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Matt Johanson, Senior Vice President at Discover Financial Services

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The program called Connected Communities Initiative (CCI) was designed to bring clinicians, researchers, and students together to focus on innovation in clinical and patient education, health care engineering, data science, and cybersecurity.  

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