Cognome: A Team of Healthcare AI Experts

At Cognome, we are driven by a singular mission: to harness the power of AI to improve healthcare outcomes. Our team is a blend of passionate experts from diverse fields, committed to advancing technology that enhances clinical decision-making, operational efficiency, and patient care. By combining cutting-edge AI solutions with deep industry insights, we provide healthcare organizations with the tools they need to succeed in a rapidly evolving landscape.

We believe in a collaborative approach, working closely with healthcare leaders to ensure our solutions are not only innovative but also grounded in practical, real-world applications. Our team is dedicated to making AI transparent, trustworthy, and valuable in healthcare, and we are excited to help shape the future of healthcare with every model we deploy.

Our Core Team

Our core team is composed of leaders in AI development, healthcare technology, data science, and clinical innovation. With backgrounds in healthcare systems, operational leadership, clinical research, and advanced AI modeling, each member brings a unique perspective to our work. Together, we are committed to delivering AI-powered solutions that empower healthcare professionals and organizations to make informed, data-driven decisions that improve both clinical outcomes and operational performance.

Dr. Parsa Mirhaji

Founder

Dr. Parsa Mirhaji, MD. PhD is the founder, creator and inventor behind Coghome. In addition he is:

Professor of Systems and Computational Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Director of the Center for Health Data Innovations (CHDI) at the Einstein/Montefiore
CTO of the NY Clinical Data Research Network (NY-CDRN)

Dr. Mirhaji’s life work has been to create a system that bridges the chasm of a million analytic solutions in healthcare. Cognome is the vehicle that we’ve created to bring his vision to life.

Fun Facts

Dr. Mirhaji was born in Iran and was the first person to bring an internet connection to the country before escaping as the regime changed.
Dr. Mirhaji built Iran’s first EHR over 25 years ago and it is still in use today.

James Green

CEO

James is passionate about bringing meaningful change to the world. When he first discovered what Dr. Mirhaji had built he jumped at the opportunity to bring Cognome to life. In addition to being CEO of Cognome, he’s also a co-founder and a board member of Open Squash a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to make the sport of squash more accessible.

Fun Facts

At Magnetic (which James ran from 2011→2017) he grew revenue from $1 to $100 million before it was sold to Deloitte.
He ran PVI which is now owned by ESPN and is the technology used to show the first down lines in (American) football.
James was CEO of the World Series of Video Games, one of the pioneers of e-sports.
He got his entrepreneurial inspiration from Steve Jobs whom we worked for at Pixar Animation Studios where he ran marketing and new business development for Steve.
James is happily married with two children despite having made his family live on a boat for a year while they sailed around the world (2010-11).
James started his career as a musician and graduated from McGill University with a B. Music – ‘cello
James also holds an MBA from the Anderson school @ UCLA.

Christos Kritikos

VP of Product

As Cognome’s product leader, Christos brings 18 years of experience building and scaling products and product organizations in a startup environment. His education includes a M.S. in Computer Science (UCLA, Fulbright Scholar) and certifications in Design Thinking, Product Management, Brand Management and Product Marketing.

In addition to his in-house leadership roles, Christos collaborates with organizations such as the US SBDC, SeedStars, Cornell Tech and Starta VC, where he has mentored over 100 founders on their product & growth challenges. He has a passion for the convergence of technology and humanity, and loves to work on impactful products that tackle big problems.

Fun Facts

Originally from Greece, Christos has lived in 11 cities across 5 countries, and is very particular about dark chocolate!

Sripriya Ramanathan

Head of Finance

Sripriya got her start, as an Auditor with PWC, Deloitte and then E&Y. WIth that strong background she branched out on her own to build her own outsourced CFO business (Aconter) which is where she met Cognome. Sripriya runs both finance and HR for Cognome and is based in India where she helped set up and maintains Cognome’s wholly owned Indian subsidiary.

Fun Facts

As an expert in offshore finance she has been forced to spend time on remote Caribbean islands for work. #PaidVacation

Vikas Khosla

Strategic Growth Advisor

Vikas is a health tech “lifer” having launched and scaled three businesses over the last 20+ years focused on digital health and healthcare cybersecurity solutions. He seeks out large scale problems then builds businesses capable of impacting an entire industry. Diven to transform our healthcare delivery system through innovation and empowering technologies, currently he serves as an executive, C-Suite advisor and consultant to health systems, digital health startups, growth-stage companies and nonprofits. The focus of his work is to develop and execute commercialization strategies to enable market share growth.

Fun Facts

Vikas is an avid home chef and admirer of French and Spanish cooking techniques.
His favorite pastime is playing drums with his best friends from college in a band they virtually re-formed during the pandemic.
Vikas lives in NJ just outside of Philadelphia with his wife and two children.

Dr. Kennedy Ganti MD, FAAFP, FHEL

Senior Medical Informatics Advisor

Dr. Kennedy Ganti is a board-certified family physician and clinical informatician who is the Regional VP of Health Informatics - Southern Region at RWJBarnabas Health, New Jersey’s largest academic health system. Dr. Ganti was the inaugural Chair of the Health Information Technology Commission that synchronized with the federal Meaningful Use in New Jersey to set up the New Jersey Health Information Network (NJHIN). Dr. Ganti is also Chair of the Advisory Committee of OneHealth New Jersey, the only health information exchange directed by physicians from the Medical Society of New Jersey, the oldest medical society in the United States. Dr. Ganti is a Past President of the Medical Society of New Jersey and New Jersey Health Information Management Systems Society. Dr. Ganti is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and Healthcare Executive Leadership Academy from Seton Hall University.

Fun Facts

Dr. Ganti is from a family of music lovers - both his son and daughter both play the alto saxophone and piano.

Chandra has Nelapatla

Head of Engineering

Chandra holds undergraduate degree in Computer Scince from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological UniversityJawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Bachelor's degree, a Masters in Computer Science from University of Nebraska, Lincoln and an MBA from the Quantic school of Business & Technology. He has extensive knowledge and expertise of EPIC systems and architecture and has undergone multiple EPIC trainings. Chandra has built sophisticated interfaces and pipelines to and from EPIC systems for development of the Epic link to the genomic data visualization tool and building other necessary EMR/EPIC related infrastructure. Chandra also has extensive experience building and managing offshore technology teams. Chandra was and is instrumental in the identifying, hiring and managing of Cognome's technical staff in India.