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Scott Gottlieb, MD
23rd Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration(FDA) |
Scott Gottlieb, MD is a physician and served as the 23rd Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Gottlieb’s work focuses on advancing public health through developing and implementing innovative approaches to improving medical outcomes, reshaping healthcare delivery, and expanding consumer choice and safety.
Dr. Gottlieb is an aggressive advocate for advancing the health of patients, promoting healthcare access, and driving innovation. The agency’s historic and prolific advances in new policy distinguished his tenure as the FDA’s commissioner, in addition to a record-setting number of approvals of novel drugs, medical devices, and generic medicines.
Under his leadership, the FDA advanced new frameworks for the modern and safe and effective oversight of gene therapies, cell based regenerative medicines, targeted drugs, and digital health devices. The agency implemented new reforms to standardize drug reviews and make historic improvements of post market data collection and the use of real world evidence. They promoted policies to reduce death and disease from tobacco, improve food innovation and safety, and aggressively confront addiction crises.
Previously, Dr. Gottlieb served as the FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs and before that, as a Senior Adviser to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he helped advance policies to improve healthcare quality and the promote the effective use of new medical technologies. A healthcare futurist, he has worked as a venture capitalist and founder and board member to companies that have developed new medicines and advance the delivery of healthcare.
Dr. Gottlieb is widely published in leading medical journals and periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He has held editorial positions on the British Medical Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association and appears regularly as a guest commentator on CNBC and Fox News. He was a practicing hospitalist and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Gottlieb is presently a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.
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Eric D. Hargan
Deputy Secretary US Health and Human Services (HHS) |
Eric D. Hargan is the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS is dedicated to promote and enhance the health and well-being of the American people and as the largest department in the federal government has an annual budget in excess of 1.3 Trillion dollars and over 80,000 employees across 26 divisions. As Deputy Secretary, he is the Chief Operating Officer is a responsible for day-to-day operations and management of the department in addition to leading policy and strategy development.
Mr. Hargan was sworn into office as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on October. 6, 2017. He immediately served as Acting Secretary of HHS from October 2017 to January 2018.
From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Hargan served at HHS in a variety of capacities, ultimately holding the position of Acting Deputy Secretary. During his tenure at HHS, Mr. Hargan also served as the Department’s Regulatory Policy Officer, overseeing the development and approval of all HHS, CMS, and FDA regulations and significant guidances.
He received his B.A. cum laude from Harvard University, and his J.D. from Columbia University Law School, where he was Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review. In between his tours of duty at HHS Mr. Hargan taught at Loyola Law School in Chicago, focusing on administrative law and healthcare regulations.
Mr. Hargan lives in Virginia with his wife and their two sons.
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Redonda Miller, MD
President The Johns Hopkins Hospital |
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Garth Graham, MD
President, Aetna Foundation; Vice President of Community Health & Impact, CVS Health; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Health and Human Services (HHS) |
Garth Graham, M.D., MPH, is a leading authority on social determinants of health. President of the Aetna Foundation and Vice President of Community Health for Aetna, Inc., Garth is also a cardiologist and public health expert.
He oversees the community health initiatives for the Foundation and Aetna, Inc., bringing his experience as a former deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Obama and Bush administrations where he also ran the Office of Minority Health. He directed the development of the federal government’s first National Health Disparities Plan released under the Obama administration.
He has been a contributor to The Hill, The Chicago Tribune, Fortune, Quartz, and Health Affairs and has been featured in CNN and The New York Times among others. His original research has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs and other publications. Along with his role at the Aetna Foundation, Garth is a clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut.
Prior to joining the Foundation, in his role as the assistant dean for health policy at the University Of Florida School Of Medicine, Garth led several research initiatives looking at how to improve outcomes and readmission rates in cardiac patients in underserved populations. He contributes to several boards including being named by the President to the U.S. Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, the Institute of Medicine Board on Population Health, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Associational National Quality Oversight Committee, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards and many others
Dr. Graham holds a medical degree from Yale School of Medicine, a master’s in public health from Yale School of Public Health and a bachelor of science in biology from Florida International University in Miami. He completed clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Johns Hopkins where he trained in cardiology and interventional cardiology. He holds three board certifications including internal medicine, cardiology and interventional cardiology.
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Peter Pronovost, MD
Chief Clinical Transformation Officer University Hospitals |
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, is a world-renowned patient safety champion, critical care physician and prolific researcher, publishing over 800 peer review publications, and a global thought leader, informing U.S. and global health policy. His scientific work leveraging checklists to reduce catheter-related bloodstream infections has saved thousands of lives and earned him high-profile accolades, including being named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine, receiving a coveted MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 2008, and regularly recognized as one of the most influential executives and physician executives in healthcare. The life-saving intervention has been implemented state by state across the U.S. Today, these catheter infections that used to kill as many people as breast or prostate cancer, have been reduced by 80 percent compared to 1999 before the “To Err is Human” report was published.
Today, Dr. Pronovost serves as Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at University Hospitals (UH) health system in Northeast Ohio. At UH, Dr. Pronovost is developing and leading strategic initiatives to improve value across the health system, helping people be well, get well and manage their most acute medical conditions. He is clinical lead for population health and lead for high-reliability medicine, with direct responsibility for the UH employee accountable care organization (ACO). Building on his checklist work, Dr. Pronovost has developed a checklist for optimizing value and is implementing interventions to eliminate defects in value in the UH employee plan and ACO.
In addition, he is directing teams that will engage UH providers and employees in care models leading to improved outcomes and a healthy workforce while reducing the cost of care. He is also leading the growth and adoption of digital health solutions – including telehealth and virtual health – to better serve the patient and provider communities. Dr. Pronovost previously served as Johns Hopkins Medicine Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality and the founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. He also served as the Senior Vice President for Clinical Strategy and the Chief Medical officer for UnitedHealthcare.
Dr. Pronovost was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2011 and has received multiple honorary degrees. Dr. Pronovost is an advisor to the World Health Organizations’ World Alliance for Patient Safety and regularly addresses the U.S. Congress on patient safety issues. Dr. Pronovost regularly writes a column for the Wall Street Journal and U.S. News and World Report. Dr. Pronovost is a founder of Doctella, a health information platform for quality of care.
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Lisa Woods
Senior Director of U.S. Health Care Benefits, Walmart |
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Bill Cassidy, MD
Senator (R-La) United States Senate |
Dr. Bill Cassidy is a United States Senator for Louisiana.
Bill is married to Dr. Laura Cassidy and they have three children. They attend church at the Chapel on the Campus.
Bill grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University (LSU) for undergraduate and Medical School.
For nearly three decades, Bill has provided care for uninsured and underinsured patients in Louisiana’s charity hospital system.
During this time, he co-founded the Greater Baton Rouge Community Clinic, a clinic providing free dental and health care to the working uninsured. Bill also created a private-public partnership to vaccinate 36,000 greater Baton Rouge area children against Hepatitis B at no cost to the schools or parents. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Bill led a group of health care volunteers to convert an abandoned K-Mart building into an emergency health care facility, providing basic health care to hurricane evacuees.
In 1990, Bill joined LSU Medical School following his tenure at Earl K. Long hospital, where he taught medical students and residents while treating the uninsured. Bill was elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 2006.
In 2008, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives to represent Louisiana’s Sixth Congressional District. In the US House, Bill served on the Energy and Commerce Committee and supported a conservative agenda.
Bill was elected to the United States Senate in December, 2014. He serves on the Energy and Natural Resources, Health Education Labor & Pensions (HELP), Finance, Veterans’ Affairs and Joint Economic Committees.
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Mona Siddiqui, MD
Chief Data Officer US Health and Human Services (HHS) |
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Craig E. Samitt, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota |
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Rushika Fernandopulle, MD
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Iora Health |
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Joy Fitzgerald
Chief Diversity Officer, Eli Lilly and Company |
Joy currently serves as Lilly’s Chief Diversity Officer. In that role, she partners with the company’s CEO and senior leaders to attract top talent, develop future leaders, and ensure that all employees can thrive in an inclusive environment that is as diverse as the communities of patients we serve.
Joy has more than 20 years of leadership experience in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations in various industries. As a dynamic speaker and strategic thought partner, she has presented keynote speeches and workshops in more than 20 countries on five continents. She was recently published in Harvard Business Review. She is a highly sought-after executive coach, helping leaders fulfill their aspirations. She has served on boards for several organizations and was named by Diversity Journal as a Woman Worth Watching, by Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association as a Rising Star, and by Black Enterprise as a Top Executive in Corporate Diversity.
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CAPT Jason Woo, MD
Senior Medical Officer, Office of Generic Drugs, CDER FDA |
CAPT Jason Woo, MD, MPH, FACOG is the Senior Medical Officer in the Office of Generic Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist, Dr. Woo has over 30 years in multiple leadership roles as a Commissioned Corps officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. His leadership and senior executive experience covers the spectrum of roles as a hospital and clinic provider, director, and administrator, and public health leadership roles in research, education, regulation, emergency response and in leading direct patient care, process improvement, staff development and infrastructure initiatives.
Dr. Woo became a student of leadership and systems change when studying economic development at the London School of Economics. His understanding of the failures of so many of the first world and second world approaches to third world problems ingrained the need for a systems thinking and wholistic perspective to implement lasting change. Throughout his career he has utilized this perspective to initiate change, process improvement, and team and individual growth and development.
Dr. Woo received a BA in Economics/Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studied Economic Development at the London School of Economics. He received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and completed a residency in Obstetrics/Gynecology at the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
He has held leadership roles and responsibilities throughout his career. In served the Phoenix Indian Medical Center as the Director for Gynecologic Services, Director of the Native American Women’s Health Clinic, and Deputy Chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. His administrative leadership roles included being the Phoenix Area Indian Health Service Maternal-Child Health Consultant and Telemedicine Programs Director, as well as serving a detail as the Clinical Director for the Elko Service Unit for their JCAHO accreditation. His research and academic interests have been around contraceptive products development, overseeing clinical trial networks and research portfolios with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Contraceptive Development Branch. His broad regulatory experience includes overseeing clinical review of dietary supplements, medical foods, and drugs and serving in senior executive roles for major organizational change efforts in the Office of Compliance and the Office of Generic Drugs for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Woo has published multiple articles and contributed chapters on clinical and regulatory topics. CAPT Woo has had multiple emergency response deployment roles in his career for the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, including as a Team Leader for the Operation Lone Star Border Response mission. He maintains his clinical and teaching role with hospitals and clinics in the Washington, DC area.
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Vindell Washington, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Louisiana |
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Marty Makary, MD,
Bestselling Author, New York Times; Surgeon and Professor of Health Policy, Johns Hopkins |
Dr. Makary is the author of The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care And How To Fix It and a leading health care voice writing in The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. A surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Makary serves jointly as a professor of health policy & management and is frequent commentator for NBC and Fox News He is the New York Times Bestselling author of Unaccountable, which was turned into the TV medical series The Resident, and speaks frequently on the future of health care and what it means for everyday Americans, business leaders, and health care professionals.
Dr. Makary is the lead author of the first publications on the surgical checklist and served in leadership with Atul Gawande on the World Health Organization Surgery Checklist project. He has published over 250 scientific articles, including the landmark articles on organizational culture, patient safety, special issues in older Americans, opioid prescribing guidelines, and disruptive innovation in health care. His current research focuses on the appropriateness of medical care, health care costs, drug prices, medical billing, and vulnerable populations. As a gastrointestinal surgeon, he is also an advocate for healthy foods and lifestyle medicine. Dr. Makary has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine and named one of America’s 20 most influential people in health care by Health Leaders Magazine. His newest book, The Price We Pay, describes today’s disruptors of health care and new efforts to restore medicine to its mission. Dr. Makary currently serves as the executive director of Improving Wisely, a national project to reduce unnecessary care and lower health care costs in America.
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David Shulkin, MD
Chief Innovation Officer, Sanford Health; Special Advisor, ArmadaHealth; Former Secretary, US Department of Veterans Affairs |
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Chris Chen, MD
Chief Executive Officer ChenMed |
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Michelle Copenhaver
Regional Vice President, Southeast Territories Aetna |
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Niyum Gandhi
Executive Vice President and Chief Population Health Officer Mount Sinai Health System |
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Lee Green
Chief Architect Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts |
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Diana Han, MD
Chief Medical Officer GE Appliances (A Haier Company) |
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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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Nupur Mehta, MD
Chief Medical Officer, East Region CareMore Health |
Nupur Mehta, MD, MPH, FACP is Chief Medical Officer of CareMore East. Dr. Mehta oversees clinical excellence in all of CareMore’s Eastern markets, and through his proven abilities as an innovative healthcare strategist and implementation leader, fosters the growth of our care models, scales the capabilities that will ensure continuation of the organization’s unique clinical culture, and helps develop new approaches to address and better serve our diverse patient populations. His clinical and research interests are in value based care delivery, reimbursement reform, and improving healthcare cost and quality.
Prior to CareMore, Dr. Mehta was a faculty member at the George Washington University Hospital, where he was both an Attending Physician and an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Prior to that he served as Vice President and Medical Director for Evolent Health, as well as a Senior Associate at McKinsey and Company, where he was tasked with designing, developing and implementing strategies for R&D, profitability and healthcare reform.
A graduate of Duke University, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard University School of Public Health, Dr. Mehta has been honored as Attending of the Year at George Washington University, is a recipient of Evolent Health’s Walk-The-Walk Award, and the winner of both the Howard Hiatt Global Health Equity Fellowship and the Paul Dudley White Health Fellowship. His research has been published in peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and poster presentations.
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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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Ed Simcox
Chief Technology Officer and Acting Chief Information Officer US Health and Human Services(HHS) |
Ed Simcox is the Acting Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ed provides leadership and direction to ensure that HHS effectively leverages data, technology, and innovation to improve the lives of the American people and the performance of the operating divisions across the Department. Simcox has been working at the intersection of healthcare and technology for 18 years.
Prior to joining HHS, Simcox served as the Healthcare Practice Leader at Logicalis, an international IT service provider and consultancy with over 300 healthcare clients in the United States. In this role, Simcox led the strategy, solution development, and consulting for the U.S. healthcare sector. He engaged with healthcare providers across the US in a consulting capacity and advocated for the liberation of healthcare data and telehealth adoption.
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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. The Institute’s premier program is 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, the Institute’s focus is on the development of trusted leaders at the intersection of clinical and operational 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 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 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. 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. He also serves on several not-for-profit boards, including the Providence St. Joseph Health System Board.
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Lisa Suennen
Managing Partner, Venture Valkyrie LLC; Co-Founder, CSweetener, Lead, Manatt Ventures |
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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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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