Victor is CEO of care.coach and has served as Principal Investigator (PI) on several large awards from the US Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health, focused on digital health and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to improve the care of older adults and people with complex health conditions. Before care.coach, he worked in a range of research, engineering and medical fields, and served in the Canadian military before completing his Master’s degree at MIT, where he specialized in human-machine interaction. Victor’s aging grandmother inspired him to start care.coach, a company that supports patients and care teams to improve health behaviors and outcomes through a unique fusion of human & software intelligence. The company has been named one of the Top 10 Aging in Place Innovations by GuideWell in 2020, Health IT winner of MedCity INVEST 2021, and joined the AARP AgeTech Collaborative in 2022.
SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
* AI in Healthcare Conference (Rice University): “The Future of Robot-Assisted Nursing”
* AARP AgeTech Summit: “The Age of AI”
* Frost & Sullivan Think Tank: “Global Silver Economy: Opportunities for Growth and Diversification”
* ViVE: “How Conversational AI and Chatbots are Accelerating Health Moonshots”
* HIMSS NorCal: “Money, Motivation, and Mayhem: Has the Investment in Innovation Changed Healthcare?”
* American Delirium Society: “Development of Digital Avatars”
* American Telemedicine Association: “Addressing the Supply and Demand Mismatch”
* d.health Summit: “Tech Innovations to Address Social Isolation & Loneliness”
* National Falls Prevention Conference: “Tech for Falls Prevention”
* National PACE Association: “Care Site Alternatives: Telehealth and Technology for PACE Care”
* Stanford MedicineX: “Avatar-Based Acute and Post-Discharge Care”
SELECTED R&D AWARDS AS PI
* Department of Defense (Congressional): “Digital Avatars for Psychosocial and Integrative Health Support of Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders”
* National Institute of Nursing Research: “A Protocol-Driven, Digital Conversational Agent at the Hospital Bedside to Support Nurse Teams and to Mitigate Delirium and Falls Risk”
* National Cancer Institute: “A Bedside Relational Agent to Improve Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Outcomes in Cancer Patients”
* National Institute on Aging: “A Specialized Automatic Speech Recognition and Conversational Platform to Enable Socially Assistive Robots for Persons with Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia”
