Executive Dean for Research and Training, University of Miami
Dr. Bookman currently serves as Senior Advisor for Program Development & Policy at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and as Director of the UHealth Care Lab, a center for innovation in care delivery, at the University of Miami Health System.
Dr. Bookman received his undergraduate degree with honors from Brown University in computational neuroscience, and his PhD in physiology studying ion channel biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. As a graduate student, Dr. Bookman founded a scientific instrumentation company that he later sold after 5 profitable years. During his postdoctoral training at the Biozentrum in Basel, Switzerland, Dr. Bookman studied synaptic transmission and developed biophysical and optical methods to measure the kinetics of exocytosis from single cells, work which he further developed as a member of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Pennsylvania and continued after his move to UM in 1991. Extending these single-cell techniques to airway epithelial cells, his laboratory identified signal transduction pathways that control ciliary beating frequency and thus contribute to airway clearance. In collaboration with his graduate students and post-docs, the Bookman laboratory has developed instrumentation and software to support imaging, neuroscience research, and education, all of which is broadly disseminated through either open source or commercial channels.
At UM, he was the founding director of the DNA Microarray Facility and served as director of the school’s MD/PhD Program for 12 years. Dr. Bookman served UM’s medical school in a variety of leadership roles as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies, and then as Executive Dean for Research and Research Training. As UM’s Vice Provost for Research, Dr. Bookman was UM’s senior research official, responsible for research across all UM campuses. In this role, he also served as the Research Integrity Officer (RIO) and also chaired the Patents & Copyrights Committee, founded and chaired the Conflict of Interest Committee, and served as Institutional Official (IO) for the university’s laboratory animal program across 4 campuses, including during an AAALAC accreditation. He also integrated pre- and post-award offices into a unified research administration group and launched units dedicated to research reporting, research strategic planning, research space planning, and initiation of clinical trials.
Dr. Bookman is active on the state level through his championing of the Florida Biomedical Research Program for which he drafted the original legislation, and served as Chair of the state’s Biomedical Research Advisory Council for many years. Since 2013, he has worked with the deans of Florida’s 9 med schools to create a new 501(c)3 – the Florida Medical Schools Quality Network, Inc. (FMSQN). As Vice President of the FMSQN, Dr. Bookman works to bring the research capacity at Florida’s med schools to bear on problems facing FL’s Medicaid program and patients. Nationally, Dr. Bookman is a long-time member of various NIH and NSF review panels, including The Human Brain Project, the joint NIH/NSF Computational Neuroscience Program and the Biophysics of Neural Systems. Dr. Bookman has also been a member and chair of various professional development groups at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), as well as serving on a variety of ad hoc AAMC committees. Dr. Bookman represents the AAMC on AAALAC International and was recently elected to their Board of Directors.
Director, White Owl
Luis Alberto Tribin is Director of Business Development at WhiteOwl. Luis is an IT executive with over 25 years of experience in the field of enterprise business applications and consulting services. Through his experience in various high-level positions over his career at top software companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards, Luis has achieved goals in different markets and territories.
Convinced of the value of relationships, Luis has been able to establish long term relationship as trusted advisor with customers and partners throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and South Florida. His passion for serving and adding value is an asset to organizations who are looking for business solutions that can help them become more agile in a world where the only constant is change. Luis is the current Chair of the Technology Committee at the Miami-Dade Beacon Council.
He received his bachelor’s degree as Systems Engineer from Universidad Piloto de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia) and holds a certification on Online Business Strategy and Financial Acumen awarded by The Business School for the World, INSEAD.
Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Jackson Health System
Matthew Pinzur is the vice president and chief marketing officer at Jackson Health System, helping direct the system’s patient acquisition and loyalty strategy and overseeing the staff that manages Jackson’s public face through media relations, marketing, advertising, community outreach, branding, and digital media. Jackson is among the nation’s largest and most respected public hospital systems, with more than 2,000 beds and global leadership in specialty care.
He directs the Communications & Outreach team, which steers Jackson’s public image through marketing, community outreach, employee communications, and media relations. The team has implemented a massive expansion of Jackson’s image-building program to align with the system’s strategic vision for growth. Matt also serves as a senior advisor to Jackson’s chief executive officer, helping direct Jackson’s strategy and tactics, including the massive financial turnaround that reversed more than $425 million in losses over five years into five consecutive years of multimillion-dollar surpluses beginning in 2012. He was also a central part of the team that led a successful campaign in which 65 percent of Miami-Dade voters approved an $830 million bond program to renovate, modernize and expand Jackson’s facilities. He has been named a Power Leader in Marketing by South Florida Business Journal and one of the 12 Good Men of Miami by Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Prior to joining Jackson’s executive team in 2011, he was a special assistant to the Miami-Dade County Manager. In that role, he was a senior policy adviser across all program and service areas for one of the country’s largest local governments.
Matt also spent more than a decade as a newspaper reporter, including six years as a reporter for The Miami Herald covering government and public education. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Emory University in Atlanta and a master’s of business administration in healthcare management and policy from the University of Miami.
Matt is a member of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors, The Education Fund of Miami-Dade’s Board of Directors, the President’s Council of Florida International University, the Public Policy Council for the United Way of Miami-Dade, the Chief Marketing Officers Network Steering Committee for Vizient, and the Health & Wellness Advisory Committee of The Underline. He serves as chairman of the Life Sciences & Healthcare Committee at The Beacon Council, Miami-Dade County’s official economic development partnership. At the Greater Miami Chamber, he chairs the Healthcare Committee and formerly chaired the chamber’s Senior Executive Orientation program. He was a member of Leadership Florida Cornerstone Class XXXVI and serves on Leadership Florida’s Southeast Regional Council. He is an active member of the Emory Alumni Association and the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center. A native of the Chicago suburbs, he now lives in Hollywood, Fla., with his wife and daughter.
