Remote Patient Monitoring Platform for Neurological Conditions
As the only remote patient monitoring platform designed and created by clinical physicians, our vision is to fundamentally change the way we understand and manage chronic neurologic diseases, remove biases, and find new treatments with better outcomes.
BeCare Link provides validated, quantitative measurements of neurologic function and cognition, supplemented by AI analysis* to improve patient care. By assessing their own neurologic and cognitive function at home through the BeCare Link app, patients are empowered to monitor their clinical progress and strengthen the bonds with their physicians.
*This feature is currently only available for use in an academic/research settings, but it will be released to the public pending FDA clearance
Leadership
Founder, Chairman of the Board, CEO
Larry is a serial entrepreneur in the healthcare and telecommunications. He is the co-inventor of an innovative technique in neural networks for object orientation detection.
Chief Medical Officer, Board Member
Trained at Yale School of Medicine and Cornell-New York Hospital, Charisse had a successful neurology private practice for 25 years, was on the faculty of Yale School of Medicine, worked with a Contract Research Organization monitoring pharmaceutical trials, and created a migraine service at a Telehealth company.
Chief Commercial Officer
Alan is a mission-driven growth serial entrepreneur with an ‘up through the ranks’ experience in the healthcare industry focused on the achievement of systematically improved outcomes and reduced costs across the healthcare continuum.
Co-Founder, Consultant
Timothy Vartanian, MD, PhD, is a leading authority on neural regeneration and is the Director of the Judith Jaffe MS Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Computational Neuroscience Advisor, Board Member
Dave is a physio-therapist with a PhD on neural control and reaching. At Harvard and MIT, David’s positions focused on computational neuroscience. Previously, at NYU, he concentrated on motor control and brain machine interface development research.
Advisors
Sharon Stoll, DO
Yale School of Medicine
A board-certified neurologist and assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Stoll has received numerous awards, including Top Neurologist 2021, Rodney Bell teaching award and is a national multiple sclerosis society grant recipient.
Huned Patwa, MD
Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Patwa is a Professor of Neurology at the Yale School of Medicine, and co-director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinic. His research is focused on diseases of the peripheral nervous system including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) myasthenia gravis and peripheral neuropathy.
Mark Herceg, Ph.D
Clinical and Sports Neuropsychologist. Founder, Head Strong Diagnostics, LLC
Dr. Herceg has spent over 20 years evaluating and treating individuals with various neurological changes, illnesses or brain injuries. A graduate of Hofstra University’s Zucker School of Medicine, he served as the Commissioner of Westchester County Department of Mental Health and is the past Chair of the BIA-New York State Concussion Task Force.
Saurabh Sharma, MD
Georgetown University Medical Center
Medical Advisory Board
Lilyana Amezcua, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Program Director, Multiple Sclerosis Fellowship
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Aaron Boster, MD
Boster Center for Multiple Sclerosis
Columbus, OH
Riley Bove, MD
Associate Professor, Neurology
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Ellen Mowry, MD
Professor of Neurology
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
Jiwon Oh, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Barlo Multiple Sclerosis Program, Associate Professor, Division of Neurology, University of Toronto
Darin Okuda, MD
Professor, Neurology
Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute
University of Texas, Southwestern
Mitzi Williams, MD
Joi Life Wellness Group
Our Partners
BeCare Link is proud to be able to collaborate with world class and highly influential partners.
Publications
BeCare has run two pilot studies, at Weill Cornell and Yale School of Medicine, comparing the remote neurologic assessment captured by and the Artificial Intelligence interpretation created using the BeCare MS Link data with the in-person neurologic assessment by clinicians. There was a close correlation between the functional assessment and disability scores based on BeCare MS Link’s gamified activity and the EDSS score calculated in the MS centers.
A review of available MS apps failed to show any other apps that collect quantified data and have AI interpretation of functional systems and disability scores similar to the BeCare MS Link.
Rubin, L., M Kruse-Hoyer, C Litchman, S Stoll, D Putrino, S Shetty, C Engel, M Marcille, S Gauthier, J Perumal, N Nealon, U Kaunzer, T Vartanian. “Patient Centered Outcomes Analysis for Multiple Sclerosis Using a Mobile Application” Fourth Annual American Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS), Dallas, TX. Feb 2019.
Stoll, S., T Litchman, S Wesley, C Litchman, “Multiple sclerosis apps: The dawn of a new era: A comprehensive review” 71st Annual American Academy of Neurology (AAN), Philadelphia, PA . May 2019.
Litchman, C., T Vartanian, L Rubin, N Rubin, S Stoll. Automated EDSS scoring using a mobile App & Machine Learning. 72st Annual American Academy of Neurology (AAN), Toronto, Canada, 2020.
Stoll, S. N Rubin, L Rubin, T Litchman, J Keaney,T Vartanian, , C Litchman. Machine Learning Evaluation of MS patients during the time of COVID. 73rd Annual American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 2021.
Liam Johnson, Adam Fry, Behdad Dehbandi, Lawrence Rubin , Michael Halem, Alexandre Barachant , Anna H. Smeragliuolo, David Putrino An automated, electronic assessment tool can accurately classify older adult postural stability , Journal of Biomechanics, BM 9228 No. of Pages 5, Model 5G 6 June 2019