Digitally Enabled Care for Women's Health

Taylor Platt, MPH

Manager, Health Policy , American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Taylor Platt, MPH is currently working as a Manager, Health Policy for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). She manages the Medicaid and ACA policy portfolio and assists with federal and state affairs work. Having completed her Master's in Public Health at Boston University with certificates in Health Law and Policy and Maternal and Child Health, she is focused on policy issues related to maternal health and the health of those seeking reproductive health care. Her interests are in sexual and reproductive health policy with a reproductive justice lens.

Arij Faksh, DO, FACOG

Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician , Scripps Clinic

Arij Faksh is an obstetrician and gynecologist with expertise in maternal fetal medicine. Dr. Faksh has been in practice since 2015 and has been a maternal fetal medicine specialist at Scripps Clinic since August 2018. She is involved in the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine serving on the Society’s Patient Education Committee and is a member of the Scripps Clinic Medical Group Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. She collaborates with the California Maternity Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC), participating in the Low-Dose Aspirin (LDA) campaign aimed to increase usage of low dose Aspirin among birthing individuals at increased risk for pre-eclampsia. Dr. Faksh is passionate about community outreach and addressing healthcare disparities. She serves in the role of co-investigator on digital health research in maternity care using the PowerMom platform with the goals of mitigating preventative mortality, decreasing severe morbidity, and promoting health equity.

Tolúwalàṣé (Laṣé) Ajayi, MD, FAAP

Director of Clincal Research , Scripps Research Translational Institute

Dr. Tolúwalàṣé (Laṣé) Ajayi, MD FAAP, is doubled boarded in palliative care physician and pediatrics. She currently the Director of Clinical Research at the Digital Trial Center in the Scripps Research Translational Institute as well as the medical director of adult palliative medicine at Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego. She also serves an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UC San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego where she works as a community hospitalist and pediatric palliative medicine physician. Her research focuses on opportunities at the intersection of novel digital medicine technologies and unmet needs in maternal fetal health as well pain and palliative medicine. She hopes to further investigate how mobile health can provide real time, patient reported outcomes that can be rapidly integrated into individualized clinical plans to improve health related quality of life and increase participation of pregnant women and their newborn in clinical research. With these efforts, she hopes to diversify the standard of care provided to pregnant women and augment how we manage the symptoms prevalent in serious illness, with the goal of reducing health disparities across the life span.

Veronica Gillispie-Bell MD, MAS

Senior Site Lead/Section Head, Women's Services; Medical Director of Quality, Women's Services , Ochsner/Louisiana Department of Health

Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell is a Board-Certified Obstetrician & Gynecologist and Associate Professor for Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana. She serves as the Senior Site Lead and Section Head of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Ochsner Kenner. Additionally, she serves as the Director of Quality for Women’s Services for the Ochsner Health System and is the Medical Director of the Minimally Invasive Center for the Treatment of Uterine Fibroids. Dr. Gillispie-Bell is also the Medical Director of the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative and Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review for the Louisiana Department of Health. In this role, she leads initiatives in the state of Louisiana to improve birth outcomes for all birthing persons in Louisiana and eliminate the Black-white disparity gap. Dr. Gillispie-Bell has testified before Congress and led Congressional briefings to inform on the drivers of maternal mortality and inform legislative policy to improve maternal outcomes and eliminate the Black-white disparity gap. She has served in several local and national leadership roles and received many accolades for her clinical, academic, and community services contributions. She has also been quoted in several local and national publications and been a featured speaker at Essence Festival, Good Morning America, and CNBC, and was featured in the 1619 Project Docuseries.

Anish Sebastian

Co-Founder and CEO , Babyscripts

Anish Sebastian is the co-founder and CEO of Babyscripts, an innovative maternal healthcare company focused on reinventing the standard of prenatal and postpartum care through the delivery of digital education and remote patient monitoring experiences. In his time as CEO, Anish has led product development and has orchestrated partnerships with more than 75 health systems around the country that manage over 250K pregnancies annually, as well as partnerships with multiple national health plans and 30+ managed care organizations. Anish has led several evidence-based research endeavors that have resulted in multiple first-in-kind publications and white papers, further quantifying and validating the benefits of the Babyscripts product, including a pilot with GW-MFA for Babyscripts maternal mental health product, which is in beta-testing at the site and will be the subject of a focused research study. He is a recognized thought leader in the field of maternal healthcare and technology and a frequent speaker on the future of healthcare.