Scott Sutherland

Vice President, Data Science

Scott Sutherland is a software engineer and data scientist, with two decades of experience in health research informatics. He has managed data science, software development, data management, and scientific survey projects in biotech, clinical care, and for biomedical research institutions, including the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He has worked on several large-cohort studies, including the National Institutes of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative/All of Us Research Program, where he is a Principal Investigator, and the Women’s Health Initiative. Scott received his bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University in 1995, by combining graduate and undergraduate courses in Computer Science and other disciplines for a one-of-a-kind degree in Interactive Media (web application development). He went on to become a faculty member in the Masters of Science program at the Purdue University School of Engineering, and Indiana University School of Informatics, helping found a new program and teaching a variety of courses related to development of internet-based applications. At the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Scott built and managed departments that served hundreds of cancer, rare disease, HIV, and public health studies. His domain has included many software engineering teams, a survey research call center, a data center, an analytics team, and a creative services team to help scientific projects accomplish their communications goals. Sutherland directed design and development of numerous scientific portals and patent-facing, web-based disease registries for cancer, heart disease, and rare disease studies. In addition, he has also been a PI for individual disease registries and served on IRB committees at two different institutions. While at the Broad Institute, Scott started and managed Operations Analytics for the All of Us Research Program. At Vibrent Health, Scott serves as Vice President for Data Science. He serves as the Principal Investigator for Analytics in the PTSC for the All of Us Research Program. He has built and managed Vibrent’s analytics team and directed strategy for the Analytics platform, reporting and services.

Mark Begale

Vice President

Mark identifies and nurtures new opportunities and collaborations with companies and organizations to form relationships between these entities and Vibrent Health for mutual benefit, in support Vibrent’s strategic vision and business outcomes. He has held leadership positions product partnerships and technology as director of products and chief technology officer for Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies. He is also a Principal Investigator of the National Institutes of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative/All of Us Research Program. He holds a degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mark has a strong in strong interest in precision medicine and is dedicated to his work at Vibrent because of his desire to help others.

Josh Schilling

Sr. Director, Health Solutions

Josh has more than 15 years of expertise in medical devices system design, product design, and development of both hardware and software solutions in the health industry. As a scientist and engineer, Josh is passionate about using sensors of all types from physiological personal health technology to environmental and passive sensing as a means to infer and improve the quality of life for everyonethrough solutions that anyone can afford.

Through ongoing engineering efforts, he has directly contributed to the continued improvement of Bluetooth technology while working with health device manufactures and standards bodies, to improve the technology's usefulness within the medical community. Early in his career, he developed Pulse Oximeter hardware/firmware to measure oxygenated blood found on oxygen bound to hemoglobin molecules in red blood cells. Some of his achievements include authorship of papers accepted into the IEEE, poster presentations at ATA, and several pending patents.

Josh has contributed to technological and scientific advancements at organizations including ContinuaHealth Alliance, Bluetooth SIG, USB I/F, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and various societies within IEEE, Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), and American TelemedicineAssociation (ATA). Josh works with Vibrent’s medical partners to give back to the medical community by helping them adopt advancements and knowledge learned from Vibrent into their solutions while conforming to guidance set by international standards for medical devices (IEC 60601) and medical device software (IEC 62304).

Lisa Kunst

Director, Digital Health Solutions

As the leader of the Vibrent Digital Health Solutions team, Lisa uses her 15+ years of professional project/program management experience in precision medicine research, healthcare, and information system implementations to help our research partners succeed. Her group works closely with our partners to kick off projects, implement protocols, launch research projects and provide continued consulting services to help researchers and study staff achieve their scientific and operational goals. Much of Lisa’s career has focused on reducing health disparities in underserved populations. Prior to joining Vibrent, Lisa was the Administrative Director for the All of Us Research Program’s Wisconsin consortium, based out of Marshfield Clinic Research Institute. She provided oversight of the statewide implementation and operations of All of Us, working with partners at UW-Madison, Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Gundersen Health, as well as providing leadership for All of Us teams located at multiple Marshfield Clinic Health System locations. Lisa has significant expertise in all aspects of the lifecycle of clinical research, including award management, IRB communication, community engagement, enrollment, and participant retention, successfully leading the consortium to enroll over 12,500 participants with an exceptional rate of 68% of participants remaining actively engaged. Lisa earned a master’s degree in Administrative Studies from Missouri State University and also has been a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute since 2016.