Digital Therapeutics (PDF)

Dr. Oleksandr Sverdlov is Neuroscience Disease Area Lead Statistician in early clinical development at Novartis. He received B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, M.Sc. in Statistics from University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and Ph.D. in Information Technology with Concentration in Statistical Science from George Mason University. He has been actively involved in methodological research and applications of innovative statistical approaches in drug development. He is the editor of a monograph "Modern Adaptive Randomized Clinical Trials: Statistical and Practical Aspects" (CRC Press/Chapman & Hall, 2015) and a co-author of a book "Mathematical and Statistical Skills in the Biopharmaceutical Industry: A Pragmatic Approach" (CRC Press/Chapman & Hall, 2019). His most recent work involves design and analysis of proof-of-endpoint clinical studies evaluating novel digital technologies.

Joris van Dam is a Digital Health Intrapreneur, helping organizations deliver upon the promise of digital health technologies to transform the experience and treatment outcomes of the patients we collectively serve. For the past several years, Joris has led the Digital Therapeutics research program at the Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA. In the 10+ years before that, Joris worked on a wide variety of Digital Health solutions improving the clinical treatment and the clinical research experience of patients and providers in the U.S., Europe, India, and Africa. Joris received a Ph.D. in Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam in 1998, after which he spent several years in consulting and program management before recognizing the promise and the urgency of digital health solutions to improve the health of our nations.