Molly MacHarris leads the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) in the Center for Clinical Standards & Quality at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Rahul Koranne serves as the first chief medical officer of the Minnesota Hospital Association. As an internist and geriatrician, Rahul has worked in the smallest Critical Access health system and one of the largest integrated delivery networks in Minnesota where he currently serves as a weekend hospitalist. Rahul has been very active at the Minnesota state level with various health reform activities since 2008 in advancing the quadruple aim.

Dr. Timothy Sielaff is the chief medical officer for Allina Health and the SVP for the Allina Health Group (AHG). He advances the quality agenda and clinically leads the 11 clinical service lines that make up the AHG. Tim has been a hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgeon for 15 years.

Hani cofounded Lumere in 2012. He provides strategic vision for the company and advises health system executives on how to achieve the best clinical outcomes at an optimal cost. Under his leadership, Lumere was named “one of 50 startups to watch in 2017” by Built in Chicago. Hani is a frequent presenter and panelist on topics including evidence-based care, healthcare disruption, physician engagement, process improvement and spend management. He previously served as a consultant in McKinsey & Company's healthcare practice, where he helped found the firm's health economics think tank, the Center for US Health System Reform. Hani holds BA, JD and MPH degrees from Harvard University and was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow.

Registered Nurse who received a Bachelors in the Science of Nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Worked as a staff nurse caring for a varying range of patients for 14 years before transitioning into healthcare supply chain. Worked as the Director of Supply Chain with accountability for all Supply Chain departments within a local community health system. Also, worked as a Supply Chain Regional Director at Premier, Inc. Joined the Bon Secours team in 2016 leading the value analysis and contracting teams. In September 2018 Bon Secours merged together with Mercy Health where I developed, implemented and over see the Clinical Integration program.

Michael Thompson has over 30 years of using analytics to unleash hidden stories within data.  The quest has led him to use a variety of data warehousing, visualization, statistical, data mining methodologies, and analytic modeling creations.  His team’s work has been shared in the Wall Street journal, industry symposiums, and publications over the years. With a personal goal to help others on their journey to find opportunities hidden in their data, Mike has shared his adventures as a speaker at industry events (national and international) on computational health topics and as a lecturer on data and analytic topics at Georgia Tech University, Mercer University, Emory University, and UCLA. After two and half decades of torturing data with various levels of sophistication, Mike updated his skills by earning a Master of Predictive Analytics/Data Science degree from Northwestern University. Within the private sector, Mike has led analytic teams across large financial and healthcare organizations.   Currently, Mike leads a multi-disciplined team (physicians, nurses, statisticians, data scientists, data analysts, data engineers, and data warehouse developers) to fulfill the insatiable financial, operational, clinical, quality, and population health analytic needs of the organization as the Executive Director of Enterprise Data Intelligence at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, CA.

Dr. Patrick McGill serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Analytics Officer.  In this capacity, he provides oversight for the newly formed Office of Analytics.  Most recently, he served as the Senior Vice President for Clinical Strategy, leading the Product Lines in the reduction of clinical variation, strategies for growth and success in value based base.  Prior, he served as the Vice President of Clinical Transformation.  Additionally, Dr. McGill has special interests in clinical analytics, office workflow efficiency and waste reduction.  Dr. McGill is a certified Green belt in Lean/Six Sigma.

Born and raised outside of Atlanta, GA, Dr. McGill attended the University of Georgia in Athens, GA graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry.  He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA and completed his residency at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, IN.  Prior to joining Community Physician Network in 2010, he practiced Family Medicine in Pendleton, IN and has experience in Emergency and Urgent Care medicine.   He is board certified in Family Medicine and continues to see patients at South Indy Family Practice

Travis Lozier is a Vice President of Performance Excellence with Community Health Network.  In his role, Travis facilitates and manages a large portfolio of performance excellence initiatives and projects.  Travis also assists with curriculum development and training focusing on performance improvement methodologies, including Lean and Six Sigma.  Travis is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Ball State University.  Travis is also an American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Master Black Belt. Travis is also a National Baldrige Examiner. Prior to his work in performance improvement, Travis spent 5 years in information technology where he held positiosn as Project Manager and Information Technology Site Director.  Travis’ varied background in business and project management provided a solid foundation for his role as Vice President of Performance Excellence. 

Dr. Shreeve is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician who has been actively involved in the design, development, and distribution of life science technologies that improve the delivery of care and enhance the quality of life. He is currently serving as chief executive officer of Crossover Health, a next generation health care delivery medical group. Dr. Shreeve was a co-founder of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the first open source electronic health record for the healthcare enterprise, where he led the Clients Services team. He led the implementation of large scale electronic health record implementations at community hospitals, state wide health systems, and networks of primary care clinics. Dr. Shreeve is also a founding member of the Health 2.0 technology and reform movement, serving as an advisor to the conference and spokesperson throughout the country. His popular Crossover Health blog focuses on the enabling technologies that transform the delivery, financing, and outcomes of high-performance health systems. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Zoology, with a minor in Economics, from Brigham Young University, is a graduate of the University of Utah School of Medicine, and completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at the University of Arizona Health Science Center. He lives in Southern California with his wife and four children near some of the best breaks on the west coast.

In 1985 I finished an Anesthesia residency to embark on a journey in clinical care. Subsequently, many in healthcare became acutely concerned that the complexity of care combined with human fallibility created unacceptable risk, and I happened to be in the forefront of that awakening. My focus on taking care of one patient at a time became an intense interest in improving the reliability of care for many. This work has taken me to health systems worldwide, in the UK, the USA, in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Singapore and New Zealand. I have worked in The Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Partners Healthcare in Boston, and with many exceptional individuals. Michael Leonard and I have studied and identified the essential components of great organizational and clinical leaders and selected and simplified the exceptionally important elements of teamwork. We have also had great success in putting into place the practical tools necessary to engender dignity and respect in pursuit of continuous improvement. In institutions small and large, we have built a new generation of learning environments capable of coping with complexity and unending demands. We have achieved positive cultural and clinical change and documented them in 3 books and numerous academic journals. We plan to build on our experience and continuously apply what we have learned – in service to patients and the extraordinary people who care for them everyday.

I have been given the privilege of being able to work broadly across American Healthcare and several countries internationally. In 1999, Kaiser formed a partnership with Dr. Robert Helmreich’s Human Factors Research Group at the University of Texas, and I had the benefit of learning from people with deep expertise in safety culture and teamwork in high-risk environments. I am particularly interested in the effective adoption of this learning into the world of healthcare in clear, effective and sustainable ways. My long time friend and colleague, Dr. Allan Frankel and I have worked extensively to develop practical, comprehensive models that enhance patient and family centered care, effective leadership, a culture of safety, collaborative teamwork, high reliability, and an environment of continuous learning and improvement. The TEM model (Team Based Engagement co-developed with the Mayo Clinic during our time at Pascal Metrics) and the SocioTechnical Model are used effectively to assess and intervene at a clinical unit, hospital or health system level. We have extremely dedicated, skilled individuals caring for patients. Providing a systematic framework and practical tools to enhance the delivery of safe, reliable care and continuous learning is tremendously valuable for patients, caregivers and healthcare organizations.

Mr. Smith has worked in the field of Healthcare Information Technology for 25 years and serves as SVP and executive advisor at Health Catalyst. He was previously SVP and CIO at Banner Health, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit healthcare systems. Prior to Banner Health, he served as the COO of Information Systems at Intermountain Healthcare where he worked for 19 years. He has extensive leadership experience building and implementing customer-focused, differentiated technology solutions aimed at transforming the healthcare industry. Mr. Smith received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and holds an MBA in IT Management. 

Will Caldwell attended Davidson College where he prepared for a career in medicine, studying biology and working in East Africa as a wildlife manager.  Dr. Caldwell completed residency training in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at the University of Maryland Medical System and the Shock Trauma Center of Maryland.  He went on to achieve triple board certification in otolaryngology, allergy and immunology, and sleep medicine.  In 2013, he became a board member and medical director of Give Hope Global, a not-for-profit entity dedicated to the development of health systems focused on the use of community health workers.  He also serves as Senior Medical Advisor to Zanmi Lasante, the name for Partners in Health in Haiti.  His work was documented in a film which won two Emmy Awards.  Dr. Caldwell earned his MBA With Highest Honors and was named for Academic Distinction from Wake Forest University.  He served as the Senior Vice President for Clinical Integration at Novant Health, building the Novant Health Clinically Integrated Network, a value-based platform comprised of over 2800 providers across 26 specialties.  In his current role as Senior Vice President for Physician and Market Development at Health Catalyst, he promotes the use of data analytics to promote good health and save lives.   His area of expertise rests in technology enabled health care delivery models and value-based care platforms.  He continues to see patients and has received over 26 awards for clinical excellence during his 17-year career as a clinician. 

Amy is the Senior Vice President of Population Health Management at Health Catalyst, where she works with clients to support their transition to value-based care using a foundation of data and analytics. She concurrently serves as the Associate Medical Director of Population Health Management at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where she oversees care management and employee health. She practices as a primary care physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.  Amy has a background in hospital administration at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and co-founded a start-up in the end-of-life care space.  Amy completed a medical degree from Harvard Medical School, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and trained in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Heather Schoonover is the vice president of customer success at Health Catalyst and is responsible for ensuring customer outcomes, including the development of strategies for driving and communicating customer outcomes.

Heather has more than 20 years’ experience in nursing and healthcare.  Prior to joining Health Catalyst, Heather was the director of professional practice at PeaceHealth and was responsible for improving patient safety and outcomes, organizational outcomes, leader and staff competency, and the nurse practice environment. 

Heather has held adjunct nursing faculty positions and pro tem appointments on the Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission, the State regulatory board of nursing.

Heather obtained a Master of Nursing from Washington State University and is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a clinical nurse specialist in public and community health.  Heather is a Clinical Nurse Specialist Institute Fellow and has been honored to be the recipient of leadership awards from both Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society for Nursing, and the Northwest Organization of Nurse Executives.

Mr. Burton is a Co-founder and President, Professional Services of Health Catalyst. His leadership and decades of experience in business intelligence, analytics, and process improvement have helped many care delivery systems significantly improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. Mr. Burton was a member of the team that led Intermountain Healthcare’s nationally recognized improvements in quality of care delivery and reductions in cost. He has taught courses on the Toyota Production System, Agile Software Development, value-based care, and data system design at various institutes including Intermountain Healthcare’s Institute for Health Care Delivery Research and Stanford’s Clinical Effectiveness Leadership Training. He has also given presentations at the Healthcare Analytics Summit and HIMSS. Mr. Burton holds an MBA and a BS in Computer Science from BYU.

Jason Jones is passionate about achieving the Quadruple Aim through better and easier use of data in healthcare, including helping organizations to find analytic focus; helping providers feel that the systems they work for have their backs; and helping people to understand and have their goals and preferences respected for the hopefully brief periods during which they are “patients.”Previously, Jones served as Vice President, Information Support for Care Transformation, at Kaiser Permanente (KP). In that capacity, he brought together and co-led the national Hospital and Healthplan Quality and Finance analytic functions and led development of national quality strategy and care delivery IT investments. Prior to that, he was KP’s Executive Director of Clinical Intelligence and Decision Support and a Research Scientist in KP’s Southern California region.Before joining KP, Jones was a Senior Medical Informaticist for Intermountain Healthcare. He also held analytic and marketing positions at Bayer Healthcare in Wayne, N.J., and Ingenix (now Optum) Pharmaceutical Information Products in Salt Lake City, where he developed a model for converting United Healthcare data into a saleable asset for external customers conducting outcomes research.Throughout his career, Jones has taught graduate courses in statistics to medical informaticists at the University of Southern California and at the University of Utah. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers in medicine, predictive modeling, and outcomes improvement.

Jason Jones is passionate about achieving the Quadruple Aim through better and easier use of data in healthcare, including helping organizations to find analytic focus; helping providers feel that the systems they work for have their backs; and helping people to understand and have their goals and preferences respected for the hopefully brief periods during which they are “patients.”Previously, Jones served as Vice President, Information Support for Care Transformation, at Kaiser Permanente (KP). In that capacity, he brought together and co-led the national Hospital and Healthplan Quality and Finance analytic functions and led development of national quality strategy and care delivery IT investments. Prior to that, he was KP’s Executive Director of Clinical Intelligence and Decision Support and a Research Scientist in KP’s Southern California region.Before joining KP, Jones was a Senior Medical Informaticist for Intermountain Healthcare. He also held analytic and marketing positions at Bayer Healthcare in Wayne, N.J., and Ingenix (now Optum) Pharmaceutical Information Products in Salt Lake City, where he developed a model for converting United Healthcare data into a saleable asset for external customers conducting outcomes research.Throughout his career, Jones has taught graduate courses in statistics to medical informaticists at the University of Southern California and at the University of Utah. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers in medicine, predictive modeling, and outcomes improvement.

Owen is the co-founder and President of MedRhythms Inc, a digital therapeutics company that uses sensors, music, and AI to build evidence-based neurologic interventions to measure and improve walking. He is determined to provide patients across the globe with the services necessary to recover their walking ability and regain their independence. Owen started MedRhythms as an experienced entrepreneur with an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. He also serves as the co-chair of the reimbursement working group at the Digital Therapeutics Alliance.

Holly has been instrumental in partnering with physicians and executives in transitioning a traditional cardiac service line into Pulse Heart Institute,  a provider lead institute on the West Cost.  Under her leadership she has partnered with physicians and administrators in standing up the 6 centers of excellence.  She was responsible for developing dyad leaders and establishing the quality structure for the institute. Through this work operational, economic and quality metrics have all improved across the Institute.    

Holly’s knack for innovating and partnering with providers has allowed her to develop numerous resources and tools, letting providers engage in the operational and economic outcomes of the care they provide. 

Holly has worked at MultiCare for 6 years.  In that time she has:

• Created an extensive quality structure for provider’s and the Heart Institute
• Facilitated the creation, mechanism of tracking and execution of many data tools that connect data to patients and providers
• Developed MultiCare’s first risk based contract
• Executed on horizontal Patient Centered Models across the state of Washington
• Partnered with startup companies in developing, refining and selling their products

Holly is married with 3 children.  She loves spending time with her family in the outdoors. In her spare time she enjoys running, hiking and playing soccer.

Needham Ward, MD, assisted in the development of the Pulse Heart Institute and has been its Chief Medical Officer since 2015.  Dr. Ward served as a cardiologist at the Cardiac Study Center in Tacoma, Washington from 1981-2015. He was Medical Director there from 1996 to 2004 and President from 2010 until his retirement from clinical practice. Prior to practice at the Cardiac Study Center, Dr. Ward served for nine years in the US Army Medical Corps.

During his extensive career, Dr. Ward:

• Led the early adoption of electronic medical record technology at Cardiac Study Center, becoming one of the first private practices in the South Puget Sound area to depart from paper charts
• Initiated the first Cardiac Nuclear Lab for Pierce County outpatients
• Helped develop (and was the first medical director of) the Congestive Heart Failure Clinic in 1997 and Cardiovascular Service Line in 2010
• Along with Dr. Eugene Lapin, was one of the first Cardiologists in Washington state to perform coronary angioplasty
• Developed the first outpatient coronary computerized tomographic angiogram service in Washington state with the help of Dr. Vinay Malhotra.

Dr. Ward is married with five children. He enjoys outdoor activities, including hiking, walking and kayaking.

Okan Ekinci is the Chief Medical Officer for Diagnostics Information Solutions (DIS) at F. Hoffmann La-Roche Ltd in Basel, Switzerland. He is a member of the leadership team of DIS, an organization focused on decision support solutions, powered by aggregated data and advanced analytics, in support of Roche’s personalized healthcare (PHC) strategy. The goal is to redefine how data and analytics can drive patient care and R&D to help ensure the right treatment reaches the right patient.

Okan has 20+ years of experience in the healthcare sector, including 8 years of clinical practice in cardiology. Before joining Roche, he was the Global Head & Vice President of the Healthcare Consulting business at Siemens Healthineers, developing and offering IT-enabled transformation and clinical consulting services. With his team, he introduced data-driven innovative offerings such as Radiology Performance Management Services and 4D Workflow Simulation Services for healthcare institutions. Prior to that, he established the Global Medical Office of Healthineers and served as its first CMO, across imaging, in-vitro diagnostics, and healthcare IT.

Okan is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at University College Dublin, Ireland, holds an MBA from the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin and an MD from the University of Mainz, Germany. He’s an alumnus of Harvard Business School‘s VBHC Value Measurement program.

Imran is the Chief Data Science Officer at Clarify Health where he oversees the data acquisition, data engineering and data science teams. Previously Imran was the Chief Software Development Officer at Health Catalyst where he was responsible for the software development in the company including leading the engineering team building the Data Operating System (DOS).  Before Health Catalyst, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Acupera where he led the team that built the care management platform that was successfully implemented in Ascension, Montefiore, Kaiser, and other health systems. Prior to that, Imran was VP of Engineering at CareAnyware, where he led development of the largest cloud-based EHR for Home Health and Hospice. He also spent 12 years at Microsoft, including building the slideshow part of PowerPoint and building the email experience for Hotmail. He holds several patents and has a Computer Science degree from Stanford University. Imran lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Elsie, and 13-year-old twins, Zane and Malaya. He has only recently gotten comfortable with being the least smart person in the family.

Michelle Babcock is a physical therapist and the Chief Experience Officer at Spooner Physical Therapy, a Phoenix-based outpatient orthopedic practice with 21 clinics. Michelle believes physical therapists greatly impact our society’s health, are best equipped to manage community musculoskeletal health, and are underutilized as movement specialists by the community and healthcare system. She is passionate about demonstrating this expertise to the community and that is the foundation for her work. Michelle is a natural people connector and relationship builder, and she strives for excellence personally and professionally. Her work includes leading and influencing therapists along their journey, and she spends much of her time teaching, guiding and mentoring others, especially in the realm of the patient experience. She gets great satisfaction from watching others grow, and seeing them contribute to the profession through their own passion and talents while impacting the health of our community. Michelle’s own professional journey has allowed her to appreciate each aspect of operating a successful practice. She has worked as a staff therapist for multiple private practices, a Clinic Director at Spooner Physical Therapy, and has grown through her role on the Leadership Team at Spooner. Michelle holds a BS in Exercise Science from Wake Forest University and MS in Physical Therapy from the University of Rhode Island. Her personal life is filled with love and fun with her husband and three young children.

Russell Olsen joined Phoenix-based WebPT as Vice President of Innovation and Product Management in 2017. He leads category design, product management, user experience, and product discovery—as well as applying disruptive innovation approaches to accelerate growth while solving customer and market problems. Russell brings with him deep experience in healthcare and growth companies and has delivered innovations impacting millions of lives over the course of his 15-year career.

Prior to WebPT, Russell led product teams at other healthcare organizations. His roles included Vice President of Product and Innovation at Phytel, an IBM company, and Offering leader at IBM Watson Health, where he led the creation of provider-led population health tools and the integration of Watson and machine learning into several offering portfolios. At IBM he also led the development and launch of Watson Care Manager, helping care managers improve the lives of chronically ill individuals across the globe. Additionally, he led teams at MDdatacor (now Symphony Technology Group), uncovering new ways to use natural language processing to improve the payer driven quality programs.

Russell graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in electronics and information technology. He also received a certificate in “Disruptive Strategy” from Harvard Business School in 2017.

Dr. David Wild serves as the Vice President of Performance Improvement at the University of Kansas Health System, based in Kansas City, Kansas.  In this role he has responsibility for process, performance, and quality improvement work, the development and deployment of the System’s improvement and management systems, applied analytics, clinical variation reduction programs, and clinical and operational redesign across the inpatient and ambulatory enterprises.  Dr. Wild is also a practicing anesthesiologist and Faculty in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Dr. Wild completed his undergraduate and M.D. degrees at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and his residency training in Anesthesiology at Saint Louis University where he served in multiple operational and leadership roles prior to joining the University of Kansas Health System. He recently completed his MBA at Rockhurst University with an emphasis on business intelligence and analytics.  He has served as the President of the Kansas Society of Anesthesiologists and is active at the national level in development of new delivery and alternative payment models for perioperative care.

Susan Seidensticker has over 20 years of experience in healthcare performance improvement.  In her current role as Director, Waiver Quality Operations at UTMB Health, she serves as the program manager for the portfolio of outcome measures that the organization is accountable for under the Texas 1115 Waiver; these 30 measures represent 32 rates covering Adult and Pediatric Primary Care.  She is heavily involved in the regulatory and compliance components, as well as the organizational efforts to develop and deploy interventions to work on improving these outcomes.  Susan holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, and a Masters of Science in Health Administration Informatics from the University of Maryland University College.  She holds active certifications from the National Association of Healthcare Quality (Certified Professional of Healthcare Quality), the American Society of Quality (Six Sigma Black Belt), and the Project Management Institute (Project Management Professional), and has been published in the American Journal of Medicine.

Andrew Herndon is a Senior Business Manager for The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, Texas. With work experience in both research and project management, Andrew’s career has taken him to the United States Department of Agriculture and now UTMB. With a strong focus on project management and efficiency, he hopes to better UTMB and Regional Healthcare Partnership (RHP) 2 through meaningful interventions identified through innovative healthcare data analysis.

Andrew joined UTMB in 2014 and began working on Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) project management and regional anchor report consulting. With exceptional results over the last five years, Andrew is Epic Certified and working towards real time data delivery and intervention support at UTMB for population health initiatives.

Andrew holds a BS in Biomedical Sciences from Texas A&M University and his Masters of Health Administration from The Texas A&M School of Public Health. He is a native Texan and resides in Hitchcock, Texas with his wife Nikki.