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Joshua Mann

Oct 27, 2017

Joshua Mann has joined Inspirata as vice president of the company's Cancer Information Data Trust. He will be responsible for aligning the CIDT business strategy with systems design and data flow, spanning data collection, organization and management, as well as data analysis and visualization. Mann has previously served as director of oncology technology solutions and acting chief technology officer for CancerLinQ, a subsidiary or the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He also cofounded SHARE for Cures, a non-profit organization that seeks to empower patients to use their individual health data to advance medical research. Immediately prior to joining Inspirata, Mann ran a consulting firm through which he served as a consulting chief information officer to Guardian Research Network.

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