Jana Rieger, PhD is a global leader in functional outcomes assessment related to head and neck disorders. Over her 20-year career in this field, Jana has held roles as a professor, clinician, researcher, and most recently, entrepreneur.  Jana has raised $4M in non-dilutive funding and angel investment to develop, test, and commercialize the Mobili-T: a novel mHealth “smart” software-based device for people with dysphagia (i.e., swallowing disorders). She has led a team of over 20 engineers, clinicians, and industrial designers in all aspects of its creation. Over the course of her academic career, Jana also raised $2M to plan, set-up, and deploy an innovative health outcomes assessment program that is internationally-renowned and is credited as the gold standard in the field. Jana is also an expert in international team building. She brought together thought leaders from four different countries to participate in an innovative research network, the Head and Neck Research Network (HNRN). As the first director of that network, she developed the policies and procedures, databases, privacy impact assessments and ethical approvals for the group, creating a strong foundation for governance. Jana excels in thought leadership. She has functioned at a director level within a health-care institution to bring together diverse groups of clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers. In her role as CEO of True Angle Medical Technologies, a University of Alberta spin-off that she founded, she will provide executive support for the commercialization of the Mobili-T by bringing her skills in fund raising, innovative program development, international team building, and thought leadership to the table.

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