The right information at the right time is key to making the best health care decisions. And yet, the sheer amount of information and the complexity of the language of medicine is a challenge for common internet search methods. We at Praxeon have met this challenge for health care providers and consumers alike by making the best medical information easily accessible.

Within this paradigm, at one end are the stakeholders in health care and on the other is a flurry of information. The bridge is technology and our goal is to teach web sites how to better satisfy the needs of the user through adaptive understanding and relevant context.

Praxeon Team

Our executive team consists of leaders within health care, science, technology, and privacy law. We bring over 50 years of experience in providing valuable solutions to the most difficult problems within medicine and science. Adapted from the linguistic roots for Praxis and Synergy, Praxeon is a product of a dedicated synergistic approach to putting ideas and theories into practice.

Leadership

Kevin Cronin, JD
Chief Executive Officer
Kevin has been involved with pharmaceutical and information technology companies for over 20 years, most recently as an investor, board member and consultant to early-stage and growth-stage companies. Before that, Kevin was a senior partner in Blank Rome LLP, a prominent corporate law firm, where he advised public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, technology transfer and related matters.

Prior to practicing law, Kevin designed software and conducted research in pulmonology and respiratory devices. He is the author of "Data Security and Privacy Law" (West Group), a comprehensive treatise on health IT and Internet law.

Education
Kevin received his law degree from Washington University and his undergraduate degree in biological sciences from the University of Chicago.
Dennis Underwood, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Dennis's experience in the pharmaceutical industry spans 20 years at both small and large companies. Before co-founding Praxeon, Dennis served as Vice President of Computational Sciences at Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc, where he provided the vision and strategy for the Infinity informatics platform while applying his scientific expertise to cancer drug discovery projects.

Dennis came to Infinity from DuPont Pharmaceuticals where he served as Executive Director, Discovery Informatics and Molecular Design. Dennis's responsibilities spanned the areas of Discovery Informatics, including all aspects of the data and information lifecycle for Discovery, Computational Sciences, and New Technologies. He recognized the strategic importance of CombiChem Inc to DuPont Pharmaceuticals and initiated their purchase.

Prior to his successes at DuPont, Dennis was Director, Molecular Systems at Merck Research Laboratories. He did Post Docs at The Australian National University, Cornell University, and Rockefeller University.

Education
Dennis received a Ph.D in Physical Organic Chemistry and a B.Sc Hons in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry from Adelaide University, Australia.
Nick Encina
President, COO
A businessperson and entrepreneur, Nick co-founded Praxeon after having taken part in numerous pharmaceutical and biotechnology start-ups. Most recently, Nick helped start Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASD:INFI) providing technical and logistical support in business development. Infinity became a public company in 2006.

Prior to that, Nick helped start TransForm Pharmaceuticals (NYSE:JNJ) focusing on project management, client interface, and system design of automated high-throughput platform for experiments on drug formulation and crystallization. TransForm was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2005 (view story).

Before TransForm, Nick worked at the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine in the lab of Dr. Warren Gish. Clinically, Nick has worked as researcher at the University of Rochester Medical School's psychiatric ward as well as a Medical Technician for a patient with advanced Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), whose life was the story behind the movie Lorenzo's Oil.

Education
Nick is currently pursuing an M.B.A. from Yale University (Leadership in Health Care). He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Washington University and a Masters degree in Cell Biology from the University of Dayton. His biology thesis work was on human bone stem cells. He has two undergraduate degrees from the University of Rochester in Biology and Psychology with a concentration in Neuroscience.
Kevin Gilpin
Chief Technology Officer
Kevin co-founded Praxeon after two years as Principal Engineer at Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc. There he led the development of Infinity's discovery informatics platform. Kevin arrived at Infinity from i2 Technologies, an enterprise supply chain management and logistics software company, where he was a Lead Developer and Development Manager for i2's Transportation Distribution Management and Common Infrastructure Services groups.

Prior to relocating to Boston in November 2001, he lived in Austin, Texas and was employed by Trilogy Development Group, Inc. There he grew from a C++ development position into Java and web development architecture, becoming Development Manager where he worked closely with software engineers, product managers, technical pre-sellers, and large Trilogy customers in the computer and automotive industries to define and develop Trilogy's enterprise products.

Education
Kevin holds a Master of Science degree from MIT in a joint Aero/Astro Engineering and Computer Science program. His bachelor's degree is in Aero/Astro Engineering from MIT. More recently he has completed introductory coursework in organic chemistry and molecular cell biology at the Harvard Extension School.
Rishi Sikka, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Sikka is an attending physician in the emergency department at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois. Prior to that, he was an attending in the emergency department at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and a member of the ED executive management team. He also held a faculty appointment as an assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. He was the lead instructor of a seminar on critical care topics in emergency medicine.

Dr. Sikka's research interests are in the fields of cost-effectiveness analysis and health outcomes research. In particular, his work focuses on the use of medical and pharmacy claims data to determine quality of care, physician efficiency and patient compliance with therapeutic regimens. Dr. Sikka's work has been published in several major journals including The Journal of Managed Care and Annals of Emergency Medicine. His work has also been presented both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of the BMC Frommer Academic Excellence Award, the New England Research Directors Excellence in Research Award and the BMC Emergency Department Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.

Dr. Sikka's background spans the intersection of business, media and medicine. During medical school, he served as the medical correspondent for KTTC-NBC in Rochester, MN. Most recently, he was a research consultant for Medco Health Solution in Franklin Lakes, NJ and a product development consultant for Health Benchmarks in Woodland Hills, CA.

Education
Dr. Sikka received his bachelor of science in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree from the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN. He completed his internship in internal medicine at St. Vincent's Hospital, NY and his residency in emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Sikka is board certified in emergency medicine.
Jacqueline Kinlow
Director, PR
Jacqueline comes to Praxeon as former executive director and vice president of The Myelin Project (TMP). During her tenure there, Jacqueline worked closely with Praxeon to assemble the Advocacy Alliance, the advocacy partners of MyDailyApple.com and Curbside.MD.

Prior to her status as executive director of TMP, Jacqueline was Program Manager at Augusto Odone Associates in Washington, D.C., where her knowledge of languages and international relations assisted her in representing clients to World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank officials for bids on education, engineering and health contracts in developing countries.

Jacqueline is currently an adjunct professor for language in the continuing education program of Prince Georges County Community College in Largo, Maryland.

Education
She received her AB degree from Georgetown University in government with a focus on international politics.