• Michael Harsh, former CTO of GE Healthcare

    Michael Harsh is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Terapede Systems, a digital X-ray startup that focuses on developing an ultra-high resolution medical flat panel X-ray detector. He co-founded Terapede in 2015. Prior to Terapede, Mr. Harsh had a 36-year career with General Electric (GE). He held numerous positions within GE and served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of GE Healthcare, an $18 billion division of GE, where he led its global science and technology organization and research and development teams in diagnostics, healthcare IT and life sciences. In 2004, Mike was named Global Technology Leader – Imaging Technologies at the GE Global Research Center, where he led the research for imaging technologies across the company as well as the research associated with computer visualization and superconducting systems. Additionally, Mr. Harsh is a member of the boards of directors of, Compute Health (NYSE: CPUH-UN), Endra Life Sciences (NASDAQ: NDRA), Imagion Biosystems (IBX.AX), and EmOpti as well as being a member the Radiological Society of North America ("RSNA"), Research & Education Foundation Board of Trustees. He had previously served as a director for FloDesign Sonics until its acquisition by MilliporeSigma, a division of the Merck Group. He is also a McKinsey Senior Advisor and a consultant in the medical device industry. Mr. Harsh is a graduate of Marquette University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He holds numerous U.S. patents in the field of medical imaging and instrumentation. In 2008, Mr. Harsh was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows for his significant contributions to the medical and biological engineering field.

  • Richard Ehman, Professor of Radiology at Mayo Clinic and former Chair of Radiology Section at NIH

    Richard L. Ehman, MD, is Professor of Radiology and Blanche and Richard Erlanger Professor of Medical Research at the Mayo Clinic. His research program is focused on developing advanced imaging technologies. He holds more than 100 US and foreign patents for his inventions, many widely used in medical care. He has served as chair of the Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Study Section of the NIH and on the National Advisory Council of NIBIB. He has been awarded Gold Medals by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the Society of Advanced Body Imaging, and the Radiological Society of North America. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has served as president of the ISMRM, the Academy of Radiology Research, and the Society for Advanced Body Imaging and the Radiological Society of North America.