Who We Are
Michael Pasque, MD
Michael Pasque, MD
Michael Pasque, MD
President, Chief Medical Officer, Kardia
Dr. Pasque, (Mike) to his family and friends, is Board Certified in Thoracic and Transplantation Surgery. Mike practices in St. Louis Mo. at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and St. Louis Children's Hospital. In addition, Mike is a Professor, Surgery Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Washington University.
Mike set out thirty years ago building an answer to this question - is there a better way to understand left ventricular contractile function.
Mike and the team have an answer - Kardia, using cMRI combined with machine learning to demonstrate micro-regional left ventricular contractile injury.
In his spare time Mike enjoys - spending time with family and friends, downtime on his farm, and learning python.
John R Hawkins
Michael Pasque, MD
Michael Pasque, MD
CEO, Co-Founder
John brings 30 + years Health Technology Experience to Kardia.
John is a Healthcare Change Agent who is skilled in helping start up and emerging companies to build and release products, clarify global go-to-market strategies, and making connections through his global network of influencers for scale and growth.
John Started off life as an Army Medic and radiographer. Prior to leaving the clinical world and joining the “dark-side” corporate healthcare, John realized the question will be when and never If - computers will augment the role of the clinician in diagnosing and treatment planning.
In his down time John enjoys being a father to two amazing teenagers, and can be found on the ski slope, golf course, kayak fishing, or just chillin and grillin with friends and family.
Brian Phelan
Michael Pasque, MD
Dr. Khan Siddiqui
Co-Founder
Chief Strategy Officer, Investor Relations
Brian is an experienced executive with a proven track record of working with small companies to turn them into profitable businesses while growing them and preparing for an exit.
Brian is experienced in M&A , international business development, international operations, operational start up and expansion.
Brian is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, and continues to serve our great country as a member of the United States Military Academy, Field Force Officer, evaluating and recommending for selection the next generation of student candidates who will go on to study and lead our military.
In his downtime Brian enjoys being a husband and father, the outdoors, golf, skiing, and is also passionate about grillin and chillin with family and friends.
Dr. Khan Siddiqui
Melissa Levack, MD
Dr. Khan Siddiqui
Advisory Board Member
Khan is best known as a Serial entrepreneur, physician, innovator, former MSFT executive and unleashing and scaling AI - who strongly believes in the power of “paying it forward”.
Khan brings over 22 years of experience as a practicing clinician and technology professional. A visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Radiology at John Hopkins University School of Medicine, former Co-Director at the Center for Biomedical & Imaging Informatics, Johns Hopkins University. Prior to founding higi in 2012, Dr. Siddiqui was a Physician Executive and Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. Dr. Siddiqui has published dozens of peer-reviewed publications and holds 12 patents for technology in areas of deep learning, AI, image processing, data visualization, as well as securing patient information handling and health records.
Brian Cupps, PhD
Melissa Levack, MD
Melissa Levack, MD
Research Associate Professor at Washington University.
Co-Founder, Kardia.Ai
Melissa Levack, MD
Melissa Levack, MD
Melissa Levack, MD
Advisory Board Member
•Assistant Professor, Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University
•Adult Congenital Heart and Valve Disease
•Coronary Heart Disease