Eric Parrie is the CEO of COVIDCheck Colorado (COVIDCheck), a social benefit enterprise dedicated to enabling a safe return to community and the most proactive and equitable response to COVID-19 in the country. Under Eric’s leadership, COVIDCheck has become one of CDPHE’s lead community testing partners, administering over 800,000 tests and 300,000 vaccines in Colorado for 150+ schools and community organizations, while earning a patient promoter score above 90.
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In 1987, Simon joined and eventually became CEO of a small consulting firm which specialized in indoor air quality. The firm grew to be a pioneer and leader in the field, helping commercial real estate owners and managers become leaders of their own in the field of indoor environmental performance.
Jeff Wagner has crafted a career where his passion for education and architecture are intrinsically linked. Introduced to the power of the built environment at an early age, he has striven to embody the architect as master builder. Attacking the challenge with an admirable restlessness, Jeff set out to acquire a vast array of skills required to be a good architect, a never-ending task he embraces to this day.
CEO and Founder, Meenta. Gabor has 20 years of business expertise in the area of genomics and diagnostics spanning some of the best companies in the field including Agilent Technologies and Roche Diagnostics. As founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Parabase Genomics he built the company from the ground up creating the first commercial play in the field of Neonatal Precision Medicine.
COVID-19 has brought to the forefront the critical role that school nurses are uniquely able to care for communities. As the pandemic COVID-19 spreads, the school nurse was thrust into the center of the challenge. As the central health resource for their entire school communities, students, teachers, the staff, administrators, it has been a daunting task for an already largely unstaffed role. As such, the Back to Schools conference assembled school nurses in leadership positions from around the United States to provide insight. (see panel); The toll on kids. An estimated 45,000 children have lost one parent from COVID, many of these from socially economically disadvantaged. The toll has been extraordinary and the school nurse is often to witness how this as the…
Advocates engaged in using technology to make schools safe will meet in April to design strategies to get schools open and keep them open. The Back to School Conference: Safely Opening Classrooms in 2021 will bring together educators, innovators and scientists focused on getting schools back in open. “Everyone agrees that getting kids back in school is now our highest national priority. This conference will assemble the best ideas for doing this safely and economically” Said Brett Johnson, founder of The Virus Project and conference organizer. As a hybrid conference that is both virtual and in person, it is made possible by…
PRE-CONFERENCE WEBINAR – Zoom Meeting ID https://zoom.us/j/96886388674 On behalf of The Virus Project, Meenta is excited to welcome you to this pre-conference webinar, in support of the upcoming hybrid “Back to School Conference” taking place April 12th-14th, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thought leaders will assemble in Las Vegas to build strategies to keep schools open. We will profile successful approaches and showcase advanced technologies and solutions to make schools safe. Hear from the founder of the Virus Project, Brett Johnson, and other presenters involved in making this event not only successful, but getting schools open, and keeping them open. AGENDA:…
Please join the live Webinar via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/97095986810 The announcement last week of the Federal government funding of over $100 billion to schools to enable them to reopen is a tsunami which could easily wreak havoc on the American K-12 education system. The process by which these funds get delivered, appropriated is unknown. Understandably. We hope someone really smart is sorting this out, because it is complex. This could be the most complex government initiative in history. The Manhattan project (to build the nuclear bomb) was simple in comparison. At the epicenter of this storm and the likely casualties will…