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Chris Chen, MD
Chief Executive Officer ChenMed |
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Marty Makary, MD,
Health Care Futurist; Bestselling Author, New York Times; Medical Commentator, NBC News & FOX News; Surgeon and Professor of Health Policy, Johns Hopkins |
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Lisa Suennen
Managing Partner, Venture Valkyrie LLC; Co-Founder, CSweetner |
Lisa is Managing Partner of Venture Valkyrie LLC, a consulting firm advising large corporations around corporate venture capital & innovation, new business creation and digital health strategy. Lisa is also co-founder of CSweetener, which matches women in and nearing the healthcare C-Suite with mentors. She is on faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Previously Lisa was Senior Managing Director at GE Ventures, leading the firm’s healthcare fund. Prior to that, Lisa spent 15 years as a Partner at Psilos Group, a venture capital firm, and 9 years at Merit Behavioral Care, an $800mm behavioral healthcare company where she held various leadership roles from its early start-up days through its successful IPO and exit.
Lisa is currently on several private company boards and chairs the board of the NASA -funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health.
Lisa writes the Venture Valkyrie blog and hosts the Tech Tonics podcast.
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Martin VanTrieste
President & Chief Executive Officer Civica Rx |
Martin VanTrieste brings over 35 years in the pharmaceutical industry – focusing on manufacturing and quality. He was ranked #2 on the 2018 Medicine Maker Power List of Industry Influencers.
Martin VanTrieste was the Chairman of the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) Board of Directors. The PDA represents over 10,000 members, and is the leading global facilitator of scientifically sound, practical technical information, quality systems and expertise to advance Pharmaceutical / biopharmaceutical manufacturing science and regulation so members can better serve patients. He recently retired as the senior vice president of quality at Amgen. He was responsible for quality assurance, quality control, compliance, operational excellence, environment, health and safety along with training at Amgen.
Prior to joining Amgen, VanTrieste was with Bayer Healthcare’s Biological Products Division as vice president of worldwide quality and Abbott Laboratories as the vice president of quality assurance for the Hospital Products Division. While at Abbott, VanTrieste held various positions in Quality, Operations, and Research and Development. He started his career at Abbott in 1983 after obtaining his Pharmacy degree from Temple University School of Pharmacy.
He is the founder of Rx-360 and first Chairman of the Board of Directors. Rx-360 is a nonprofit international supply chain organization that enhances patient safety by increasing the security and quality in the biopharmaceutical supply chain.
VanTrieste has been actively involved with various professional and trade organizations, including, United States Pharmacopeia (USP), Pharmaceutical Quality Research Institute (PQRI), Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures of America (PhRMA), and AdvaMed
PharmaVoice in 2012 named VanTrieste as one of the 100 most inspiring people in the pharmaceutical industry, calling him “a man with a mission”. The Medicine Maker in 2016, 2017 and 2018 named him one of the most influential people in the world of drug development and manufacture saying, “he is known throughout industry for his work on advancing quality assurance and helping to ensure a more reliable supply of high-quality medicines.”
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Redonda Miller, MD
President The Johns Hopkins Hospital |
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Craig E. Samitt, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota |
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Charles W. Sorenson, MD
President Emeritus, Intermountain Healthcare Founding Director, Intermountain Healthcare Leadership Institute |
Charles W. Sorenson, MD, FACS, is President and CEO Emeritus of Intermountain Healthcare and the Founding Director of the Intermountain Healthcare Leadership Institute, a position he assumed in late 2016. Opening in October 2018, the Institute will offer a variety of leadership development courses, including a program designed for selected high potential health system leaders from the US and abroad. Staffed by a faculty of content experts from Intermountain and other distinguished health systems and academic institutions, this program will focus on principle-based decision making and leading at the critical juncture of clinical and administrative expertise.
Dr. Sorenson served as President and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare from January 2009 until his retirement from this position in October 2016. Prior to that, he served for eleven years as Intermountain’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
Dr. Sorenson, a graduate of the University of Utah (BA Biology) and Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University (MD), is a board-certified Urologic Surgeon and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He served as Chair of the Committee on Young Surgeons for the American College of Surgeons, as President of the Utah Urologic Society and as Speaker of the House of Delegates of the Utah Medical Association. He is an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Utah.
Dr. Sorenson has a long-standing interest in clinical process improvement and in the development of Intermountain’s integrated delivery system. He was the Founding Board Chair of the Intermountain Medical Group, an integrated practice now comprised of approximately 1,600 physicians and advanced practice clinicians employed by Intermountain.
Under Dr. Sorenson’s leadership as Chief Operating Officer and as Chief Executive Officer, Intermountain Healthcare implemented a disciplined and system-wide focus on best clinical and operational practices aimed at producing measurably better outcomes for patients at costs that are sustainable to the communities Intermountain serves.
In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Sorenson has continued to be involved in the practice of urologic surgery at the Intermountain Medical Center, with a primary focus on urologic oncology. Dr. Sorenson and his wife, Sharee, are the parents of four adult children.
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Diana Han, MD
Chief Medical Officer GE Appliances (A Haier Company) |
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Alan Warren
Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering Oscar Health |
Dr. Alan Warren is the CTO and SVP of Engineering for Oscar Health, the high-tech NY startup aiming to transform the healthcare industry. Prior to Oscar, Alan was Engineering VP in Google’s NY office and led efforts there spanning desktop and mobile search, AdWords, and Developer API's and tools, as well as starting products such as Google Finance, Blog Search and Google Health. While there, he also founded and led Google's collaborative applications area, including Google Drive and the Docs, Sheets and Slides suite. Before joining Google he co-founded and was CTO for the technology and engineering side of Juice Software, an enterprise software startup also in New York City. Prior to Juice, Alan spent 3 years as Chief Architect of Hyperion Solutions, two years in IBM's Software Solutions Division, and ten years in T.J. Watson Research. His early research spanned materials and device physics, computational physics and modeling, and circuit design. Since shifting to software and computer science full-time, Alan has been drawn to graphics and visualization, component-based architectures and systems design, and most recently, the collaboration and productivity applications space.
Alan majored in Physics and Math at Georgia Tech (’78) and received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from MIT (’85).
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Luther Lowe
Senior Vice President, Public Policy Yelp |
Luther joined Yelp in 2008 as an account executive on the company’s sales team and a year later moved into the role of Manager of Business Outreach, where he built a department that educates small business owners about the importance of Yelp. Since 2011, Luther has led public policy at the company. As Vice President of Public Policy, he manages and directs the company’s global outreach to policy makers about the vital role Yelp plays in driving economic activity to local businesses while serving as a platform to empower and protect consumers. Previously, Luther worked as a Special Assistant to retired four-star General Wesley Clark. He holds a B.A. in government from The College of William & Mary.
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Lee Green
Chief Architect Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts |
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Jennifer H. Mieres, MD
Senior Vice President, Center for Equity of Care, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Northwell Health |
Dr. Jennifer H. Mieres is a leading expert in the fields of nuclear cardiology, cardiovascular disease in women and patient-centered healthcare advocacy. As Senior Vice President of Northwell Health’s, Center for Equity of Care, She has oversight of the Katz Institute for Women’s Health, as well as all diversity and health equity initiatives and serves as the health system’s first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. Dr. Mieres is also the Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and a professor of cardiology, at The Zucker School of Medicine.
A graduate of Bennington College and Boston University School of Medicine; she is a Fellow of The American Heart Association (AHA), American College of Cardiology (ACC), and Master of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and served as the first female President of the ASNC.
Dr. Mieres’ clinical focus and research are centered on the elimination of health and gender disparities and her current research is focused on cardiovascular disease in women. She is a leading advocate for patient-centered healthcare and medical education reform and has authored/co-authored over 60 scientific publications, including as lead author of the 2005 and 2014 AHA cardiac imaging guidelines for women. As an international speaker, she has presented her research as distinguished faculty at over 100 forums and conferences; both nationally and internationally including scientific sessions of the ACC, AHA, ASNC, the International Conference of Nuclear Cardiology and IHI/BMJ International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare. A true patient and community advocate; Dr. Mieres is actively involved in service. She serves as a national spokesperson for AHA’s Go Red For Women movement and has served as chair of several national AHA committees as well as the Scientific Advisory Board for WomenHeart.
A prolific communicator; Mieres recently co-authored Heart Smart for Women: Six S.T.E.P.S IN Six Weeks to Heart-Healthy Living, published in October 2017. Her previous book Heart Smart for Black Women and Latinas: A Five Week Program for Living a Heart- Healthy Lifestyle was published in 2008. Following her Emmy-nominated documentary A Woman’s Heart, (2001); her creative ingenuity has evolved as an executive producer of a two part documentary series Rx: The Quiet Revolution and Doctors of Tomorrow, (2015). The films have forged a change in narrative while garnering placement on national TV network PBS and in educational institutions. Dr. Mieres is routinely called upon by national and local media for expert commentary and has been designated as a most-credible voice in the healthcare industry.
A recipient of several prestigious awards; Dr. Mieres has been recognized as a tireless force; fostering diversity in medical education as well as eliminating disparities in the delivery of healthcare to the community. The Association of Black Cardiologists recognized her work with the Walter M. Booker Sr. Health Promotion Award in 2015. The American Heart Association has also presented her with a number of awards, such as the Chairman’s Award; the Louis B. Russell, Jr., Memorial Award; the Award for Outstanding Service as President and the William Groom Award for Volunteer of the Year. Dr. Mieres has also received the National ACC’s Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award; the Woman’s Day Red Dress Award; the WomenHeart Wenger Award for Healthcare and the New York State Governor’s Award of Excellence.
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Jean Yang
President, Public Plans Tufts Health Plan |
Jean oversees the strategic direction and business operations for Tufts Health Public Plans, Tufts Health Plan's managed Medicaid and state-sponsored plans division, which operates in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
With more than 15 years in health care, including provider, insurer and Exchange marketplace experience, Jean’s background gives her deep knowledge of the health insurance industry and its complexities. Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan, Jean served as the executive director of the Children’s Hospital Integrated Care Organization, a group representing Children’s Hospital Boston and its affiliated physicians. She is also a past executive director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, after initially serving as its chief financial officer. Jean began her work in health insurance at Tufts Health Plan in 2004, where she served on the contracting, strategy and analytics team.
Jean has served on the boards of the Health Policy Commission and Group Insurance Commission. She earned a B.S. in biochemistry from Peking University in Beijing, China and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Niyum Gandhi
Executive Vice President and Chief Population Health Officer Mount Sinai Health System |
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Michelle Copenhaver
Regional Vice President, Southeast Territories Aetna |
Our mission is to transform the delivery, affordability, and quality of health care.
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Armada Health Care, the industry's largest specialty pharmacy group purchasing and contracting organization, focuses on the emerging specialty pharmacy marketplace by providing strategic channel management solutions, commercialization strategies and specialty pharmacy support services. We provide cost savings and support programs to our specialty pharmacy members, as well as HUB services and commercialization strategies to our manufacturing partners. In addition, we offer payer strategies to assist with compliance initiatives along with providing managed network solutions. In addition, we provide a managed pharmacy network and compliance initiatives, enabling payers to increase efficiencies and ensure appropriate utilization.
Among the national GPOs, Armada is unique in the industry. Because we are privately owned, we are nimble enough to develop with the market and large enough to help lead it. We are well-positioned to be totally aligned with the growing wants and needs of all the stakeholders we work with, including specialty pharmacy providers, manufacturers and distributors, prescribers, payers, and the patients. Our growing portfolio of manufacturer specialty programs are each individually tailored to meet the rapidly evolving demand for better channel management of these complex therapies. Our technology services expedite and simplify the prescribing and dispensing process and ensure open communications in step with the emergence of e-health. Our payer services are expanding rapidly to include customized specialty pharmacy solutions that help ensure appropriateness, compliance and cost containment and, the patients are receiving best-in-class therapy management services all delivered in a seamless framework from our member pharmacies.
This is why Armada is reshaping the specialty pharmacy market with proven commercialization and channel management solutions, coupled with comprehensive patient support services for specialty pharmacies which include but not limited to the following:
Carenet delivers positive impact on health outcomes and cost savings helping health plans perform at a higher level and differentiate themselves. Technology and data insights empower our ability to personalize and simplify healthcare experiences for millions of people we support and influence through Strategic Engagement, Clinical Activation and Advocacy/Navigation Solutions.
CareScout has been providing cost-effective, high quality risk management solutions and support to Insurers, Health Plans, Employers, EAPs and others for over 20 years.
Geneia is a healthcare analytic solutions and services company that focuses on improving systems to support personalized, patient-centered care. We provide technology, training, insights and clinical services that drive alignment and collaboration among healthcare providers, health plans and employers transitioning to value-based care.
Health Data & Management Solutions, Inc. (HDMS) sits at the intersection of providers, payers and employers, putting unparalleled analytic power into the hands of its customers and utilizing its extensive industry experience to help them better manage their business and improve health outcomes.
Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: NCI) is a specialized, global professional services firm that helps clients take control of their future. Navigant’s professionals apply deep industry knowledge, substantive technical expertise, and an enterprising approach to help clients build, manage, and/or protect their business interests. With a focus on markets and clients facing transformational change and significant regulatory or legal pressures, the firm serves clients in the healthcare, energy, high tech and financial services industries. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and technology/analytics services, Navigant’s practitioners bring sharp insight that pinpoints opportunities and delivers powerful results. More information about Navigant can be found at navigant.com.
naviHealth has been managing post-acute care and care transitions on behalf of health plans and health systems for nearly two decades. Serving both the payer and provider marketplaces, naviHealth provides clinical support services, data-driven technology, and advisory solutions that enable partners to better navigate care transitions, improve quality and patient experiences, and reduce costs across the continuum.
PNC Healthcare has been a pioneer in the healthcare industry for over 25 years, working with over 1,600 healthcare providers and payers. We have extensive experience with both provider revenue and procure-to-pay cycles. Specialty services also include capital markets and a variety of credit and treasury management services.
SkyMedicus is a HIPAA-compliant medical tourism company with a proprietary digital technology marketplace, which connects patients to a global network of over 500 world leaders in medicine. Over the past several years, we’ve helped thousands of people reap the rewards of medical tourism on all levels: cost savings, rapid access and, of course, world-class quality of healthcare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that over 750,000 U.S. residents travel abroad for medical care each year.
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Armada Health Care, the industry's largest specialty pharmacy group purchasing and contracting organization, focuses on the emerging specialty pharmacy marketplace by providing strategic channel management solutions, commercialization strategies and specialty pharmacy support services. We provide cost savings and support programs to our specialty pharmacy members, as well as HUB services and commercialization strategies to our manufacturing partners. In addition, we offer payer strategies to assist with compliance initiatives along with providing managed network solutions. In addition, we provide a managed pharmacy network and compliance initiatives, enabling payers to increase efficiencies and ensure appropriate utilization.
Among the national GPOs, Armada is unique in the industry. Because we are privately owned, we are nimble enough to develop with the market and large enough to help lead it. We are well-positioned to be totally aligned with the growing wants and needs of all the stakeholders we work with, including specialty pharmacy providers, manufacturers and distributors, prescribers, payers, and the patients. Our growing portfolio of manufacturer specialty programs are each individually tailored to meet the rapidly evolving demand for better channel management of these complex therapies. Our technology services expedite and simplify the prescribing and dispensing process and ensure open communications in step with the emergence of e-health. Our payer services are expanding rapidly to include customized specialty pharmacy solutions that help ensure appropriateness, compliance and cost containment and, the patients are receiving best-in-class therapy management services all delivered in a seamless framework from our member pharmacies.
This is why Armada is reshaping the specialty pharmacy market with proven commercialization and channel management solutions, coupled with comprehensive patient support services for specialty pharmacies which include but not limited to the following:
Carenet delivers positive impact on health outcomes and cost savings helping health plans perform at a higher level and differentiate themselves. Technology and data insights empower our ability to personalize and simplify healthcare experiences for millions of people we support and influence through Strategic Engagement, Clinical Activation and Advocacy/Navigation Solutions.
CareScout has been providing cost-effective, high quality risk management solutions and support to Insurers, Health Plans, Employers, EAPs and others for over 20 years.
Geneia is a healthcare analytic solutions and services company that focuses on improving systems to support personalized, patient-centered care. We provide technology, training, insights and clinical services that drive alignment and collaboration among healthcare providers, health plans and employers transitioning to value-based care.
Health Data & Management Solutions, Inc. (HDMS) sits at the intersection of providers, payers and employers, putting unparalleled analytic power into the hands of its customers and utilizing its extensive industry experience to help them better manage their business and improve health outcomes.
Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: NCI) is a specialized, global professional services firm that helps clients take control of their future. Navigant’s professionals apply deep industry knowledge, substantive technical expertise, and an enterprising approach to help clients build, manage, and/or protect their business interests. With a focus on markets and clients facing transformational change and significant regulatory or legal pressures, the firm serves clients in the healthcare, energy, high tech and financial services industries. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and technology/analytics services, Navigant’s practitioners bring sharp insight that pinpoints opportunities and delivers powerful results. More information about Navigant can be found at navigant.com.
naviHealth has been managing post-acute care and care transitions on behalf of health plans and health systems for nearly two decades. Serving both the payer and provider marketplaces, naviHealth provides clinical support services, data-driven technology, and advisory solutions that enable partners to better navigate care transitions, improve quality and patient experiences, and reduce costs across the continuum.
PNC Healthcare has been a pioneer in the healthcare industry for over 25 years, working with over 1,600 healthcare providers and payers. We have extensive experience with both provider revenue and procure-to-pay cycles. Specialty services also include capital markets and a variety of credit and treasury management services.
SkyMedicus is a HIPAA-compliant medical tourism company with a proprietary digital technology marketplace, which connects patients to a global network of over 500 world leaders in medicine. Over the past several years, we’ve helped thousands of people reap the rewards of medical tourism on all levels: cost savings, rapid access and, of course, world-class quality of healthcare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that over 750,000 U.S. residents travel abroad for medical care each year.
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