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Paul Sonnier influenced the globe to use the term "digital health". He is the founder of the 100,000+ member Digital Health group on LinkedIn and has spent over a decade educating and connecting global stakeholders on the subject in an effort to catalyze its positive impact across all aspects of healthcare, business, and society. 

In his book ‘The Fourth Wave: Digital Health’, Paul outlines how the convergence of the digital and genomic revolutions with health, healthcare, living, and society is driving a new era of human progress. He speaks frequently at conferences and corporate events (a recent keynote to a global pharma R&D organization is viewable here), publishes a popular newsletter with over 4,000 subscribers (example), and was recently published in The Hill.

Paul is a guest lecturer in Columbia Business School’s Executive Education Program in Digital Health Strategy and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab (HITLAB), where he hosts a recurring interview segment with health and life sciences leaders during the organization’s monthly symposium series (recent installments: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). 

In a career spanning more than two decades in high technology industries, Paul's roles have included serving as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Digital Health, presiding as a judge in the XPRIZE’s $2.5M Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE, and serving as Vice President of Partner Development for the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance. He has extensive experience in large scale R&D programs, product development, manufacturing process improvement, and systems integration (Boeing Commercial Airplanes), coordination of wireless, implantable medical device development programs (Calypso Medical Technologies, acquired by Varian Medical Systems), and oversight of business operations and program management teams developing cellular/mobile phones (Motorola).

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