Speaker Profile
Co-Founder & CEO,
Biography
Shashi Shankar is the co-founder and CEO of Novellia, Inc., an award-winning, AI-enabled data partner trusted by leading biopharma companies to uncover hidden insights in real-world patient data. With a background in healthcare and a passion for leveraging AI and data analytics, Shashi leads Novellias strategy and business development to transform health data integration for improved patient outcomes. Prior to founding Novellia, Shashi spent nearly a decade at Genentech and Roche, where his personal experience with fragmented health data deeply motivated him to pioneer solutions that give both patients and researchers a more complete, accessible, and actionable view of healthcare data.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chairs:
William Oh, Yale & David Reese, Amgen
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Nigam Shah, Stanford
Keynote
• David Reese, Amgen
Real-World Evidence & Clinical AI: Closing the Loop Between Data and Care
• Chair: Roxana Daneshjou, Stanford
• Aashima Gupta, Google
• David Sontag, Layer Health
• Brigham Hyde, Atropos Health
• Michael Pfeffer, Stanford
• Thomas Fuchs, Lilly
From Data to Decisions: Building Regulatory-Grade RWE from EHR Systems in Oncology
• Chair: Kate Estep, Flatiron Health
AI and Real-World Evidence: Building a Learning Health System for Precision Care
• Rich Gliklich, OM1
AI for Clinical Decision Support: From Models to Bedside
• Chair: Amrita Basu, UCSF
• Anurang Revri, Stanford
• Emily Alsentzer, Stanford
• Okan Ekinci, Roche
AI for CDS: From Models to Bedside
• Zachary Ziegler, OpenEvidence
Operationalizing AI in Health Systems: Trust, Adoption & Outcomes
• Chair: Danton Samuel Char, Stanford
• Matthew Solomon, Sutter Health
• Karan Singhal, Head of Health, OpenAI
• Sina Bari, iMerit Technology
• Hal Paz, Khosla Ventures
Safe, Scalable AI in Clinical Practice: What’s Working and What’s Not
• Chair: Nigam Shah, Stanford
• David Entwistle, CEO, Stanford Health Care
• Vincent Liu, Kaiser Permanente
AI for Precision Psychiatry: Integrating Multimodal Data Into Clinical Decision Support
• Erwin Estigarribia, HEADLAMP Health
Workflow-First Clinical AI: Integration Patterns, Guardrails & Change Management
• Jorge Duran, Klick Health
From Patient-Generated Data to Regulatory-Grade RWE: Design, Bias & Outcome Linkage
• Greg Bowyer, Evidation
