KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Donald M. Berwick, MD
Lecturer of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; President Emeritus, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Former CMS Administrator, Newton Centre, MA
Michael Chernew, PhD
Chair, MedPAC; Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, & Director, Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
David M. Coriell, JD
Assistant US Attorney, Western District of New York, US Department of Justice, Buffalo, NY
Don Crane, JD
Former President & CEO, America's Physician Groups; Co-producer Primary Care Transformation Summit and Medicare Advantage Summit, Los Angeles, CA
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, Professor & Co-Director, Health Transformation Institute and Chair, Department of Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania; Former Advisor, OMB (Obama), Philadelphia, PA
Jay M. Gellert
Former Chief Executive Officer and President, Health Net, Inc.; Former President and COO, Bay Pacific Health Corporation; Former SVP and COO, California Healthcare System, San Francisco, CA
Richard J. Gilfillan, MD, MBA
Former CEO and President, Trinity Health; Former Director, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Washington, DC
John Gorman
Chair, Nightingale Partners LLC; Founder and Former Executive Chairman, Gorman Health Group; Former Assistant to the Director, Office of Managed Care, HCFA, Washington, DC
George Halvorson
Chair & CEO, Institute for InterGroup Understanding; Former Chairman & CEO, Kaiser Permanente; Former CEO, HealthPartners; Former Chair, AHIP and International Federation of Health Plans, Sausalito, CA
Karen Ignagni, MBA
President & CEO, EmblemHealth; Former President, AHIP; Former Director, AFL/CIO, New York, NY
Mary A. Inman, JD
Whistleblower Counsel; Partner, Constantine Cannon LLP; Lead Whistleblower Counsel, Multiple Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Fraud Litigation, San Francisco, CA and London, UK
Doug Jacobs, MD, MPH
Chief Transformation Officer, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Former Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer, Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Washington, DC
Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA
President & CEO, SCAN Group & Health Plan; Co-Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder, Healthcare: the Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation, Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Jennings
Founder & President, Jennings Policy Strategies; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; Former Co-chair, Biden Health Committee; Former Senior Advisor for Health Policy (Obama), Washington, DC
Carolyn Kapustij, MPH
Senior Advisor for Managed Care, Office of Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington DC
Ellen Lukens, MPH
Deputy Director, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Washington, DC
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Director, Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University; Co-chair, Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network; Former CMS Administrator and FDA Commissioner, Washington, DC
Richard Merkin, MD
Founder, President & CEO, Heritage Group; Board, Caltech & USC Keck School of Medicine; Founder Merkin Foundation for Stem Cell Research, Broad Institute, Harvard & MIT, Los Angeles, CA
Sibel Ozcelik, MA
Deputy Director, Division of Health Plan Innovation, CMS Innovation Center, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Washington, DC
Tom Priselac
President & CEO, Cedars-Sinai Health System; Past Chair, American Hospital Association and Association of American Medical Colleges, Los Angeles, CA
George Renaudin, JD, MPP
President, Medicare and Medicaid, Humana; Former Senior Vice President, Ochsner Health Plan, Franklin, TN
Dean Rosen, MA, JD
Partner, Mehlman Consulting; Former Majority Counsel, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee; Former VP Policy and GC, Health Insurance Association of America, Washington, DC
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Former VP, Clinical Care Transformation, MedStar Health, Washington, DC
Molly T. Turco, MPH
Senior Advisor, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Washington, DC
Seema Verma, MPH
Health Policy Consultant; Board, LifeStance Health, Lumeris and Monogram Health; Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Alan Weil, MA, JD
Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs; Former Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy; Former Executive Director, Bethesda, MDFEATURED FACULTY
Steven Abramson
SVP, Chief Market & Payor Relations Officer, UpStream Health, Dallas, TX
Shantanu Agrawal, MD, DPhil
Chief Health Officer, Elevance Health; Former CMS Deputy Administrator, Washington, DC
Nicole J. Aiken-Shaban, JD
Partner, Reed Smith, Philadelphia, PA
Steve Arbaugh
Principal and CEO, ATTAC Consulting Group (ACG), Ann Arbor, MI
Mandy Asgeirsson, MPH
Director, Berkeley Research Group, Washington DC
Bart Asner, MD
Former President, OptumCare Southern California; Former Chair, America's Physician Groups; Los Angeles, CA
David Axene, MS
President/Managing Partner, Axene Health Partners, Celina, TX
Gary E. Bacher, MPA, JD
Chief of Strategy, Policy, and Legal Affairs, Capital Caring Health; Former CMMI Chief Strategy Officer, Washington, DC
John Barkett, MBA
Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group; Former Senior Policy Advisor, Delivery System Reform, Domestic Policy Council, The White House, Emeryville, CA
Tricia A. Beckmann, JD
Director, Faegre Drinker Consulting; Former Special Assistant, CCIIO, CMS, Washington, DC
Justin Bever
President, RB Insurance Group, LLC; VP, Medicare Solutions, Association Members Benefits Advisors, Carbondale, CO
Alex Billioux, MD, DPhil
VP of Social Determinants of Health, UnitedHealthcare Government, Baltimore, MD
Adam S. Boehler
CEO, Rubicon Founders; Former Senior Advisor for Value-Based Innovation, HHS; Former CMS Deputy Administrator; Former CMMI Director, Nashville, TN
Brynn Bowman, MPA
CEO, Center to Advance Palliative Care; Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Benjamin Brooks
Chief Technology and Operations Officer, MedicareOnDemand, Indianapolis, IN
Brian Brown, CHIE, PAHM
Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Presbyterian Health Plan, Albuquerque, NM
Marcy Buckner, JD
SVP of Government Affairs, National Association of Health Underwriters, Washington, DC
Jacquelyn Cawley, DO, MBA
Vice President of Population Health and Chief Medical Officer for Ambulatory Care, BayCare Health System, Yarmouth, ME
Brittany M. Chambers, MPH, MCHES
Director, Health Equity and Special Initiatives, Center to Advance Palliative Care, New York, NY
Chuck Chaput
Chief Operations and Compliance Officer, MedicareCompareUSA and MCUSA Consulting, Lakewood Ranch, FL
Chris Chen, MD
Chief Executive Officer, ChenMed, Miami, FL
Aneesh Chopra, MPP
President, CareJourney; Former First US Chief Technology Officer, Arlington, VA
Ken Cohen, MD
Executive Director of Translational Research, Optum Care; Former Chief Medical Officer, New West Physicians, Golden, CO
Matthew Collins, MD, MBA
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield Rhode Island, Boylston, MA
Ceci Connolly
President & CEO, Alliance of Community Health Plans; Founding Member, Women of Impact, Washington, DC
Patrick H. Conway, MD, MSc
CEO, Care Solutions at Optum; Former Director, CMMI, Baltimore, MD
Sean Creighton, MSc
Managing Director, Avalere; Former Deputy Group Director, Payment Policy and Financial Management Group, CMS, Washington, DC
Tyler Overstreet Cromer, MPAc
Principal & Head, Medicare Innovation Practice, ATI Advisory, Alexandria, VA
Kimberly A. Curseen, MD, FAAHPM
Director of Outpatient Supportive Care, Emory Palliative Care Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Steve Davis, MS
AVP Managed Care & Payer Strategy, Ardent Health Services, McKinney, TX
Sanjay Doddamani, MD
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Upstream Healthcare, Dallas, TX
Lauren Driscoll, MPH
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, NourishedRx; Co-Chair, Entrepreneurs Council, United States of Care, Stamford, CN
Bianca Duff, PA-C, MPH, PA-C
Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations, CareMax, Boston, MA
A. Mark Fendrick, MD
Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy; Director, Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Clive Fields, MD
Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, VillageMD, Houston, TX
Helaine Fingold, JD
Partner, Epstein Becker & Green, PC; Former Acting Director, Rates & Benefits Branch, CCIIO, CMS; Former GC, MedPAC, Baltimore, MD
Rick Frommeyer
VP of Group Medicare and Head, Group Retiree Solutions, Aetna, St Paul, MN
Russ Gagnon
Chief Product Officer, Wellth, Los Angeles, CA
Bill Gil, MBA
Former VP & CEO, Providence Southern California Medical Foundations, Los Angeles, CA
Jeff Goldsmith
President, Health Futures, Charlottesville, VA
Merrill Goozner, MA
Independent Journalist, GoozNews; Author, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs, Former Editor, Modern Healthcare, Chicago, IL
John Gorman
Chair, Nightingale Partners LLC; Former Assistant to the Director, Office of Managed Care, HCFA, Washington, DC
Ari Gottlieb
Principal, A2 Strategy; Former Director, Health Services & Payer Strategy, PwC, Chicago, IL
Julian Harris, MD
Chief Executive Officer, ConcertoCare, New York, NY
Bob Herman
Business of Health Care Reporter, STAT News; Former Health Care Business Reporter, Axios, Modern Healthcare and Becker's Healthcare, Chicago, Il
Carlos O. Hernandez, MD, FACP
President, WellMed Medical Group, San Antonio, TX
Kaenan Hertz, PhD
Managing Partner, Insurtech Advisors, New York, NY
Robert P. Holman, MD
Medical Director, Washington, DC Fire and EMS Department, Washington, DC
Emma Hoo
Director of Value-Based Purchasing, Purchaser Business Group on Health, San Francisco, CA
Eugene Hsu, MD, MBA
Senior Clinical Officer, Elevance Health, Burlingame, CA
Ravi Hundal, MD
CFO & EVP, Clinical Integration, Interim Chair of Population Health, John Muir Medical Group, Pleasant Hill, CA
Gretchen Jacobson, PhD
VP, Medicare, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY
Brian Jeffrey, MS
Principal, Jeffrey Healthcare Consulting LLC; Former SVP, Network Management, UnitedHealth; Former VP, Provider Network Strategy, PacifiCare, Corona del Mar, CA
Nicole Jobe, JD, LLM
Partner, Thompson Coburn LLP, St Louis, MO
Shreya Kangovi, MD, MS
Executive Director, Penn Center for Community Health Workers, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
John Kelly, JD
Partner & Chair, Healthcare, Barnes & Thornburg; Former Assistant Chief, Health Care Fraud, Criminal Division, US DOJ, Washington, DC
Lauren Flynn Kelly
Managing Editor, AIS Health, an MMIT company; Editor, Radar on Medicare Advantage, Washington, DC
Rosemary Kennedy, MBA, PhD
Chief Health Informatics Officer, Connect America, Malvern, PA
Ali Khan, MD, MPP, FACP
Chief Medical Officer, Value-Based Care Strategy, Oak Street Health, Chicago, IL
Daphne Klausner
Plan President, Honest Medical Group, Nashville, TN
Charlotte L. Kohler, RN, CPA
President, Kohler Healthcare Consulting, Woodstock, MD
Thomas Kornfield, MPP
Senior Consultant, Avalere Health, Rockville, MD
Benjamin Kornitzer, MD
Chief Medical Officer, agilon health, Boston, MA
Robert Lang, FSA, MAAA
Senior Consulting Actuary, Wakely Consulting Group, New York, NY
Kerri Lenderman, CHFP
Chief Executive Officer, MCUSA COMMUNICATIONS, MEDICARECOMPAREUSA, Bellingham, WA
Faith Leonard, MPH
Program Associate, Advancing Medicare, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY
Larry Levitt, MPP
Executive Vice President for Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation; Former Senior Health Policy Advisor, White House (Clinton), San Francisco, CA
Mark Mantei, MHSA
CEO, Vancouver Clinic; Former Chief Operating Officer, Everett Clinic, Vancouver, WA
Mark Miller
Journalist, Author and Podcaster, Expert on Retirement and Aging, Columnist. Reuters Money, Evanston, IL
Sashi Moodley, MD, MBA
Chief Clinical Officer, Walgreens Health, Los Angeles, CA
Dianne Munevar, MPP
VP, Health Care Strategy, NORC, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Tim Murray, FSA, MAAA
Principal, Wakely Consulting Group; Former AVP, Pricing & Forecasting, InnovaCare Health, New York, NY
David B. Muhlestein, PhD, JD
Chief Research Officer, Leavitt Partners; Visiting Fellow, Margolis Center for Health Policy, Washington, DC
Philip Nelson, FSA, CERA, MAAA
Senior Actuarial Manager, Milliman, Milwaukee, WI
Steve Neorr, MBA
Chief Operating Officer, Upstream Health, Raleigh, NC
Raul Montalvo Orsini, MD
President, MSO of Puerto Rico, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Philip Painter, MD
Chief Medical Officer UnitedHealthcare Medicare and Retirement, UnitedHealth Group, Willowbrook, IL
Caroline Pearson
Executive Director, Peterson Center on Healthcare, Chicago, IL
Jerry Penso, MD, MBA
President and CEO, American Medical Group Association, Alexandria, VA
Cheryl Phillips, MD
President and CEO, SNP Alliance, Washington, DC
Ann Pogrebitskiy, ASA, MAAA
Associate Actuary, Wakely Consulting Group, New York, NY
Frank Pyle
State Fraud Investigator, State of Delaware; Vice Chair, Improper Marketing of Health Insurance Working Group, NAIC, Wilmington, DE
Tyler Rees
Chief Executive Officer, Innovative Financial Group, Wilmington, NC
Douglas Rodrigues, ASA, MAAA
Associate Actuary, Milliman, Brookfield, WI
Joyce Chan Russell, MBA
Senior Vice President, Government Markets, Priority Health, Grand Rapids, MI
Valinda Rutledge, MBA
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, UpStream Health, Washington, DC
Allison Silvers, MBA
Chief Health Care Transformation Officer, Center to Advance Palliative Care, New York, NY
June Simmons, MSW
President and Chief Executive Officer, Partners in Care Foundation, San Fernando, CA
Hunter Sinclair, MBA
VP, Solution Strategy for Government Markets, Teladoc Health, Memphis, TN
Melissa Newton Smith
EVP, Consulting & Professional Services, HealthMine, Inc., Brentwood, TN
Nathan Smith, PhD
Principal Researcher, CareJourney, Kaysville, UT
Noah Smith, MPH
Senior Director, Product Development, Global Medical Response, Washington, DC
Abi Sundaramoorthy, MD, MBA
CMO, Wellinks; Associate Professor, University of South Florida College of Nursing, Wesley Chapel, FL
John Supra, MS
Chief Data & Analytics Officer, UpStream Health; Former Deputy Director & CIO, SC HHS, Greenville, SC
Martin Swanson, JD
Deputy Director & GC, Nebraska Department of Insurance; Chair, Improper Marketing of Health Insurance Working Group, NAIC, Lincoln, NE
Gerad Troutman, MD, MBA
National Medical Director, Innovative Practices, Global Medical Response, Lubbock, TX
Anant Vasudevan, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer, Radial Analytics, Boston, MA
Teresa Wilson, MA
Medicare ACO Specialist, CMS Innovation Center; Former Associate Regional Administrator, CMS, Washington, DC
Christopher P. Wing
CEO, Alpine Physician Partners, Former President & CEO, SCAN Health Plan, Los Angeles, CA
Jesse A. Witten, JD
Partner, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP; Former Deputy Associate Attorney General & Chief, Civil Fraud Section, US DOJ, Washington, DC