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An entrepreneurial driver and enabler of pragmatic innovation, Dr. Ribitzky is a highly accomplished Physician executive with 30 years of cross-functional experience in Healthcare IT, Life-Sciences Informatics, and Precision Medicine.
He worked for and with global leading brands and world-class organizations, R&D, and academia in the US and 23 developed and developing economy countries. As Founder and CEO of R&D Ribitzky he serves investors, entrepreneurs, and economic buyers of innovative technology solutions worldwide.
Dr. Ribitzky has broad and deep hands-on, managerial, and scientific technology expertise that includes AI, analytics, UX prototyping, Blockchain, semantic services, and NLP, among other.
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An entrepreneurial driver and enabler of pragmatic innovation, Dr. Ribitzky is a highly accomplished Physician executive with 30 years of cross-functional experience in Healthcare IT, Life-Sciences Informatics, and Precision Medicine.
He worked for and with global leading brands and world-class organizations, R&D, and academia in the US and 23 developed and developing economy countries. As Founder and CEO of R&D Ribitzky he serves investors, entrepreneurs, and economic buyers of innovative technology solutions worldwide.
Dr. Ribitzky has broad and deep hands-on, managerial, and scientific technology expertise that includes AI, analytics, UX prototyping, Blockchain, semantic services, and NLP, among other.
A sought after thought leader and author of numerous publications, Dr. Ribitzky presented and led workshops on technology innovation and practice in industry events, public sector, and academia around the world; and held academic appointments at Harvard, UMass, Emory, Rwanda’s KHI / KIST, and other.
Frost & Sullivan adopted Dr. Ribitzky’s Blockchain Roadmap for its ‘Blockchain Technology in Global Healthcare, 2017–2025’ report. He collaborated with IDC on the Healthcare track at the ‘Blockchain for Business & IT Leaders’ conference. Dr. Ribitzky is a member of HIMSS’ Blockchain Work Group and the Advisory Board of BitMed. He was quoted in various Blockchain, Healthcare, and Genomics articles by GenomeWeb and San Diego Business Journal.
Previously, Dr. Ribitzky co-founded SPH Analytics where he also served as SVP Product Management and SVP Technology Services. He was Senior Healthcare Strategist with Intel, where he won Intel Award for Healthcare IT Value Model and two KUDOS awards from team members for Customer Orientation, Results Orientation, Discipline, and Risk Taking; and CIO at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, among other.
While with Eclipsys, an EMR company, Dr. Ribitzky led teams spanning Advanced Research, Emerging Technologies, Demo Systems Group, Prototype Development, and Medical Sales Support. He and his team won multiple Chairman Awards and Sales recognition for exceptional accomplishments, entrepreneurship and teamwork.
A seasoned board member, Dr. Ribitzky has held roles with the NSF Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Collexis, Microsoft R&D Personal Health Strategic Core Business, Asklepios Future Hospital Architecture Board, Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts (a UMass Technology Transfer affiliate), HIMSS Electronic Health Record Usability Workgroup Leadership Council, and Gartner Healthcare View Executive Steering Committee.
He obtained his MD from Tel Aviv University and earned numerous Certifications including Strategy & Action in the Information Processing Industry – Intel Management & Leadership Development at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business; Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers from Georgia Institute of Technology, among other.