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Speaker

Hon

Pak

, MD, MBA

Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Health Team, Samsung Electronics; a2 Collective External Advisory Panel Member

Bio

As the head of Digital Health, Hon Pak, MD, MBA, leads the Global Digital Health Strategy and Team. His focus is to leverage Samsung’s digital footprint across multiple devices and its strength in consumer experience to transform this consumer experience into patient engagement that improves health outcomes. Prior to joining Samsung, Dr. Pak served as chief medical officer for 3M HIS where he led the clinical economics research group, which developed content that is being used in both payment and measuring outcomes for healthcare systems across the globe. He has experience in mobile health, telemedicine, and health IT in various capacities including as a researcher, board member, CEO, and CMO. He served in the U.S. military for 26 years, and he was the Army’s first chief medical information officer and physician chief information officer for the U.S. Army Medical Department. He is a past board member and past president of the American Telemedicine Association, and he currently serves on the editorial board for Telemedicine and eHealth and on the Consumer Technology Association Health Board.