Authors

Rachel A. Hadler, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a MD from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She completed postgraduate training in anesthesiology, intensive care and palliative medicine, and strives to integrate her training across three often separate practice domains. Dr. Hadler initially became interested in healthcare while working in antibiotic stewardship research as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins, and throughout her training and career has remained interested in resource allocation and guardianship across a variety of care settings. Her current research focuses on communication and decision-making surrounding aggressive interventions in critically and terminally ill patients. In the past, she has also worked on a variety of health policy and outcomes research projects. Dr. Hadler is a former Fulbright Scholar, Fellow at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, and Max Kade Fellow, and continues to explore how historical and cultural precedent impacts medical ethics today.

Chadi Hajar, MD, is completing his specialty in Anatomical and Clinical Pathology at Penrose Saint Francis Medical Center in Colorado. He is pursuing an MBA in Health Administration at the University of Colorado Denver. In 2017, he was selected to represent the Business School at the Baylor University Robbins Case Competition in Healthcare Management. He also worked in clinical research at the University of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Medical Campus and Veterans Affair Medical Center.

Ralph Hall is a principal and works in association with the Washington, D.C., office. In this role, Ralph provides consulting services to clients in the areas of FDA statutes and regulations, regulatory compliance, as well as health care policy and legislation, and particularly the application of those regulatory systems to the medical device industry.

Ralph’s rich background with drug and medical device regulation and corporate compliance matters makes him one of the nation’s foremost experts. Ralph previously served as counsel at Faegre Baker Daniels where he provided legal services, including FDA-related matters, corporate compliance, the design and implementation of multiple cross-disciplinary, corporate legal strategies, corporate law department organization and management, and general corporate counseling. Ralph has also served as General Counsel for Guidant CRM and Chief Compliance Officer for Guidant.

Ralph furthermore serves as a Professor of Practice at the University of Minnesota Law School. He received his B.A. from Indiana University and his juris doctorate from the University of Michigan where he was a Weymouth Kirkland Scholar.

Rosemary Hannam is the Director of the Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy at the Rotman School of Management.  She is passionate about building connections between the business school and the health sector broadly, and pulls together the best of research and education of Rotman faculty to help leaders tackle health system challenges more effectively.

Most recently Rosemary supported the launch of Rotman’s new Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and the Life Sciences, which welcomed its first class in October 2018.  Prior to that she co-authored a white paper on effective support services for seniors, and was seconded to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term care as a Senior Policy Analyst to provide research and writing support to the Expert Advisory Committee on Primary Care (“The Price-Baker Report”) that met throughout 2014 and 2015.  She is also focused on exploring Michael Porter's and Elizabeth Teisberg’s ideas on Value-Based Care and how Ontario's public healthcare system could benefit, as well as the role of mentorship in graduate education.

She has a BA in Political Science (International Relations) from the University of British Columbia (1994) and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management (2003).

Kate Harvey is a member of the Russell Reynolds Associates’ Healthcare Services Practice. Her executive search and assessment work focuses on directors, deans, chairs, and chiefs for prominent medical schools, academic medical centers and cancer centers, as well as chief executive officers, senior executive management, physician executive leadership and functional leadership positions. Her consulting experience is national oriented and focuses on the intersection of healthcare services innovation within prominent academic medical centers, integrated delivery networks, and private equity portfolio companies. Kate also serves as the health care lead for the Diversity and Inclusion practice. She is based in New York.

Lauren Hatcher is an MD/MBA candidate at Vanderbilt University. She attended Vanderbilt for her undergraduate degree, where she studied Spanish and Health Policy. Lauren is interested in medical innovation, health technology, and global health.

Jonathan Helm (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is the Grant Thornton Associate Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He has held operations management and supply chain roles at GE Healthcare and Mayo Clinic. His research aims to improve the delivery of healthcare at three levels: the system level, the organizational level, and the individual patient level. Specific interests focus on patient flow, readmissions, and disease monitoring and treatment. He has won the 2018 Pierskalla Award for Best Healthcare Paper at INFORMS, the 2012 INFORMS “Doing Good with Good OR” competition, the 2019 Kelley School of Business Assistant Professor Research Award , and the 2019-2020 Trustee’s Teaching Award among others. Jonathan Helm is the Co-Director for the Kelley School of Business Center for the Business of Life Sciences and has collaborated closely with Mayo Clinic, National University Hospital (Singapore), IU Health, and the MESH Healthcare Coalition in Indianapolis among other leading healthcare organizations and clinicians and his research has been published in top journals including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management..

Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on many established and start up corporate health care/medical technology boards. She initiated the courses in nonprofit and health care at HBS and was the first faculty member to be selected by the students as their best instructor. With her husband, she has founded and sold successful medical technology firms whose innovations have saved countless lives.

All three of her trade health care books have been best sellers in their categories, recognized for their innovative research (Market-Driven Health Care, 1996; Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policymakers, 2004; Who Killed Health Care? America’s $2 Trillion Medical Problem-and the Consumer-Driven Cure, 2007). Money dubbed her the “Godmother” of consumer-driven healthcare. Her work was key to introducing consumer-driven health plans and “focused health factories”, such as centers for chronic diseases.  She is regularly named as one of the smartest people in healthcare by industry journals.

She teaches an HBS MBA course, Innovating in Health Care. Her book, Innovating in Health Care: A Toolkit for Entrepeneurs, for global life sciences, health insurance, digital health, and healthcare delivery innovators, will be published in 2020. To date, at least seven billion dollar healthcare businesses and some important nonprofits and healthcare financing firms have been created by students in the course.

Regi has been active in U.S. healthcare public policy. For example, her Wall Street Journal editorial “The IRS Can Save American Health Care” influenced an Executive Order: Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States, finalized June 2019, and a Wall Street Journal editorial in October 2018 by three U.S. cabinet secretaries that cited her, “New Health Options for Small-Business Employees”.

Her most recent research works include “The Case for the Public Option Over Medicare for All, Harvard Business Review (HBR)“, “How CEOs Can Solve America’s Corporate Cost and Quality Health Care Problem with Granular Adoption of Innovations (Forthcoming, HBR)”, “Addressing Regulatory and Educational Barriers to Venture Capital Investment in Health Care Delivery Innovation (In Review)”, and “Box 12, IRS W-2, to the Rescue: The Effect of Transferring Pre-Tax Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Funds to Employees on After-Tax Income, Federal Income and Payroll Taxes, Health Insurance Premiums, and Health Care Costs (SSRN)”.

In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious ACHE Honorary Fellowship which represents the leaders of America’s hospitals and was one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare – World Edition by Grupo Midia. In 2014, she launched a Harvard MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), on Innovating in Health Care and in 2013, a continuing series of conferences, “21st-Century Health Care Management Education: Confronting Challenges for Innovation with a Modern Curriculum,” sponsored by a charity she formed, GENiE (Global Educators Network for Health Care Innovation Education), which has supported the many schools that have introduced courses/programs on Innovating in Health Care.

Regi earned her BS degree at MIT and her Doctorate at HBS. She is married to her MIT classmate, George Herzlinger (MIT, B.S., Ph.D, physics). Their two children both graduated from Harvard. Susan is an Endocrinologist and Alex is a senior executive with a major medtech firm, after attending HBS and completing two tours of Iraq as a U.S. Infantry Captain. The Herzlingers have four adorable grandchildren.

Dr. Josh Hilton is a Managing Director and Partner with Boston Consulting Group and a practicing Emergency Medicine physician based in Chicago.

Josh is focused on strategy and organization topics across the health care services sector with deep experience in health care delivery models, value-based care, physician engagement, and retail health care. Prior to joining BCG, Josh completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health policy research at the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the Wharton School and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His areas of focus were healthcare operations, the impact of financing decisions on disparities in health care delivery, and health care cost reduction strategies that target short-stay hospital admissions. He has published multiple peer-reviewed articles examining the acute care delivery system.

Josh holds an MD from the University of Virginia and a Master's in Health Policy Research from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed residency in Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University where he served as Chief Resident and is licensed to practice medicine in IL. Josh continues to maintain a regular clinical practice.

Brad Hirsch, MD, is the founder and CEO of SignalPath, a clinical trials technology solution that was recently acquired by Verily, an Alphabet company. Research sites and sponsors use SignalPath to run more efficient and effective clinical research studies, and under Brad’s leadership it has been widely adopted by leading health systems. Prior to SignalPath, Brad served as Senior Medical Director at Flatiron Health, a technology company focused on the use of clinical data for research in oncology. He is a medical oncologist and has been a principal investigator on multiple trials, ensuring that he has a deep understanding of the needs of clinical sites and research teams. Brad received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, his MD from UT Southwestern and his MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He completed his fellowship in hematology and oncology at Duke University.

Kevin Ho, MBA, MPH, is a member of the corporate development team at Gilead Sciences, where he investigates drug development programs in autoimmune disease, oncology, and virology for potential partnering or M&A purposes. Previously, he worked in portfolio management at Genentech, in vaccine market access at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and on the Health and Life Sciences team at Gates Ventures. Kevin is passionate about innovation in the life sciences - for the sake of scientific progress, human health, and economic development. He is fascinated by the innovation that can occur in economic clusters, and hopes to enable translational science beyond the geographies where it currently occurs. Kevin attended Yale University, where he earned a BA and Master's degree in Health Policy, and Stanford University, where he earned an MBA.

Linda Hoff, MBA, is the chief financial officer for Stanford Health Care, where she oversees finance strategy, planning, and financial reporting, among other duties. She has more than 35 years of finance experience in the health care industry and has served in executive positions in a variety of organizations, including Legacy Health, the largest hospital system in Oregon, Meriter Health Services, and Physicians Plus Insurance Company.

Larry Van Horn is a leading expert and researcher on healthcare management and economics. His current research focus centers around the shift to consumer purchase of healthcare and the impact it will have on new delivery models. His research has appeared in such leading journals ranging from the Journal of Health Economics, to the New England Journal of Medicine, to the Harvard Business Review. Professor Van Horn is responsible for the graduate healthcare programs at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He founded and directs the Center for Healthcare Market Innovation at the Owen Graduate School of Management.

Tianyan Hu, PhD, works in the Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence, Merck & Co., Inc. She received her doctorate from Lehigh University in 2013 and obtained her postdoctoral training at University of Pennsylvania. She was an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Florida International University. She was also a visiting health economist at the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Hu applies economic principles and state-of-the-art econometric methods to research. Her research interests include maternal and child health, health care utilization among vulnerable population, and cost-benefit analyses of health policies. She is also interested in the neuropsychiatric symptoms, functional difficulties, and prescription drugs utilization among dementia patients. Her research has been published in various high-impact public health and economics journals, including Health Services Research, Annals of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and Southern Economic Journal.

Carolyn A. Hutyra, MMCI, is an Associate Director on the Clinical Performance team at Optum and former Director of the Comprehensive Outcomes in Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Data System (COORDS) at Duke University. Her clinical research focuses on orthopedic surgery, patient-reported outcome measurement, shared decision making, and patient preference elicitation. She worked in the Orthopaedic Department at Duke University from 2015-2021 where she conducted clinical research, data strategy, and patient-reported outcome management. Carolyn was a member of the Duke Orthopedic Practice Transformation Unit, which helped implement new technologies and value-based healthcare initiatives within the department. Carolyn also collaborated closely with the Preference Evaluation Research Group at the Duke Clinical Research Institute on delivering patient-centered, evidence-based medicine through quantitative stated-preference research.

Dawn Iacobucci is the E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Management in Marketing at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Professor Iacobucci conducts research on networks, customer satisfaction and service marketing, quantitative psychological research and high-dimensional data models. Her research has appeared in such leading publications as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Service Research. She has also published several books, including Marketing Management, currently in its fifth edition.

Ekta Jagtiani is an MS Candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Bachelor’s in Technology (BTech) in Chemical Engineering from The Institute of Chemical Technology in India. She has completed research in soft matter-hydrogels, antimicrobial emulsions, and nanofibers for biomedical devices, augmenting her curiosity to formulate micro and nano-engineered technologies. She aims to enhance human health by formulating materials and manufactured systems for drug delivery, diagnostics, and pharmaceutical formulations.

Sneha S. Jain, MD, MBA is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the GUIDE-AI Lab at Stanford Health Care. She received her MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She completed internal medicine resident training at Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian and fellowship training in cardiovascular medicine at Stanford University. She works with the Stanford Center for Clinical Research and the Data Science Team at Stanford to build, prospectively evaluate, and responsibly deploy AI solutions across the healthcare enterprise.

Kristina Jakobson was a member of the Russell Reynolds Associates’ Health Services Practice. Kristina supported the North American Healthcare team by executing data-driven research and market intelligence efforts, developing relationship insights using social network analysis and research tools, generating internal reports, and capturing leadership changes.

Yasser Abu-Jamei,  is a Palestinian psychiatrist who in 2012 obtained an MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry (with distinction) from the University of Birmingham. In 2015, he received the award of best alumnus achievement from the Said Foundation on his work in developing the mental health sector in Gaza and the GCMHP crisis response plan after the 2014 Gaza war. He also received the alumnus of the year award from the University of Birmingham in 2016 and the Community Resilience Award from Rebuilding Alliance 2021.

Dr Abu-Jamei is a member of the task force that developed the National Mental Health Strategy 2015-2019 in Palestine. In 2020, with a group of Palestinian mental health professionals, he cofounded the Palestine Global Mental Health Network. He has a large interest in capacity-building programs, neuropsychiatry, and advocacy and lobbying activities. He is certified by the Free University of Berlin as a "Trainer of Trainers" in the field of supervision and care for caregivers.

Since January 2014, Dr Abu-Jamei has been the director general of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, a leading mental health services provider in Palestine. He recently coauthored papers on integrating public health and human rights approaches on mental health in the Gazan context.

Ramesh Johari is a Professor at Stanford University, with a full-time appointment in the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E), and courtesy appointments in the Departments of Computer Science (CS) and Electrical Engineering (EE). He is an Associate Director of Stanford Data Science. He is a member of the Operations Research group and the Social Algorithms Lab (SOAL) in MS&E, the Information Systems Laboratory in EE, and the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He received an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard, a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

Joseph Mukidiyil Johnson is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Miami and member of the Big Data Center at UM’s Institute for Data Science. He teaches Marketing Analytics, New Product Development, Strategic Brand Management, Digital Marketing, and a doctoral seminar on Deep Learning methods for marketing management. His research focuses on the use of artificial intelligence tools as a decision aid for managers. He has created and collaborated in the development of such tools in the auto, energy, health care, pharma, aviation, entertainment, hospitality industries.

Andrea Jonas, MD, is a current fellow in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at Stanford University. She completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University where she studied chemistry and physics. She received her MD from Johns Hopkins University, where she stayed on to complete residency training in internal medicine on the Osler Medical Service. She is currently completing a fellowship in health care innovation and systems design as part of the Clinical Excellence Research Center at Stanford University. Upon graduation she will be joining the faculty of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at Stanford while continuing her research endeavors with the Stanford Center on Longevity.

George J. Stalk Jr. is currently a Senior Advisor and Fellow at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in the Toronto Office. Until December 2008, Mr. Stalk served as a Senior Partner and Fellow at BCG.  Stalk started with BCG in Boston in 1978 and has been with the firm’s Tokyo and Chicago offices as well.  Mr. Stalk received a BS in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Michigan, MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Stalk has led BCG’s worldwide innovation efforts and co-authored several best-selling books on business strategy including Kaisha: the Japanese Corporation, Competing Against Time, Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win? and Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now.

Aman Kabra is an Analyst at Max Institute of Healthcare Management, Indian School of Business (ISB). An alum of BITS Pilani and Black Belt Certified Professional in Lean Six Sigma, he is the ex-co-founder of Pebble Sierra that’s primarily into the Lean and Six Sigma professional certification training space. He began his corporate career with InMobi as the Campaign Manager – Global Brand Delivery, handling marketing campaigns for major brands such as P&G and Nestle across South East Asian countries.

Kushal T. Kadakia, MSc, is an MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School. He earned bachelor's degrees in biology and public policy from Duke University, where he was named a Truman Scholar, and master's degrees in epidemiology and history from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Kushal's research and writing has been published in journals such as NEJM and JAMA, and his work experiences in health care policy and management span government, academia, and industry. 

Anna Kaltenboeck, MS is a senior health economist and the program director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her work focuses on the development and application of value-based pricing methods, as well as policies that foster rational and sustainable drug pricing. Prior to joining MSKCC, Ms. Kaltenboeck spent 10 years consulting on health economics and outcomes research, as well as pricing and market access for pharmaceutical and diagnostic products. An alumna of both Analysis Group and IMS Consulting Group, the scope of her work spans the US, EU5, and emerging economies. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed scientific and policy journals. Ms. Kaltenboeck holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Tufts University.

Robert M. Kaplan is a faculty member at the Stanford School of Medicine Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC). He previously served as Chief Science Officer at the US Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) and as Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health, where he led the behavioral and social sciences programs. He is also a Distinguished Research Professor of Health Policy and Management at UCLA, where he previously led the UCLA/RAND AHRQ health services training program and the UCLA/RAND CDC Prevention Research Center. He was Chair of the Department of Health Services from 2004 to 2009. From 1997 to 2004 he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, at the University of California, San Diego. He is a past President of five different national or international professional organizations and has served as Editor-In-Chief for two academic journals. His 21 books and over 580 articles or chapters have been cited more than 73,000 times (H-index>116) and Google scholar includes him in the list of the most cited authors in science. He was Elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005. In 2019 Kaplan took on a new role as an opinion editorialist, contributing op ed pieces on about a monthly basis. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, The San Jose Mercury News, The San Francisco Chronicle, STAT News (Boston Globe Media), RealClear Politics, MedPage, Health Affairs, The Hill, and a variety of other newspapers.

Gary S. Kaplan, MD, FACP, FACMPE, FACPE, has served as chairman and CEO of the Virginia Mason Health System in Seattle since 2000. He is also a practicing internal medicine physician at Virginia Mason. Dr. Kaplan received a degree in medicine from the University of Michigan and is board certified in internal medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), the American College of Medical Practice Executives (FACMPE) and the American College of Physician Executives (FACPE). He is recognized as one of the most influential physician executives in health care. He is a founding member of Health CEOs for Health Reform and has held leadership positions with numerous organizations, including the

National Patient Safety Foundation, the Medical Group Management Association, and the Washington Healthcare Forum. Dr. Kaplan is past-chair of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Board of Directors, current-chair of Lucian Leape Institute for Patient Safety, and previously served as chair of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He has been honored nationally for his leadership, most recently being named to Modern Healthcare’s 2018 “50 Most Influential Physician Executives” list (his thirteenth time appearing on this prestigious list). In 2013, Dr. Kaplan was selected for membership in the Institute of Medicine.

During Dr. Kaplan's tenure as chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason has received significant national and international praise for its efforts to transform health care, most notably as the leader in adapting the Toyota Production System for health care. Recent honors include being named “Top Hospital of the Decade” by Healthgrades, receiving the “Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™” in 2018 for the eighth consecutive year and the “Outstanding Patient Experience Award” from Healthgrades, among various other awards and honors.

Jeffrey P. Kaplan, Ph.D., MBA is President, IGW, Inc., executive coach, leadership and organizational consultant, and trainer. For the last 25 years, he has been helping leaders and organizations find and capitalize on their unique and often unrecognized talent. His heart-based approach to leadership development is based on the belief that people are an organization’s greatest asset. Jeff is known for his innovative approaches to help leaders break free from habitual thought and behavior patterns and think, decide and act mindfully.

Robert S. Kaplan, Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, is co-developer of both activity-based costing (ABC) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). Kaplan joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he served as Dean from 1977 to 1983.

Kaplan's research, executive program teaching, and consulting focus on aligning cost and performance management systems to strategy execution. He current works with Michael Porter on the HBS Value Based Health Care initiative to introduce time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) and value-based bundled payments to health care. The goal is to motivate the health care sector to restructure around delivering superior patient outcomes at significantly lower total cost. Another current project applies his strategy execution framework to help corporations create new regional ecosystems for inclusive growth. The strategies are designed to generate strong financial returns while transforming the socio-economic conditions of residents in low-income communities around the world. With Anette Mikes, he continues research and writing on new frameworks for implementing enterprise risk management.

Kaplan has authored or co-authored 14 books and more than 175 papers including 27 in Harvard Business Review. He has co-authored five books with David P. Norton: The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage, Alignment, Strategy Maps (named as one of the top ten business books of 2004 by Strategy & Business and amazon.com), The Strategy-Focused Organization (named by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as the best international business book for year 2000), and The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action, which has been translated into 24 languages and won the 2001 Wildman Medal from the American Accounting Association (AAA) for its impact on practice. He also co-authored Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing with Steve Anderson, Cost and Effect and Implementing Activity-Based Cost Management with Robin Cooper, and Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting, with H. Thomas Johnson, which received the AAA Seminal Contributions to Literature Award in 2007.

Kaplan received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T., a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University, and honorary doctorates from several international universities. Elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2006, he received the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 1988 from the AAA, the 1994 CIMA Award from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK), and Lifetime Contribution Awards from the Management Accounting Section of the AAA (2006) and the Institute of Management Accountants (2008). He continues to be a leading global speaker on strategy execution, and cost and performance management.

Daniella Kapural is a business administration student with a passion for healthcare and innovation.

She is a rising senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill majoring in Business Administration with a minor in German Language. Daniella is a GLOBE scholar in the Kenan-Flagler undergraduate business program. During her time at Carolina, she has been a member of the Undergraduate Healthcare Club and worked as a healthcare consulting intern for the Smith Leadership Initiative. Under this initiative she conducted research in order to create more effective clinical training for UNC medical students focused on implementing these strategies on a national level. Her interest in healthcare originated from an internship at Abbott Pharmaceuticals and continued upon taking Markus Saba’s “Healthcare Brand Plan” class.

Working on the roundtable and white paper was an enlightening experience for Daniella. Researching the effects of high-deductible health care plans on diabetic patients opened her eyes to the jarring disparities in the American health care system today. She hopes this white paper increases awareness and sparks change amongst policy makers to encourage greater and higher quality coverage for all.

Daniella currently works at P&G Budapest as a Financial Strategy intern.

Pinar Karaca-Mandic is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the C. Arthur Williams Jr. Professor in Healthcare Risk Management in the Department of Finance, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. She is the Founding Director of the Business Advancement Center for Health (BACH), and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Karaca-Mandic is also the CEO and a co-founder of XanthosHealth, a University of Minnesota start-up developing a digital social care referral platform for individuals affected by cancer.

As a health economist, she is passionate about improving “value” and “equity” in healthcare. Her research contributes to better understanding factors that improve access to safe and effective medical technologies and treatments; identifies the roles of regulations and market-based models in the functioning of the health insurance markets; as well as addresses frictions and social determinants of health through innovations.

Dr. Karaca-Mandic has published over 135 manuscripts in leading economics, medical and health policy journals. Her work was awarded numerous recognitions including 1st place nationally in Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Step-Up App Challenge for her work on a mobile health technology to collect patient reported outcomes, as well as INFORMS Information Systems Society Design Science Award, Innovations That Inspire Award from AACSB and Women's Health Leadership TRUST Award for Community Engagement for her leadership of the University of Minnesota COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project. Most recently, she received a University of Minnesota Distinguished McKnight University Professorship.

She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of California at Berkeley, and BA in economics and mathematics, and a concentration in public policy from Swarthmore College.

Michael Karamardian is an MD/MBA Candidate at the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Following graduation from both programs in Spring 2025, his goal is to begin a medical residency in Internal Medicine. Beyond clinical interests, Michael plans to pursue a career blending clinical practice with roles at the intersection of healthcare delivery, technology, and therapeutic innovation.

Manpreet Kaur, Medical Student, Medical University of the Americas

Usman Khaliq is a Master’s student in the Design Impact program at Stanford University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. His capstone project is focused on using human-centered design to improve disease management for pediatric patients at the Stanford Children’s Hospital. He received a BSc. In Computer Engineering from GIK Institute, Pakistan. Prior to grad school, Usman worked in the information, communication and technology for development (ICTD) space in West Africa, particularly in Sierra Leone and Liberia on projects in the healthcare, open government and financial inclusion sectors.

Shaan Khosla is a data scientist at Nebula, where he is involved in the research, design, and development of natural language processing (NLP) ML models. These models predict matches between job descriptions and candidate resumes at a scale of hundreds of millions. He is doing research in cutting edge developments in ML and NLP such as knowledge management. He is also pursuing a Master's in Data Science in the Center for Data Science at New York University.

Jiban Khuntia is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and the Ph.D. Program Director in the Business School at the University of Colorado, Denver. He received his Ph.D. from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Dr. Khuntia’s research is in the areas of health information technology and service innovation. His work has appeared in journals including Production and Operations Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Science, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, among others. Earlier, he had a decade of professional and consulting experience in supercomputing, the IT industry, and government organizations.

Jiban Khuntia is the Ph.D. Program Director and Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Business School at the University of Colorado, Denver. He has a joint appointment as Health Administrations faculty. His research is in the areas of digital service innovation and health IT. His work has appeared in top journals including Production and Operations Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and Health Policy and Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park in 2013. He earlier had a decade of professional and consulting experience in supercomputing, the IT industry and government organizations.

Forest S. Kim, PhD, MBA, MHA, FACHE is Program Director of the Robbins Healthcare MBA and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His previous position was Program Director of the University of the Incarnate Word Graduate Program in Health Administration in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Kim is an Army veteran who served 22 years on active duty as a healthcare administrator and educator. His Army career culminated as Program Director of the Army-Baylor University Program in Health and Business Administration. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and Board Chair-Elect of the Commission on the Accreditation of Health Management Education (CAHME). Dr. Kim’s research interests include federal and private sector health program evaluation, graduate educational outcomes, and competency development and assessment. Dr. Kim resides in Woodway, Texas with his wife, Emme, and three daughters.

Jennifer Kiss is Vice President of Programs at Saint Francis Foundation in San Francisco. The Foundation’s mission is to serve Saint Francis Memorial Hospital (SFMH) and the community the hospital serves. Jennifer is responsible for fulfilling the Foundation’s community serving responsibilities and collaborating with SFMH to develop and implement its community benefit plan.

At Saint Francis, Jennifer is primarily responsible for spearheading the Tenderloin Health Improvement Partnership (TLHIP), a flagship collective impact initiative spearheaded by the Foundation and SFMH. TLHIP seeks to positively impact social determinants of health and improve health outcomes for the residents of the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco’s most challenged neighborhoods. Jennifer represents the Foundation on SFMH’s Community Advisory Committee which functions as the Steering Committee for TLHIP. Jennifer is also responsible for leading TLHIP’s collaborative funding partnership, committed to raising funds to support TLHIP’s cross-sector community based initiatives.

Jennifer joined the Foundation in 2013 from the non-profit sector where she consulted on a wide range of tactical and strategic fundraising initiatives and campaigns and served in a number of Board and volunteer leadership positions at Bay Area independent schools and in local cultural and arts organizations.

Jennifer’s work in the non-profit world follows a successful career as an attorney in the financial services sector based in London and Hong Kong. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Jennifer travelled extensively and lived and worked in Europe and Asia before settling in Bay Area with her family in 1995.

Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA, is President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, author of Bless This Mess: A Picture Story of Healthcare in America. Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018; Ernst & Young’s Greater Philadelphia Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018; and #6 on Modern Healthcare’s Most Influential Physician Executives 2018, and Most Influential People in Health Care in 2017. As president and formerly dean of two colleges of medicine, Dr. Klasko has made leadership development a priority at each institution, including JOLT and the Jefferson Leadership Academy at Thomas Jefferson University and the Leadership Academy at the University of South Florida.

Gabriel Knight is a medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He received a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University with a concentration in Mathematical and Computational Science in Healthcare and Medicine. Prior to medical school, he worked as a health system revenue management consultant for Navigant Consulting, Inc.

Stefan Koester is an MD candidate at Vanderbilt University and attended London Business School for a graduate degree in Business Management. Stefan is interested in neurosurgery, as well as healthcare management and procedural efficiency.

Lironn Kraler, MD, is a specialist in Vascular Neurology and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford Medicine. She completed her residency and fellowship training at Stanford, and subsequently joined the Clinical Excellence Research Center at Stanford as a post-doctoral fellow to study high-value hospitals in order to improve the quality of health while reducing the overall cost of care.

Dmitry Krass is a Sydney Cooper Professor of Business Technology at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is the Academic Director of the Master of Management Analytics program at Rotman. His research interests focus on the impacts of analytics in various fields, including facility location and logistics, environmental modeling and regulation, marketing models for optimizing allocation of marketing effort, and, generally the use of “big data” and other analytical tools in business decision-making.

Wasan Kumar is a health policy researcher with the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center and Stanford Patient AI Assisted Care group, and medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine. Wasan's research has focused on improving healthcare quality and costs via new technologies and healthcare policy. His writing on health economics has been featured in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and has influenced policy action at both federal and state government levels.

Hanns Kuttner, AB, MA, is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. His projects relating to technology adoption range from health care to personal finance. His federal government experience includes roles at what is now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the White House during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.

Arthur B. Laffer is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research and consulting firm. Dr. Laffer has distinction in many publications as "The Father of Supply-Side Economics." Dr. Laffer was a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board for both of his two terms (1981-1989) and was a founding member of the Reagan Executive Advisory Committee for the presidential race of 1980. He also advised Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on fiscal policy in the UK during the 1980s. In 2019, Dr. Laffer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump.

Roy Lan, MD, is a second year internal medicine resident at Stanford. His research interests include disparities in cardiac care, global health, and clinical trial enrollment.

Indira Laothamatas, MD, is a recent medical graduate of Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She received a BA in Biology from Oberlin College, OH. She is currently completing her intern year at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA and will be starting her residency training in Diagnostic Radiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY next year. She is a native of Bangkok, Thailand.

Kola Lawal, MD, is an MBA Student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Raymond Ye Lee is a student pursuing a Master of Science in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He completed his BA at Cornell University and previously worked at the Federal Reserve and Stanford Graduate School of Business on projects in household finance, electoral participation, and organ allocation.

Vivian S. Lee, MD., PhD, MBA, is the author of The Long Fix: Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone (Norton). She is President of Health Platforms at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company whose mission is to apply digital solutions that enable people to enjoy healthier lives. A physician and healthcare executive, Lee also serves as a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School.

Prior to joining Verily, Lee served as the Dean of the Medical School and CEO of the University of Utah Health Care, an integrated health system with a budget of $3.6 billion, including a 1,400- member physician group and health insurance plan. During her tenure, she led University of Utah Health to recognition for its healthcare delivery system innovations that enable higher quality at lower costs and with higher patient satisfaction, and superior financial performance. In 2016, University of Utah was ranked first among all university hospitals in quality and safety (Vizient).  Dr. Lee previously was the inaugural Chief Scientific Officer of New York University’s Langone Medical Center.

Elected to the National Academy of Medicine with over 200 peer-reviewed publications, Lee serves on the Defense Health Board of the Department of Defense, the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Fund, and is also a director on the board of Zions Bancorporation, a publicly traded company.

Dr. Lee is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, received a DPhil in medical engineering from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earned her MD with honors from Harvard Medical School, and her MBA from NYU. She was named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives in 2020.

Michael Lefferts, MBA, is currently an investment banker at Lazard and advises healthcare companies on M&A and corporate strategy. He helped run scenario planning projects for healthcare organizations as a consultant with the Monitor Group and Monitor Deloitte.

Jason Lesandrini,  MA, FACHE, HEC-C, LPEC, is the Assistant Vice President of Ethics, Advance Care Planning and Spiritual Health at WellStar Health System. In his current role, Jason provides leadership and resources to promote ethical behavior and decision-making aligned with the mission, vision, and values of the health system. His research largely focuses on clinical and organizational ethics issues faced in healthcare broadly construed. His work has appeared in The American Journal of Bioethics, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Journal of Healthcare Management amongst others.

Zachary Levin is an Economist with the Federal Trade Commission‘s Bureau of Economics. He received my PhD in Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration at the University of Minnesota, with a concentration in Health Economics.

Dick Levy has spent over 50 years involved in health care on the supplier/business side, the provider/oversight side, and the academic/reformer side. He was former Chairman and CEO of Varian, the world leader in cancer management equipment and services. He led the introduction of linear accelerators which established radiation therapy as a major tool in the fight against cancer, and helped build the company from a small engineering project with about 30 employees to a $4.5 billion public company with over 4000 employees.

As an advisor to the Dartmouth Institute, academic programs at Stanford, and national think tanks, he has focused on the need for reform in US healthcare. As a former Board Chair of Sutter Health, a $13 billion healthcare system comprising 24 hospitals in Northern California, and current Board Chair of the School of Public Health at Berkeley, he has focused on mechanisms to achieve improvements in cost, quality, and access in healthcare.

He also has served as Chair of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he focuses on business and healthcare ethics. Levy holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry for the University of California at Berkeley.
He was married to his wife Sue from 1964 to 2023, when she passed away. He has two sons, three grandchildren and one great grandchild. He umpired Little League baseball in Palo Alto for 30 years and enjoys snorkeling in Hawaii, hiking with his dog, and mentoring students and employees.

Stephen Lewis, MD, MHCDS,  is a practicing Radiation Oncologist and Chief Quality Officer for a regional health system in Maryland. He spent 10 years as a Navy pilot and brings that high reliability organizational experience to his current work. Dr. Lewis recently completed a Master Degree in Health Care Delivery Science at Dartmouth College. His focus during the current COVID-19 crisis is avoiding secondary patient harm from pandemic related delays in routine care.

Liam D. Ferreira is a MD candidate at Baylor College of Medicine. Prior to medical school, he received his MBA from the Robbins Institute for Health Policy and Leadership at Baylor University. During his time at Baylor, he developed a keen interest in the intersection of healthcare management and medicine.

Adam M. Licurse, MD, MHS, is the Senior Medical Director for Planning and Performance at Mass General Brigham Population Health and is currently serving as the interim Chief Medical Information Officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research and teaching focuses on virtual and digital care tools, population health, and patient engagement. He practices General Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Xiaole Liu is a Master's student at Columbia University where she is majoring in Operations Research. Her interest in Operations Management began during the fall of 2018 when she worked at Fiat Chrysler Automobile as a simulation engineer. She received an M.S.E in Industrial and System Engineering from the University of Michigan-Dearborn with High Distinction and Honors, as well as a Bachelor of Management from the Special Class for the Gifted Young of China at Xi’an Jiaotong University.

Tina Liu, MBA, is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Harvard Wyss Institute, collaborating with George Church and Kai Chan to build a gene therapy startup. She previously evaluated corporate healthcare trends and strategies as an investor at TPG Capital and investment banker at Morgan Stanley

Kaming Lo, MPH, currently serves as a biostatistician at the Biostatistics Collaboration and Consulting Core in the Division of Biostatistics of the University of Miami (UM) Miller School of Medicine. For the past seven years, Mr. Lo primarily led the statistical support for the department of Otolaryngology and Anesthesiology. Mr. Lo also supported clinical and translational research for the UM research community where support activities include study designs, data management, statistical methods, sample size estimations, and grant development. Mr. Lo obtained his Master of Public Health from University of North Texas Health Science Center.

Kevin A. Lobo was appointed Chairman of the Board of Stryker Corporation on July 22, 2014 in addition to his responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer, which he assumed on October 1, 2012.  Mr. Lobo joined Stryker in April 2011, and had previously been Group President of Orthopaedics.

Mr. Lobo serves on the Board of Directors for Parker Hannifin Corporation, the global leader in motion and control technologies.  He is also a board member of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the Business Leaders for Michigan and United Way for Kalamazoo/Battle Creek regions, and is a member of the Business Roundtable. 

Mr. Lobo has a broad business career that includes executive positions in general management and finance.  After holding finance positions with KPMG, Unilever and Kraft Canada he spent eight years with Rhone-Poulenc, including roles based in Europe as Worldwide Corporate Controller of the chemical spin-out, Rhodia, and General Manager of Specialty Phosphates EMEA.  He then spent eight years at Johnson & Johnson, including CFO of McNeil Consumer Healthcare and Ortho Women’s Health & Urology, President of J&J Medical Products Canada and President of Ethicon Endo Surgery.

Ryan Lohre is an orthopaedic surgeon with special interest in shoulder reconstruction, technology in healthcare, and teaching. He has helped lead and design virtual reality research protocols across multiple institutions and has a number of highly cited, peer reviewed publications on the topic. Ryan has a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of British Columbia and surgical fellowship training through Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

David A. Lubarsky, MD, is the Chief Medical and Systems Integration Officer of the University of Miami Health System.  In that operational CMO role since 2012, he has championed standardization while having provided oversight of the four hospital and practice CMO’s, Chief Medical Risk Officer, Chief Patient Safety and Quality Officer, and the Director of Patient and Visitor Services among others.  Concurrently, he has served as the Emanuel M. Papper Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and as a Professor in the School of Business since 2001.

Dr. Lubarsky is one of the top 100 published practicing anesthesiologists in the U.S., a frequent speaker at national meetings, and is noted for his contributions to healthcare economics, informatics, and OR management, and the science of lethal injection for the death penalty. Several articles have been defined as “landmark” contributions.  He earned his BA majoring in History (1980) and MD (1984) at Washington University in St. Louis.  He completed anesthesia residency and a fellowship in Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Clinical Research at New York University Medical Center. He received his MBA (1999) from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Hong Luo is the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit.  Her elective course – Good Strategies in Flawed Markets – provides a market-imperfection perspective on firm strategy. She also taught the Strategy course in the MBA-required curriculum.

Professor Luo’s research centers on firms’ innovation incentives, their strategies in the market for innovative ideas, and managing intellectual property rights. An integral part of her research concerns the impacts of legal regimes and public policies – in particular, intellectual property regimes and tort liability system – on firms’ innovation activities. Professor Luo’s work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals including Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of Law and Economics, and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Professor Luo currently serves as an Associate Editor at Management Science and is a member of the Editorial Board of Strategic Management Journal.

Professor Luo received her Ph.D. in Economics from Stern School of Business, New York University, where she was a recipient of the Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research. A native of China, she earned an MA in Economics from Beijing University and a BA in Finance from the Renmin University of China.

Kerstin Lynam, MBA, is the CEO of the Pablove Foundation. She is an accomplished non-profit and business executive with 20 years’ experience in organizational leadership and transformation in medical research and medical management institutions, as well as a for-profit start-up.  She has implemented Lean Management and data-driven operations to stimulate continuous improvements and financial transparency to sustain her organizations through growth cycles.  Currently, she is co-leading a Quality of Life evaluation program to augment qualitative assessments of Pablove’s participatory photography program for children living with cancer. Ms. Lynam also holds an affiliate faculty appointment at Idaho State University.

Julia F. Lynch, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has taught since 2001. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in government from Harvard University. Lynch's research concerns the politics of inequality, social policy, and the economy in comparative perspective, with a focus on the countries of Western Europe and the United States. Her current projects are on the politics of health inequalities; and on responses to inequalities in income, education, and health care among elites and mass publics in the US and Europe. Lynch has received major grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. She is the incoming Chair of the Health Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association, an expert advisor to the World Health Organization's European regional office, and an editor of Socio-Economic Review, a multi-disciplinary journal focusing on analytical, political and moral questions arising at the intersection of economy and society.  She also currently serves on the editorial boards of several other journals, including Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Social Policy, and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

Erika Lynn-Green is a senior English major and premedical student at Yale University. Her interests lie in bioethics, disparities in health and healthcare, and health policy. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the recipient of two English departmental prizes.

Lucy Ma is an MD/MBA candidate at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Graduate School of Business. She has extensive clinical outcomes research experience with the Penn Presbyterian Trauma Center and the Stanford Department of Surgery (General and Plastics). She has also served in diverse leadership roles in nonprofit and community organization settings. She is passionate about harnessing health technology innovation and creating greater incentive alignment in healthcare to improve quality of and access to care for all, in particular for low-income, immigrant, minority, and non-English-speaking communities. She received a Bachelor of Art degree in Biological Basis of Behavior (now Neuroscience) from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kimberly MacPherson is the Associate Director of Health Management at the Haas School of Business and faculty in Health Policy and Management at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health. She directs the MBA/MPH program, the two year MPH in HPM program, a one-year MPH for clinicians and the MPP/MPH offered with the Goldman School of Public Policy. She is also the Co-Director for the Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT) which focuses on research and education around the key theme of the need to balance affordability and innovation.  At UC Berkeley, Ms. MacPherson teaches a variety of graduate level courses at both Haas and SPH including Health Care Finance, Healthcare in the 21^st Century, Trends in Biotech/Pharma, Commercializing Biotech, and Health Care Negotiations. Ms. MacPherson brings over 20 years of health industry experience spanning leadership roles in operations, management consulting and strategic/business planning and product development.  She is a frequent speaker and moderator at conferences and organization-sponsored meetings/events. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for St. Francis Memorial Hospital (part of Dignity Health) in San Francisco. She holds a MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and a MPH from the School of Public Health at U.C. Berkeley.

Josh Makower, MD, is the Yock Family Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering at the Stanford University Schools of Medicine and Engineering, and is the Director and Co-Founder of the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign. Josh is the Founder and Executive Chairman of ExploraMed, a medical device incubator that has created 10 companies over the past 20 years. He is also a Senior Advisor to Patient Square Capital, and an Advisory Venture Partner with Sofinnova Partners. Josh currently serves on the boards of Elevage, Revelle Aesthetics, ExploraMed, Moximed, Willow, X9 and Coravin.

Josh holds over 300 patents and patent applications for various medical devices in the fields of cardiology, ENT, general surgery, drug delivery, plastic surgery, dermatology, aesthetics, obesity, orthopedics, women’s health, and urology. He received an MBA from Columbia University, an MD from the NYU School of Medicine, and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Josh is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors and The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and was awarded the Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation by the Biomedical Engineering Society in 2018.

Vikrum Sunny Malhotra, MD, FACC is an award-winning, quadruple-certified cardiologist at Premier Cardiology treating patients in Long Island, NY. He has participated in a number clinical trials, including as a contributing editor to Canadian Healthcare Technology magazine. He has been invited to speak at Harvard Medical School, International Academy of Cardiology, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and The Future of Healthcare Conference. Dr. Malhotra has received many honors, including 2018, 2019, 2020 NY Times SuperDoctors, 2019, 2020 NY Top Doctors, as well as being named one of 2019 America’s Best Physicians.

Giovanni Malloy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University with a focus in Health Policy. His research focuses on developing computational models to inform decision making in health systems. He received his Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.

Joe Manget is the Chairman and CEO of Edgewood Health Network. He is also an Operating Partner at Alignvest and holds board positions at several other healthcare organizations including Healthy Interactions, MedCurrent and CBT Associates and serves on multiple committees with the Sinai Health System. Prior to his career in healthcare, Joe was a Senior Partner at The Boston Consulting Group, where he led BCG’s largest global practice area. In addition, he also headed up BCG Canada for several years. In the past, Joe was also a senior manager at IBM Canada (now Celestica). He holds a Master of Science and Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Richard C. “Chad” Mather III, MD, MBA, is the Medical Director of Optum Specialty Practices and Specialist Engagement at Optimal Care and Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Duke University School of Medicine with faculty appointments in the Department of Population Health Sciences and Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. He is focused on transforming how we care for patients organizationally, financially, and technologically to improve the value of healthcare and its experience. Prior to joining Optum he was the Vice-Chairman of Practice Transformation in the Duke Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is a past president of the North Carolina Orthopaedic Association and past health policy fellow with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He earned an undergraduate degree in economics from Miami University and a medical doctorate and masters in business administration from Duke, where he also completed residency training in orthopaedic surgery. His clinical practice is focused on hip arthroscopy/preservation and is engaged in national and international leadership roles in this field.

Fred Matovu is a Health Economist with over 20 years of experience in economic development research and training, with specialty in Economic Policy analysis, Impact evaluations of programs, Costing and Cost-effectiveness Analysis of healthcare interventions, Equity and welfare Analysis.  He is a Senior Lecturer of Economics at the School of Economics, Makerere University and holds a PhD from LSHTM, University of London.

Chrispus Mayora is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management), School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University-Kampala. He graduated as an Economist with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics degree from Makerere University, and a Master of Arts in Economics, also from Makerere University Kampala specializing in Health Economics & Environmental Economics.

Megan McCarthy is a Grants Consultant at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She is responsible for grant administration, and provides guidance to grant submissions for several departments. She is a graduate student pursuing her MBA in Healthcare Administration at the University of Colorado Denver School of Business. She is also the Co-President of HA Student Association and leads industry-academic networking and collaboration efforts for the association.

Lauren McCourt is a member of the Russell Reynolds Associates’ Global Biotech & Pharmaceuticals Practice. Lauren primarily supports the North American Healthcare team by providing industry insights, project and analytic support for strategy development, client management, and operational support. Lauren is also engaged in the generation of proprietary insights, such as infographics and white papers. Prior to joining Russell Reynolds, Lauren taught middle school math and science in Chicago as a Teach for America corps member. She is based in Chicago.

Mara McDermott, Vice President at McDermott+Consulting, is an accomplished healthcare policy executive who provides strategic advice on a broad range of federal legislative, regulatory and policy issues, including Medicare, value-based care, digital health, and other areas. In addition to consulting and lobbying services, Mara convenes advocacy coalitions, bringing together like-minded organizations to advance shared objectives.

Kelly McFarlane is a Resident Physician in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Stanford. She completed her MD at Harvard Medical School (’21) and MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business (’21). Prior to graduate school, Kelly worked in management consulting for Huron Consulting Group and played professional soccer for the Houston Dash. Her research interests include value in healthcare, surgical supply chain, and clinical outcomes in orthopaedics. Kelly completed a B.S. in Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she played on the varsity women’s soccer team.

Benjamin J. McMichael is a post-doctoral scholar at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University studying the law and economics of health care. He is licensed to practice law in the state of Georgia, and he previously served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Carolyn D. King on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. His research has appeared in journals such as Medical Care Research and Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. He holds a PhD in Law and Economics from Vanderbilt University, a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School, and a BS from Wake Forest University.

Kellen Mermin-Bunnell is conducting ethics-related research with WellStar Health System’s Ethics Department and is graduating with a B.S. in Psychology from Yale University in May 2021.

Shari Messinger is a Tenured Associate Professor in the Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences of the Miller School of Medicine, and Director of Biostatistics Collaboration and Consulting Core.  She additionally serves as a Director of the Research Design and Biostatistics Program of the Miami CTSI. Dr. Messinger is responsible for overseeing the biostatistics support for bench to bedside translation through her role as Director of the Biostatistics Collaboration and Consulting Core where she provides leadership of all collaboration and consulting activities provided by Core statisticians.   In addition, Dr. Messinger is additionally responsible for the development and implementation of education programs such as tutorials, clinics, and workshops covering topics in Biostatistics and in translational research for the Biostatistics Collaboration and Consulting Core staff as well as Clinical and Translational Investigators. She has extensive knowledge and experience in application of appropriate statistical methodology for the analysis of clinical and translational investigations at every stage of research.

Rob Metcalf is the CEO of Concert Genetics, advancing precision medicine by developing digital infrastructure for reliable and efficient management of genetic testing. He was previously the CEO of Digital Reasoning, and held executive positions internationally for Lexis Nexis. His career has focused on the use of information technology and analytics to transform industries.

Alex F. Mills, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Operations Management and Academic Director, Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration, at Baruch College Zicklin School of Business, City University of New York. Professor Mills studies healthcare services, with a particular interest in healthcare system response to disruptions, demand management, allocation of healthcare provider resources, and economic incentives in healthcare. He makes use of a wide range of methodology, including stochastic modeling, optimization, and simulation. His research has been published in top journals including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management.

In addition to serving as a senior associate editor at HMPI, Professor Mills is an associate editor at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Health Care Management Science. Professor Mills earned his PhD in Statistics and Operations Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Arnold Milstein, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford and directs the University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center. The Center engages faculty from Health, Computer, and Social Sciences in the discovery and replication of innovative health care delivery methods that safely lower per capita health care spending for excellent care.

Before joining Stanford's faculty, his career of applied research spanned private and public sector healthcare delivery and policy. After creating a healthcare performance improvement firm that he expanded globally following its acquisition by Mercer, he co-founded three nationally influential public benefit initiatives, the Leapfrog Group in partnership with the Business Roundtable in 1998 and the Consumer Purchaser Alliance in 2001. Appointed to consecutive term as a Congressional MedPAC Commissioner, he originated two subsequently enacted legislative changes to improve the value of healthcare. He was a founding staff member and serves as the Medical Director of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), the largest employer-led regional healthcare improvement coalition in the U.S.

Citing his national impact on innovation in health care policy and delivery methods, he was selected for the highest annual award of both the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) and of the American College of Medical Quality. Elected to the Institute of Medicine (now, NAM) of the National Academy of Sciences, he chaired the planning committee of its workshop series on best methods to lower per capita health care spending and improve clinical outcomes. He was educated at Harvard (BA–Economics), Tufts (MD) and UC Berkeley (MPH Healthcare Evaluation).

Monika Minhas, Medical Student, Medical University of the Americas

Will Mitchell served as a Professor of Strategic Management where he held the Anthony S. Fell Chair in New Technologies and Commercialization and Co-Director, Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and the Life Sciences. Will studied business dynamics in developed and emerging markets, investigating how businesses change as their competitive environments change and, in turn, how business changes contribute to ongoing corporate and social performance. Will taught courses in corporate strategy, emerging market strategy, entrepreneurial strategy, and pharmaceutical and other health sector strategy. He served as a board member of Neuland Laboratories, Ltd. (Hyderabad). Will died unexpectedly on December 6, 2021. Please see the announcement here.

Cheyenne Ariana Erika Modina, MSc, is currently a Policy Fellow at the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign. Previously, she was the president of EpiMetrics, Inc., a leading public health institution in the Philippines that focuses on achieving health equity through research. Over the past seven years, her research has been integral in increasing access to medicines, institutionalizing health promotion strategies, and developing key legislation in the Philippines.

Erika has taught courses on design thinking in public health and health literacy at Ateneo de Manila University. She holds a Master of Science in Public Health (Health Promotion) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she graduated with Merit.

Sashi Moodley, MD, MBA, is Business Change Director and Extensivist at CareMore Health Plan. He earned an MD at Case Western Reserve University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BS in Biology from Columbia University.

Claudio A. Mora-García has been a Senior Researcher at INCAE Business School since 2019. Claudio leads research for policy dialog in the social sector through his research of healthcare management and healthcare markets in Latin America and their relationship with economic development. He is an expert in quasi-experimental quantitative methods for impact evaluation combining the analysis of micro-data with insights from qualitative methods.

Claudio received a PhD (with honors) in Economics from the Catholic University of Chile, and a MSc (with honors) from the same institution. He is also Licentiate (with honors) and BSc in Economics from the Universidad de Costa Rica. He also has over nine years of professional experience and has collaborated with the Center for Global Development (CGD), Gates Ventures, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), John Hopkins University, and United Nations (UN), among others, in public policy projects and decisionmaking analysis.

Karoline Mortensen, PhD, is Associate Dean of Business Programs and Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Miami Herbert Business School. She is Associate Director of the Center for Health Management and Policy, and was the founding Director of the Master of Health Administration (MHA) program at the University of Miami. She earned her Ph.D. in Health Services Organization and Policy from the University of Michigan. Dr. Mortensen is a health services researcher, and her research interests are focused on health insurance, health care utilization, and the health care delivery system. She has received awards for outstanding teaching, mentoring of graduate students, and mentoring of undergraduate students, and was recently named a Poets&Quants top 50 undergraduate business school professor. She served as a member of the Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Services and Value Research study section from 2015-2021, was a Public Voices OpEd Project Fellow, and is on the steering committee of the Southeastern Health Economics Study Group. Dr. Mortensen is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Health Economics and Management, and on the Editorial Board for Health Services Research, and has testified before the United States Congress House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health on the Medicare Advantage program.

Kathryn Mossman, PhD, is an anthropologist and health systems researcher. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from McMaster University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She has conducted research at a number of Toronto hospitals on the implementation and scale up of new health services, including digital tools, quality improvement initiatives, and telemedicine projects. She also managed the Toronto Health Organization Performance Evaluation (T-HOPE) team at the University of Toronto, an interdisciplinary group of global health innovation and performance researchers. She is currently a research consultant working in the areas of applied health, knowledge translation, insights and strategy, organizational effectiveness, and community engagement. Dr. Mossman has published in a variety of publications, including Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, PLOS ONE, and Globalization and Health.

Lilac Nachum is a professor of international business at Baruch College. She specializes in the study of globalization and multinational companies, topics she has been researching, teaching and consulting on for three decades. Her research in these areas have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science and the Journal of International Business Studies, among others. At various periods she served as a member of editorial boards of the leading journals in strategy and international business. Nachum’s research has been awarded several recognitions, most recently the AIB 2017 Best Paper Award of the Research Method Division. In conjunction with her position at Baruch College, Nachum has held visiting positions at universities around the world and has consulted with firms and governments on issues related to globalization and multinational companies.

David B. Nash, MD, is the Founding Dean Emeritus and the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at the Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH). His 10 year tenure as Dean completes nearly 30 years on the University faculty. A board-certified internist, Dr. Nash is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement. Dr. Nash’s work is well known through his many publications, public appearances, and online column on MedPage Today. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and edited 25 books, including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution, Demand Better, and most recently Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness (2nd edition). He was the inaugural Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine (1984-1989). Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management, P&T, and American Health and Drug Benefits.

Visit Jefferson.edu/Population Health for information about JCPH and follow Dr. Nash on social media: Twitter: @NashPopHealth LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/DavidBNash

Khashayar Nattagh is a medical student at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and intends to specialize in psychiatry. While serving as director of mental health for a UCSF free clinic, he witnessed how challenging it can be for underserved communities to access mental health care, and is now passionate about leveraging technology to improve access in these settings.

Elizabeth Ndichu, MD,MMCI,MSc.GH, is a globally trained physician with diverse experience in health care, health management, global health and clinical informatics. She qualified in medicine from the University of Nairobi, Kenya and went on to provide health care services in various government and privately owned health facilities in Kenya.

Dr. Ndichu is a recent graduate of the Duke Global Health Institute where she pursued a Master of science in Global Health. She is also a graduate of the Duke School of Medicine where she completed a Master of management in Clinical Informatics.

Ingrid M. Nembhard, PhD, MS, is the Fishman Family President’s Distinguished Professor, Professor of Health Care Management at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on how characteristics of health care organizations, their leaders, and staff contribute to their ability to implement new practices, engage in continuous organizational learning, and ultimately improve quality of care.

Bruce R. Neumann is Professor of Accounting and Health Care Financial Management at the University of Colorado Denver. He has been a faculty member at the University of Colorado since 1975 where he served on several campuses including the Department of Medicine at the Health Sciences Center. He published four textbooks and over 100 monographs and peer-reviewed journal articles in such peer-reviewed journals as Medical Care, Health Services Research, Inquiry, Healthcare Financial Management, Journal of Accounting Research, Cost Management, Journal of Accountancy, as well as award-winning articles in Strategic Finance. His research impacted the (2017) implementation of Payroll-Based-Journals (PBJ) for long-term care providers under the ACA. He directed the Graduate Program in Health Administration for several years while he designed and implemented the first hybrid (distance education) graduate degree in health administration (Executive Graduate Program in Health Administration). During the last three decades, Professor Neumann extended his ‘world-view’ by teaching and conducting research studies in England, France, Australia and New Zealand.

Oluwatobi (Tobi) Ogbechie-Godec, MD, MBA, is a board-certified dermatologist and the Chief Medical Officer at APDerm, a large dermatology and plastic surgery private practice in New England. Dr. Ogbechie-Godec's interest in healthcare delivery grew from the fascination with the interplay of the socioeconomic and medical implications of disease. She has co-authored several articles and editorials in peer-reviewed academic journals. Upon graduating from Harvard College, she joined Bain & Company as an Associate Consultant. She completed a joint degree in medicine (MD) and business administration (MBA) in 2015 from Harvard Medical and Business Schools. She later completed a dermatology residency at The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at NYU Langone Health, where she also served as a Chief Resident. Dr. Ogbechie-Godec began participating in organizational dermatology as a member of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Committee at the American Academy of Dermatology. Since then, she has actively participated in the Healthcare Finance Committee, Workgroup for Innovative Payment Delivery, amongst others and currently serves as the Chair of the Healthcare Finance Committee. As a practicing board-certified dermatologist and a physician leader, Dr. Ogbechie-Godec applies her knowledge of medical practice to improve clinical operations and maximize value of healthcare enterprises. She will continue to use her academic and management foundations to serve dermatology patients and to advance innovative and entrepreneurial models for healthcare delivery.

Tobi’s interest in healthcare delivery grew from the fascination with the interplay of the socioeconomic and medical implications of disease. Upon graduating from Harvard College, she joined Bain & Company as an associate consultant. She completed a joint degree in medicine (M.D.) and business administration (M.B.A.) in 2015. She has co-authored several articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as JAMA, JAMA Dermatology, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, and American Journal of Managed Care. She had also published editorials in influential periodicals. She will complete a residency in Dermatology in June 2019 and continue to use her academic and management foundations to serve her patients and to foster her interests in innovative and entrepreneurial models for healthcare delivery. She will be joining a growing dermatology practice in the Greater Boston Area later in 2019 where she will work as the Director of Clinical Quality Assurance and Strategy, in addition to her clinical duties.

Jennifer Ohn, MPH, is a data assistant at the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her work primarily involves drug pricing policy research, drug pricing data analyses, and value-based pricing. Ms. Ohn holds an MPH in policy and management from New York University and a BS in neuroscience from Bucknell University.

Jennifer Ohn, Health Policy Manager at McDermott+Consulting, focuses on Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payment issues impacting the U.S. healthcare industry. Jennifer works with clients to understand the financial impact of health policies and regulations on their business objectives, and in particular, specializes in interpreting complex drug pricing models.

William Olivera is a Ph.D. student in the Center for Digital Innovation at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. His research focuses on innovation in health IT. He is particularly interested in the implementation and adoption of EHR systems, and information sharing strategies in healthcare.

James Orbinski, MD, is Professor and inaugural Director of York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. A champion of health and humanitarianism throughout his career, he has extensive leadership, advocacy, and research experience in global health. Dr. Orbinski has worked on providing medical humanitarian relief in situations of war, famine, epidemic disease, and genocide with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He was elected International President of MSF from 1998-2001, and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to MSF in 1999.

Francisco Palao is a renowned entrepreneur, mentor, and author with a mission to empower individuals and organizations to make a lasting, positive impact. With a portfolio that includes authoring books like "Positive Impact" (2022) and "Exponential Transformation" (2018), Francisco designed the Purpose Launchpad framework and founded the global Purpose Alliance community. As a former CEO of ExO Works and OpenExO, he crafted the ExO Sprint methodology. His entrepreneurial record is underscored by founding and leading startups, such as LeanMonitor and Nativoo, both of which saw successful acquisitions. Honored as a Top Innovator under 35 by MIT's TR35 award, Francisco possesses a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Granada and an Executive MBA from IE Business School, alongside affiliations with Singularity University and Berkley University.

Stephen Palmquist is in his final year of a 5-year dual MD/MBA program at the University of Minnesota. Stephen is active outside his studies at the Minnesota Medical Association and Minnesota Hospital Association. He plans to specialize in family medicine where he will work to improve healthcare delivery in rural Minnesota.

Nivisha Parag is passionate about steering healthcare forward, and is realizing this ideal with her drive to teach, inspire, and work for a positive impact in the sector. She holds an undergraduate medical degree(MBChB - 2007), a postgraduate Masters degree in Medicine (MMed - 2013), both from the University of KwaZulu Natal, and an MBA from Regent Business School (2013). She is a Specialist Emergency Medicine Physician having obtained her Fellowship in Emergency Medicine in 2014 (FCEM SA) and a subspecialty fellowship in adult critical care in 2017 (CertCritCareEM SA). She works in a busy private hospital ICU, and Heads the School of Healthcare Management Studies at Regent Business School. Nivisha’s vision is to bridge the gaps in health and health care delivery through sector-specific managerial and leadership education.

Ishan Paranjpe, MD, is an internal medicine resident physician at Stanford. He focuses on applying data science techniques to large data sets in healthcare.

Stephen T. Parente is the Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance in Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and Associate Dean of the Carlson Global Institute. His research focuses on health economics, information technology, and insurance. He is President-Elect of the American Society of Health Economists. In Washington DC, he served as Chief Economist for Health Policy on the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2019 to 2021. Previously, he was Senior Adviser to the Secretary for Health Economics in the Department of Health and Human Services and the Governing Chair of the Health Care Cost Institute. Dr. Parente received his BA, MS and MPH from the University of Rochester and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University.

Muhammad Ali Pate, MD, is Visiting Professor at the Duke University's Global Health Institute. He served as Minister of State for Health of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 2011 to 2013. Prior to his ministerial appointment he served as the Chief Executive of Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) from 2008-2011.  Dr Pate spent several years at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., which included serving as the Senior Health Specialist and Human Development Sector Coordinator in the East Asia Pacific Region and also as a Senior Health Specialist in the African Region. Dr Pate is an American Board Certified MD in Internal Medicine. He trained in sub-specialty of Infectious Diseases at the University of Rochester, NY, holds an MBA from Duke University, and a Masters in Health System Management from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine UK. He graduated with a medical degree from the Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria in 1990.

Mark V. Pauly is the John M. Bendheim, W’40 and Thomas L. Bendheim, WG’90 Professor Emeritus of Health Care Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission, Dr. Pauly has been a consultant to the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and served on the Medicare Technical Advisory Panel. He is Co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics and Co-editor of the recently published Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2. Dr. Pauly has been elected President of the American Society of Health Economists this year.  He is the 2012 winner of the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research and the 2012 recipient of the University of Pennsylvania Provost’s Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring.

Robert Pearl, MD, served as CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente) for 18 years. He is also former president of The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group. In these roles he led 10,000 physicians, 38,000 staff and was responsible for the nationally recognized medical care of 5 million Kaiser Permanente members on the west and east coasts.

Connect with Dr. Robert Pearl on Twitter @RobertPearlMD, LinkedIn and at his website robertpearlmd.com.

Andy A. Pearson is an international analyst and researcher in strategy, organizational change, and market analysis. Andy is a senior researcher at INCAE and a former visiting graduate researcher at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University in the Department of Management and Organizations

Pearson was the René Morales Entrepreneurship Chair Researcher at INCAE, where he supported the creation of teaching materials for INCAE's entrepreneurship initiatives. He was also Program Coordinator and Researcher for the Central American Healthcare Initiative. At CAHI, he oversaw innovation projects, entrepreneurship initiatives, and impact assessment strategies for more than 80 Central American initiatives in the healthcare sector, including multinational companies, local companies, and public and non-profit organizations.

He has been a consultant on data collection processes and market analysis projects, developing new business models and organizational change strategies with multinational companies of medical devices and non-profit organizations in the financial and education sector.

Throughout his academic career, Andy has published scholarly articles in health and business administration journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Global Health, Globalization and Health, and Global Health Action. He holds a Master's Degree in International Markets and Trade (Cum Laude) from LEAD University; and a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations from Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), being the Top GPA of the class.

Juliana Perl, BS, MS, is an Assistant Director of Impact1 at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. Her work focuses on advancing pediatric health technology, which includes developing a novel device for neonates in intensive care units, coaching early-stage innovators, and conducting health policy research. Juliana studied engineering before working in healthcare strategy consulting and with global health organizations.

Sumate Permwonguswa, PhD, is a MIS lecturer at Assumption University, Thailand. He earned his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Colorado Denver in 2017. His research interest is in patient and provider empowerment using health IT. He also consults to a major ERP company, and has more than a decade long experience in academics and industry.

Michael A. Pfeffer, MD, is the Chief Information and Digital Officer and Associate Dean for Stanford Health Care and Stanford University School of Medicine. Michael oversees Technology and Digital Solutions, responsible for providing world class technology solutions to Stanford Health Care and the School of Medicine, enabling new opportunities for groundbreaking research, teaching, and compassionate care across two hospitals and over 150 clinics. Michael also serves as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine and Division of Hospital Medicine with a joint appointment in the center for Biomedical Research (BMIR). Prior to joining Stanford Medicine, Michael served as the Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer for UCLA Health Sciences, and the inaugural Chief Medical Informatics Officer before becoming CIO. Michael graduated from Brown University with a degree in chemical engineering. He received his medical degree from Cornell University and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.

Mary Phillips, MSN, RN, CCRN is a master’s prepared registered nurse with over seven years of experience in nursing. She is currently pursuing Master of Management in Clinical Informatics at Duke University School of Medicine. She is also working as an ICU nurse at Duke Regional Hospital, and has been a member of the Duke Health community for 3 years. She is passionate about patient safety and experience, population health management, performance/process initiatives, healthcare policy, and innovation.  When she is not working, she likes to spend her time with her family. She also loves listening to her audiobooks and podcasts.

Neill F. Piland, Dr.P.H., is Emeritus Research Professor and Director, Institute of Rural Health, Idaho State University. In his more than 50 years in health services research, he has directed major research and evaluation projects concerning diabetes and hypertension; oral health policy; tele-psychiatry services, Native American long-term care, healthcare financing, economics, long-term care, mental health delivery, drug use, rural health services delivery, smoking cessation, prevention, and health promotion.

Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market competition and company strategy, economic development, political competition, the environment, and health care. His approach is based on understanding the overall economics and structure of complex systems, in contrast to particular elements or parts. His extensive research is widely recognized in governments, corporations, NGOs, and academic circles around the globe. His research has received numerous awards, and he is the most cited scholar today in economics and business. While Michael Porter is at the core a scholar, his work has achieved remarkable acceptance by practitioners across multiple fields.

Amika Porwal leads BCG’s North American Payers, Providers, Systems & Services Knowledge Team, which is made up of dedicated industry analysts with expertise in a variety of topics and industries. In this role, she coordinates the analytical and knowledge support of BCG’s payers, providers and services case teams. Amika also spearheads and coordinates the development of products and intellectual capital related to the sector, such as proprietary market research, industry benchmarking, and proprietary tools with specialized analytical and big data requirements.

Prior to joining BCG, Amika served as a consultant to payer and provider organizations, working with their executive teams to develop strategies for priority agenda items such as corporate and business unit growth and expansion, payer-provider collaboration, and bundles development.  Amika holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an undergraduate degree in economics from Northwestern University.

Andrea M. Prado, PhD, is Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at INCAE Business School.  She holds the Strachan Chair for Philanthropy and Social Investment since 2015.  Prado’s research explores the role of companies to achieve sustainable development in the countries where they operate, particularly through their corporate social responsibility strategies and delivery of products and services to low-income segments.  She also studies the impact and dynamics of industry self-regulation (e.g. adoption of voluntary certification programs) to promote environmental and labor practices in emerging economies.  Prado has published her research in prestigious academic journals, books, and book chapters and has received multiple international awards.

Prado served as the Academic Director of the Central American Healthcare Initiative (CAHI) since its inception in 2012 to 2019. CAHI seeks to catalyze access to quality health services for low-income populations through cost-effective innovations and enhanced management capabilities in the region’s healthcare sector. The organization pursues its mission through a fellowship program for healthcare leaders in the region.

Prado received a PhD in Management and Organizations from Stern School of Business, New York University, a MSc. in International Economics from the University of Essex, UK and a BSc. in Economics from the Universidad de Costa Rica. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her PhD studies and a Chevening scholarship for her Master studies.

Clare Purvis, PsyD, is Director of Behavioral Science at Headspace, a global leader in the field of digital health and wellbeing. Clare completed a postdoctoral fellowship in healthcare design at the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at Stanford University, and now serves as an affiliated scholar at CERC where she focuses on the use of technology to make great healthcare more affordable.

Jimmy Qian is an MD Candidate at Stanford University School of Medicine and co-founder of Osmind, a mental health startup. See more @JimmyJQian on Twitter.

Ashwin Ramanathan is an MBA student in UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Class of 2025, focused on Healthcare and Finance. He brings seven years of experience in healthcare, spanning electronic medical records, market research, and investor relations advisory in the biotech sector. Upon graduation, he will advance his career as a Finance Manager at Pfizer.

Meghan Ramsey, MD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University. She additionally serves as the Quality Director at ValleyCare Medicine Intensive Care Unit and the Pulmonary Division. Her research interests include interventional pulmonology, thoracic oncology, quality improvement, and healthcare system innovation.

Koushal Rao, B.S., is a recent graduate from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are focused at the intersection of healthcare and fundamental economics. In particular, Koushal’s work focuses on bundled payment programs and price transparency for routine medical services. Koushal has worked with the Penn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics for the past 3 years.

Magdalena Rathe is a health economist and co-founder and Executive Director of the Plenitud Foundation (Fundación Plenitud), which works to strengthen health systems and to achieve a more equitable and sustainable world; and coordinator of the Observatory of the Health System of the Dominican Republic (Observatorio del Sistema de Salud de la Republica Dominicana) and the Americas Network on Health Accounts. She is an expert in health systems research and financing policies, health accounts, and financial protection, with a main interest in improving the health system performance and understanding its complexity. Magdalena also collaborates with the update of the Global Expenditure Database of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Latin America and the Caribbean countries that is published annually in the World Health Statistics by WHO, and the World Development Indicators by the World Bank, and collaborated with the Harvard Global Initiative for Equity. She has published several books and has written numerous articles and book chapters. Ms. Rathe has been a consultant for various international agencies such as WHO, the Pan-American Health Organization, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank, as well as universities such as the Harvard School of Public Health and George Washington University. She has held important positions in the Dominican government, including on the Monetary Board of the Dominican Republic.

Kristiana Raube is executive director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact. She is also director of both the Graduate Program in Health Management and the International Business Development Program at Berkeley-Haas, as well as an adjunct professor.

Raube has spent her career teaching and researching health and poverty issues, and her work has taken her from the housing projects of Chicago to villages across Africa and Asia. In her years at Berkeley-Haas, Raube has been a key architect of programs that combine the study of business with the broader goals of healthcare access, poverty reduction, and social justice. 

In 1999, the Haas School of Business recruited Raube to revitalize its Graduate Program In Health Management. While teaching and overseeing the health care program, Raube has carried out consulting and research projects in over 70 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. 

Avik Ray is a medical doctor with expertise in Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, blending his passions for patient care, population health, data science, and healthcare management. During his residency in pharmaceutical medicine, Avik led large-scale observational studies and clinical trials, culminating in over 40 scientific publications in renowned journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. His research has been cited more than 3,500 times, reflecting its significant impact on the field. Currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Avik focuses on real-world evidence analysis of medicines and vaccines, providing critical insights for treatment guidelines and health policies. He also serves on the editorial boards of leading scientific journals, including PLOS ONE and Frontiers.

Sheridan Rea is a graduate student at Stanford University studying Health Systems Modeling. She received her B.S. in Biology from Stanford University with a minor in Computer Science. Her research interests include health policy, applications of health technology, and improvement of healthcare outcomes with an emphasis on underserved populations.

James B. Rebitzer is the Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business where he was founding chair of the department of Markets, Public Policy, and Law. Formerly, he was the Mannix Professor of Healthcare Finance and Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western University. He has also been on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and MIT's Sloan School of Management. Rebitzer is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). James has received The Health Care Research Award from the National Institute of Health Care Management and the Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association.

Thomas Rice holds the position of Distinguished Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. A health economist, his areas of interest include international healthcare systems, competition and regulation, behavioral economics, and health insurance.  His new book, Health Insurance System: An International Comparison, was published in 2021. Dr. Rice has also written books on health economics, the behavioral economics of health, and the U.S. healthcare system. He was editor of the journal, Medical Care Research and Review, from 1994 to 2000, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of AcademyHealth, the nation’s leading organization focused on the health services and health policy research, has chaired its Annual Research Meeting, and has received its Young Investigator Award and Article-of-the-Year Award.

Michael R. Richards, MD, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor within the Department of Economics and Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. He joined Baylor after being a member of the Vanderbilt University Department of Health Policy faculty from 2015-2018. His previous academic training included a University of Pennsylvania postdoctoral research position within the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Wharton School from 2013-2015. Richards completed his PhD in health economics and health policy at Yale University prior to joining LDI and was awarded his MD and MPH degrees from the University of Illinois immediately preceding his time at Yale. He has several areas of active research including, provider responses to regulatory and payment changes as well as the behavior of private and public health insurers. He primarily teaches in the Robbins Health Care MBA program at Baylor.

Barak Richman, JD, PhD, is the Katharine T. Bartlett Professor of Law at Duke University.  He is also a Professor of Business at Fuqua, a Faculty Affiliate at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, both at Duke, and a Senior Scholar at the Clinical Excellence Research Center at Stanford University.  His research focuses on competition law, healthcare markets, and institutional economics.  His book, Stateless Commerce, was published by Harvard University Press in 2017.

Priscilla Rodríguez, MBA, is a senior researcher at INCAE Business School focusing on the areas of Operations Management and Healthcare Management. She is currently conducting research on how organizational innovations and new models of care can impact the operational outcomes of public hospitals experiencing long waiting lines and high operational costs. She has experience working in the energy industry, particularly in the renewable energy sector. She earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Costa Rica in 2014 and an M.B.A. from INCAE Business School, magna cum laude, in 2019.

Angela Rogers, MD, MPH, is an expert in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She has practiced in these fields for 10 years. She has a special interest in ICU medicine, with a research focus on acute respiratory failure and ARDS. She researchers in blood biomarkers of these diseases, and is very active in teaching residents and fellows about critical care.

Hayden Rooke-Ley is a federal judicial law clerk and a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project. Hayden’s academic and policy writing focuses on issues of health care law and policy, including corporate consolidation, Medicare and Medicaid financing, and labor organizing in the health care sector. Hayden was formerly a health policy advisor in Congress and worked at Aledade, Inc., a value-based care company. He received his JD from Stanford Law School.

Lisa Forman Rosen, MA, is senior medical researcher at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital Center for Patient Safety and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine. Ms. Rosen is the author of numerous publications on patient safety, hand hygiene, infection prevention, quality improvement, simulation training, and communication and teamwork.  She has worked at the University of Miami for more than thirty years with a career that began in the Department of English as a teacher and innovator developing writing and literature courses for undergraduates.

Sara Rosenbaum, JD, is the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy and Founding Chair of the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Professor Rosenbaum has devoted her career to health justice for medically underserved populations. Professor Rosenbaum is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, served on CDC’s Director’s Advisory Committee and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice, and was a founding Commissioner of Congress’s Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), which she chaired from January 2016 through April 2017.  She is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Academy of Medicine’s Adam Yarmolinsky Medal, awarded for distinguished service to a member from a discipline outside the health and medical sciences and the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health Welch-Rose Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Health of the Public.

Sandra Waugh Ruggles, PhD, Sandra serves as director for policy research in the Stanford Biodesign Policy Program. She studies policy issues at the intersection of healthcare and innovation. She also is the President of Summit Rock Strategy Consulting where she specializes in leading medtech development teams through early-stage innovation decisions. Sandra has over 20 years of experience in medical device and biotechnology innovation, leading projects for next-generation and breakthrough products in various domains, from consumer devices to therapeutic proteins. Sandra was named a Top Innovator Under 35 by MIT Technology Review for her work in co-founding Catalyst Biosciences. She earned a PhD from the University of California, San Francisco in biophysics and was a Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellow.

Markus Saba is an experienced pharmaceutical senior executive with an expertise in global and healthcare marketing.

He teaches courses in global health care and brand management. He leads the full-time MBA Program Health Care Concentration and serves as executive director of the Center for the Business of Health at UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Professor Saba also serves as a faculty advisor for Student Teams Achieving Results (STAR), a member of the Business School Alliance of Health Management, and the UNC Kenan-Flagler liaison to the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice at Carolina.

During his 25-year career with Eli Lilly and Company, he held numerous marketing leadership positions. He led the global marketing efforts for diabetes business unit and neuroscience franchise at the company’s worldwide headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana.

He launched and held global responsibility for some of the pharmaceutical industries’ best-known brands such as Prozac, Cymbalta, Zyprexa, Cialis, Humalog and Trulicity. He had geographic responsibility for Africa, Asia, Japan and the Middle East, and lived and worked in Dubai, Geneva, Kobe, Hong Kong, Philadelphia and Indianapolis.

He serves as an executive board member for Easter Seals Crossroads, a nationwide nonprofit helping people with disabilities.

He received his MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler and his BS in marketing from Penn State University.

Ahmed Sabit is a faculty member (Research Associate) in the department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he worked as a Statistician for the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center. He was also the Patrick L. Odell Graduate Scholar in mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, Texas Tech University, for 2017-2018. He holds a master's in Statistics from Texas Tech University and another master's in Economics from Temple University. His research interest focuses on causal machine learning, unstructured data, and latent variable.

Ashish Sachdeva is the Research Director at the Max Institute of Healthcare Management, Indian School of Business. He completed his PhD from the University of Southern California. His area of research is in healthcare, with a focus on behavioral health. He has prior work experience at the National University of Singapore, University of Southern California, Stanford University, and GENPACT.

Amy Saddington is a member of Russell Reynolds Associates’ Health Care Services Practice, and Co-Leads the Digital Health Transformation Practice. She helps companies build excellent leadership teams given the changing healthcare industry dynamics, and she advises clients on leadership topics and succession planning strategies. Amy is a co-host of Russell Reynolds Annual CEO Innovators Roundtable, uniting the most innovative executives from each healthcare subsector. Her clients include private equity firms, Fortune 500, health systems, payors, digital and healthcare IT companies. She is based in Dallas.

Maitreyi Sahu, MS, is a PhD candidate in Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington. She studies racial disparities in US pharmaceutical spending using claims and survey data.

Alvaro Salas, MD, is former president of the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), the most important public healthcare provider in Costa Rica, and currently, a member of its Board of Directors. He is a medical surgeon who graduated from the University of Costa Rica, with a major in Health Services Administration. He was the director of clinics and hospitals of the CCSS. He has a postgraduate degree in Health Services Administration and Planning from the University of Leeds, England, as well as a master’s in public administration, with emphasis on health economics, from the Kennedy School at Harvard University.

Dr. Salas is an expert in primary healthcare and management of public health services, with quality and universal coverage.  In 1994, he was appointed Executive President of the CCSS. He was a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization PAHO / WHO of the World Bank in the reform of health services of the 1990s. Since 2012, he actively participates in the organization of the Central American Healthcare Initiative, CAHI. He is currently a professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Costa Rica and Director of the Strategic Center for Information on Health and Social Security, CENDEISSS, of the CCSS.

Alexander Sandhu, MD, MS, is a cardiologist with a special interest in the care of patients with advanced heart failure. His research focuses on health economics, the implementation of high-value care strategies, and comparative effectiveness.

Dr. Sanjay Saxena is a Managing Director and Senior Partner with Boston Consulting Group based in San Francisco, and BCG’s Global Health Care Leader of its Payers, Providers, Systems and Services.  He also co-leads BCG's Center for US Health Care Reform and Evolution (CUHRE).

Sanjay has over 20 years of health care consulting and industry experience, specializing in strategy, transformation, M&A and capability-building for payer and provider organizations. He works extensively with Boards and senior leaders of hospitals and health systems, AMCs, integrated delivery organizations, national and regional health plans, and health care services companies.

Sanjay holds an MD from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and undergraduate degrees in biomedical engineering and philosophy, also from Northwestern University.

David Scheinker is the Executive Director of Systems Design and Collaborative Research at the Stanford Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics. He is the Founder and Director of SURF Stanford Medicine, a group that brings together students and faculty from the university with clinicians and administrators from hospitals to improve the quality of care using operations research methodology. SURF has implemented and published dozens of projects demonstrating improvements to the quality and efficiency of care. His areas of focus include clinical care delivery, technical improvements to hospital operations, sensor-based and algorithm-enabled telemedicine, and the socioeconomic factors that shape healthcare cost and quality.

David was previously a Joint Research Fellow at The MIT Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a PhD in theoretical math from The University of California San Diego under Jim Agler. He advises Carta Healthcare, a healthcare analytics company started by former students.

Erika Schlosser is an MHA/MBA dual degree candidate at the University of Minnesota. After graduating from Northwest Missouri State University in 2020 with a degree in Biopsychology, she embarked on a journey into the healthcare industry. Erika dedicated two years to working within a clinical setting at an ophthalmology clinic. Following this, she made a deliberate transition to the payer sector of healthcare, seeking to broaden her understanding of the healthcare industry. 

As Erika progresses through her dual degree program, she actively pursues her professional passions in healthcare innovation, finance, and complex problem-solving.

Eugene Schneller is an experienced academic leader, researcher, and administrator with extensive experience at the university, college, and departmental levels. Having held appointments in diverse settings (business, liberal arts, medicine, and public health), Dr. Schneller is knowledgeable about a wide range of disciplines, academic and business cultures, and approaches to academic problem solving. As Associate Dean of the College of Business at Arizona State University (ASU), he was responsible for operations of one of the largest colleges of business in the United States.

Dr. Schneller has worked extensively in research and organizational development as Director of ASU’s William Seidman Research Institute. He also served as Counselor for Health Professions Education under ASU President Lattie Coor and was the first director of the Division of Health Administration and Policy in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Schneller is currently Professor of Health Care Supply Chain Management in the W. P. Carey School of Business, Department of Supply Chain Management. He is also working with ASU’s College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation to develop the joint Master of Healthcare Innovation.

Kevin Schulman is a Professor of Medicine, Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He is the Faculty Director of Stanford’s new applied master degree program, the Master’s of Science in Clinical Informatics Management program.

Dr. Schulman’s research interests include organizational innovation in health care, health care policy and health economics.  With over 300 original articles, over 100 review articles/commentaries, and over 40 case studies/book chapters, Kevin Schulman has had a broad impact on health policy (h-index = 71). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the editorial/advisory boards of the American Heart Journal, Health Policy, Management and Innovation (www.HMPI.Org), and Senior Associate Editor of Health Services Research.

Prior to coming to Stanford, Dr. Schulman served as a Professor of Medicine at Duke University, directed the Health Sector Management Program at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business for a dozen years, created and directed the Duke University Master’s of Management in Clinical Informatics Program, and served as a Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School.

He is an elected member of ASCI and AAP. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the New York University School of Medicine, and The Wharton Health Care Management Program.

Kati Schy graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in May 2020. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Health Innovation & Analysis (Interdisciplinary Studies), while also graduating as a Buckley Public Service Scholar and an Honors Carolina Laureate. As part of the Buckley Public Service Scholar Program, she participated in a variety of volunteer opportunities, working in rural health, physical therapy, and pediatric health promotion.

Throughout her time at UNC, she served as an undergraduate Research Assistant at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and a Marketing Intern for Good Bowls LLC (now ‘Equiti Foods’). During the summers, she worked as a Fitness Specialist at a local summer camp, spearheading the organization’s first specialty camp focused on health promotion, in addition to her year-round role as a Fitness Instructor at UNC’s Campus Recreation. Upon graduation she will be joining Red Ventures in Charlotte, North Carolina as a Digital Marketing Analyst.

Soumya Sen is an Associate Professor of Information & Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. He received the B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from BITS-Pilani, India, in 2005, and both the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and 2011, respectively, during which he collaborated with faculties from both engineering and the Wharton Business School. He carried out his postdoctoral research at the Princeton University before joining the University of Minnesota. Soumya’s research takes a multi-disciplinary approach involving computer networks, economics, and human-computer interaction. His research interests are in Internet economics, communication systems, cybersecurity, and social networks.

Soumya has published in and served as a reviewer for several highly cited IEEE and ACM conferences and journals. His research articles have received media coverage in MIT Technology Review, The Wall Street Journal, ACM Tech News, Yahoo News, Politico, as well as several European news media. Soumya received the McKnight Presidential Fellowship in 2019, Carlson School's Outstanding Research Award in 2019, Jim & Mary Lawrence Fellowship in 2018, Adobe Digital Experience Research Award in 2018, IEEE INFOCOM Best Workshop Paper Award in 2017, Timothy Nantell Teaching Grant Award in 2016, INFORMS ISS Design Science Award 2014, Grant-in-Aid Award from the University of Minnesota in 2014, Princeton Keller Center Innovation Award in 2013, BITSAA 30 under 30 Award in 2012, IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award in 2012, and was a finalist at the 2011 Vodafone Wireless Innovation project.

Soumya is the founder of the "Smart Data Pricing" (SDP) Forum, which promotes industry-academic interaction on Internet pricing research. He has been the Chair of international SDP workshops from 2012 – 2016 and its Steering Committee member since 2016. He is also a co-founder of a startup, DataMi, which provides Internet pricing solutions for telecom providers around the world. Soumya is the editor of a book titled "Smart Data Pricing", published by J. Wiley & Sons.

Zachary Sexton, BS, BA, is a bioengineering PhD candidate in the Stanford Schools of Medicine and Engineering. His research focuses on rational vascular design within engineered tissues and organs. Prior to graduate education he was trained in both public health policy and biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware. His policy interest centers on effective translation of engineered biologics and tissues for clinical use.

Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD is a Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Data Science, and Associate Dean at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Chief Data Scientist for Stanford Health Care. His research group analyzes multiple types of health data (EHR, Claims, Wearables, Weblogs, and Patient blogs), to answer clinical questions, generate insights, and build predictive models for the learning health system. At Stanford Healthcare, he leads artificial intelligence and data science efforts for advancing the scientific understanding of disease, improving the practice of clinical medicine and orchestrating the delivery of health care.

Nigam Shah is Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at Stanford University, Medical Director, Research Informatics, Stanford Health Care, Co-Chair for Analytics, Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford and a member of the executive committee of the Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program. He is also the Assistant Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford, dedicated to advancing the state of the art in semantic technology, biostatistics, and the modeling of biomedical systems. Dr. Shah holds an MBBS from Baroda Medical College, India, a PhD from Penn State University and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University

Sneha Shah, MBA, is currently a fourth year medical student at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She completed her MBA at Harvard Business School last year. She previously worked in corporate strategy at Moderna Therapeutics, where she partnered with venture presidents and the executive leadership to prioritize projects and build the 2016 long range plan, a strategy presented annually to the Board of Directors.

Shreya A Shah, is an MD/MBA student at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has worked on health policy and health care delivery research at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. She has also researched pharmaceutical pricing and hospital compliance with the price transparency law at the Stanford Department of Health Policy. Ms. Shah received her B.S. in Health Policy & Management and Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Rola Shaheen has been Chief of Radiology and Medical Director at Peterborough Regional Health Centre since 2015. She is the Regional Breast and Cancer Imaging Lead (RBCIL) for the Central East Regional Cancer Program. Additionally, she is the Regional Breast Imaging Lead (RBIL) for the Mississauga Halton and Central West Regions since 2016. Dr.Shaheen was the Provincial Clinical Lead for Mammography Quality Management Partnership (QMP), a joint program at Cancer Care Ontario & College of Physicians & Surgeons from 2016 to 2019. She has just completed her Global Executive MBA in Healthcare and Life Sciences from the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management (Class of 2021), and is the founder of the Women’s Imaging & Leadership Lab (The WILL).

Dr. Shaheen received her medical degree from the University of Jordan and completed her residency training in Radiology at the University of Toronto.  Dr. Shaheen is a fellowship trained women’s imaging/breast imager from Harvard Medical School. She was the Chief of Radiology and Director of Women’s Imaging at Harrington Memorial Hospital in MA-USA (affiliated with BIDMC- Harvard Medical School) from 2009 to 2012.  She also worked as Chief of Women’s Imaging at Mafraq Hospital from 2012-2014, spearheading the strategic planning of breast imaging across the governmental hospitals at SEHA in Abu Dhabi. She is passionate about improving global access to high quality women’s cancer care through innovative digital technology & leveraging Artificial Intelligence.

Pranav Sharma is a 4th year medical student at the Drexel University College of Medicine. His professional background includes experience in healthcare consulting. Presently, he focuses on academic pursuits centered around genomics and healthcare economics.

Pranjali Sharma holds a MBA from IIM Bangalore & an engineering degree from IIT (BHU), Varanasi. She is a budding researcher in Strategy and Marketing. She has experience of working in large consumer goods firms and e-commerce start-ups like Tata Cliq, Nyka, Mondelēz International and Jabong. Pranjali is also a Gold Medal Holder during her undergraduate studies at IIT and wants to pursue doctoral studies at some stage in her career.

Gregory P. Shea, Ph.D., M.Sc. is Adjunct Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and of its Aresty Institute of Executive Education, Senior Fellow at the Wharton School’s Center for Leadership and Change, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.  He has co-authored numerous books, chapters, and articles including Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work , and American Healthcare & the Consumer Experience.  He is a frequent contributor to Wharton’s Sirius Radio channel. His website is http://gregoryshea.com/

Ami Sheth is currently a digital health program manager at Ontario Health. As a critical care RN, she has had progressive leadership roles and led quality initiatives to advance healthcare delivery within critical care departments. With particular interest in solving health inequity and to approach it with a systems’ lens, she recently completed a global executive MBA in healthcare and life sciences from the Rotman School of Management.

Andrew Shin, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University and the Executive Medical Director, Innovations & Clinical Effectiveness for Stanford Children’s Health. His research has leveraged microsystems, improvement science and high-reliability to better understand the intersection between the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery. As the Medical Director for Systems Design for Utilization Research for Stanford (SURF MEDICINE), Dr. Shin translates his research to continuously improve the value of healthcare utilizing high-throughput advanced analytics such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. He completed his pediatric residency, along with a dual fellowship in pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Shin is the Associate Medical Director for Cardiovascular Intensive Care Services and serves as a board member for Pediatric Congenital Heart Association, Carta Healthcare and as liaison for the American Heart Association’s Leadership Committee of the Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research.

Kirankumar Shiragur is a Ph.D. student at Stanford University, co-advised by Prof. Moses Charikar and Prof. Aaron Sidford. He is a theoretical computer scientist broadly interested in the foundations of data science and their application to interdisciplinary research in the sciences. His work focuses on both building statistical and computational tools for fundamental problems in data science, as well as using these tools to understand problems in the natural and social sciences.

Mark N. Simon, MD, MMM, CPE, is Chief Medical Officer of Ob Hospitalist Group. Dr. Simon is a Board-Certified OB/GYN. He joined Ob Hospitalist Group in January 2009 as a full-time OB/GYN hospitalist at Valley Medical Center in Renton, Washington, where he served as Chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for four years.

Dr. Simon graduated summa cum laude with a BA in economics from the University of Colorado and earned his medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed residency training at Exempla St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado, and has since received his Master’s in medical management degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Howard Smith, Ph.D., is Professor at the Milgard School of Business, University of Washington Tacoma. For over 28 years, he served as dean or vice president at several universities. His primary research interests include health services issues and strategic management.

Raman Sohal has worked for several international development agencies including: IDRC, CARE India and UN Women. During her three-year tenure at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in New York City, Raman worked as a Monitoring and Reporting Specialist and managed a portfolio of projects that focused on local governance, aid effectiveness, and financing gender equality in countries in Africa, Latin America and South Asia. Raman is currently a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Raman’s research focuses on scaling up health services delivery in low-and-middle income countries. Much of Raman’s research focuses on the role of the private sector in health services delivery and the use of business model innovation to advance health services delivery in emerging markets. Raman holds a Masters in Political Science and International Development from the University of Guelph and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.

Stewart Spanbauer is an MBA student in UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s class of 2025, focused on Healthcare and Marketing. Prior to graduate school, he graduated as an industrial engineer from NC State University and spent 4 years honing his process efficiency skills at P&G in operations. He returned to school to find a way to lower the barriers of entry to healthcare.

Bryan Spear, MBA, MHA, is an hospital administrator working for a regional health system in Maryland. Prior to moving to the National Capital region, he spent 8 years leading clinical teams in austere settings as well as conducting emergency medical planning in both urban and rural environments. Earning his MBA and MHA from Baylor University, Bryan’s research interests reside in leadership, organizational behavior, and implementation science. He is on the Board of Directors for the Virginia Tech Rescue Squad Alumni Association, which works to build a collaborative environment and support first responders both past and present on the Virginia Tech campus.

Joseph Spear was born and raised in Kinston, North Carolina. He attended Baylor University for his undergraduate education majoring in Biology with a minor in Business Administration. In 2022, he received a Masters in Business Administration from the Robbins Institute of Health Policy and Leadership at Baylor. Currently, Joseph attends the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine with an expected graduation date of May 2026.

Dr. Brett Spencer is Managing Director and Partner with Boston Consulting Group based in Denver.  Brett focuses on health care delivery systems on topics related to strategy, innovation of payment and care models, performance enhancement (clinical and non-clinical) and clinical integration. He has also helped organizations design new patient-centric delivery models, including those for product design, pricing, marketing and next-generation digital interactions.

Brett holds a MD from the Indiana University School of Medicine, an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Northwestern University.  Prior to BCG, he practiced as a Board-certified internist for 18 years and was founder and CEO of a multispecialty physician group supported by a joint-venture outpatient diagnostic and surgical center.

Rulon Stacey has served as the Director of Programs in Health Administration at the University of Colorado Denver since January 1, 2020.  He comes to CU Denver after five years as a partner with Guidehouse consulting. During his distinguished career, Dr. Stacey has served as CEO of several different health systems, including Fairview Health System in Minneapolis and the Poudre Valley Health System (PVHS) in Fort Collins, Colorado. During his time at PVHS, Dr. Stacey led the merger of PVHS with University of Colorado Hospital to form UCHealth and became the organization’s inaugural CEO. As the CEO, Dr. Stacey led the strategic plan to expand UCHealth to include Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs and several other clinics and hospitals throughout Colorado and Wyoming. Under Dr. Stacey's leadership, PVHS became one of the first healthcare companies to receive the nation’s most prestigious quality award, The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Dr. Stacey has served as the Chair of the Board of Governors for the American College of Healthcare Executives, was appointed by three different United States Secretaries of Commerce to multiple terms as the Chair of the Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, was twice selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the top 100 most influential people in US healthcare, and is currently the Chair of the CEO Circle of the International Hospital Federation based in Geneva, Switzerland.

As a graduate of CU Denver, Dr. Stacey was also selected in 2000 as the Mulstein Scholar, representing that year’s best Ph.D. dissertation in the Graduate School of Public Affairs.

Dr. Kristan Staudenmayer is an Associate Professor of Surgery in Trauma, Emergency General Surgery and Critical Care at Stanford University. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Staudenmayer conducts research in health services research and clinical informatics.

Kristan Staudenmayer, MD, is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Stanford practicing Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency General Surgery. She holds the Gordon and Betty Moore Endowed Faculty Chair and conducts research in trauma systems and geriatric trauma. Dr. Staudenmayer contributed to Stanford Hospital’s COVID-19 surge planning efforts, and is currently exploring mechanisms of COVID-19 disease spread in the community.

Courtenay Stewart is a physiatrist and clinical care designer for new innovations at One Medical. She is an affiliate scholar and advisor at Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center. Her clinical and research interests include high-value health technology, musculoskeletal care and primary care innovation.

Devin Stone, Director at McDermott+Consulting, is a skilled healthcare data analyst who uses his programming skills and healthcare payment systems expertise to support clients' strategic decision-making and advocacy efforts. He deploys robust data analytics to help clients better serve their patients, measure quality of care and respond effectively to health policy developments.

Dr. Sumner is the Director of the Institute of Health Administration at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has extensive experience in health administration and health services, including strategic planning, operations management, simulation, quality improvement, health information systems, medical care organization, and managed care. Dr. Sumner has served as Chair, Administration Advisory Committee, Department of Medical Assistance (Medicaid), State of Georgia; Board of Directors and former Chair of Promina Health Plan, Inc.; and the Advisory Council of the CARE quality improvement program of the Georgia Hospital Association. He has over 20 years of experience in hospitals and public health. Dr. Sumner has published in leading health care publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Care, Health Services Research, Health Care Management Review, and Hospitals.

Arthur Sung, MD, is the Senior Associate Chief for the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University. He further serves as the Director of the Interventional Pulmonology service including the lung nodule and EBUS programs. His research interests include thoracic oncology, interventional pulmonology, pleural diseases, and healthcare system innovation.

David Wohlever Sánchez is a senior at Duke University, where he majors in Public Policy with minors in Economics and Computer Science.

Biao Tang is an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. His research interests include mathematical biology and infectious disease and has published intensively on COVID-19 research.

Sanyi Tang is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Information Science, Shaanxi Normal University. A member of the modeling sub-project team of the National Mega-project of Science, he has many years of experience of interdisciplinary research, linking surveillance data and cutting-edge computational methods to evaluate outbreak risks of emerging infectious diseases.

Vittavat Termglinchan, MD, is a Senior Scholar at the Clinical Excellence Research Center at Stanford University. He is very passionate about elderly care and health innovations to better the care of older adults and to reduce caregiver burden. Dr. Termglinchan completed his medical training from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 2013, graduating with first-class honors. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in 2016, his residency in 2019, and Geriatric Medicine fellowship in 2020, all at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Avni Thakore, MD, FACC, currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for CHS Physician Partners Medical Group. Dr. Thakore was previously Associate CMO and Chair of Cardiology for AdvantageCare Physicians. Dr. Thakore has received many honors, including 2019 NY Times SuperDoctors, NY Top Doctors and NY Castle Connolly Best Doctors in 2017, as well as being named among America’s Best Physicians and winner of the Leaders in HeathCare Top Doctor/Top Cardiologist recognition and the Soma Weiss/Harvard Medical School Research Award.

Isha Thapa is a PhD student in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She completed her Bachelor’s in Statistics with a focus in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley.

Samuel Thomas, MD, MS, is a practicing internal medicine physician at the Stanford Health Care, a fellow within the Stanford-Intermountain Fellowship in Population Health, Delivery Science and Primary Care program, and is a candidate for a Master of Science in Health Policy at Stanford. He completed his medical degree and Master of Science in bioengineering at the University of Utah, as well as his residency in Internal Medicine where he worked at University of Utah, Intermountain Healthcare, and the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System. His research involves the implementation of evidence-based medicine and emerging health care innovations to help health care systems transition to value based care at scale.

Jay Toor, MD, MBA, is a senior Orthopaedic Surgery Resident at the University of Toronto. He received his BHSc from McMaster University, MD from the University of Ottawa, and graduated the Surgeon Scientist Training Program with an MBA from the University of Toronto. Although his clinical focus is Spine Surgery, he is dedicated to improving healthcare system efficiency using evidence-based applications of business techniques borrowed from the fields of operations management, finance and artificial intelligence. He has had extensive experience as an executive consultant for several large public hospitals through his company primushealthcaresolutions.com as well as through his role as an academic investigator. In addition to addressing financial and operational inefficiencies within hospital perioperative care, he hopes to target supply chains and inventory management through novel technologies and strategies.

Alberto Trejos holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. As an academic, he has been in the faculty of Northwestern University and INCAE Business School, where he serves as Dean and formerly as Director of its policy think-tank, the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, the Institut d´Anàlisi Econòmica de Barcelona, and the Federal Reserve System. He has published extensively both in academic technical journals and for practitioners, mostly on monetary economics, macroeconomics, international trade and development.

As a policy-maker in his native Costa Rica, he served as Minister of Foreign Trade, and in that capacity led the negotiation of DR-CAFTA, the trade agreement with the US. He was one of the original members of the Financial Supervision Board and, for nearly a decade, was President of CINDE, the Investment Attraction Agency. He also participated in the design and negotiation of the national pension system reform. He is a founding director of South Africa´s Brenthurst Foundation, the Demo Lab, the School of Global Public Health of New York University, the Johannesburg Business School, and has chaired the Arias Foundation for Peace and Democracy. He has also been a panelist (judge) in disputes at the World Trade Organization.

Trejos has worked for governments, international organizations and companies in over 50 nations across the Americas, Europe and Africa. He is the vice-chairman of the Cuestamoras Corporation. He also belongs to the board of BAC-Credomatic Bank and is a senior partner of the consulting firms CEFSA and DRP.

Austin Triana is a resident physician in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He studied industrial engineering at Stanford University and received his MD/MBA from Vanderbilt University. His current research investigates the impact of price transparency on health economics and healthcare delivery.

Steven G. Ullmann is Professor and Director of the Center for Health Management and Policy at the University of Miami Herbert Business School. Dr. Ullmann holds secondary appointments in the Department of Economics as well as in the Departments of Epidemiology & Public Health and Family Medicine & Community Health in the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, specializing in the areas of healthcare management, health care economics and healthcare policy

Dr. Ullmann holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics with Distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has received training and certification in Bioethics and Advanced Bioethics from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.

Ranjith P V completed his Engineering MBA and PhD and is currently working as Associate Professor of Decision Science at CMS Business School, JAIN Deemed to be University, Bangalore. He is UGC-NET qualified and has close to two decades of experience in  teaching. He has published articles in different areas of Management and his areas of interests in research are Service Quality and Analytics.

Jacqueline Vallon is currently pursuing her PhD in Management Science and Engineering with an emphasis in operations management at Stanford University. Her research interest lies in applying tools from operations research to timely and impactful healthcare projects. Past projects to which Jacqueline has contributed include understanding personalized treatment options for cancer patients, projecting the capacity demand for medicine teams at Stanford Hospital, and modeling alternative compensation models. Before pursuing graduate studies, Jacqueline completed a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics at the University of California, San Diego.

Aparna J Varma is a teacher of excellence with more than 13 years of experience of teaching with publications in different areas of management, with a focus on Marketing Specialization. She is working as Associate Professor of  Marketing, Department at GSSS Institute of Engineering & Technology for Women, in Mysuru, India. She has published articles on marketing in different peer-reviewed journals.

Anant Vasudevan, MD, MBA, is a board-certified academic hospitalist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA.  He is also an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He serves as the Medical Director for Radial Analytics. He earned an MD from the Yale School of Medicine, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University

Arjun Venkatesh, MD, MBA, is interested in the development of performance measures designed to improve emergency department, hospital and health system outcomes. His research focuses on variation in emergency physician decision-making on hospital admission from the Emergency Department. Dr. Venkatesh co-leads the ACEP Emergency Quality Network (E-QUAL) as part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative.

Stacie Vilendrer MD, MBA, is a board-certified family physician and a health services research fellow through the Stanford-Intermountain Fellowship in Population Health & Delivery Science. Prior to entering fellowship, Stacie completed her MD/MBA at Stanford followed by a residency in family medicine at UCSF-affiliate Santa Rosa Family Medicine. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, Dr. Vilendrer uses the tools of implementation science to study clinician incentives, the dynamics of team-based clinical practice, how to best deliver feedback to practitioners, and how to effectively incorporate emerging technologies into clinical practice. Her research focuses on finding opportunities to improve quality and lower cost within at-scale health systems that can be quickly put into practice by C-suite executives seeking to respond to the industry’s shift to value-based care.

Aleeza Vitale, BS, was a student studying health management and policy at the University of Miami during the time of the study. She is now an MHA candidate at the George Washington University and hopes to improve population health initiatives and drive change from a managerial perspective upon graduation.

Peter Waiswa is an Associate Professor at Makerere University School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Uganda and also a visiting Researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. He is the Founder and Coordinator of the INDEPTH Network Maternal and Newborn Research Group in Accra, Ghana and the Makerere University Maternal and Newborn Centre of Excellence in Uganda. Dr Waiswa is a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Advisory Board for Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

Kurt Waltenbaugh is a serial entrepreneur who has built successful analytic solutions, products and companies in the healthcare, retail, manufacturing, education/credentialing and fundraising industries. His previous companies were sold to Oracle and Pearson Education. Most recently, Kurt was responsible for Product Strategy at Optum, Inc. (UnitedHealth), building data analytic businesses for the Provider, Payer and Employer markets.

Cecilia Wang is a senior in the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies Health Care Management & Statistics in the Wharton School and Computational Biology in the College. She interned at the National Institutes of Health on maternal-child health and prevention research in the Office of Disease Prevention. She also initiated a hospital management research project in Nairobi, Kenya in Summer 2018. Currently, Cecilia is working with Clover Biopharmaceuticals on their COVID vaccine project. Upon graduation, Cecilia will continue exploring her interests in global health through the one-year Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University in China

Uma Warrier received her PhD from Visvesvaraya Technological University ( VTU). She has an MBA in HRM, an MA in industrial psychology, a PGD in counselling psychology, and an Mphil in management. She is  UGC-NET-qualified and is a SHRM-Senior Certified Professional. She currently serves as Professor of OB & HRM at CMS School of Business and Chief Counsellor at Jain University, Bangalore. She has 24 years of industrial, academic and consulting  experience along with the 14 years of research experience. Her areas of interest include emotional intelligence, work-life balance, mindfulness, and learning style preferences.

Sedona Rose Webb is a public health graduate from the University of Miami. She spent her undergraduate career working in the Department of Health Management and Policy under Steven Ullmann.

Chen Wei received his MD/MBA from Harvard and is currently finishing his internal medicine residency at Stanford. He is an aspiring cardiologist and passionate about innovation in value-based healthcare.

Sarah Wells holds an MS in Educational Psychology and Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation. She is entering the dissertation phase of obtaining her PhD in Educational Psychology Assessment and Quantitative Analysis at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She works as a graduate research assistant for the endowed chair of the College of Education and as a Part Time Instructor.  Her educational research interests surround self-regulation, metacognition, mindfulness, and behavioral measurement.

Richard Westlund has more than 30 years experience as a business writer, focusing on health care, technology, finance, real estate and other topics. Based in Miami, he earned an MBA in 1983 from the University of Miami and a BA in 1973 from Cornell University. He was formerly an editor at The Miami News and the Daily Business Review.

Cari Whyne, PhD, FIOR, is the Susanne and William Holland Chair in Musculoskeletal Research at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. She is a Senior Scientist and the Director of the Holland Bone and Joint Research Program at Sunnybrook Research Institute and a Full Professor in the Department of Surgery, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Dr. Whyne received her BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University and her PhD from the University of California Berkeley / University of California San Francisco in Bioengineering. The focus of her work is clinically translational bioengineering research. Dr. Whyne’s research integrates biomechanical analyses with basic science, preclinical and clinical investigations, including extensive work in computational image analysis, machine learning, micro-imaging and finite element modeling techniques. Her work also incorporates design, simulation, evaluation and clinical translation of novel less/minimally invasive surgical techniques and devices. The primary foci of Dr Whyne’s research are cancer in bone, spinal/lower extremity/thin bone biomechanics, arthroplasty and fracture fixation/healing.

Cholan Wijekumar was born and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania.  He attended the University of Miami majoring in Chemistry with minors in Economics and Biology.  He then pursued a Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences from Texas A&M University.  Currently, he is a second year student in the Robbins MBA Healthcare Administration program at Baylor University, and the current administrative resident at North Central Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

Jennifer Wilson, MD, MS, FACEP, is a clinical assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care at Stanford University School of Medicine. She works clinically in both the ED and ICU at Stanford Hospital, and her research focuses on the early care of sepsis and ARDS, and transitions of care between the ED and ICU.

Clay Wiske, MD, is currently in his third year of resident in vascular surgery at NYU. Clay graduated from Columbia University with a degree in physics and has a Masters of Philosophy in nanotechnology from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Skerne scholar. He holds of MBA with distinction from Harvard and an MD from Brown. He has co-authored articles in journals including JAMA, Journal of Vascular Surgery, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, and Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics. Clay’s academic interests include medical device design and healthcare economics.

Breanna Wong is an Account Executive at Physicians’ Ally, a firm offering contracting and compliance consulting for small to mid-sized practices. She received her Bachelor of Science at Cornell University and is currently pursuing her MBA in Healthcare Administration at the University of Colorado Denver School of Business. She has previously been published in peer reviewed journals.  Breanna is an active member of the BAHM Student Activities Committee and represented CU Denver at this year’s BAHM Case Competition.

Stacy Wood is the Langdon Distinguished University Professor of Marketing, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University and also serves as the Executive Director of the Consumer Innovation Collaborative. Her research interests focus on the psychology of innovation—exploring how consumers learn about, adopt, adapt to, or reject new things—from high tech products to societal trends.  Dr. Wood earned her Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 1998 and came to NC State in 2010.  She has taught at USC, MIT, and Duke, where her class at the Duke School of Medicine won multiple awards.  She has won numerous awards in research during her career, including major awards such as the 1997 MSI – H. Paul Root Award (Journal of Marketing) for the paper that made the most significant contribution to marketing practice and the American Marketing Association’s 2005 Louis W. Stern Award for best paper in marketing and channels. Since coming to NC State, Dr. Wood has founded the Consumer Innovation Collaborative (CIC) to provide unique consumer research training to interdisciplinary graduate students while partnering with top corporations to tackle their most challenging consumer issues of the future.  Her work here spans several facets of the changing healthcare space and seeks to find sustainable patient-centered solutions for medical practice. Dr. Wood is currently editor of the Journal of Consumer Research.

Jianhong Wu received his PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from Hunan University in 1987, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellow study in Mathematical Biology at University of Alberta. He is currently a University Distinguished Research Professor, a Canada Research Chair and an NSERC Industrial Research Chair, York University. The research expertise of Professor Wu includes infectious disease modeling and data analytics to inform public health decision making and immunization program design and evaluation. He led national teams of disease modelling to support public health emergency rapid response for the SARS outbreak and H1N1 influenza pandemic. He is currently leading a national COVID-19 modeling rapid response task force.

Dr. Xia is the Director of Institute for Insight at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Xia’s research interests include structured and unstructured data analytics, algorithm design and machine learning, blockchain technology, and operations and supply chain management. He has been applying and advancing different analytics methods such as machine learning, deep learning, and text/image analytics to solve business problems in different industries, including health care. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and industries such as Amazon and Ryerson. His research has been published in top journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, and Decisions Sciences.

Yanni Xiao is a Professor of Applied Mathematics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, and the Director of Interdisciplinary Center of Mathematics and Life Sciences (ICMLS, XJTU). She has many years of experience in mathematical modeling to inform public health policy. In collaboration with China CDC, she has led sub-projects on modelling HIV/AIDS transmission of the Chinese National Key Projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program during the 11^th, 12^th and 13^th Five-year Plan Periods.

Jin Xie is a Ph.D. student in the  Institution of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University, with a Ph.D. Minor from the Department of Management Science and Engineering. Jin studies stochastic optimization and machine learning with applications in healthcare. Prior to graduate school, she received a B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University.

Jackie Xu is a senior at Duke University, where she majors in Public Policy with a minor in Chemistry.

Jiayin Xue, MD, is a medical director at PicnicHealth and a senior scholar at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center. Previously, she was an adjunct professor at Stanford School of
Medicine and a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. Clinically, she completed her pediatrics training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and practices at The Permanente Medical Group in Northern California. She earned her MD at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and her MPH degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Alan Z. Yang, MSc, is an MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School. He holds a bachelor's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Harvard College. He also earned master's degrees in immunology and history of science from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Alan's research interests include health policy, clinical outcomes, and epidemiology.

Linying Yang is a Master student in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University, mainly interested in applied statistics. Prior to graduate school, she obtained a B.S. in Statistics from Fudan University.

Abbie Yant is the Vice President of Mission, Advocacy and Community Health at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, a member of Dignity Health. Abbie is a founding member of the San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership. On behalf of the hospitals of San Francisco, she oversees the functionality of SFHIP.org and Community Vital Signs 2.0 – the home for the San Francisco Community Health Needs Assessment.

In her position at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, Abbie is responsible for the development and implementation of the community benefit plan. In this capacity, and in collaboration with the Saint Francis Foundation, Abbie leads the Tenderloin Health Improvement Partnership (TLHIP), a collective impact initiative in downtown San Francisco aimed at positively influencing social determinants of health and improving health outcomes for residents of the Tenderloin neighborhood. Abbie is staff to the Board of Trustee’s Community Advisory Committee which functions as the Steering Committee for TLHIP.

Abbie serves as public policy advocate, and sits on several boards and committees. She is a graduate of St. Mary’s College, Moraga with a Masters of Arts in Leadership, Bachelor of Arts in Health Services Administration and received her Diploma in Nursing from York Hospital School of Nursing.

Nina Yenie Yun,  is an MBA Student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Qiang Zhang is a senior at Duke University, where she majors in Political Science with a minor in psychology.

Teng Zhang is a PhD student in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Teng studies stochastic modeling and machine learning with applications in healthcare. Prior to graduate school, he received a B.S. in Mathematics from Fudan University.

Özden Engin Çakıcı, is Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Kogod School of Business, American University. Professor Çakıcı studies operations management with a focus on healthcare services and supply chain management. His research methodology includes stochastic modeling, optimization, inventory theory and applied queuing theory, among others. His healthcare research focuses on healthcare system response to demand management and economic incentives in healthcare as well as inventory policy and information technology choices for managing medical item inventories. His supply chain research focuses on developing exact and approximate inventory policies as well as pricing, distribution, and revenue management of goods. His research has been published in journals including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Decision Sciences and Decision Support Systems.

Professor Çakıcı received the prestigious Kogod Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching three times and Kogod Faculty Award for Outstanding Service as well as the Dean’s Honor Roll for Outstanding Teaching from Carol G. Simon Graduate School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Rochester.