We cordially invite you to join us for the 46th episode of the High-Tech Sunday podcast on Sunday, October 24, at 3:00 p.m. EST. High-Tech Sunday is produced by and for Career Communications Group's community of alumni and professionals in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, thought leaders, and aspiring students, to bring a robust discussion around technological advancements and achievements based on universal moral principles.

Please join High-Tech Sunday host, Dr. Mark Vaughn as he sits down with Arti Varanasi to talk about Curiosity in Action: Aligning Passion, Skills, and Knowledge.

Dr. Arti Patel Varanasi is President and CEO of the social enterprise Advancing Synergy, LLC, and the non-profit organization, Health Tech Alley. She has over 25 years of combined experience in cancer research, advocacy, capacity building, public health, and project management. She maintains close ties to the medical, public health, and research community.

Advancing Synergy served as the technology partner on a grant awarded to Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD from Susan G. Komen for the Cure® to provide virtual, personalized support to women undergoing breast cancer treatment through innovative technology.

Arti is passionate about developing innovations that build stronger communities and enable all individuals to lead healthier and longer lives. She is interested in leveraging technology to address chronic disease and increase health equity. To this end, Health Tech Alley exists to deliver on the promise of health tech for all by serving healthcare organizations in providing quality and affordable healthcare.

Arti is an active member of the health, entrepreneurial, and technology communities in the DC-Maryland-Virginia area. She serves as a Steering Committee Member of the Noncommunicable (NCD) Disease Roundtable, chair of the NCD Interest group for the CORE group, chair of the Maryland Innovation Center (MIC) Women in Technology-Central Maryland group, and co-chair of the MIC Health Tech Innovators group. From 2012-2016, Arti served on the Health Resources and Services Administration National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice appointed by then-Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius.

Arti enjoys her role as an educator. She is a lecturer in the Master's in Biotechnology Program at Johns Hopkins University and recently co-developed a continuing education course in Health Information Technology Fundamentals for Howard Community College. As an advocate for improving the training of postdoctoral fellows, she was one of the founders of the National Postdoctoral Association in 2003. Arti was a fellow in the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program from 2001-2005, where her research interests focused on nutrition, immunity, and cancer prevention. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MPH from Johns Hopkins University.

Her doctoral research focused on understanding the genetic and epigenetic alterations that contribute to the development of lung tumors. Arti is also a graduate of the National Science Foundation-funded ACTiVATE® program for women technology entrepreneurs. This award-winning program launched her journey into entrepreneurship and planted the seeds for Advancing Synergy and Health Tech Alley.

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