Presenters

Chris Wasden

As Dario Health Chief Strategy Officer, Chris is leading the effort to bring Dario Health's digital health platform to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Recently, he served as a Board Member of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA), and he has also served as a board member of QualcommLife. He has been a digital health advisor to AT&T, Verizon, Vodifone, Telefonica, Qualcomm, Intel, as well as leading healthcare providers like Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and large employers like Microsoft, Google and Amazon, and medtech and pharmaceutical companies like Medtronic, Boston Scientific, BD Medical, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Biogen, Sanofi, Merck, Amgen, AstraZeneca, and others. 

In addition, he was a professor at the University of Utah and served as Executive Director of the Sorenson Center for Discovery & Innovation, a digital therapeutic game incubator. He is the co-author of two books on innovation, creativity, and leadership: Tension - The Energy of Innovation; and Solving for Why - Change Your Identity, Change Your Future. He is the named inventor on 12 issued patents, has been a founding leader in 10 startups, and has held leadership positions at JP Morgan and PwC. He holds a doctorate from George Washington University in Human and Organizational Learning, and an M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson School; and a BS in Accounting and a BA in Asian Studies from Brigham Young University. 

Chris’ passion is bringing technology to healthcare and patients in a way to deliver experiences that rival the best of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook; to engage consumers/patients in experiences and behaviors that empower them to take control of their health and improve their clinical outcomes, quality of life, wellbeing, while increasing access to care at lower costs.