Andrew Burns
Chief Growth Officer
DrFirst
In his role as Chief Growth Officer, Andrew is charged with the strategic and commercial growth of DrFirst’s digital solutions. Over the past 20 years, Andrew’s leadership has resulted in more than tenfold annual revenue growth. Prior to joining DrFirst, Andrew held C-level positions at some of the industry’s most successful companies, including Epocrates, Sermo, and Gobiquity Mobile Health. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Arizona – Eller College of Management, and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from University of Western Ontario in Canada.
Ellen Lehrich
Associate Principal
Evolution Road
Since 2010, Ellen has served in a variety of roles at Evolution Road and in her current role as an Associate Principal, she leads a team that specializes in working with clients on setting digital strategy and innovation planning, tactical execution, measurement planning and ongoing optimizations for HCP and consumer facing plans to achieve brand objectives and drive maximum performance. Prior to Evolution Road, Ellen has held a variety of marketing and operational positions across the health care space including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, Medscape.com, Oncology.com and Pfizer (formerly Pharmacia). Ellen received her undergraduate degree in Health Policy and Administration from Penn State University and has been working in the health care sector for more than 28 years. Ellen resides in New Jersey with her husband and three sons.
Colin Banas, M.D., M.H.A.
Chief Medical Officer
DrFirst
Colin is an Internal Medicine Hospitalist and former chief medical information officer for VCU Health System in Richmond, Virginia. He has testified before the U.S. Senate and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) on health IT and the Meaningful Use program, and is a former Health IT Fellow for the ONC. His interests center on the role of big data and analytics on patient outcomes and on novel forms of clinical decision support that are outside the realm of traditional rules and alerts, including real-time dashboarding and intuitive usability designs. He also helped spearhead the VCU effort to participate in the Open Notes initiative, where patients have access to their clinical documentation in real time. In 2017, Colin received the HIMSS-AMDIS award for Physician Executive of the Year from his peers. He earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Virginia, his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School, and a master’s in Healthcare Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University.