Community Building Event
October 28, 2022 | 2 PM – 6 PM | Stanford Faculty Club
Join HealthUnity and its community of visionaries to help shape the future of behavioral health! Learn how the open consortium is enabling insights, knowledge, and applications from behavioral data for personal and societal health.
Featured Speaker

Robert Pearl, M.D.
Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (1999-2017), the nation’s largest medical group, and former president of The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (2009-2017). In these roles he led over 10,000 physicians, 38,000 staff and was responsible for the nationally recognized medical care of 5 million Kaiser Permanente members on the west and east coasts.
Named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 most influential physician leaders, Pearl is an advocate for the power of integrated, prepaid, technologically advanced and physician-led healthcare delivery.
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He serves as a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on strategy and leadership, and lectures on information technology and health care policy.
He is the author of “Mistreated: Why We think We’re Getting Good Healthcare—And Why We’re Usually Wrong,” a Washington Post bestseller that offers a roadmap for transforming American healthcare. His most recent book, Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients was published May 2021 and has received industry-wide acclaim. All proceeds from both books go to Doctors Without Borders.
Dr. Pearl hosts the popular podcasts Fixing Healthcare and Coronavirus: The Truth. He publishes a newsletter with over 15,000 subscribers called Monthly Musings on American Healthcare and is a regular contributor to Forbes. He has been featured on CBS This Morning, CNBC, NPR, and in TIME, USA Today and Bloomberg News. He has published more than 100 articles in medical journals and contributed to numerous books. A frequent keynote speaker at healthcare and medical technology conferences. Pearl has addressed the Commonwealth Club, the World Healthcare Congress, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s National Quality Forum and the National Committee for Quality Improvement (NCQA).
Board certified in plastic and reconstructive surgery, Pearl received his medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine, followed by a residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Stanford University.
From 2012 to 2017, Pearl served as chairman of the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP), which includes the nation’s largest and best multispecialty medical groups, and participated in the Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health IT in Washington, D.C.
Connect with Dr. Robert Pearl on Twitter @RobertPearlMD, LinkedIn and at his website robertpearlmd.com.
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Karthik Narain
Karthik Narain leads Accenture Cloud First, with responsibility for helping clients shape, move and operate their business in the cloud to accelerate innovation and achieve their digital transformation goals. He is also a member of the company’s Global Management Committee.
Accenture Cloud First is a multi-service group that provides the full stack of cloud services spanning strategy, industry-specific cloud journeys, cloud data and AI, migration and modernization, and secure cloud management, as well as change and talent management for continuous innovation. In his role leading Accenture Cloud First, Karthik is focused on extending the company’s leadership in cloud with Accenture’s ecosystem partners and through investments in deep industry capabilities and solutions, cloud acquisitions and talent.
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A technology industry veteran, Karthik most recently served as the lead for Accenture Technology in North America, helping guide Global 2000 brands in using the power of the cloud and other technologies to transform their businesses. Over his 20-year career, he has led many innovative technology programs for clients across a variety of industry sectors, including Financial Services, High Tech and Software and Platforms. Karthik also previously led Technology services for Accenture’s Communications, Media and High-Tech industry segments.
Prior to joining Accenture in 2015, Karthik led the High-Tech business for HCL Technologies where he was responsible for some of HCL’s marquee client relationships.
Karthik holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Management from the University of Madras and a master’s degree in Computer Science and Management from Bharathidasan University.
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Featured Hosts

Jia Li
IEEE Fellow;
Founding Head of R&D, Co-founder, Google Cloud AI

Ramesh Jain
Fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAI, AAAS, IAPR, SPIE; Founding Director of Institute for Future Health

Bryant Lin
Director, Medical Humanities and Arts, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics; Co-Founder and Co-Director, Stanford CARE

Robson Capasso
Head of Virtual Health, Associate Dean, Stanford School of Medicine;
Chief of Sleep Surgery, Stanford Health; Fellow, AASM

Ilaria Chan
Chairwoman, Tech For Good Institute (founded by Grab)
Group Advisor, Grab

Lu Zhang
Founder and Managing Partner
Fusion Fund

Mona Mahmoudi
Machine Learning Advisor
Ex-Google

Renu Bhatia
VP, NVIDIA

Kim Green
CSIO, World Market
Ex-CISO/CPO, Bosch Healthcare

Robin Abrams
Ex-CEO, Palm;
Ex-President, Apple Americas

Laurie Peters
Ex-VP, Marketing Communications, StartX

Rajan Bhandari
Ex-Physician in Chief Kaiser Permanente

Ilaria Chan
Chairwoman, Tech For Good Institute (founded by Grab)
Group Advisor, Grab

Lu Zhang
Founder and Managing Partner
Fusion Fund

Mona Mahmoudi
Machine Learning Advisor
Ex-Google
Sponsorship
Consider supporting our event and the future of behavioral health by being a sponsor! Each tier comes with varying perks.
Sapphire
- Company logo on HealthUnity website
- Listing in promotional materials
- Highlight in Sponsor Acknowledgement Speech
- Sponsor Speech opportunity
- 6 passes to the event
Emerald
- Company logo on HealthUnity website
- Listing in promotional materials
- Highlight in Sponsor Acknowledgement Speech
- 5 passes to the event
Ruby
- Company logo on HealthUnity website
- Listing in promotional materials
- 3 passes to the event
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