Dr. Richard Milani, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Ochsner Health System, has been named to the inaugural Livongo Health Clinical Advisory Board. Livongo Health is a leading consumer digital health company, focused on empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives. Members of the Advisory Board include nationally-renowned healthcare leaders and key influencers in diabetes, cardiovascular disease and health economics.
Livongo’s panel of diabetes and healthcare experts will provide feedback and advice as the company delivers programs to improve the care of chronic conditions. The Advisory Board will support Livongo in continuing to deliver clinically-advanced, real-time, and personalized care enabled by technology and experienced caregivers where and when appropriate.
No stranger to innovation, Ochsner remains committed to pioneering innovative solutions that pave the way for positive, disruptive change in healthcare. Over the past few years, they have created innovationOchsner (iO), an innovation lab and accelerator that designs patient-centered solutions through technology and data, to empower patients to take an active role in their own health and improve efficiency for physicians and clinicians. One example is the Ochsner Hypertension Digital Medicine Program, a program that monitors clinic patients who struggle with uncontrolled blood pressure.
“Members of our advisory board have expertise in behavioral change in diabetes and other chronic conditions. They bring a deep understanding of the broader impact that healthcare technology can have on large populations.” said Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Chief Medical Officer of Livongo. “I am thrilled at the opportunity to work closely with these healthcare leaders to innovate and to advance the care of people with chronic conditions.”
The other members of the Livongo’s Clinical Advisory Board include:
Dr. Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, MPA: Director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University.
Dr. Anne L. Peters, MD: Professor of medicine and director of the USC Clinical Diabetes Program and the former chairperson of the American Diabetes Association Council on Health Care Delivery and Public Health.
William Polonsky, PhD, CDE: Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego and President and Co-Founder of the Behavioral Diabetes Institute.
Susan Weiner, CDE: Award-winning Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator and published author.