Karin Molander, MD, FACEP

MD / Sepsis Alliance Chair, Board of Directors, Mills Peninsula Emergency Medicine Associates

Dr. Molander is a practicing emergency physician at Mills Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame California serving on the “front lines of sepsis care.” She became involved in the Mills Peninsula sepsis program in 2007 training intensivists in Early Goal Directed Therapy (EGDT) and central line placement. After joining the sepsis committee in 2009, she became chair in 2011 and then Sutter Peninsula Coastal Region Physician Lead in 2014. She has participated in the Bay Area Paramedic Journal Club Seminars, advocated for a San Mateo County Sepsis Alert which was approved in March 2019. For the first time the National Association for Emergency Medical Technicians included a chapter on Sepsis in the Advanced Medical Life Support textbook co-authored by Dr. Molander. As Chair of the Sepsis Alliance she was a key architect in creating the Sepsis Alliance Institute which provides valuable sepsis education for healthcare providers. She continues to educate the provider, patient, and the public through her Sepsis Alliance volunteer work with lectures, speaking engagements and media interviews.

Vipin Gopal, PhD, MBA

Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Eli Lilly and Company

Dr. Gopal is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Eli Lilly, a global Pharmaceutical company, where he is responsible for leading next-gen data strategy and data science solutions for the company. Vipin is a 20+ year veteran in the space of advanced data and analytics with a significant track record of building transformational capabilities and solutions. Before joining Eli Lilly, he was the Senior Vice President of Analytics at Humana, where he was responsible for the corporate function that developed data analytics solutions to advance Humana’s strategy, operations, quality and clinical outcomes. Vipin is a thought leader and frequent speaker on the power of advanced data analytics for a broad range of strategic topics in healthcare. Over the past year, he was quoted in Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and Forbes. Vipin obtained his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University, B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, and MBA from Stern School of Business.