Femida Gwadry-Sridhar

Femida Gwadry-Sridhar

Role: Industry Chair
Affiliation: McMaster University, Western University, University of Toronto, Canada

Dr. Femida Gwadry-Sridhar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pulse Infoframe Inc. She has her PhD in Research Methodology, Health Economics, McMaster University. She is a pharmacist, epidemiologist and methodologist with over 25 years of experience in clinical trials, disease registries, knowledge translation, health analytics and clinical disease outcomes.

She is the Founder of the first knowledge translation health informatics lab in North America in 2006, creating a collaborative ecosystem for interdisciplinary research. In 2008 the I-THINK research lab developed a physical and virtual platform to support multidisciplinary research. We have developed a platform that allows the integration of clinical, imaging and histopathology data. Under her guidance they have commercialized these ventures.

Dr. Femida received a career scientist award from CIHR as a New Investigator in knowledge translation- coupled with an operating grant. Over the span of her career she has obtained more than $ 10 million in funding for research as a principal investigator or co-investigator, published in top tier journals and had the privilege of working alongside the best in the world of medicine and business. She was a founding member of the ISPOR medication adherence group- providing an early glimpse into how to conduct research in adherence. She enjoys collaborating and has been fortunate to do so around the globe across different disciplines and cultures. This experience has resulted in a healthy understanding of the value of collaboration- both as individuals and across systems. This is why she started Pulse Infoframe, Twitter: @pulseinfoframe.

Pulse info Frame and LLC US is a cloud based informatics company that specializes in creating clinical management registries for medical specialists. Pulse Captures, Shares, and Analyzes data focusing on what they call “actionable little data”. That is, data that does not necessarily exist within an EMR- but may exist in disparate sources. Pulse has built Global collaborative networks – facilitating research and advances in Medical discovery as well as Health Technology assessments. The value proposition to providers, payors and pharmaceutical companies results from improved workflow and efficiency to better data that is accessible real time. These data can be analyzed dynamically using our state of the art analytic tools.

The Pulse team has been recognized by its peers, publications, clients and professional organizations winning the Techalliance award in 2012.

In 2013 Pulse Infoframe was selected out of over 70 applicants to receive a spot at the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) at the University Science Center in Philadelphia, a place for promising, early-stage companies in the health information technology sector. Funded by the Canadian Consulate General, the accelerator is a consortium that includes the University of Pennsylvania and other leading research institutes.

Furthermore, in 2014 Pulse Infoframe was one of six companies selected out of 69 applicants and awarded $50,000 from Digital Health Accelerator (DHA) in Philadelphia to go towards developing online, mobile and software solutions to healthcare problems.