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Elliot Menschik joined eResilience as Chief Digital Officer in 2020. Elliot is a physician/engineer/hacker turned serial entrepreneur and investor. He is a managing director of DreamIt Health, a program that invests in and accelerates the development of pre-seed healthtech ideas/teams/companies. He is co-founder of Venturef0rth, a campus in Philadelphia for tech startups and an entity dedicated to doing whatever it takes to make it easier for early-stage companies to succeed. He also serves on the Penn faculty where he teaches a crash course in entrepreneurship for engineers and scientists aspiring to create companies that take their tech to market.

Elliot was previously the founder and CEO of HxTechnologies, a pioneer in health information exchange which he sold to MEDecision in May 2009. Following the acquisition, he served as General Manager at MEDecision with responsibility for building new lines of business around health information exchange (HIE), electronic health record (EHR), personal health record (PHR) and telehealth products and services. On the academic side, Elliot is the author and inventor of multiple patents and patents pending. He’s been an oft-invited speaker on the subject of imaging and health information exchange and is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers ranging from medical informatics to computational neuroscience. He’s been the principal investigator for a number of grants from the National Institutes of Health that funded HxTechnologies in its earliest days and has also led research on the economics of fragmented healthcare delivery nationwide.

An NIH Fellow in the Medical Scientist Training Program, Elliot received an MD and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine following his work on memory function and Alzheimer’s disease developing and exploring massively-parallel computer models of the brain.

 He holds MSE and BSEE degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University following work on microchip design.