Blockchain for Medical Research: Accelerating Trust in Healthcare (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367347598)

Sean Manion, PhD is a neuroscientist who spent nearly two decades in military health research and administration. He is now the co-founder and CEO of Science Distributed, a small business focused on exploring blockchain for academic research, co-editor of the journal Blockchain for Science published by Frontiers, and co-founder of the non-profit Blockchain in Healthcare Global, part of the IEEE International Standards & Technology Organization. Sean is a member of the HIMSS Blockchain Task Force, a member of the IEEE Standards Association "Standards for the Framework of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Use in Healthcare and the Life and Social Sciences (P2418.6)," a fellow of the British Blockchain Association, and serves on the editorial review board for the peer-reviewed journals Ledger, the Journal of the British Blockchain Association, and Frontiers in Blockchain.

He lives in The Bronx, NY with distributed time in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and DC.

Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy is a former full-time financial journalist and editor. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Financial News, The Financial Times, Business Insider and several other publications. She also worked as vice president-senior content writer for New York-based financial services firms, including New York Life and MSCI, where she led thought leadership efforts around several platforms. Most recently, she has been freelancing and writes among other things, about blockchain. Yaël holds a master's degree in journalism from New York University and a master's degree in Russian Studies/Russian Politics from Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.　

She originally hails from Toulouse, France.