About Us
Archimedes is an independent Healthcare Modeling organization located in San Francisco. Our core technology - the Archimedes Model – is a mathematical model of human physiology, diseases, interventions and healthcare systems. The Model is highly detailed, rigorously validated and made available for use by health plans, pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and other organizations to help understand and resolve vital clinical and administrative healthcare questions.
Founders
David Eddy, M.D., Ph.D.
David Eddy is responsible for the initiation and medical development of the Model. Starting more than 25 years ago David wrote seminal papers on mathematical modeling, guidelines, and evidence in medical decision making. He was the first to use and publish the term evidence-based and has pioneered the theory and applications of evidence-based guidelines. David is the author of five books, more than 100 first-authored articles, and a series of 30 essays for the Journal of the American Medical Association. His writings span from technical mathematical theories to broad health policy topics. David has received top national and international awards in ten fields including operations research and management sciences, health technology assessment, environmental sciences, health care quality, outcomes research, pharmacoeconomics research, and managed care pharmacy. He has been elected or appointed to more than forty national and international boards and commissions — including Consumers Union, the National Board of Mathematics, the World Health Organization Panel of Experts, The Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Advisory Panel, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences.
Len Schlessinger, Ph.D.
Len Schlessinger is responsible for the mathematics behind the original Archimedes Model. Prior to joining the Archimedes Team, Len worked for Pacific Sierra Research as an assistant vice president of applied physics where his work involved mathematical modeling of physical processes.
Management
John F. Beasley (Chief Executive Officer)
John F. Beasley serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Archimedes and is responsible for the management and strategy elements of the business. John joined the Archimedes team in May of 2006 after serving as CEO for Base-Base Corporation. Prior to Base-Base, John earned industry-wide recognition for his visionary leadership as CEO of ChemConnect, a company he founded and grew to become the world's largest chemical, plastics, and natural gas liquids exchange. John also has over a decade of experience in the health care field where he served as Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at First Physician Care which he helped build from a start-up to a $100 million company in just three years.
David Eddy, M.D., Ph.D. (Chief Medical Officer)
See above
Josh Adler (VP Business Development)
Josh Adler’s primary role is to lead the commercialization of applications of the Archimedes Model specifically as it relates to health plans, physicians and participants in health care delivery. Josh is also responsible for overseeing channel partner development to foment the use of Archimedes Model based solutions.
Josh has over twenty years of experience, primarily in health services related companies. He has served most recently as the CEO of the Suncoast Medical Clinic, a fifty-five physician multi-specialty clinic in St. Petersburg, Florida. Prior to that, Josh served as Vice President Business Development and Mergers and Acquisitions for ChemConnect, a leading Internet exchange for chemicals, plastics, and natural gas liquids. Josh has also served as Vice President Business Development for AmCOMP, a workers’ compensation insurance company and Vice President Market Development for First Physician Care, a physician practice management company.
Peter Alperin, M.D (Medical Director)
Peter Alperin’s primary responsibilities include managing client engagements as well as ensuring that the Model grows to include the most relevant topics challenging healthcare. He also is intimately involved in Archimedes product development. In his role he ensures that the Model is focused on the key aspects of a client’s questions and serves as a direct link between the client and the Archimedes scientific staff.
Peter has over 14 years of healthcare experience including work in software development and informatics. He still sees patients and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF.
Denise Bray (Dir. Human Resources and Administration)
Denise Bray is responsible for recruitment and retention of Archimedes talented team. She also is responsible for benefits, employee relations, and all HR policies and procedures. Denise joined the Archimedes team in June of 2006 after serving as Human Resources Director for Marketron, a privately held software and services company focused on the media industry. Denise brings a unique background where she spent a large part of her career as a Financial Controller.
Brad Luke (Controller)
Brad is responsible for all accounting, finance and budgeting, customer contracting and project management at Archimedes. Brad has considerable experience in the managed care industry and prior to joining Archimedes Brad was Vice President, Controller of Arcadian Health Plan, a Medicare managed healthcare organization operating in seven states. Brad was also the Controller at The Tides Center, Inc. a large non-profit located in the Presidio. Prior to the Tides Center Brad was the Vice President of Finance for Adesso Healthcare Technologies, a VC funded start-up located in San Jose. Brad was also the Director of Finance at PacifiCare Health Systems, a national managed healthcare organization from 1997 to 1999 and prior to that held various management positions at PacifiCare Health Systems and its subsidiary PacifiCare Life and Health.
Katrina Montinola (VP Engineering)
Katrina Montinola is responsible for the software implementation of the Model. Katrina joined Archimedes in November of 2006 and built the Software team, which consists of an Architect, Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, Product Managers, and IT/Desktop Support Engineers. The Software team's main responsibility is to transform the Model into an industrial-strength Internet application. This will enable any medical professional with a web browser to harness the power of the Archimedes Model.
Prior to Archimedes, Katrina held engineering management positions at Agile Software, ChemConnect, E-Stamp, PointCast, and Oracle. She is a named inventor on two software patents.
Don Morris, Ph.D (VP Scientific Product & Technology Development)
As head of the Scientific Product and Technology Development department Dr. Morris leads research efforts in new modeling technologies, product development, and quality control. His team is creating new products for individual medical decision support and risk prediction based on the Archimedes Model. He is also responsible for intellectual property development and is a member of the senior leadership team.
Prior to joining Archimedes Don has been leading cutting-edge projects in bioinformatics and technology development for fifteen years. Immediate prior to joining Archimedes he was CTO of Lipomics Technologies, a high-content lipid assay and diagnostic company. Before Lipomics he assisted in the development of a commercial gene expression diagnostic at XDx where he was vice president of informatics. As Senior Director and Head of Research Bioinformatics for Incyte Genomics in 2001 and 2002 he was responsible for all informatics support of their target discovery and validation efforts. Before that he held several director-level positions at Incyte and was responsible for conceiving and developing the LifeSNP polymorphism database product. As one of the original scientists at Affymetrix from 1992 to 1998 he created much of their informatics infrastructure for chip design and data analysis. He is inventor on 19 issued U.S. patents and is author on over twelve peer-reviewed papers.
Mika Newton (Director of Sales)
Mika Newton has over ten years commercialization experience in the life sciences. He works with Archimedes’ clients and potential future clients in the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical device industries. Mika leads the Archimedes business process for customer-facing activities.
Mika worked most recently at Innovex a division of Quintiles Transnational as Executive Director of Business Development. Prior to joining Innovex, Mika worked for Invitrogen as the Director of Sales Operations, Americas supporting a highly specialized sales team focused on selling products and services to the life sciences research market. Mika was also previously the Director of Discovery Product Sales, US for Tripos, a scientific software and discovery chemistry services company.
_______________________________
Board of Directors
Robert M. Crane, MBA (Chairman of the Board)
Robert M. Crane is Senior Advisor to Kaiser Permanente and Chair, Archimedes. Inc. In March 2008 he retired from the role of Senior Vice President, Research and Policy Development for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. In addition, he served as Director of the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy which he founded. Mr. Crane also was President, Kaiser Permanente International and had executive responsibility for the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute and the Utility for Care Data Analysis unit.
During his 25-year career with Kaiser Permanente, Mr. Crane has also held a number of other senior management positions including: Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer; Interim Group Senior Vice President overseeing operations in the Central East, Southeast, and Rocky Mountain Divisions; Senior Vice President, Interregional Services and General Manager of Kaiser Permanente Consulting and Business Services; Senior Vice President, Quality Management; Senior Vice President, National Accounts and Public Relations; and Vice President, Government Relations.
Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente in 1983, Mr. Crane worked for nearly four years with the New York State Department of Health where he served as Deputy Commissioner for Program and Policy Development and Director of its Office of Health Systems Management. This was preceded by eight years of executive and legislative branch experience at the federal level. Mr. Crane served on the staff of the U. S. House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. Prior to this position, he held several management positions with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Jo Carol Gordon Hiatt, MMD, MBA, FACS
Dr. Hiatt is Chair of the National Product Council for Kaiser Permanente and Chair of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) Technology Deployment Strategy Team. She is a partner in SCPMG and is currently Assistant Medical Director, Business Management, responsible for expansion market initiatives projects for SCPMG.
Dr. Hiatt joined Kaiser Permanente as a general surgeon at Panorama City in 1984, later serving as Chief of Surgery at that location and member of the SCPMG Board of Directors. Dr. Hiatt continues to be actively involved in many surgical organizations:
- Chair, Fellow Interview Committee for the Southern California Chapter of the American College of Surgeons
- Longmire Surgical Society
- Association of Women Surgeons
- UCLA Dept of Surgery Executive Committee
William R. Graber
William R. Graber is the Retired Chief Financial Officer of McKesson Corporation where he held that position from 2000 to 2004. McKesson Corporation is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, health and beauty care products; surgical supplies, medical supplies and equipment; and its Information Solutions businesses offers software and services for supply chain management, clinical and financial operations, as well as pharmacy and health care management. From 1991-1999 he was Controller, VP & Treasurer and CFO of The Mead Corporation. From 1965-1991 Mr. Graber was employed by General Electric Company in various Managerial positions. Mr. Graber serves on the board of Solectron Corporation and Mosaic Corporation.
Chris Stenzel
Chris Stenzel is chief executive officer of Avivia Health. Avivia Health provides total population care management, wellness and productivity management services to large employers and regional health plans nationwide. The company is headquartered in Oakland, California with offices in Atlanta and Chicago. Avivia Health was launched in January 2006 and now serves over 900,000 people.
During his previous 15 years Chris held a wide range of leadership positions within the medical group health plan and hospital areas, including strategic planning, information technology management, and business development. Chris created Kaiser Permanente's highly successful corporate venture capital program investing in more than $50 million in 25 innovative healthcare companies
Jed Weissberg, MD
Jed Weissberg, MD is the Associate Executive Director of Quality and Performance Improvement. Jed chairs the board of the Care Management Institute, New Technology Committee, the Garfield Memorial Research Fund, and the Medical Director's Quality Committee. Joining The Permanente Medical Group in 1984, Jed became Chief of GI and then became the Physician in Chief at the Fremont Medical Center. After 6 years, Jed joined The Permanente Federation, the governance umbrella organization for the 8 Permanente Medical Groups across the country.