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Senior Director, Digital Health

Apellis Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel therapeutic compounds for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

Ravi brings over a decade of experience in digital health strategy, and hands-on implementation of wearables and smartphone apps and medical devices in clinical trials and in the pharmaceutical industry. More recently, transitioned to incorporating the "patient voice" into managing their health and wellness. In his various professional roles, he has served as: DIGITAL HEALTH STRATEGY LEAD: Leading the digital health strategy practice, building a cross-functional team and hands-on implementation expertise in clinical trials; establishing new collaborations, partnerships, and IP. CONSULTANT: Advising teams and clients within the clinical/pharmaceutical industry INNOVATOR: Developing and implementing creative new digital health strategies and practices within the clinical trials space; identifying and establishing partnership opportunities; working closely with biopharma companies, health-tech startups, device companies and patient communities. THOUGHT LEADER: Meeting with internal leadership and digital/clinical/marketing/legal/etc. teams to present expert opinion and identify digital health needs, especially in the space of capturing high-density, longitudinal, experiential patient data in the clinical/pharmaceutical industry space. Focused on leveraging Digital/Connected Health technologies in the context of clinical development. A) Digital Health: Focus on the use of wireless sensors, medical devices and smart device technologies to enable a richer patient-centered information base to facilitate clinical decisions. B) Translational Medicine: Extensive expertise in whole genome profiling, developing expression biomarkers, with exposure to integrating and expanding multiple technology platforms. Specialties: Connected Health, Wireless technology platforms, Wearable sensors, Translational Medicine, Biomarkers, Genomics, Expression profiling, Molecular Biology,