Amir Satvat

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Experience

  • Tencent Games Graphic

    Tencent Games

    Farmington, Connecticut, United States

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    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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    Farmington, Connecticut, United States

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    Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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    Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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    Arlington, Virginia, United States

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Cambridge, MA

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    Cambridge, MA

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    Ann Arbor, MI

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    New York, NY

Education

  • The Wharton School Graphic

    The Wharton School

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    • Field Application Project: Consulted for the Institute for OneWorld Health in development of a sustainable business plan, facilitating goal of researching and delivering low-market drugs to developing world patients
    • Summer Research Assistant to Health Care Management Department Head Robert Burns; co-wrote book on strategic transformation in four health care organizations

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    • Coursework included molecular and cell biology, bioengineering, biochemistry, molecular genetics and respective lab components
    • Master's Independent Study and Thesis in Ulcerative Colitis, advised by Professor Miriam Wattenbarger

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    • Full-year project in reimbursement reform at Albert Einstein Hospital
    • LEND Fellowship from HHS to lead effort to revamp reimbursement / bill coding processes and systems

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    • Co-started new student opera company for first ever all-student opera performance at the school; played the harpsichord and conducted rehearsals (Purcell: Dido and Aeneas)

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    • Co-started new opera company "Opera Oxford"; directed rehearsals and raised funds (Mozart: Die Zauberflote)
    • Wrote two pieces that were bound, published and placed in the Oxford library and dedicated by the President of Harris Manchester College to the school as its themes

Volunteer Experience

  • Amir Satvat's Games Community Graphic

    Founder And Leader

    Amir Satvat's Games Community

    - Present 2 years 2 months

    At Amir Satvat’s Games Community, we are committed to empowering gamers at every stage of their career with comprehensive support, resources, and a thriving community environment. We uphold the highest standards of kindness and civility, fostering an inclusive culture where every member contributes to enhancing our collective potential. We freely provide essential services that are often gated by cost, ensuring that no gamer, regardless of background, is left behind.

    Our dedication to…

    At Amir Satvat’s Games Community, we are committed to empowering gamers at every stage of their career with comprehensive support, resources, and a thriving community environment. We uphold the highest standards of kindness and civility, fostering an inclusive culture where every member contributes to enhancing our collective potential. We freely provide essential services that are often gated by cost, ensuring that no gamer, regardless of background, is left behind.

    Our dedication to removing barriers in the games industry is ​evident in our free suite of resources:

    The One Job Seeker's Workbook: Free alternative to paid listing services.

    Network & Support: Free access to mentors, CV and ​LinkedIn profile reviewers, mock interviews, art portfolio reviewers. #OpenToNetwork: Build connections within our community, ​outside formal coaching.

    Role Listings: Free alternatives to often exclusive job boards.

    Support Postings for organizations affected by layoffs.

    Career And Early Career Planning Resources: Free advice, often behind paywalls. Ask Lex resource for our community questions.

    Exclusive Perks: LinkedIn Premium Trials and Event Tickets: Free direct access to ​these resources, our most requested always-paid offerings. Games Creator Partner Program, highlighting other games community champions and their resources.

    Beyond these resources, half of our content is fun and informative, ​analyzing and reflecting on the games industry and more. We also ​venture beyond games to muse on the broader themes of positivity ​and kindness in life, discussing how we can all contribute to making ​the world a better place.

    Our mission is to ensure that all who love and work in the video games ​industry, as well as those who are touched by our values, have access ​to the tools they need to succeed and grow, making the world of ​games - and beyond - more accessible and equitable for everyone.

    Remember: Doing good for others is its own reward.

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    Special Advisor

    Zero Abuse Project

    - Present 2 years 11 months

    Children

    Zero Abuse (www.zeroabuseproject.org/) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on protecting children from all forms of child abuse. The organization’s work is widely recognized in the child protection field for its trauma-informed approach to education, research, advocacy, and advanced technology.

    Zero Abuse’s deep understanding of tools, methods, and technologies that address child sexual exploitation and its development and delivery of skill-based, victim-centered…

    Zero Abuse (www.zeroabuseproject.org/) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on protecting children from all forms of child abuse. The organization’s work is widely recognized in the child protection field for its trauma-informed approach to education, research, advocacy, and advanced technology.

    Zero Abuse’s deep understanding of tools, methods, and technologies that address child sexual exploitation and its development and delivery of skill-based, victim-centered training for the child protection community has strengthened the capacity of the field to serve children.

    Zero Abuse Project is seeking pro-bono or low-bono game development expertise to craft an innovative new training simulation for child abuse cases. Only 1% of sexual assaults, including child abuse, are successfully investigated and prosecuted. We believe this project has the potential to drastically increase law enforcement skill, survivor support, and justice for child victims.

    I have been doing anything I can to help the team design and execute this project successfully but we can't do nearly enough of this alone.

    Zero Abuse has applied for increased grant funding from the Department of Justice to develop, launch, and maintain this interactive training simulation platform (game) for child abuse investigators and prosecutors. Zero Abuse will leverage its existing roster of experiential training courses to develop a complex narrative with branching paths and numerous distinct endings, enabling gamers to walk through the entire timeline of a child abuse investigation, practice investigative and trial skills in realistic scenarios, and receive automated, real-time feedback to these choices and their effects on both victim wellbeing and case outcome.

    We will need help across roles include game designers, programmers, voice/video actors, sound designers/composers, testers/QA, artists, and writers.

    If interested in learning more, please get in touch with me.

    Thank you

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    North America Regional Leader

    Favikon

    - Present 11 months

    Science and Technology

    Consulting with Favikon's leadership team and offering insights from both the community and my own evaluations. This includes suggesting new features, algorithmic enhancements, and other community-driven improvements. My goal is to enhance awareness and appreciation of this tool, particularly for its unparalleled support of creators in gaming, though my advocacy extends to all creators in North America.

Publications

  • The Potential Value of a Comparative Effectiveness System for U.S. Health Care

    Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States, 10th Edition / Springer Publishing Company

    Wrote new chapter on comparative effectiveness, by exclusive editor invitation, for perennial top 10 best-selling health policy and administration book "Health Care Delivery in the United States - 10th Edition"; one of only two student-authored chapters (Chelsea Clinton, the other). A focus on initiatives in the United States and other countries to measure the comparative effectiveness of - and, in some countries the costs - of various medical tests, drugs, and other treatments, as a means of…

    Wrote new chapter on comparative effectiveness, by exclusive editor invitation, for perennial top 10 best-selling health policy and administration book "Health Care Delivery in the United States - 10th Edition"; one of only two student-authored chapters (Chelsea Clinton, the other). A focus on initiatives in the United States and other countries to measure the comparative effectiveness of - and, in some countries the costs - of various medical tests, drugs, and other treatments, as a means of directing health care dollars to where they will do the most good for individual patients

    Other authors
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  • Ulcerative Colitis: The Present and Future for a Debilitating Disease

    Penn Bioengineering Department Master's Independent Study

    This paper surveys and analyzes literature on the topic of ulcerative colitis. Subjects reviewed include disease definition, pathology, pathogenesis, symptoms and prognosis and diagnosis, as well as both current and future treatment options for the condition

    Dedicated to my mother, Ashraf Satvat, for her strength and resolve during many years of sickness and adversity with the disease

  • Electronic Medical Records: An Inquiry into Promoting their Adoption within the American Health System

    Mack Center For Technological Innovation Ford Fellowship Winner - The Wharton School

    Despite the establishment of many early centers of EMR use in the 1970s and 1980s and an accompanying first wave of technological and health innovation, the widespread use of, and innovation in EMRs since the 1980s has been largely limited to government hospitals and visionary health organizations. It is estimated that EMR use is only about twenty, ten and five percent in the United States hospital sector, physicians’ offices and amongst clinics, respectively. Technology adoption rates are…

    Despite the establishment of many early centers of EMR use in the 1970s and 1980s and an accompanying first wave of technological and health innovation, the widespread use of, and innovation in EMRs since the 1980s has been largely limited to government hospitals and visionary health organizations. It is estimated that EMR use is only about twenty, ten and five percent in the United States hospital sector, physicians’ offices and amongst clinics, respectively. Technology adoption rates are particularly low amongst smaller physician practices (three percent adoption) where there are prohibitive technology implementation costs. The reasons for this slowdown in adoption are many, but research conducted amongst three key interest groups (health providers and managers, politicians, and citizens) seeks to reveal the different barriers restricting EMR growth, to understand how EMR adoption could be encouraged and to gauge whether increased EMR adoption would be of net qualitative and financial benefit and to whom

    Dedicated to Jessica Leight for her advice, constant inspiration and eternal efforts to improve the global human condition

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  • The Advantages of Using Government Incentives to Encourage Private-Sector Health Care Development: A Better Model for Global Health Initiative Partnerships in the 21st Century

    NYU Wagner Final Master's Paper

    Establishing for-profit/government partnerships in health care could be the most effective way to close expanding funding gaps for health initiatives across the world. The economic gains provided by for-profit partnerships could repay initial government losses while also reducing “government crowding-out” that would otherwise occur in government/foundation partnerships. The reduction of the “government crowding-out” effect would ensure higher levels of sustained government and foundation…

    Establishing for-profit/government partnerships in health care could be the most effective way to close expanding funding gaps for health initiatives across the world. The economic gains provided by for-profit partnerships could repay initial government losses while also reducing “government crowding-out” that would otherwise occur in government/foundation partnerships. The reduction of the “government crowding-out” effect would ensure higher levels of sustained government and foundation participation in health programs and further increase funding for health initiatives

  • The Board Rotation Principle

    Monash Business Review / Monash University

    The notion that members of a decision making group may become overly cohesive and suffer from so-called “groupthink” is commonplace in psychology and management. Equally, the recent corporate scandals in both US and UK have drawn attention to the role of hubris in distorting decision making. Despite this, little attention has been devoted to assessing how corporate boards can guard against groupthink. This paper uses data on a sample of US consumer firms to assess the link between performance…

    The notion that members of a decision making group may become overly cohesive and suffer from so-called “groupthink” is commonplace in psychology and management. Equally, the recent corporate scandals in both US and UK have drawn attention to the role of hubris in distorting decision making. Despite this, little attention has been devoted to assessing how corporate boards can guard against groupthink. This paper uses data on a sample of US consumer firms to assess the link between performance and board rotation. The basic hypothesis is that low levels of board rotation may increase the chances of groupthink and, subsequently, poor performance. Clearly, intuition would suggest that high board rotation may also have adverse effects, as experience and continuity may be disrupted. The empirical results confirm these thoughts: performance appears to be higher for those firms that have intermediary levels of board rotation. However, a key finding of the analysis is that if we use Tobin’s q to proxy future performance we do not find such a relationship. In contrast, when we use future profitability to assess performance the data suggest that firms with intermediary levels of board rotation have higher profitability

    Other authors
    • Dr. Mark Rogers
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  • Study: Strategic Change in Health Care Organizations

    Wharton Summer Internship (Research Assistant to Professor Lawton Burns)

    A review and analysis of significant organizational transformations within several notable health care institutions, including Intermountain Health Care, South Jersey Health System, Hill Physicians and Humana

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Honors & Awards

  • Ford Foundation Scholarship

    Wharton School

    Funding for research paper on Electronic Medical Records

  • LEND Fellowship

    US Department of Health and Human Services

    Granted for extension of full-year project on reimbursement reform at Montefiore Hospital

  • NYU Finalist - Roback Scholarship

    National Academy of Public Administration

    8 finalists chosen nationally; $7,500 to top U.S. policy student

  • First Place - Walmart Better Living Business Plan Challenge

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    $20,000 for Mozergy, company harvesting Jatropha oil for energy while providing employment in Mozambique

    http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2008/04/21/university-of-michigan-students-win-top-honors-at-wal-marts-better-living-business-plan-challenge

  • Academic Merit Scholarship for Summer Study

    New York University

  • Finnegan Award Finalist

    Boston College

    Boston College chooses one nominee from each of its four schools (Arts and Sciences, Education, Nursing, Business) annually for the Finnegan Award, the University's top commencement prize. I was the 2003-2004 nominee from the business school

  • Top 10 Student - University Annual Report

    Boston College

    Chosen amongst 2,137 students based on both criteria of academic and extracurricular excellence

    http://www.bc.edu/publications/annualreport/06-satvat.html

  • Rhodes Scholarship Finalist - Boston College

    Boston College

    One of four nominees from Boston College

  • Organ Scholar

    Harris Manchester College - Oxford University

    Conducted regular concerts and rehearsals for the college; received musical stipend

  • Althea Gibson Award for Academic Excellence

    Boston College

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Farsi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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