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Wednesday, December 4th – Event Opening

1:00 pm ........ Pittsburgh Technology TourPittsburgh has long been regarded as the “Steel City” once accounting for almost one-half of the nation’s steel output and home to hundreds of steel-related businesses. As the city’s skyline has brightened, Pittsburgh has transformed into one of the leading cities for innovation in technology, medicine, education, health care, and robotics, generating more than $22 billion in the last decade.

Join the Center for Connected Medicine for a cross-industry look at the innovation and advancements in technology to enhance the consumer experience from some of the companies driving change in Pittsburgh. After touring Uber and the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, visit UPMC Enterprises for a panel discussion on “Pittsburgh as a Tech Hub”.

PANELISTS:

Rebecca Jacobson, Vice President of Analytics, UPMC Enterprises (MODERATOR)

Eric Meyhofer, Vice President and Head of Advanced Technologies Group, Uber

Laura G. Ritz, Chief Operating Officer, numo

The Honorable Bill Peduto, Mayor, City of Pittsburgh

5:30 pm ....... Registration and Welcome Networking Reception – Center for Connected Medicine

6:00 pm ....... Opening Remarks Tal Heppenstall, Executive Vice President, Treasurer, UPMC and President, UPMC Enterprises

6:15 pm ......... Top of Mind for Top Health Systems 2020Expert analysis from health system C-suite on new survey findings about patient engagement, data aggregation and analytics, precision medicine, and the digital health outlook of health systems in 2020.

MODERATOR: Adam Gale, President, KLAS

Chris Carmody, Senior Vice President, Information Services Division, UPMC

Tim Tarnowski, Senior Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer, UMass Memorial Health Care

Emily C. Webber, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Riley Children’s Health at Indiana University Health and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Indiana University Health

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Thursday, December 5th – Summit Day 1 All sessions to take place at the Center for Connected Medicine

7:30 am ........ Breakfast and Registration

8:45 am ........ Welcoming RemarksPamela Peele, PhD, Chief Analytics Officer, UPMC Insurance Services Division and UPMC Enterprises

9:00 am ....... KEYNOTE: The Retailization of Health Care Consumer expectations continue to change and challenge industries to transform in new and innovative ways. UnitedHealthcare’s Chief Information Officer, Phil McKoy, will share how he made the transition from retail to health care and is now using that experience to help create a more consumer-centric experience for the 50 million people UnitedHealthcare serves throughout all stages of their life, and across all types of health care needs.

Phil McKoy, Chief Information Officer, UnitedHealthcare

9:30 am ........ Meeting Patient ExpectationsPerspectives on what it takes to be a trusted partner in health, how patients are communicating needs and preferences, and how the industry is responding.

MODERATOR: Ellen Beckjord, PhD, Associate Vice President, Population Health and Clinical Affairs, UPMC Health Plan

Rob DeMichiei, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, UPMC

Rebecca Kaul, Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Gerry Lewis, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Ascension and President, CEO, Ascension Technologies

10:15 am ....... Networking Break

10:45 am ...... Rapid Innovative vs. Well Justified Use: Harnessing the Promise of Precision Medicine During this overview of the precision medicine landscape at academic medical center UPMC, and its innovation arm, UPMC Enterprises, Executive Vice President Jeanne Cunicelli will talk about promising therapies and technologies.

Jeanne Cunicelli, Executive Vice President, UPMC Enterprises

11:00 am ....... Personalized Medicine: Science, Startups, and SafeguardsWhat’s possible today in immunotherapy and personalized medicine, and what funding mechanisms, infrastructure, and safeguards are needed to make these treatments accessible to more patients?

MODERATOR: Jeanne Cunicelli, Executive Vice President, UPMC Enterprises

David Apelian, MD, PhD, CEO, BlueSphere Bio

Rob Bart, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, UPMC

Jill Hagenkord, MD, Co-founder, Chief Medical Officer, MDisrupt and former CMO, Color

11:45 am ........ Fireside Chat: The Role of Payers, Policy, and Payment Models in Advancing Personalized Therapies Joon Lee, MD, Chief Medical Officer, UPMC Health Plan Nicholas Uehlecke, Advisor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

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12:15 pm ........ Data in Health Care – Potential Panacea or Biggest Challenge? Health care data contains an opportunity to solve to some of health care’s biggest challenges, but data silos and lack of standards have historically stood in the way – and still do. Considerations for health system leaders selecting solutions for data aggregation, as well as applications that consume the data.

Girish Muralidharan, Vice President, General Manager, Performance Intelligence Analytics, GE Healthcare

12:45 pm ....... Networking Lunch

1:45 pm ......... The Art of Person-Centered Care: A Patient’s PerspectiveThrough her story from accident to recovery, and the relationships, challenges, kindness, and care received along the way, Allison Massari offers a personal perspective on the struggle to put the patient first in health care.

Allison Massari, Patient Speaker

2:30 pm ........ Incorporating Digital Health: The Clinician PerspectiveHow institutions are educating, training, and supporting clinicians, nurses, and staff as providers adopt digital health tools. A review of recent rollouts and the strategies that supported workforce adoption and incorporation into clinical workflow.

OPENING REMARKS AND MODERATOR: Clay Johnston, MD, PhD, Dean and Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin

Sherri Hess, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, Banner Health

Alexa B. Kimball, MD, President and CEO, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Tami Minnier, Chief Quality Officer, UPMC

3:30 pm ........ Networking Break

4:00 pm ....... Design, Digital Strategy, and the Health Care ExperienceWhere will health care pioneer new gold standards in consumer experience, and what can health care learn from design triumphs in other sectors? Experts will discuss which digital strategies are winning with patients, clinicians, and staff, and where resources and focus will change the game in the year ahead.

MODERATOR: Katie Scott, Vice President, Consumer Portfolio, UPMC Enterprises

Mike McSherry, CEO, Xealth

Amber Samdahl, Creative Director, Wisconsin Public Television and former Disney Imagineering Strategist

Mark Zhang, DO, Medical Director, Digital Innovation Hub, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

4:45 pm ........ ConcludePamela Peele, PhD, Chief Analytics Officer, UPMC Insurance Services Division and UPMC Enterprises

6:00 pm ....... Cocktail Hour and Dinner at Heinz Field – 100 Art Rooney Ave, Pittsburgh 15212

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Friday, December 6th – Summit Day 2

8:45 am ........ Breakfast and Welcome Pamela Peele, PhD, Chief Analytics Officer, UPMC Insurance Services Division and UPMC Enterprises

9:00 am ....... Interoperability: A Review of Progress and Policy from the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

A discussion of health care interoperability, policy updates from the past year, and an outlook for the year ahead.

Don Rucker, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Department of Health and Human Services

9:30 am ........ The Influence of Health Care DataWhat goes into building new data sources, and making them available to health care leaders in a timely, digestible way? A look at new data coming in, how it’s changing the way health care leaders derive insights, staff teams, make decisions, and assess quality.

MODERATOR: Rebecca Jacobson, MD, Vice President of Analytics, UPMC Enterprises

Ittai Dayan, MD, Executive Director of Strategy and Operations, MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science

Diane Holder, Executive Vice President, CEO, UPMC Health Plan

Nnaemeka “Emeka” Okafor, MD, Vice President, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Memorial Hermann Health System

10:30 am ...... Networking Break

11:00 am ....... Data UNconference An opportunity to ask questions of renowned data scientists, analytics leaders, and health care data policy experts.

FACILITATOR: Aneesh Chopra, President, CareJourney

Mona Siddiqui, MD, Chief Data Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Erich S. Huang, MD, PhD, Co-Director, Duke Forge Center for Health Data Science

Steve Vogelsang, Vice President, Strategy and Chief Technology Officer, IP and Optical Networks, Nokia

11:45 am ........ Closing RemarksPamela Peele, PhD, Chief Analytics Officer, UPMC Insurance Services Division and UPMC Enterprises

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David Apelian, MD, PhDCEO, BlueSphere Bio

David brings extensive clinical development, research, and regulatory experience, spanning more than 20 years in large pharma and biotechnology companies across multiple therapeutic areas including hepatology, immuno-oncology, and rare diseases.

David was most recently Chief Operating Officer and Executive Medical Officer at Eiger Biopharma where he was responsible for the strategy and execution of late stage clinical development programs including chronic hepatitis D, progeria, and post-bariatric hypoglycemia. He still serves on the board of directors of Eiger. He served previously as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. where he was instrumental in securing a partnership between Achillion and Johnson & Johnson, which resulted in a $225 million equity investment. From 2005 to 2013, David was Chief Medical Officer and subsequently head of all R&D and Regulatory Affairs for the immune oncology company GlobeImmune. Before that, he served as Medical Lead at Bristol-Myers Squibb. And prior to that, he was Clinical Director in the Department of Hepatology & Gastroenterology at Schering Plough.

David completed his residency training in pediatrics at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, and is board certified in Pediatrics. He received a PhD in Biochemistry from Rutgers University, an MD from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and an MBA from Quinnipiac University. He earned a BA in Biochemistry from Rutgers University.

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Robert D. Bart, MDChief Medical Information Officer, UPMC

Rob received his medical degree from the University of Hawaii and then went on to train in pediatrics and critical care at Duke University. Following Duke, Rob joined the faculty at USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), where he became enamored with health care information technology. He initially worked on an electronic health record project at CHLA before accepting the position of chief medical officer at Cerner Corporation. In 2012, he became the first chief medical information officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. In 2017, Rob moved to Pittsburgh to become the chief medical information officer of UPMC.

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Ellen Beckjord, PhDAssociate Vice President, Population Health & Clinical Affairs, UPMC Health Plan

Ellen did her training in clinical psychology at the University of Vermont and the Vanderbilt-VA internship consortium, and her post-doctoral work in the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. At NCI, Ellen worked in the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch and received a Masters in Public Health, focused on Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

From NCI, she spent three years in research consulting at RAND Corporation and five years in academic medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and Hillman Cancer Center. In February 2015, she joined the UPMC Health Plan. Her current work is focused on behavioral science, population health, and the use of digital tools in clinical operations to promote health, wellness, and health.

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Chris CarmodySenior Vice President, Information Services Division, UPMC

Chris leads information technology (IT) infrastructure teams at UPMC, including data centers, data, voice and video networks, cybersecurity, service desk, device support, enterprise project management office, and more, which include 900 IT professionals and an annual budget (capital and operating) of more than $200 million. Chris also serves as President of ClinicalConnect, Pennsylvania’s largest Health Information Exchange (HIE) comprised of over 40,000 users at western Pennsylvania’s leading regional health providers. In 2015, The Pittsburgh Technology Council and Greater Pittsburgh CIO Group named Chris 2015 Pittsburgh CIO of the Year.

Chris has 22 years of experience in the IT field. He has a B.A. degree in Accounting with a minor in Business Administration from Westminster College and a Master of Business Administration and Master of Information Systems Management from Robert Morris University. He serves on the Pittsburgh International Airport IT Advisory Board. He also serves as an adjunct associate professor with Point Park University and La Roche College teaching information systems and business courses.

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Aneesh ChopraPresident, CareJourney

Aneesh, the former Chief Technology Officer of the United States, leads CareJourney, an open data service that democratizes care interventions research for providers, payers, and pharma on the move to value. Prior to joining the Obama administration as CTO, Aneesh was Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is the author of “Innovative State: How New Technologies can Transform Government.” He joined the board of the Health Care Cost Institute in 2017, earned his MPP from Harvard Kennedy School, and BA from The Johns Hopkins University.

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Jeanne CunicelliExecutive Vice President, UPMC Enterprises

Jeanne has more than two decades of experience as a life science venture capital investor and advisor. Leveraging the multifaceted resources of UPMC, a $20 billion world-renowned health care provider and insurer, Jeanne leads investments related to UPMC’s $200 million initial commitment to invest in innovative therapies and diagnostic products. Jeanne’s team collaborates closely with scientist-entrepreneurs to invest in creation of new companies, as well as in building companies at all stages, with a focus on immunotherapy for cancer, transplantation, diseases related to aging and other chronic illnesses.

Jeanne serves on the boards of three UPMC Enterprises portfolio companies, BlueSphere Bio, Generian, and Humonic, Inc., and is a member of the executive committee of the UPMC Genome Center. Prior to joining UPMC, she was a Managing Director and Investment Partner at Bay City Capital, where she focused on medical device, drug delivery, and drug development companies. She has served on the Boards of Directors of IDev Technologies, Protez Pharmaceuticals, NuPathe, Inc., and Calypso Medical, and as a board observer for Oculex and Syntonix Pharmaceuticals. Previously, she managed the Ernst & Young International Life Sciences Group’s industry-leading annual biotechnology report.

Jeanne is a member of the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Mellon University, serving on the executive, compensation, advancement, and audit committees. She received an MBA in Finance from the University of San Francisco and holds a BA in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Ittai Dayan, MDExecutive Director of Strategy and Operations, MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science

Ittai is responsible for leading artificial intelligence (AI) transformation by engaging researchers and industry collaborations to develop and implement AI at-scale in the clinical and research environments at Partners HealthCare. He is also responsible for developing and executing strategic AI initiatives across Partners, which was founded by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH).

Before joining the Center for Clinical Data Science, Ittai was a core member of the Boston Consulting Group’s health care practice, leading both advisory and implementation projects in topics such as strategy, corporate development, organizational transformation, and operations for Fortune 500 companies. His projects included assessing novel therapeutic modalities, digital health, and progressive models for patient engagement. Prior to that, Ittai was a practicing physician, and before that he was an officer in the airborne brigade of the Israeli Defense Force.

Ittai completed his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as studies at the John Hopkins School of Public Health.

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Robert A. DeMichieiChief Financial Officer, UPMC

As chief financial officer of UPMC, Rob is part of the executive management team of a $20 billion integrated health care delivery and finance system that spans the full spectrum of care with its network of 40 academic, community and specialty hospitals and 700 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, insurance services, and international and commercial operations.

Before joining UPMC in May 2004, Rob held various executive finance roles with the General Electric Co. (GE). He served as manager of finance, global business development & integration for GE Energy and as chief financial officer for GE Transportation Systems’ Global Service Operations. He also spent 10 years with Price Waterhouse in Pittsburgh. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and is a certified public accountant.

Active in various community leadership roles, Rob currently serves as Board Finance Committee Chairman for the United Way of Allegheny County and Seton Hill University. He serves on the Board of Directors of UPMC Hamot and UPMC Susquehanna, and on the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry Board of Directors.

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Adam GalePresident, KLAS

As one of the original four KLAS founders, Adam oversees all health IT research and performance reporting. He has worked with hundreds of health care professionals, along with executives from all the major health IT vendors and consultants over the lifetime of KLAS. Serving as president since 2011, Adam’s research focus spans everything from core clinical and financial systems to ERP, population health and analytics.

Adam is a HIMSS Fellow with 20 years of health care experience and has spoken at conferences around the country including CHIME, HIMSS, and AMDIS events. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University in business information systems.

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Jill Hagenkord, MDCo-founder and Chief Medical Officer, MDisrupt

Jill is a board-certified pathologist with subspecialty boards in molecular genetic pathology and a fellowship in pathology/oncology informatics. Jill’s expertise is in health product strategy, coding/ coverage/reimbursement, medical and regulatory affairs, health policy, clinical laboratory medicine, molecular diagnostics, population health, provider education, patient engagement, and medical diligence for health tech.

Building on this expertise with her latest venture, MDisrupt is providing medical diligence for the health tech industry, to help ensure wiser investments and to illuminate a clear path and timeline to widespread market adoption of novel health tech products. Jill serves on a number of medical professional societies as an active member in the Association for Molecular Pathology, the College of American Pathologists, American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health.

Jill received her Medical Degree from Stanford University School of Medicine, did residency training at the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Iowa, and completed fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Subsequently, she practiced pathology at Creighton University Medical Center where she founded iKaryos Diagnostics. Jill previously was the Chief Medical Officer at Color Genomics, 23andMe, Invitae, and Complete Genomics.

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Tal HeppenstallExecutive Vice President and Treasurer, UPMC and President, UPMC Enterprises

Tal has been treasurer of UPMC since 2003, executive vice president since 2013, and president of UPMC Enterprises since 2014. As treasurer, Tal is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day cash needs of UPMC, along with the investment management of its $7.5 billion of cash and investments, its pension portfolio, and oversight of its outstanding municipal bonds and other debt.

As president of UPMC Enterprises, Tal is leading a team dedicated to generating and enabling exceptional health care innovations by creating products and businesses that make life-changing medicine happen. UPMC invests its expertise, time, and capital in two areas where science and technology will drive significant value in health care by improving quality and reducing costs: digital solutions and translational science.

Previously, Tal served as managing director at RBC Dain Rauscher Inc., president of PriMuni LLC, senior vice president at PNC Capital Markets, and vice president at Butcher & Singer. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Sherri Hess, MS-ISChief Nursing Informatics Officer, Banner Health

Sherri has 30 years of experience in health care as a registered nurse and health information technology leader. She serves as the strategic liaison between clinical leaders and IT. She does this by addressing the information and knowledge needs of health care professionals and patients to promote safe, effective, efficient use of health IT in clinical settings. Sherri role models change management and evidence-based practice in all strategies with the patient as the focus.

She provides strategic leadership in the development, deployment, and re-engineering of the electronic health record (EHR) and other technology to support clinicians and leading to improving patient safety, quality, and outcomes. She is focused on improving the work-life of clinicians to aid in decreasing burnout and dissatisfaction.

Sherri served on the Colorado HIMSS Board for nine years and during her tenure as president, the Colorado chapter was named Chapter of the Year. She served two years on the HIMSS Nominating Committee and is active in ANIA and AONE. She is currently on the Arizona HIMSS Board. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver. Sherri is a Nightingale Luminary.

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Diane P. HolderPresident and CEO, UPMC Health Plan

As leader of UPMC Health Plan, Diane oversees an insurance services division that through its health plans and affiliates provides health coverage and benefit management for 3.5 million men, women, and children in Pennsylvania. The division includes the UPMC Health Plan, UPMC for You, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, and Work Partners. These health benefits companies manage benefits for Commercial, Medicaid, Medicare, Behavioral Health, EAP, Health Promotions, and Worker’s Compensation programs.

Diane has held a number of leadership positions in health care, including the CEO of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital and the founding CEO of Community Care Behavioral Health Organization. She is a faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry and a faculty member of Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her master’s degree from Columbia University.

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Erich Huang, MD, PhDCo-Director of Duke Forge and Assistant Dean for Biomedical Informatics, Duke University Health Systems

As Co-Director of Duke Forge, and Assistant Dean for Biomedical Informatics, Erich is helping build a data science culture and infrastructure across Duke University that focuses on actionable health data science. The Forge emphasizes scientific rigor, awareness that technology does not supersede clinicians’ responsibilities and human relationship with their patients, and the role of data science in society.

Erich, who is also Assistant Professor in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, focuses his research on applied machine learning, research provenance, and data infrastructure. Projects include building data provenance tools funded by the NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge program and regulatory science funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation. Applied machine learning applications include “Deep Care Management,” a highly interdisciplinary project with Duke Connected Care, Duke’s Accountable Care Organization, that integrates claims and EHR data for predicting unplanned admissions and risk stratifying patients for case management; and CALYPSO, a collaboration with the Department of Surgery for utilizing machine learning to predict surgical complications. Erich’s team also is building the data platform for the Department of Surgery’s “1,000 Patients Project” an intensive biospecimen and biomarker study based around patients undergoing the controlled injury of surgery.

Erich earned his PhD and MD degrees from Duke University.

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Rebecca Jacobson, MDVice President, UPMC Enterprises

Rebecca joined UPMC Enterprises in 2017 after a 20-year career in academic medical informatics. She oversees the analytics program at UPMC Enterprises where she is responsible for development of natural language processing and machine learning applications. Over the past 15 years, her work has focused on extracting meaningful information from electronic medical records to impact population health, precision medicine, and quality improvement, using natural language processing methods. She has been elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics since 2010 and is the author of more than 85 manuscripts.

Rebecca received her MD and completed her National Library of Medicine Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She received her MS in Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Science. She completed her graduate medical training in Pathology and Neuropathology at Stanford University Medical Center. Prior to joining UPMC Enterprises, she was Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Chief Information Officer for the Institute for Personalized Medicine, and Director of the Graduate Training Program in Biomedical Informatics at University of Pittsburgh.

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Clay Johnston, MD, PhDDean of the Dell Medical School and Vice President for Medical Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin

Since March 2014, Clay has served as the inaugural Dean of Dell Medical School and Vice President for Medical Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. His vision is to create a new model for academic medicine that accelerates innovation to improve health and reduce inefficiencies in health care. That includes building a vital, inclusive health ecosystem to support new and innovative models of education, care, research and community impact – all with a focus on improving health locally as a model for accelerating change nationally. He is also a neurologist, specializing in stroke care and research.

Previously, Clay was Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He also directed the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and founded the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value to engage faculty and trainees in improving the quality of care while also lowering costs. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Medical School. He later received a PhD in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a resident in Neurology at UCSF, where he later trained in Vascular Neurology. During his 20 years at UCSF, he rose the academic ranks to Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology and directed the Stroke Service.

Clay has authored more than 300 publications in scientific journals and has won several national awards for his research and teaching. In particular, he has published extensively in the prevention and treatment of stroke and transient ischemic attack. He is perhaps best known for his studies describing the short-term risk of stroke in patients with transient ischemic attack and identifying patients at greatest risk, and for his work related to measuring the impact of research. He has led several large cohort studies of cerebrovascular disease and three international multicenter randomized trials, two of which are ongoing.

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Rebecca KaulVice President and Chief Innovation Officer, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Building on MD Anderson’s rich history of innovation, Rebecca is bringing another layer of transformative thinking through an Innovation Center designed to identify creative and effective approaches for delivering exceptional patient outcomes and bring new solutions to market. By collaborating with internal innovators and establishing strategic relationship with startups and industry, Rebecca and her team are accelerating value generation and commercialization. Prior to joining MD Anderson, Rebecca served as Chief Innovation Officer and President of UPMC’s Technology Development Center where she built the health system’s innovation center from a conceptual idea to a center nationally recognized for developing an extensive portfolio of partnerships, investments and new companies. Rebecca has a Master of Business Administration from New York University and has earned multiple degrees from Carnegie Mellon University: Master of Information Systems Management, Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy.

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Alexa B. Kimball, MDCEO and President, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Alexa oversees a group employing 1,750 physicians who practice in the Boston area, two-thirds of whom are Harvard Medical School faculty. She co-chairs the Beth Israel Lahey Health Performance Network Board (1.3 million members served) and is on the Board of Trustees of Beth Israel Lahey Health. A Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, Alexa’s research includes psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa. She has published over 300 papers, conducted over 150 clinical trials, and has extensive experience in drug development.

Alexa is the author of “100 Questions and Answers about Psoriasis” (available in Spanish, Greek, and Korean), “Hidradenitis Suppurativa: Your Questions, Expert Answers,” and editor of “Dermatologic Diseases and Cumulative Life Course Impairment.” In recognition of her research on physician workforce economics, quality of life, and outcomes, she was awarded the American Skin Association Research Award for Health Policy and Medical Education and the Mass General Hospital Bowditch Prize. Other awards include Mentor of the Year and Outstanding Physician-Clinician Award. Alexa has served on the non-profit boards of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, and the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation. She is recent past President of the International Psoriasis Council.

She received her Medical Degree from the Yale School of Medicine, her Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and dual bachelor’s degrees in molecular biology and public and international affairs from Princeton University. She completed an internship in medicine at the then-Beth Israel Hospital, her residency in dermatology at Stanford University Medical Center, and a clinical research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.

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Joon Sup Lee, MDChief Medical Officer, UPMC Insurance Services Division

Joon received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his medical degree from Duke University’s School of Medicine. He completed a medical internship, residency, and fellowships in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, part of Harvard Medical School, during which time he was selected as the Chief Resident. He is certified in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and he is a Fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC) and Fellow of Society of Coronary Angiography and Intervention (FSCAI).

An interventional cardiologist by training, Joon has focused his research and clinical interests on the role of stem cells in the treatment of coronary artery disease and catheter-based treatment of valvular disease. He also has been instrumental in advancing innovations in clinical care at UPMC and is recognized as an outstanding leader who is constantly pushing the envelope for new therapies to prevent cardiac-related problems and to support recovery from them.

He has been a faculty member of University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine since 1996. He has served in various leadership roles during this time including Director of Interventional Cardiology, Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Director, and Clinical Director of Cardiology. From 2013 through 2019, he served and Chief of Cardiology Division for University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In 2011, when the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute was founded, Joon was one of the inaugural Co-Directors and in 2017 he became the Executive Director.

In his role of chief medical officer of the UPMC Insurance Services Division, Joon provides medical leadership for the clinical team, which serves the 3.5 million members of the UPMC insurance and health management companies. He also directs clinical innovation efforts to improve health outcomes and works to advance UPMC’s goals as an integrated delivery and financing system.

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Gerry LewisSenior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Ascension; President and CEO, Ascension Technologies

In addition to his leadership role at Ascension, Gerry leads the organization’s information technology subsidiary, Ascension Technologies. At Ascension Technologies, he works with the leadership team and business partners to deliver technology solutions in more affordable ways. He also chairs the Ascension Technologies Executive Council and is a member of the Ascension Leadership Community Council.

Prior to his current position, Gerry served as Vice President of IT Strategy and Business Development, leading efforts focused on aligning and deploying IT strategies designed to transform and drive clinical and business initiatives. Earlier in his Ascension career, Gerry served as Regional Chief Information Officer for the former West region, and as Chief Information Officer for the Seton Healthcare Family in Austin, Texas. He also has held various leadership roles at Dell Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp., and served as an analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Gerry earned a master’s degree in business administration from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin. He has also completed the Ascension Executive Management Formation program.

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Allison Massari Patient Speaker

Allison knows that you have the power to transform lives. As an advocate for both patient and provider, Allison has an intimate understanding of the demands and challenges of the medical profession, and compelling authority to address the delicate nature of patient-centered care. She experienced firsthand the critical value of receiving personalized health care from committed leadership teams, and empathetic providers after surviving a life-threatening car accident where she suffered second and third degree burns on over 50 percent of her body.

In addition, raised by her father, a head and neck oncology surgeon, and her mother, a nurse, Allison was mentored in the world of medicine from an early age. Captivated by her father’s compassionate work, she shadowed him in his practice, and also worked in hospitals and medical office settings. Allison’s riveting and courageous journey from absolute loss to a triumphant and hope-filled life, addresses sensitive topics, shining light on the immense value you have to a patient who is suffering, helping to reinvigorate teams, and heal burnout in the workplace.

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Phil McKoyChief Information Officer, UnitedHealthcare

Phil is responsible for establishing, leading, and executing strategic technology roadmaps and the associated capital investments to support UnitedHealthcare’s businesses through innovative and differentiated technology capabilities. He is accountable for driving technology imperatives that support the company’s commercial Employer & Individual, Medicare & Retirement, Community & State, and Global business segments, as well as specialty areas including UnitedHealthcare Dental and UnitedHealthcare Vision.

Prior to joining UnitedHealthcare, Phil was senior vice president and chief information officer for the Global Loyalty Services division of Aimia, a $2.5 billion global leader in loyalty management and analytics. Phil also served as vice president of Target.com, where he was responsible for elevating the end-to-end guest experience on Target.com and other Target mobile platforms. During his eight years at Accenture, Phil consulted with Fortune 500 companies in the United States and Europe.

Phil holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and earned a master’s degree in international affairs from the University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies in Denver, Colorado. He is on the board of Reve Academy, an innovative out-of-school program creating pathways to digital careers for kids in disadvantaged communities (www.reveacademy.org) and is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council (www.elcinfo.org).

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Mike McSherryCEO and Co-Founder, Xealth

Mike is a serial tech entrepreneur and has served in the industry for more than 20 years, co-founding six large tech business. Mike currently serves as CEO of Xealth, a digital prescribing and analytics platform integrated into health care electronic health records. He and his team incubated Xealth at Providence St. Joseph Health while he was an Entrepreneur in Residence. Xealth spun out from Providence and raised $9 million from leading venture capital funds and health care systems.

Prior to Xealth, Mike was CEO of Swype, an innovative touchscreen keyboard installed on more than 1 billion smartphones and tablets, which he sold to Nuance for more than $100 million in 2011. He also was co-founder and ran product for Boost Mobile both in the US and Australia. In the US, Boost is now Sprint’s prepaid service with more than $5 billion in annual revenues. Prior to co-founding Boost, he co-founded Zivo, which was the largest web development company in Australia and New Zealand with more than 300 employees. Mike moved to Australia with Microsoft, where he ran the MSN portal and e-commerce activities. He also held several product roles within Microsoft in the US.

Mike is an active angel investor, board member, and mentor to startups and non-profits. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics and international business from William & Mary College in Virginia.

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Tami Minnier, MSNChief Quality Officer, UPMC

In her role as the Chief Quality Officer, Tami coordinates activities of 40 hospitals, 4,000+ physicians, more than 3.5 million health plan members, and various international clinical sites in Italy and Ireland. Tami also oversees the Wolff Center at UPMC, which drives quality and safety across the UPMC system; and is also the Executive Director for the Beckwith Institute, a foundation supporting innovation in care delivery. She has held various hospital executive and nursing leadership positions in health care and has overseen the building of several new acute care hospitals.

Tami has a passion for clinical care improvement and achieving excellent outcomes. She has her BSN and MSN from the University of Pittsburgh; she is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives; has studied the Toyota Production System and Lean Manufacturing; is a graduate of the Advanced Training Program at Intermountain Health Care; and has been on faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Many of the care delivery programs Tami has developed have gained national and international recognition. She is the Chair of the Board for the Joint Commission International / Joint Commission Resources. She also serves as a board member of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and Phipps Conservatory. A nationally known speaker, Tami has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Newsweek, The Journal of Nursing Administration, and many other journals. She has been noted by Becker’s as one of the 50 top experts leading the field of patient safety and one of the top 130 women health system leaders to know.

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Girish Muralidharan Vice President & General Manager, Performance Intelligence Analytics, GE Healthcare

Girish has been with GE Healthcare since 1998 in a variety of engineering, product development, product management and business leadership roles. His expertise covers product management across imaging equipment, post processing applications, radiology IT systems, predictive services, clinical and operational analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

In his current role, he’s responsible for developing analytics solutions leveraging data across the health care facility and applying advanced analytics and AI to glean actionable insights, and drive meaningful clinical, operational and financial outcomes. A huge focus is around reducing waste in the health care system and associated process optimization, change management, and the array of technology solutions to enable data ingestion, normalization, learning, and inferencing.

Girish has a degree in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering and MBA in Strategy from Marquette University.

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Nnaemeka “Emeka” Okafor, MDVice President and Chief Health Informatics Officer, Memorial Hermann Health System

Emeka has been an informatics physician executive with Memorial Hermann since 2014. Current duties include serving as a trusted problem-solving liaison for clinicians, health system executives, information technology (IT) staff, and IT vendors. He provides leadership for enterprise-wide health information technology and electronic health record (EHR) planning, development, design implementation, and benefit realization. He is also responsible for the development of informatics resources, expanding Memorial Hermann’s virtual health footprint, and maturing service line analytics for the health system.

Emeka is boarded in emergency medicine, clinical informatics, and medical quality. He has been part of the academic faculty at the McGovern Medical School in Houston since 2007 and still practices emergency medicine, educating fellows, residents, and medical students. He has research published on medical error reporting, diagnostic errors, patient care transitions, and data visualization. He completed his medical school at University of Missouri-Columbia, and his emergency medicine residency at Boston Medical Center.

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Pamela Peele, PhDChief Analytics Officer, UPMC Insurance Services Division and UPMC Enterprises

Pamela brings 13 years of direct patient care experience along with 12 years of academic research experience to her position as a leader of health care analytics at UPMC. She is responsible for creating innovative analytics that drive financial and clinical performance, including economic modeling, predictive modeling, statistical analysis, and machine learning.

Prior to joining the UPMC in 2006, Pamela was the Vice Chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. She currently holds faculty appointments in the Graduate School of Public Health and the School of Medicine at Pitt. She is core faculty at the Center for Research on Health Care at UPMC and an elected fellow of the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations in Montreal, Canada. She has numerous published articles and book chapters. She was the first person chosen by IBM as an IBM Big Data Hero and was voted the 2014 Healthcare IT News Men & Women of the Year as a top innovator in health care analytics.

Pamela has a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Roanoke College in Salem, Va., and a Master of Arts degree and a PhD in economics from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.

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Don Rucker, MDNational Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

As head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), Don leads the formulation of the federal health IT strategy and coordinates federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments.

Don has three decades of clinical and informatics experience. He started his informatics career at Datamedic Corporation, where he co-developed the world’s first Microsoft Windows-based electronic medical record. He then spent over a decade serving as Chief Medical Officer at Siemens Healthcare USA. He also has practiced emergency medicine for a variety of organizations including at Kaiser Permanente in California; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Presbyterian and Pennsylvania Hospitals; and, most recently, Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center.

Don is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, with board certifications in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. He holds an MS in Medical Computer Science and an MBA, both from Stanford.

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Amber SamdahlCreative Director, Wisconsin Public Television

Amber is a former Executive Creative Director at Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) where she led teams to design and create innovative stories and entertainment experiences for the Disney Theme Parks worldwide. With a blended background in both technology and creative design, Amber designed and built new forms of interactive attractions, with a focus on games and shared experiences for children and families. The thread that has woven throughout her work is the fundamental desire to use play as a foundation to inspire, empower and connect people. While at WDI, Amber led the creative execution for Disney Team of Heroes, The Walt Disney Company’s global Children’s Hospital initiative. The program committed $100 million to support and enrich the patient and family experience for children’s hospitals around the world.

In her current role with Wisconsin Public Television, Amber and her team create innovative and thoughtful designs to inspire, educate and entertain people around Wisconsin and the Midwest. Amber has a Master of Entertainment Technology degree from Carnegie Mellon University and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Film, Computer Science and Spanish.

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Katie ScottVice President, Digital Strategy and Innovation, UPMC Enterprises

Katie brings exceptional skill and knowledge to her role as the executive in charge of MyUPMC, the “digital front door” to UPMC that sees more than 1.4 million patient logins a month. Katie works with a broad range of stakeholders across UPMC — clinical activities, IT, operations, marketing, and more — to integrate digital tools into the health system. She provides strategic leadership to a team of product managers, software developers, and designers who have launched the MyUPMC mobile app that generated more than 200,000 downloads in the first year. She and her team will continue to enhance MyUPMC so it will become the starting point to managing patients’ health care digitally and a trusted partner in managing health and wellness.

Katie previously served as the Director of Design Strategy at the UPMC Technology Development Center. Prior to joining UPMC in 2012, she spent 10 years as a design and innovation consultant in the health care, government, and military sectors. Katie also has taught graduate-level and executive courses in design and innovation methods.

Katie earned both Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design and Master of Human-Computer Interaction degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Tim TarnowskiChief Transformation Officer and Chief Information Officer, UMass Memorial Health Care

Tim has been a health care executive for the past 30 years. Prior to joining UMass in November 2014, he served in executive leadership roles at IU Health, University of Kentucky, Stanford Health, and Columbus Regional Health.

Tim has been accountable for leading transformational change initiatives and revitalizing information services functions. This work includes establishing enterprise transformation approaches, governance models and strategy execution approaches. He has successfully established several enterprise-wide Lean Six Sigma functions and has led large, enterprise wide EMR and financial systems implementations. For the past 10 years, Tim has served as a board member for LHP Engineering Solutions, an embedded software solutions company. He also has served in community leadership roles for economic development, visitors center and connected community partnership organizations.

Tim earned an MBA from ESADE in Barcelona, Spain and a Master of International Management at The Garvin School of International Management, Glendale, Arizona. He has completed advanced Lean Six Sigma education programs and is passionate about working with his teams to make improvements every day.

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Steve VogelsangVice President, Strategy and Chief Technology Officer, IP and Optical Networks, Nokia

In his leadership role at Nokia, Steve is responsible for looking at the road ahead and determining which new projects and emerging markets the company should consider for investing its resources.

Steve spends his time analyzing the current state of the marketplace and identifying emerging trends, products, and opportunities. Relying on a background that includes more than 20 years of experience in the telecom and networking industries, he helps develop road maps for the company so it can seize the opportunities that are a best fit. Some of his key successes in this role include driving Nokia’s investments in Packet Core and CDN technology, as well as being an early advisor on the company’s work in NFV and SDN.

Before joining Nokia, Steve served as vice president of marketing for ECI Telecom’s Data Networking Division following ECI’s acquisition of Laurel Networks, which he co-founded. Prior to Laurel, he started his career serving in multiple roles with FORE Systems, including systems engineering, product management, and strategic marketing.

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Emily C. Webber, MDChief Medical Information Officer, Riley Children’s Health and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, IU Health

Emily is board certified in pediatrics and clinical informatics, and she has worked on many IT implementations. Her work is now focused on improving health IT, and using it to improve quality care and patient safety and promoting the health of Indiana children and communities.

Emily is a current chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics Executive Council on Clinical Information Technology (COCIT), a member of the Cerner Pediatric Leadership Council, and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

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Mark Zhang, DOMedical Director, Digital Innovation Hub, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

In addition to his work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mark is Associate Program Director of the Clinical Informatics and Innovation Fellowship at Partners Healthcare and a Palliative Care consultant at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Throughout his career, Mark has held an interest in leveraging technology to improve clinical medicine. He is the founder and co-creator of Palliative Care Fast Facts for iOS and Android mobile applications. This application is one of the most widely used clinical reference applications in palliative care in the world. He is the co-founder of Cake, a venture backed company focused on advance care planning. He also founded and was the first president of American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF), the national organization for clinical informatics fellows.

Mark received a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his Internal Medicine residency and chief year at Allegheny General Hospital. He is a graduate of the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship, the first graduate of the Clinical Informatics and Innovation fellowship at Partners Healthcare, and completed a Master of Medical Science in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.