
This effort was launched to urgently assist healthcare workers and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been a truly collaborative, all-volunteer effort comprised of passionate helpers from all walks of life.
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This project was launched to urgently assist healthcare workers and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been a truly collaborative, all-volunteer effort comprised of many different people—all generously donating their time in the spirit of cooperation. Like so many efforts that have arisen from this crisis, it is a small example of what humanity can do and be when we are motivated by compassion to work together for a shared goal.
Members of the COVID-19 Ventilator Rapid Response Team include:
- Bertram Lubin, MD, Professor Emeritus, UC San Francisco, In memoriam
- Ajay Dharia, MD, Pulmonary Critical Care, Staff Physician, Mills Peninsula Hospital
- Grace O’Connell, PhD, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
- Manu Prakash, Associate Professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford
- Jean-Pierre Bardet, PhD, Vice Provost for Strategic Projects, University of Miami
- Ricardo Larraínzar, MD, PhD, Orthopadic Surgeon, Head of Orthopedic and Trauma Department, Hospital Infanta Leonor, Madrid, Spain; Associated Professor, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
- Beatriz Arias, Hospital Infanta Leonor, Madrid, Spain
- Tsu-Jae King Liu, Professor, Dean of the College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
- Wayne Delker, PhD, Executive Director of the Fung Institute, Retired, UC Berkeley
- Glen Stevick, PhD. Berkeley Engineering and Research, Inc.
- David Butze, Member of Stand Together Foundation
- Bryan Martel, PE retired, Berkeley Engineering and Research, Inc.
- Aenor Sawyer, MD. Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. UCSF
- Brian Daniel, RRT, RCP Respiratory Care Practitioner, UCSF
- Kris DiPaola, Volunteer, Lift Urban Portland
Sponsors and Generous Volunteers:
- UC Berkeley College of Engineering
- Jay Thomas, ER doctor
- Phil Alie, PhD, Berkeley Engineering and Research, Inc.
- Simo Makiharju, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
- Brian Muldoon, UC Berkeley ME graduate student
- Yaxuan(X) Sun, UC Berkeley ME undergraduate student
- Joshua Ott, UC Berkeley ME undergraduate student
- Liam Doran, UC Berkeley ME graduate student
- Mikio LaCapra, UC Berkeley ME graduate student
- Rafael Prieto, UC Berkeley ME graduate student
- Mahmoud Morsy, UC Berkeley ME undergraduate student
- Bianca Champenois, UC Berkeley ME undergraduate student
- Sneh Girdhar, UC Berkeley ME undergraduate student
- Jack Wallis, UC Berkeley ME undergraduate student
- Stanford Prakash Lab
- Hongquan Li, Graduate student (PrakashLab), Stanford
- Anesta Kothari, Research Scientist (PrakashLab), Stanford
- Ray Chang, Graduate student (PrakashLab), Stanford
- Grace Zhong, Graduate student (PrakashLab), Stanford
- Laurel Kroo, Graduate student (PrakashLab), Stanford
- Dr. Melanie Hannebelle, Postdoc (PrakashLab), Stanford
- Dr. Yasser Khan, Postdoc, Stanford
- Maria de Lourdes Dieck-Assad, Vice President for Hemispheric and Global Affairs, University of Miami
- Frederick J. Dorey, Special Counsel, Cooley LLP
- John Kelly, PH.D, Founder & CEO, Graphika
- Val Blair, VP of Marketing, Graphika
- Erika Martel, Senior Director, Clinical Operations, Polynoma
- Calan Martel, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo undergraduate
- Ken Deutsch, EVP, JPA Labs, Head Of Analytics & Research, JPA Health Communications
- Katie Garagozzo, Director of Media Strategy, Mission North
- Elinor Mills, Senior Vice President, Content and Media Strategy, Mission North
- Caleb Bushner, VP of Digital Strategy, Mission North
- Sarah Spitz, Vice President, Mission North
- Jacki Ochoa, Media Associate, Mission North
- Kwabena Stefan, Media Strategist, Mission North
- Jonathon O’Leary, Account Manager, Mission North
- Aaron Strout, CMO, W2O Group
- Christina Khoury Folkens, Senior Director, Earned Media at W2O Group
- Marleene Nolan, Volunteer, Lift Urban Portland
- Bradley Wickwire, Vice President, Product Program Management, Office of the CTO, Salesforce
- Bhavini Shah, Customer Success Director – HLS, Salesforce
- Sindhu Pandit, MD, MBA, Physician, Go To Market, Senior Manager, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Salesforce
- Manish Aggarwal, Director, Community Cloud Practice, Salesforce
- Jake Ward, CRO, Ad Victoriam Solutions
- Eric Phillips, CIO, Ad Victoriam Solutions
- David Litton, Sr. Architect, Ad Victoriam Solutions
- Scott Hummel, Sr. Project Manager, W2O Group
- Morgan Farrell, Art Director and Illustrator, W2O Group
- Carly Feinman, Copywriter, W2O Group
- Carolyn Gargano, Group Creative Director, W2O Group
- Peter Sergo, Associate Creative Director, W2O Group
- Paulo Simas, Managing Director, W2O Group
- Jim Weiss, Founder and CEO, W2O Group
- Corina Kellam, Sr. Director, Strategy, W2O Group
- Tom Farrell, Lead Developer, W2O Group
- Andrew Jillions, Sr. Solutions Architect, W2O Group
- Troy Larssen, Engineering Director, W2O Group
- Frank Grippo, Group Delivery Director, W2O Group
- Sowmya Bonthala, Group Quality Assurance Director, W2O Group
- Jonathan Sia, Senior QA Specialist, W2O Group
- Leigh Ann Price, MD, Co-Founder and Board member, Survivors For Good
- Joe Priest, SFG Board member, Survivors For Good
- Margrett Lewis, Co-Founder and Board member, Survivors For Good
- Sanjeev Verma, VP, Persistent Systems
- Pavan Reddivari, AVP, Persistent Systems
- Chandra Gopal, Salesforce Solution Architect, Persistent Systems
- Meenal Retharekar, Technical Lead, Persistent Systems
- Nitin Sale, Salesforce Engineer, Persistent Systems
- Roshani Chaudhari, Salesforce Engineer, Persistent Systems
- Karthik Ettaveni, Salesforce Engineer, Persistent Systems
- Nikhil Jadha, Salesforce Engineer, Persistent Systems
- Anton Noss, Managing Director, DLS Worldwide
- KB Madan, Director of Sales, DispatchTrack
- Joe Takapu, President, Apogee
- Gary Quinton, Executive Vice President, Apogee