2016 Agenda Day 2 - Protected

TUESDAY MAY 10, 2016

MINI SUMMITS

• Sharon Donovan, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Moderator)

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  Ms. Donovan has served as the Director of the Program Alignment Group in CMS' Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office since October, 2010. Prior to that, she worked in CMS' Medicare program, leading efforts to ensure low-income beneficiaries' access to and enrollment in the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit. She also worked for CMS in the Medicaid managed care, waivers, and demonstration area, and prior to that for Montana Medicaid developing and implemented managed care programs.
• Mylia Christensen, Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation

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  Mylia Christensen is the Executive Director of the Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation. Mylia's prior roles include National Project Director for Medicaid Evidence-based Decisions Project at OHSU Center for Evidence-based Policy, Administrator - State of Oregon's Public Employees' Benefit Board and Vice President of Operations and Regional Director for Oregon Health Plan enrollment broker project with Benova, Inc. Her experience includes Director of Program Development and Physician Services for Legacy Portland Hospital System and Administrator of Women's Health Services at Good Samaritan Hospital. Her career began as a licensed practical nurse and registered nurse in Emergency and Critical Care Services.
• Doris Lotz, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services

  Speaker Bio

  Doris Lotz, MD, MPH is the Chief Medical Officer for the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services and executive Director the Office of Quality Assurance and Improvement. Dr. Lotz leads strategic planning for the Medicaid program and state health policies, and data driven analysis of the Department's strengths and opportunities. Dr. Lotz completed her MD degree at Ohio State University College of Medicine, an internship and residency in emergency medicine at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a preventive medicine residency from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
• Patricia Murphy, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services

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  Patricia Murphy is a Manager of Data Analytics and Research at the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS), the state's Medicaid agency. She is a member of the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team, where she provides analytic and data mining support, assists in data governance activities, and oversees data extraction for and distribution to outside entities. Patricia holds a Master's of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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• Zen Chu, MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Program (Moderator)

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  Zen Chu believes that now is the best time in history for healthcare entrepreneurs and engineers to create the tech-enabled products and services to help medicine scale and serve more patients with higher quality at lower cost.
  
  Zen created MIT's Hacking Medicine Institute and the MIT-Harvard Healthcare Ventures entrepreneurship courses. Zen founded four medical technology companies and has been the first investor in many high growth med tech and digital health companies through AccelMed Ventures.
  
  Previously, Zen managed and led new ventures for Harvard Medical School, Harvard's Wyss Institute for Bioengineering, NetVentures and Hewlett-Packard.
• Zebadiah Kimmel, Atlas5D, Inc.

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  Zeb is CEO and Founder of Boston startup company Atlas5D, with two decades of experience in medicine and computer science. Before Atlas5D, he spent five years in McKinsey's Healthcare Technology Practice, serving governments, hospitals, pharmaceutical firms, and medical device manufacturers worldwide. Prior to McKinsey, Zeb was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and one of the first members of the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Zeb has an MD from Northwestern University, an MBA from MIT Sloan, an MS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a BA in math-physics from Brown University.
• Andrew Ngui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Sandeep Pulim, @Point of Care

• Casey Quinlan, Mighty Casey Media (Moderator)

  Speaker Bio

  Casey Quinlan covered her share of medical stories as a TV news field producer, then got a breast cancer diagnosis five days before Christmas in 2007. She used her research, communication, and comedy skills to navigate treatment, and wrote "Cancer for Christmas: Making the Most of a Daunting Gift" about managing medical care, and the importance of health literate self-advocacy. In addition to her ongoing work as a journalist, she's also part of the My Ideal Patient Experience consulting group.
  
  In 2013, Casey was invited to join the HealthIT.gov Consumer Empowerment Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC), and she was named an ePatient Scholar to Stanford's MedicineX in 2013. In 2014, she participated in the development of the Patient and Family Engagement Roadmap, was identified as a patient engagement expert by the WHO, and returned to MedX as a panel presenter on the PFE Roadmap project. In 2015, Casey was invited to present at HIMSS Patient Engagement Summit, HIMSS Privacy & Security Forum, and DellWorld 2015 as a patient voice on topics from trust in the clinical relationship to data security issues in medical record interoperability. Her speaking calendar for 2016 includes Academy Health's National Health Policy Conference, the 7th Patient Engagement, Education and Adherence Summit, the ePharma Summit, the Genetic Alliance's Building Trustworthiness in PCORnet meeting, and Health Datapalooza.
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• Amy P. Abernathy, Flatiron Health

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  Amy P. Abernethy, MD PhD is the Chief Medical Officer and SVP Oncology at Flatiron Health, a healthcare technology company focused on organizing the world's cancer data and making it actionable for providers, patients, researchers and life sciences. At Flatiron, Dr. Abernethy leads the Oncology and Science parts of the organization. She is a hematologist/oncologist and palliative medicine physician, and internationally recognized cancer clinical researcher with over 400 publications.
  
  Dr. Abernethy is an appointee to the National Academy of Medicine's (formerly the Institute of Medicine) National Cancer Policy Forum, on the Executive Board for the Personalized Medicine Coalition, and Past President of the American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine. She is a Before joining Flatiron, Dr. Abernethy was Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, and ran the Center for Learning Health Care in the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Duke Cancer Care Research Program in the Duke Cancer Institute. She is also on the Board of Directors of athenahealth, Inc.
• Kathy Hudson, National Institutes of Health

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  Kathy L. Hudson, Ph.D. is the Deputy Director for Science, Outreach, and Policy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Hudson leads the science policy, legislation, communications, and outreach efforts of the NIH and serves as a senior advisor to the NIH director. She directs the agency's efforts to advance biomedical science through policy development and innovative projects and partnerships such as the President's Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative and the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI).
• Jennifer C. King, SHARE For Cures, Inc.

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  Jennifer C. King, PhD, is Co-Founder of SHARE For Cures, a nonprofit empowering everyday people to use their health data to advance medical research and save lives. She is also Director, Science & Research for a patient advocacy organization, Lung Cancer Alliance. Previously, Jennifer led the data governance program for a learning healthcare system in oncology, resulting in her passion for using real-world data in medical research. She serves on multiple advisory groups including the FDA-Reagan Udall Foundation's Big Data for Patients program. Jennifer previously did translational cancer research and has a PhD from MIT and a BS from Duke.
• Vanessa Rangel Miller, Genetic Services, PatientCrossroads.com

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  Vanessa joined PatientCrossroads in 2010 to lead Genetic and Data Management services. In this role, she guides pharmaceutical, academic, advocacy and government clients to develop and operate new registry tools, research and collaborative programs. Vanessa oversees PatientCrossroads registry and data coordination services, including stakeholder engagement, ethics, curation, data access and genetic services. Vanessa completed her masters in genetic counseling at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro and her MBA at Emory University.
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• Elizabeth Hsu, National Cancer Institute (Moderator)

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  Elizabeth Hsu recently joined the National Cancer Institute's Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology after a six month detail with the HHS Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship, and Action (IDEA) Lab, where she worked on a pilot open data project. Prior to her detail, Elizabeth was a senior health science analyst in the NCI's Office of Science Planning and Assessment, working in evaluation and how to measure the value of biomedical research. Elizabeth completed her PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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• Michelle Berny-Lang, National Cancer Institute

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  Dr. Michelle Berny-Lang serves as a Program Director for the Office of the Director, Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In this capacity, she participates in the organization, development, and evaluation of initiatives, managing a portfolio of grants and contracts (~$3.5M in FY15), and facilitating collaborations among researchers, NIH colleagues, and external partners. She collaborated with the Veterans Health Administration to launch the Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP), and is a founding member of the BD-STEP Advisory Council and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and NCI Cancer and Thrombosis Working Group.
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• Louis Fiore, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center

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  Louis Fiore MD MPH is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center at the VA Boston healthcare System. He has 25 years of experience in clinical research in the areas of clinical trials, biobanking, epidemiology and informatics. His current primary focus is on embedding clinical research into the clinical care ecosystem through both the Point of Care Clinical Trials Program and the Precision Oncology Program, both sponsored by the VA Office of Research and Development. He is a proponent of data sharing and strives to reduce silos that isolate researchers from each other and from the clinical care world that they ultimately serve.
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• Peter Kuhn, University of Southern California

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  Dr. Kuhn (@pkuhn1) is the Dean's Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Medicine and Engineering at USC, a founding member of the Michelson Center for Convergent Biosciences, a co-founder of the BRIDGE @ USC and director of the Southern California Physics Oncology Center. Prof. Kuhn's focus is to advance our understanding of the human body to improve the human condition. His research is shedding new light at how cancer spreads through the body. This new science will lead to a personalized care strategy that is biologically informed and clinically actionable.
• Connie Lee, US Department of Veterans Affairs

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  Ms. Connie Lee serves as VA's national director for the Big Data Scientist Training and Enhancement Program. She is responsible for leading the administration's partnership with the NCI to bring big data scientists into collaborative, clinical environments at VA hospitals to impact decisions at the point of care. Connie brings to this role her direct experience in the hospital setting as the former Administrator for Clinical Operations and the Director for Systems Redesign at the DC VAMC where she utilized VA operations data to redesign and improve care delivery. She is also board certified in healthcare management as a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
• Jennifer Lee, Stanford University

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  Jennifer Lee, MD, PhD, is Chief Medical Officer of the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center and Associate Professor of Medicine and of Health Research and Policy (by courtesy), Stanford Medical Center. She is a molecular population health scientist and clinician with 15 years of experience, including in clinical studies, population health sciences and molecular/genetic epidemiology. She works in teams of clinicians, data scientists, population health sciences, and patients, to identify important health challenges and in turn, utlizes data analytics in VA electronic health records data warehouse and other non-VA health- and community-based data sources. Her current focus includes 1) incorporating pragmatic adaptive clinical studies at the point of patient care to advance healthcare systems and care, 2) using data from genomics and environmental exposures to predict a) conditions before they manifest and a) treatment response, and 3) evaluating data quality towards standardization in electronic health record data.
• Lesley Park, Stanford University

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  Dr. Lesley Park is an epidemiologist and fellow in the National Cancer Institute (NCI)/VA Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP) fellowship. She received her PhD and MPH from Yale University. Her research is focused in cancer epidemiologic research design and methods to bridge epidemiology and healthcare "big data". She is a Research Scientist at the Stanford University School of Medicine Center for Population Health Sciences and the co-Director of the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) Cancer Core, where she leads and oversees cancer outcomes research in persons living with HIV/AIDS.
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• Jeannine Walston, Integrative Cancer Care

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  Jeannine Walston's professional background includes 20 years of experience with the U.S. Congress, National Cancer Institute, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (now National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health), non-profits, doctors, providers, hospitals, clinics, other businesses, patients, caregivers, and the public. Through a strong commitment to create positive improvements, Jeannine is the CEO of Integrative Cancer Care for the Whole Person and Healing Focus® as a Cancer Coach, writer, consultant, and speaker. She is also an 18 year brain tumor survivor.
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• Marylynn Ostrowski, Aetna Foundation (Moderator)

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  MaryLynn Ostrowski is Executive Director of the Aetna Foundation, responsible for operations of the regional, national, and international programs and team. She also oversees the Foundation committee meetings, and works closely with Aetna's community relations team.
  
  Prior to joining Aetna, Lynn was the Director of Corporate Responsibility & Government Affairs at Health New England (HNE), a managed care organization that is part of the Baystate Health Integrated Delivery System in Massachusetts. In this role Lynn was the point person in managing HNE's relationships with the political leaders both in Boston and in the U.S. Congress. Lynn was also the face of HNE, cultivating media and public relations, and developing strategic messages for HNE's top leaders. In addition, she was responsible for coordinating HNE and Baystate Health's giving strategies; sponsorships, community benefits and determination of need dollars.
• Jennifer Bennet, Harvard Medical School

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  Jennifer Bennet is the Executive director of the Family Van, a mobile clinic serving low-income Boston communities, and of Mobile Health Map, a national research collaborative at Harvard Medical School that aims to demonstrate the impact of mobile clinics. Through these programs, she has raised awareness about the potential of this emerging sector to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care to at-risk populations.
  
  Her diverse background also includes positions in operations, business development, and crisis intervention for both profit and non-profit organizations. She has been honored by the American Heart Association, the Mobile Health Clinics Network, and the National Partnership for Prevention.
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• Hayley Lofink Love, School-Based Health Alliance

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  Hayley Love is the Director of Research and Evaluation at the School-Based Health Alliance, a national non-profit organization that works to improve the health and academic success of children and youth by advancing and advocating for school-based health care. She leads initiatives that explore the role that school-based health centers play in addressing the complex health challenges experienced by underserved youth. Her presentation will describe a project called the Children's Health and Education Mapping Tool that is pushing individuals to use data to improve the healthcare landscape for children and adolescents. Hayley has a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford and undergraduate and Master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
• Aaron Truchil, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers

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  Aaron Truchil serves as the Director for Data, Research & Evaluation at the Camden Coalition, where he oversees the organization's data and research activities, including an integrated data system of health and other social service data, applied population health research initiatives aimed developing an evidence base around community-based care and cost management initiatives, and a regional health information exchange. Aaron's interests revolve around the intersection of creative data management, analysis and visualization for greater transparency, more-informed decision-making, and social justice. Prior to joining the Coalition, Aaron worked as a Program Manager for CamConnect, a non-profit data warehouse in Camden that analyzes and reports on data on the City of Camden's revitalization. Aaron earned a Masters of Science in Social Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Wesleyan University.

• Dianne Munevar, Avalere Health (Moderator)

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  Dianne Munevar, MPP, provides clients with strategic advisory services to improve the quality of healthcare and reduce unnecessary spending. She works with clients in various sectors of the health care industry, from life science companies to federal and state policymakers, and health plans, providers, and foundations and patient advocacy groups. Dianne has been with Avalere Health's Data Analytics Practice for over five years. Prior to joining Avalere, Dianne was a Health Services Research Analyst with RTI International. Dianne has a BA from Colgate University and a MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School.
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• Jim Sorace, US Department of Health and Human Services

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  Since 2007 Dr. Sorace has worked as a senior medical officer in the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the Department of Health and Human Services (dHHS). While at ASPE he has pursued his interests in health information technology and medical informatics. These have included innovative analysis of Medicare claims data that were the first to describe the long-tailed distribution of disease combinations in Medicare, as well as developing novel twin study methodologies using Medicare claims data. Also, while in the dHHS Dr. Sorace has worked extensively in standards related activities. Currently he serves as staff to the Standards Subcommittee of the National Committee of Vital and Health Statistics.
  
  For three years before joining ASPE, Dr. Sorace worked at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Office of Clinical Standards and Quality (OCSQ) as the Subject Matter Expert for the Doctors Office Quality Information Technology Project (DOQ-IT).
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• Sandeep Wadhwa, Noridian Healthcare Solutions

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  Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA is the CMO and SVP of care and delivery management for Noridian Healthcare Solutions, LLC. He served as the Medicaid Director for Colorado from 2008 to 2010, where he led the effort to design the Accountable Care Collaborative. He has been a population health executive for more than 20 years, and brings expertise in integrating public health approaches with health care service delivery and operationalizing policy at the regional level. Dr. Wadhwa serves as an associate clinical professor in geriatrics at the University of Colorado Hospital and continues to see patients at the Seniors Clinic.
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• Eric Williams, Omada Health

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  Eric Williams is Director of Data Science at Omada Health. As an undergraduate Eric studied physics at UC Berkeley, later receiving his PhD from Columbia University in Particle Physics. He was a Researcher at CERN for several years and a Postdoctoral Scholar at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before joining Omada Health in 2014. At Omada, Eric's team focuses on the data science of behavior change - leveraging analysis, machine learning and experimentation to lower the global burden of obesity related chronic disease. He also volunteers with DataKind, an organization devoted to helping social organizations tackle critical humanitarian issues using data.
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• Gui Woolston, NunaHealth

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  Gui Woolston is Director of Data Science at Nuna, a health analytics startup. He focuses on the firm's Medicaid work. Previously, Gui worked at the White House Council of Economic Advisors and at the healthcare practice of the Boston Consulting Group. He received his PhD in economics from Stanford and his bachelors degree from Harvard.
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• Kavita Patel, Brookings Institution (Moderator)

• Ian Eslick, Vital Labs

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  Ian Eslick, Ph.D., is an entrepreneur, innovator, and Chief Executive Officer / Co-Founder of Vital Labs, Inc., a digital health company based in San Francisco. He previously co-founded two high technology venture startups, including Silicon Spice which sold to Broadcom in 2000. Dr. Eslick's doctoral work at the MIT Media Laboratory developed scientific methodologies for patient-generated health data. He advises the C3N Project of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, the Health eHeart project at the University of California San Francisco, and Academy Health's EDM Forum. Dr. Eslick holds three additional engineering degrees from MIT and over a dozen patents.
• Jason Freeman, Johns Hopkins Medicine

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  Dr. Freeman is a board-certified neurologist and vascular neurology specialist with Johns Hopkins Community Physicians (JHCP). He is the Medical Director of the Sibley Memorial Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine Stroke Program in Washington, DC. Dr. Freeman's clinical work is primarily as a Neurohospitalist and he sees general neurology and stroke patients through the JHCP clinic at Sibley.
  
  Dr. Freeman is the Physician Chair of the D.C. Stroke Collaborative. He also serves on the physician advisory board of the Sibley Innovation Hub.
  
  Prior to joining JHCP, Dr. Freeman was a Vascular Neurology Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) where he received advanced training in acute neuroimaging techniques and served as co-investigator on numerous NIH/NINDS clinical trials. Dr. Freeman earned a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from Brandeis University and his medical degree at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed his neurology residency and chief residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
• Ankit Patel, Clover Health
  
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• Francie Grace, Healthcare Reform Activist and Social Media Strategist (Moderator)

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  Francie Grace (@franciegrace), patient and consumer representative on the Health Datapalooza Steering Committee, is a member of the Society for Participatory Medicine, social media strategist at CatchAndHoldConsulting.com, writer, artist and New Yorker. She advocates for patient-controlled, interoperable medical records and better, faster access to, and use of, data for more effective science to empower patients and doctors to identify all treatment options, including personalized medicine, possible side effects and outcomes. Before jumping into social media, Francie had a long career in network news and can still be readily identified as the person with the right question at the right time.
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• Daniel Barth-Jones, Mailman School of Public Health

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  Daniel Barth-Jones, M.P.H., Ph.D., is an infectious disease/HIV epidemiologist who also specializes in statistical disclosure control implementation under the HIPAA Privacy Rule provisions for de-identification. His work is focused on the importance of properly balancing competing goals of protecting patient privacy and preserving the accuracy of scientific research and statistical analyses conducted with de-identified data. Dr. Barth-Jones is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York. Dr. Barth-Jones received his Master of Public Health degree in General Epidemiology and Ph.D. in Epidemiologic Science from the University of Michigan.
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• Neal Eggeson, Indiana University

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  Neal F. Eggeson is an Indianapolis-based attorney specializing in medical privacy litigation. Mr. Eggeson has earned national attention for his jury verdicts on behalf of victims of medical privacy breaches, and recently his work has been featured in articles by NPR, ProPublica, and The Guardian. Mr. Eggeson's writings on negligence law have appeared in several law journals, he has earned the designation of "Master Advocate" from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and he has earned a lifetime membership to the Triple Nine Society.
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• Dhruv Khullar, Massachusetts General Hospital

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  Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P. is a resident physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital with interests in health policy, economics, and journalism. He is a contributor at the New York Times and writes regularly for both mainstream and academic publications, exploring the doctor-patient relationship and evolving trends in health care. He recently worked at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) focusing on Affordable Care Act implementation.
  
  Khullar graduated with honors from Yale University (B.A. in Biology), and earned his medical degree (M.D.) at the Yale School of Medicine. He also received a Masters in Public Policy (M.P.P.) from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a fellow at the Center for Public Leadership. His work has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), New York Times, The Atlantic, USA Today, Slate, Politico, and Scientific American. He was recently recognized by LinkedIn as one of the Top 10 Healthcare Professionals Under 35.
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• Len Lichtenfeld, American Cancer Society, Inc.

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  Dr. Lichtenfeld assumed his current role in the Office of the Chief Medical Officer as Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the American Cancer Society. In this role he provides extensive support to a number of Society activities. A frequent spokesperson in the media on behalf of the American Cancer Society, Dr. Lichtenfeld has also since 2005 written a widely read blog focused on topics related to cancer. He has been engaged in health care policy on a local, state, and national level for most of his professional career. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, and has received several awards including designation as a Master in the American College of Physicians in recognition of his professional accomplishments.
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• Jocelyn Samuels, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services

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  Jocelyn Samuels is the Director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she leads enforcement of federal laws that help to ensure non-discrimination and equity in federally funded health and human services, and enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules. Ms. Samuel previously served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Most immediately prior to her tenure with DOJ, Ms. Samuels was the Vice President for Education and Employment at the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C.
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• Doris Peter, Consumer Reports (Moderator)

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  Doris Peter, PhD is the Director of the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, part of the nonprofit organization, Consumer Reports. She leads multidisciplinary teams that develop consumer-friendly translations and presentations of data to help consumers understand comparisons of the quality and value of health care products (e.g., drugs) and services (e.g., hospitals, physicians). These communications reach millions of consumers through Consumer Reports' media channels, and through those of Consumer Reports' partners.
• Anjali Jain, The Lewin Group

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  Anjali Jain, MD is a Vice President with the Lewin Group and has more than 20 years of experience as a primary care pediatrician and health services researcher. Her research and writing spans both quantitative and qualitative methods with over 40 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and essays in diverse outlets, including Health Affairs and NPR. Formerly a physician editor for the British Medical Journal, Dr. Jain has a longstanding interest in medical writing and in using physician and patient voices to inform and move the health system. Currently, she is editor and founding co-editor of "In the Moment," a narrative essay section in Academic Pediatrics since 2007.
• Andy Krackov, LiveStories

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  Andy Krackov is Vice President for Partnerships and Strategy at LiveStories, a civic startup whose data communication platform enables nonprofits, government, philanthropies, and others to engage constituents with data. Prior to this, Andy was Senior Program Officer at the California HealthCare Foundation, where he guided the foundation's open data work, including its partnership with the state's health agency to improve access to and use of health data in California. Andy also guided development of and managed the kidsdata.org website for the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. He began his career as a journalist at U.S. News & World Report.
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• Amy Max, Public Health Institute

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  Amy Max is a Senior Public Health Analyst at the Public Health Institute (PHI) where she manages population health data projects and initiatives. She has provided training and technical assistance to health organizations across the country using innovative data tools and technologies. She currently leads PHI's HealthData+ program, helping health organizations to develop interactive stories, reports and dashboards using the LiveStories data publishing platform. Prior to PHI she served as a Prevention Specialist with the Centers for Disease Control and received her master's degree in population and family health from Columbia University.
• Diane Stollenwerk, Patient Voice Institute

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  Diane Stollenwerk, co-founder and Board Chair of the Patient Voice Institute, leads a consulting firm called StollenWerks, and sits on the Maryland Health Care Commission. She was a VP at the National Quality Forum and served as a technical expert on the National Impact Assessment of CMS Quality Measures. Much of her current work is in patient and family engagement, and in population health improvement. She was a founding director of the Washington Health Alliance in Washington state, regional AF4Q project director and Chartered Value Exchange liaison to AHRQ. Diane has a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University.
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• John Wilbanks, Sage (Moderator)

• Bradley Crotty, Beth Israel Deaconess

• Bray Patrick Lake, Duke University
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• Jerry Sheehan, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

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  Jerry Sheehan is Assistant Director for Scientific Data & Information at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He leads Administration efforts on open science increasing access to publications and data resulting from Federally funded research. He is also Assistant Director for Policy Development at the National Library of Medicine, designing and implementing policies for clinical, genomic, and other biomedical data. He has worked on science, innovation and information policy at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, National Academies, and Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Technology & Policy from MIT.
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• Paul Wallace, AcademyHealth (Moderator)

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  Paul Wallace, MD, is a Senior Scholar in Residence and the immediate Past Chair of the board of directors at AcademyHealth, the professional association for health services and policy research. From 2013-16 he was the founding Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Clinical Translation at Optum Labs, a research and innovation organization developed within United Health Group. He was formerly Senior Vice President and Director of the Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research at the Washington DC based Lewin Group from 2011-2013.From 1989 to 2011, as a Medical Director and clinician with Kaiser Permanente, he led and contributed to several KP national initiatives in evidence based medicine, population health and use of Health IT. Dr. Wallace has served on national committees and boards for the NAM/IOM, NCQA, AHRQ, CMS, the eHealth Initiative, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Technology Evaluation Center, the Center for Information Therapy, and The Care Continuum Alliance.
• Paul Bleicher, Optum Labs

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  Paul Bleicher, MD PhD is the CEO of OptumLabs, an open, collaborative health care innovation center which accelerates research and development through partnerships between various stakeholder groups in healthcare around a large healthcare claims and EHR database. Before his current role, he was Chief Medical Officer of Humedica (acquired by Optum in 2013), a clinical informatics company that provides novel business intelligence solutions to the health care and life science. Prior to Humedica, he was the founder and Chairman of Phase Forward, the leading provider of integrated clinical trial data management software and safety solutions for the biopharmaceutical industry.
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• Helen Burstin, The National Quality Forum

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  Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, FACP is the Chief Scientific Officer of The National Quality Forum. In her role, Dr. Burstin provides strategic guidance to all NQF work from the perspective of current and emerging measurement science. She provides scientific oversight for the evaluation, endorsement and selection of quality measures and the transition to electronic performance measurement. She was recently selected as a 2015-2016 Baldrige Executive Fellow. She is a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University School of Public Health and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at George Washington University where she serves as a preceptor in internal medicine.
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• Kate Goodrich, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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  Dr. Kate Goodrich joined the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in September of 2011 where she serves as Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ). This Center is responsible for over 20 quality measurement and value-based purchasing programs, implementation of the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System and the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act, quality improvement programs in all 50 states, clinical standards and survey and certification of all providers across the nation, and all coverage decisions for treatments and services for CMS.
  
  Previously, Dr. Goodrich served as the Director of the Quality Measurement and Value-based Incentives Group in CCSQ where she oversaw the implementation of over 20 quality, value-based purchasing and public reporting programs across multiple settings.

• Basit Chaudhry, Tuple Health (Moderator)

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  Dr. Chaudhry is an internal medicine physician, medical technologist and founder of Tuple Health. His work covers the intersection of clinical redesign, new payment models and data analysis.
  
  Tuple Health's purpose is to make healthcare easier to deliver and to use so that it's simpler to stay healthy at a lower cost. To enable this, Tuple Health has assembled a team focused on integrating together clinical care, payment policy, software design, mathematics, and human centered design.
  
  Prior to starting Tuple Health, Dr. Chaudhry worked at IBM Research where he was Lead Research Clinician for the Watson Project.
• Stuart Levine, Medical Innovations Inc.

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  Dr. Stuart Levine is currently the CEO and President of Medical Innovations Inc., a health consulting firm for which he is the founder. He is an operating advisor to some of the largest and most successful private equity firms in health care including Clayton, Dubilier and Rice, Francisco Partners and ChicagoPacific Founders.
  
  Prior to leading his consulting firm, Dr. Levine served as the Chief Innovation and Clinical Care Officer at Blue Shield at California where he was responsible for the ACO initiative state-wide, clinical optimization across all partner provider groups/ systems and business lines, strategic planning, medical management infrastructure development and government programs and clinical innovations for the enterprise. He had previously served as the Vice President of Quality, and Vendor Management of External Clinical Programs at Blue Shield of California in San Francisco. There, he was responsible for developing and executing the quality programs which focused on improved health care processes and delivery.
  
  Prior to rejoining Blue Shield, Dr. Levine served as the Executive Vice President and Executive Medical Director for Clinical Integration and Transformation Officer at Heritage Medical Systems where he was responsible for clinical optimization and innovation across the enterprise. In addition, Dr. Levine was responsible for putting together the joint venture between Trinity Health and Heritage Provider Group to form one of the largest integrated delivery system in the United States. Prior to this role at Heritage, he served as the Executive Vice President and Executive Medical Director of Arizona Priority Plus where he oversaw the clinical and administrative services including quality of care, outcomes and clinical services for Heritage Medical Services outside of California.
  
  Prior to working at Arizona Priority Plus, Dr. Stuart Levine was the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of Accretive Health and was the leader of the company's enhancement of physician engagement strategies, clinical quality capability, and future market development of Accretive Health's Quality and Total Cost of Care and Population Health program.
  
  Dr. Levine was the Corporate Medical Director and Regional Medical Director of HealthCare Partners Medical Group of California where he was responsible for the company's clinical-focused initiatives for 6 years, prior to and through the transition to DaVita, including company-wide clinical optimization and innovation, mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate and regional operations.
  
  Prior to joining HealthCare Partners Medical Group, Dr. Levine was the Medical Director for SCAN Health Plan for 10 years. Here he was responsible for all clinical operations for the HMO as well as all clinical operations for network management, provider services and contracting. He also oversaw the CME program and participated in all other aspects of HMO operations where clinical participation was essential.
  
  Dr. Levine initially started out his physician leadership career as the CEO of PsychCare Alliance and Topaz Health, where grew this to become the largest behavioral health medical group in the United States doing full risk and collaborative behavioral health care.
  
  Dr. Levine is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine since 1992 as well as resident expert on Population Health. Dr Levine was also recently appointed Assistant Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and has been active in their teaching programs around population health and future of medicine since 2014. He has published three dozen articles, book chapters and other abstracts in a variety of referred journals in addition to multiple national presentations and other works. This has included a wide array of subjects including population health, palliative care, the future of medicine, risk stratification and collaborative care in behavioral health as a principal investigator of IMPACT depression care.
  
  Prior to his career in medicine, he has served as an administrator at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center and the University of Chicago Medical Center.
  
  Dr. Levine completed his Psychiatry Residency at UCLA NPI and internship in Medicine and Pediatrics at LAC-USC and is board certified in psychiatry. He later taught and ran the consultation liaison psychiatry service at USC-LAC and the HIV services for LA County -USC Hospital.
  
  Dr. Levine graduated from the University of Illinois College Of Medicine at Chicago as a James Scholar. He also holds a Master's degree in Healthcare Administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Levine is also a graduate of fellowships at University of California, San Francisco/ CHCF in health care leadership and health care policy as well as a fellowship at Stanford University in Biodesign and Medical innovation. He currently serves on a number of boards for health care companies including as the President of the Board of California Health Care Foundation Leadership Alumni program and the Partners of Care Foundation.
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• Divyes Patel, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee

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  • Manager, Research, Development and Innovation Blue Cross Blue Shield of TN
  • Currently is responsible for leading new innovation and development strategies for the enterprise data & analytic platform.
  • Divyes has over 18 years of healthcare experience in reporting, analytics and informatics development

  Prior to joining Blue Cross Blue Shield of TN in 2011, Divyes worked for Ingenix Consulting

  • Led a development team in building a Clinical Value Measurement Infrastructure using SAS to automate clinical ROI savings calculations for OptumHealth clinical programs
  • Instrumental in building an industry-leading clinical reporting package that tracked clinical activity to the financial outcomes of OptumHealth
  • Lead developer in building a clinical reporting data mart for reporting and ad hoc uses
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• Douglas Popken, NextHealth Technologies

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  Doug Popken is Senior Vice President of Analytics at NextHealth Technologies, Denver, CO. His responsibilities include data and algorithm development for the NextData, NextLift, and NextInsight product lines. He received his PhD in operations research from UC Berkeley. Prior to working for NextHealth he was President and Technical Lead at Systems View, a management science consulting company. There he developed optimization-based decision support systems for clients such as the US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, trucking companies, and industry organizations. He aspires to bring scientific rigor to measuring and optimizing population health management.
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• Monica Basco, National Institutes of Health (Moderator)

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  Monica Ramirez Basco, Ph.D. recently served as the Assistant Director for Neuroscience, Mental Health, and Broadening Participation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is a clinical psychologist, author, lecturer and researcher currently working at the NIH Center for Scientific Review. After receiving her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Southern California she joined the Psychiatry faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas where she was involved in NIH funded research on mood disorders. Dr. Basco has been an invited speaker nationally and internationally for her work on psychosocial intervention development, refinement, and dissemination. She has authored nine books on cognitive behavior therapy including "Never Good Enough" and "The Bipolar Workbook". Dr. Basco received the British Medical Association Mental Health Book of the Year Award with Guilford Co-Authors Wright, Turkington, and Kingdon.
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• Bob Filbin, Crisis Text Line

• Kristen Honey, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

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  Dr. Kristen Honey is a Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Data Scientist and Chief Technology Officer in the White House, Executive Office of the President, Washington D.C. Her portfolio includes open data, My Data (e.g., Blue Button My Data health IT interoperability), and data-driven innovations for invisible illness, mental health, and suicide prevention. Kristen earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) while also earning a Ph.D. minor in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. She holds an M.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a B.A. in Human Biology with Honors from Stanford University. Before joining the White House "TeamCTO" in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Kristen was a 2013-2015 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow through the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• Andrea Ippolito, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

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  Andrea Ippolito is the VA Innovators Network Lead at the Department of Veterans Affairs. She previously served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the VA Center for Innovation. She previously was a PhD student in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT, co-founder of Smart Scheduling, Innovation Specialist at the Brigham & Women's Hospital Innovation Hub, and co-leader of MIT's Hacking Medicine. She also served as a Product Innovation Manager at athenahealth and completed her M.S. in Engineering & Management at MIT. She obtained both her B.S in Biological Engineering in 2006 and Masters of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 from Cornell University.
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• Nevena Zubcevik, Harvard University
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• Rachel Block, Milbank Memorial Fund (Moderator)

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  Rachel Block is an independent consultant focusing on federal and state health policy issues. She has served in numerous executive roles in the public and private sectors, most recently spearheading development of NYS's health information technology strategy as Deputy Commissioner for Health Information Technology Transformation in the NYS Department of Health (2009-2013), and as the founding executive director of the New York eHealth Collaborative (2007-2009). She worked at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (previously Health Care Financing Administration), where she held several senior management positions directing policy development and operations of Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance, and Federal Survey and Certification Programs, with particular emphasis on quality improvement, data, and systems issues. She supported development of a comprehensive health reform plan for Vermont 1992-94; and prior to that worked for the New York State Legislature, where she concentrated on Medicaid, coverage for the uninsured, public health, and professional licensing issues.
• Áron Boros, Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis

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  Áron Boros is the first Executive Director of the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA), an independent state agency created in 2012 to serve as the agency of record for Massachusetts health care information, to responsibly steward sensitive and confidential data, and to objectively report reliable and meaningful information about the quality, affordability, utilization, access, and outcomes of the Massachusetts health care system. Under Mr. Boros's direction CHIA produces a range of information products, including the calculation of per capita health care spending compared to an annual cost growth benchmark, and manages the state's All Payer Claims Database. Prior to joining CHIA, he worked at the Massachusetts Office of Medicaid as the Director of Federal Finance. Before entering public service, Mr. Boros was an attorney at the Boston law firm Foley Hoag. He received his JD and Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
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• David Mancuso, Services and Enterprise Support Administration, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services

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  Dr. Mancuso is director of the Research and Data Analysis Division of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. His division maintains the agency's Integrated Client Databases, a powerful federated data environment linking Medicaid medical, behavioral health, and long-term care data with social service, criminal justice, housing, child welfare, education, employment, and vital statistics data. Dr. Mancuso co-developed the Predictive Risk Intelligence System (PRISM), the predictive modeling application supporting physical and behavioral health care management interventions for Medicaid and dual Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries in Washington State. Dr. Mancuso received his PhD in economics from Stanford University in 2000.
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• Richard Shonk, The Health Collaborative, HealthBridge, Greater Cincinnati Health Council

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  Dr. Shonk as the Chief Medical Officer for The Health Collaborative is advancing payment reform, championing new uses for data to measure quality and is leading the health care quality improvement transformation initiatives in the Greater Cincinnati region.
  
  Dr. Shonk leads the convening of payors and providers in the multi-stakeholder forum that conducts the CMMI Comprehensive Primary Care initiative. He also oversees the practice improvement component of the same initiative, guiding 75 local practices through the program milestones. Dr. Shonk leads Greater Cincinnati's efforts to create a regional data utility made up of claims and clinical data sources, and oversees the clinical data collection and public reporting on YourHealthMatters.org.
  
  Dr. Shonk is also a member of the Governor's Task Force in Ohio for the State Innovation Model for health care. He also is Co-Chair of the Ohio Patient Centered Primary Care Council which promotes the advancement of The Patient Centered Medical Home efforts though out the state.
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• Mary Grealy, Healthcare Leadership Council (Moderator)

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  Mary Grealy is president of the Healthcare Leadership Council, a coalition of chief executives of the nation's leading healthcare companies and organizations. The HLC advocates consumer-centered health care reform, emphasizing the value of private sector innovation. It is the only health policy advocacy group that represents all sectors of the healthcare industry. She was appointed to the position in August 1999.
  
  Ms. Grealy has an extensive background in healthcare policy. She has led important initiatives on the uninsured, improving patient safety and quality, protecting the privacy of patient medical information and reforming the medical liability laws. She testifies frequently before Congress and federal regulatory agencies.
  
  She is a frequent public speaker on health issues and has been ranked many times by Modern Healthcare as one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare and has been named to Modern Healthcare's list of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare.
• Elise Anthony, Office of the National Coordinator

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  Elise Sweeney Anthony, JD, the Acting Director of Policy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, leads ONC's engagement on a range of high-priority federal policy efforts, including regulatory development, information blocking, MACRA implementation, and governance. Her portfolio also includes emerging issues and health IT policy matters impacting EHR Incentive Program participants and other care settings. She received her Bachelor's degree in Political Science at Morgan State University as a Ralph Bunche Scholar and her Juris Doctor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was Trial Advocate of the Year.
• Andrew Gettinger, Office of the National Coordinator

  Speaker Bio

  Dr. Andrew Gettinger is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and the Executive Director of the Office of Clinical Quality and Safety in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He previously served as Professor of Anesthesiology and adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and was the CMIO for Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Associate Dean for Clinical Informatics at Geisel. He received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School. He trained at the Hartford Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, and critical care medicine.
• Tom Mason, Office of the National Coordinator

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  Dr. Thomas Mason, the Chief Medical Officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, leads and champions clinical oversight of ONC programs and clinical coordination within ONC. He is a board-certified internist with an emphasis on primary care and preventative medicine with 14 years of clinical experience. He earned his M.D. from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center and Cook County Hospital.
• Chris Muir, Office of the National Coordinator

• Lucia Savage, Office of the National Coordinator

  Speaker Bio

  Appointed Chief Privacy Officer at Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health & Human Services in October 2014, Lucia Savage has been working on health privacy, transparency, and interoperable health information exchange since HIPAA was enacted. She previously served as General Counsel at Pacific Business Group on Health. And, as Senior Associate General Counsel at UnitedHealthcare she advised regarding large data transactions, health information exchange, and APCDs.
  
  Lucia has a BA with Honor from Mills College in Oakland, CA, and received her Juris Doctor summa cum laude from New York University School of Law.
• Vindell Washington, Office of the National Coordinator

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  Dr. Vindell Washington, the Principal Deputy National Coordinator in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) provides high-level executive direction and leadership for ONC programs, operations, and policies and advances key Administration initiatives. Prior to joining ONC, Dr. Washington served as the President of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOLHS) Medical Group and as the health system's Chief Medical Information Officer. Dr. Washington received a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Virginia. He earned his Master of Science in Healthcare Management from the Harvard University School of Public Health.

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION

• Jeff Makowka, AARP (@jmakowka)

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  Mr. Makowka has over fifteen years' experience in strategic consulting and market research. For more than half of that time, he has been focused on the wants and needs of the 50+, both domestically and internationally. As a Director in AARP's Enterprise Strategy and Innovation group, Jeff helped to launch, and now co-manages, the Innovation@50+ initiative, which aims to spark entrepreneurial activity across public and private sectors. Anchored by the AARP social mission - to enhance the quality of life for all as we age - the program enlists the expertise of visionary thinkers, entrepreneurs, the investment community, industry, and not-for-profits to spur innovation to meet the needs and wants of people over 50.
• Donna Cryer, Global Liver Institute (@DCPatient)

• Wen Dombrowski, Resonate Health LLC (@HealthcareWen)

  Speaker Bio

  Wen Dombrowski, MD, MBA is a geriatrics physician executive that brings a unique perspective to healthcare with her clinical, policy, business, social media, and technical expertise. She develops technology and business solutions to help vulnerable populations with complex medical and social needs -- including older adults, people with disabilities, and the urban poor. Dr. Dombrowski advises a range of healthcare organizations and technology innovators. She was previously Chief Medical Information Officer for a homecare provider, Clinical Informatics Director at a multi-specialty network of community clinics, and Medical Director at a special needs managed care plan for Medicaid-Medicare dual-eligible seniors.
• Alex Fair, MedStartr.com (@alexbfair)

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  While working on his Ph.D. in Pathology, Alex took a break to found his first health tech startup. That first company was bought by a company that had just gone public and he has never looked back, starting seven companies including his latest, MedStartr. He still wants to cure cancer and fix healthcare, but now he does so by enabling hundreds of new companies to get to market faster and more reliably. He has also served as adviser or mentor to over 70 startups, corporations, accelerators, and governments; designed the NYC HealthTech Pilot program; runs H2NYC, the first of over 100 world-wide Health 2.0 Local chapters; and developed the Crowd Challenge model to drive innovation in healthcare faster than ever.
  
  Attempting to crowdfund his fourth tech startup, Alex found that there was no dedicated healthcare crowdfunding platform and Kickstarter wouldn't even allow healthcare projects. The next week he launched the alpha of MedStartr, the first platform designed for healthcare stakeholders in innovation. Since then MedStartr has become the leading platform for healthcare crowdfunding and crowdsourcing innovation, helping over 300 healthcare companies connect to patients, providers, partners, institutions, and investors in meaningful ways.
• Francie Grace, Healthcare Reform Activist and Social Media Strategist (@FrancieGrace)

  Speaker Bio

  Francie Grace (@franciegrace), patient and consumer representative on the Health Datapalooza Steering Committee, is a member of the Society for Participatory Medicine, social media strategist at CatchAndHoldConsulting.com, writer, artist and New Yorker. She advocates for patient-controlled, interoperable medical records and better, faster access to, and use of, data for more effective science to empower patients and doctors to identify all treatment options, including personalized medicine, possible side effects and outcomes. Before jumping into social media, Francie had a long career in network news and can still be readily identified as the person with the right question at the right time.
• Lisa Latts, University of California and LML Health Solutions (@latts_lisa)

  Speaker Bio

  Dr. Lisa Latts is Chief Medical Officer for the University of California self-insured health plans and Principle for LML Health Solutions, a healthcare quality and delivery system transformation consulting firm. As CMO, she is responsible for ensuring that UC faculty and employees receive the highest quality care at an affordable price. She also is also working to incorporate innovative health care programs and products developed within the UC system into the health plan. As a consultant, she works with health plans, pharma/biotech, think tanks and consulting firms to find ways to make high quality, patient-centric health care affordable and accessible. She also works with the Colorado Marketplace to collect and display health plan quality information that is important to consumers.

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