Basil Leaf Technologies

Accurate medical diagnoses in your home. No device like it in existence. Empowering a new class of consumer-driven tools. It will change the face of healthcare.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Consumer Products
  • Location Paoli, PA, US
  • Currency USD
  • Founded March 2013
  • Employees 8
  • Website BasilLeafTech.com

Company Summary

The first step in diagnosing your health will be done by you, in your own home.
As the winner of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, we are presenting DxtER (pronounced Dexter)– a portable, non-invasive device to autonomously diagnose specific medical conditions.
DxtER provides real-time insight regarding your health, allowing you to be meaningfully engaged in your own health. There is nothing like it in existence. We will bring this tool to market.

Team

  • Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Medical Officer

    Basil is a physician with a PhD in engineering. He has been actively practicing emergency medicine for more than 11 years and was named a 2013 Top Doctor by Main Line Today. Despite a daily regimen of chaos in the ER, his engineering training is ever present. Basil's years at Drexel and Cornell hardwired him to think like an engineer and he is a constant tinkerer. He has research experience in medicine and engineering with over 12 publications.

  • Founder and Chief Engineer

    George is a network engineer with a background in computer science. George manages a team of nine technical professionals that deliver support, guidance, planning, purchasing and integration of technology to seven school districts in Northern New Jersey. George has become adept at delivering small-scale test environments via large-scale deployments, as his team supports 9,000 students and 1,000 staff members.

  • Vice President, Health Policy and Chief of Communications

    Julia is a Health Policy Associate with the Strategic Planning and Innovation Group at the Tennessee Division of Health Care Finance & Administration. She has expertise in value-based payment and delivery system reforms, public / private health insurance Marketplaces, and the Affordable Care Act. She was a Senior Policy Analyst for the Kaiser Family Foundation in WashDC, where she tracked and analyzed the implementation of federal health reform.

  • Vice President, User Experience Design

    Phil is a Vice President of Experience Design at Think Brownstone and a member of the company's leadership team. He has an MEd in Educational Media, a BA in English Literature from Temple, and has been an adjunct faculty member for the Digital Design program at Philadelphia University since 1996. He has been consulting, teaching, writing and guest lecturing about experience design, data visualization, instructional design, and emerging media.

  • Chief Financial Officer

    Andy is the Director of Supply Chain at Boston Children’s Hospital. For the last 15+ years, Andy has been helping hospitals and other healthcare organizations to better understand and control their costs. He specializes in restructuring Supply Chain organizations, implementing progressive systems, negotiating major contracts, and modernizing policies and procedures. He has served as CFO for a New Jersey-based healthcare consulting firm.

  • Vice President, Signal Processing and Hardware and Surgical Director.

    Gus is a physician and electrical engineer with a rich background in signal / image processing and medical technology. After earning his BS and MS in electrical engineering, he worked at General Electric on numerous projects including image processing for diagnostic ultrasound. He is an actively practicing urologist near Reading, PA, with an expertise in robotic and minimally invasive surgery.

  • Vice President, Embedded Systems

    Ed is a technology leader with a broad range of experience in product and embedded system specification, design, and implementation. He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, specializing in Digital Systems and Simulation, over 35 years of hands-on experience, and holds numerous patents.

Advisors

  • Mobile Technology, Software, and Performance Specialist. Martin has expertise in network engineering; system administration; software development; design / development of large-scale systems; signal processing; predictive modeling; and anomaly detection.
    Creative Advisor. Amanda is a multi-disciplinary graphic designer and art director, working at The Museum of Modern Art and from her Manhattan-based studio.

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