Speakers

Preview some of the phenomenal speakers we have in store for you this fall. Attend in person and learn from today's health care leaders, and be part of tomorrow's change.

Ramsey Abdallah
Sr. Director Quality & Performance Improvement
Northwell Health
Oluseyi Aliu
Director, Outcomes/Health Services Research
Allegheny Health Network/Highmark Health
Faseeha Altaf
Digital Data and Quality Strategy Lead
Yale/Yale New Haven Health, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Thomasina Anane
Associate Director, Marketplace Competitiveness
Alliance of Community Health Plans
Sahana Arumani
Research Analyst - Netrin Health
Netrin Health
Rebeccah Baer
Assistant Director - Measure Collection & Audit DAV
NCQA
Tyler Barnett
Manager, Population Health Data Science & Analytics
University Hospitals
Michael Barr
President & Founder
MEDIS, LLC
Nisha Basu
VP, Clinical
Firefly Health
Lauren Baumeister Baumeister
Network Quality Strategy Program Manager
Commonwealth Care Alliance
Kate Beck
AVP, Health Information Exchange
Healthfirst
Senior Content Engineer
NCQA
Brooke Benton
Vice President, Clinical Services
Cecelia Health
Joseph Betancourt
President
Commonwealth Fund
Nina Birnbaum
Medical Director
Blue Shield of California
Asaf Bitton
Executive Director, Ariadne Labs
Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Caroline Blaum
Senior Research Scientist
NCQA
Jon Blum
Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Kaitlin Boger
Director of Integrated Care
Hunter Health
LaVonna Bowman
Senior Principal Sales Engineer
Inovalon
Rachel Brodie
Senior Director, Measurement & Accountability
Purchaser Business Group on Health
Shoshanah Brown
Head of Social Care
Cityblock Health
Bryan Buckley
Director, Health Equity Intiatives
NCQA
Burke Burnett
Director, Product Management
NCQA
Cory Busse
VP, Strategic Solutions
Icario
Sepheen Byron
Assistant Vice President, Performance Measurement
National Committee for Quality Assurance
Shonta Chambers
Executive Vice President, Health Equity Initiatives and Community Engagement
Patient Advocate Foundation
Caitlin Chiles
Director of Primary Care
Hunter Health
Aneesh Chopra
President
Care Journey
Mark Clements
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Robert Cleric
Director of Engineering
Astrata
Janis Coffin
Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Medical College of Georgia/ AU Health
Rebecca Croft
Manager, Business Process Automation
Commonwealth Care Alliance
Alina Czekai
Vice President, Value-Based Care Strategy
Cohere Health
Matt D'Ambrosia
President & CEO
Vital Data Technology
Carol Darden
Director of Quality Programs
Vituity
Linda DeCherrie
VP, Clinical Strategy and Implementation
Medically Home
Maria Dionicio
Training Specialist
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
Sarah Douglass
Nurse Manager
Firefly Health
Osagie Ebekozien
Chief Medical Officer
T1D Exchange
Leslie Eiland
Medical Director of Patient Experience and Digital Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Juan Espinoza
Chief Research Informatics Officer
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Emily Ferguson, DNP, RN, CCM
Associate Managing Editor
MCG Health, part of the Hearst Health network
Tammie Feuer
Director, Integrated Care
Caresource
Robert Fields
EVP Chief Clinical Officer
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Kathleen Fortier
Assistant Professor of Practice
RecoveryOne
Matt Fox
Senior Director of Health Policy and Value-Based Payment Strategy
UPMC Insurance Services Division
Durrell Fox
CHW Consultant
JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.
Reynaldy Gabriel
Senior Strategic Project Specialist
NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Claire Gallion
Medical Student
Medical College of Georgia
Matthew Gannon
Director, Community Healthcare Partnerships
NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Robert Garnett
Vice President, GBD Analytics
Elevance Health
Jessica Gaske
Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Bassett Healthcare Network
Lora Giacomoni
Vice President, Quality & Performance Improvement
Northwell
Govinder Gill
Product
NCQA
John Glaser
Executive in Residence
Harvard Medical School
Eric Glasnapp
Consultant - Business Support
Florida Blue
William Golden
Medical Director
Arkansas Medicaid
John Gorman
Founder
Nightingale Partners LLC
Nick Gottier
Director of Clinical Analytics
Cohere Health
Chris Grasso
Health IT Executive
Vanessa Guzman
President
SmartRise Health, LLC
Mandy Halford
Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO)
Covenant Health
Jane Hamilton
Practice Manager III
Bassett Healthcare Network
Ben Hamlin
Senior Research Informaticist
NCQA
Eric Harker
CMO
NuvoAir Medical PC
Rachel Harrington
Senior Research Scientist
NCQA
Cindy Hartig
Sr. Specialist Interoperability EDI & Product Management
Florida Blue
Julie Hayes Seibert, PhD, MPH, MA
Senior Research Scientist, Behavioral Health
NCQA
Sinsi Hernández-Cancio
Vice President for Health Justice
National Partnership for Women & Families
Parker Holcomb
Chief AI Engineer
Elevance Health
Kathryn Horneffer
Monitoring & Evaluation Lead – Program Evaluation
NC Medicaid
Andrea Hughes-Jackson
Principle Sales Engineer
Inovalon
Jenny Hyun
Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Analytics
Vituity
Lydia Isaac
Vice President, Health Equity and Policy
National Urban League
Jenna Jansen
Senior Director, Quality
WellSpan Health
Mark Jansen
Chief Medical Officer
Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield
Carolyn Jones
Filmmaker
Carolyn Jones Productions
Suneksha Kc
Director
Netrin Health
Autumn Kerr
AVP, Clinical Quality
Healthfirst
Joneigh Khaldun
Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer
CVS Health
Jacob Kilgore
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
Christopher King
Dean, School of Health
Georgetown University
Sean Kinsman
Chief Clinical Officer
RecoveryOne
Reid Kiser
Director, Division of Quality Measurement
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Terri Kitchen
Division Vice President
Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC)
Wendy Kiuber
PCMH Program Manager
Bassett Healthcare Network
Michael Klotz
Founder/CEO
Velox Health Metadata
Laurel Koester
Program Officer
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
Scott Kornhauser
Executive Vice President
KlearTrust
Heidi Kriz
Director of Medical Policy and Medical Management
Regence Health Plans
Jessica Kuhn
Quality Measurement Lead – Program Evaluation
NC Medicaid
Nivan Lakshman
Medical Student
Medical College of Georgia
Jennifer Lamprecht
Director Quality Strategy
Sanford Health
Gregory LeGrow
Executive Director, Payer Product Strategy
athenahealth
Arthur "Abbie" Leibowitz
Chief Medical Officer, Co-founder and President Emeritus
Health Advocate
Tyler Lopez-Ziemann
Sr. Director
Blue Shield of California
Taraneh Lucas
Lead Research & Population Health Analyst
Netrin Health
Sai Ma
Director, Enterprise Clinical Quality
Elevance Health
Carol Macumber
Executive Vice President, Services
Clinical Architecture
Janice Magno
Executive Director, Community Healthcare Strategic Partnerships
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Arumani Manisundaram
Founder & CEO
Netrin Health
Aletha Maybank
Chief Health Equity Officer
American Medical Association
Bianca Mayes-Davis
Director of Health Equity, Health Care Division; Advocacy Chair of PRIDE ERG
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Robert C. McClure
Principal Consultant
MD Partners, Inc
Laura McCrary
President & CEO
Konza
Kasey McCreery
Director, Clinical Documentation
Phreesia
Tonyka McKinney
Vice President, Health Equity + Justice
Real Chemistry
Naomi Mercier DNP, MSN, RN-BC
Clinical Content Lead, Informatics, MGB Digital
Mass General Brigham
Frank Micciche
VP, Public Policy & External Relations
National Committee for Quality Assurance
Linda Michaelsen
Director, Healthcare Interoperability Standards
Optum
Cathrine Misquitta
Vice President, Quality Management
Health Net
Navi Mudahar
Director, Virtual Care Innovation
Blue Shield of California
Eric Musser
Assistant Vice President, Federal Affairs
NCQA
Matthew Nichols
ACO Data and Reporting Analyst
University Hospitals
Margaret O'Kane
President
NCQA
Jose Ordonez
Manager, Data Analytics
Purchaser Business Group on Health
Marcus Osborne
CEO
RightMove Health
Minalkumar Patel
CEO and Founder
Abacus Insights
Upendra Patel
CEO
AaNeel
Ria Paul
Associate Chief Quality Officer Population Health and Ambulatory Quality
Stanford Health Care
Brenda Peterson
TeleCritical Care Director
Kaiser Permanente
Staci Porter, MSN, RN-BC CPHQ
Senior Clinical Strategist
ZynxHealth
Jolene Rasmussen
Chief Strategy Officer
Texas Council of Community Centers
Rob Reynolds
Managing Director, Clinical Reasoning Group
Smile Digital Health
Bryn Rhodes
Director of Standards Strategy
Smile Digital Health
Tonya Roberson
University Lecturer | Community Health
Governors State University
Peter Robertson
Senior Director, Practice Transformation
Purchaser Business Group on Health
Yolanda Robles
Chief Operating Officer
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
Barbara Rubino
Sr. Medical Director
Oscar Care / Oscar Health
Jaewon Ryu
President and CEO
Geisinger
Iqbal Saini
Sr IT Manager
Florida Blue
Thadeo Salido
VP/Medical Director of Clinical Strategy and Innovation
Cohere Health
Craig Samitt
CEO and Founder
ITO Advisors
Brooke Sanchez
Senior Program Analyst
VA Veterans Health Information Exchange
Teresa Saxon
Health Systems Specialist
VA Veterans Health Information Exchange
William Scanlon
Consultant
West Health
Stefanie Scari
Senior Director, Virtual Care
Oscar Health
Theresa Schmidt
Vice President
Real Chemistry
Eric Schneider
Executive Vice President, Quality Measurement and Research Group
NCQA
Sarah Hudson Scholle
Principal
Leavitt Partners
Michelle Schreiber, MD
Deputy Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, Director of Quality Measurement & Value-Based Incentives Group
CMS
Heidi Schwarzwald
Chief Medical Officer
Signify Health​ Home & Community Services
NFN Scout
Executive Director
National LGBT Cancer Network
Elizabeth Scruth
Executive Director NCAL KP Clinical Quality Programs, Data Analytics and Tele Critical Care
Kaiser Permanente NCAL
Meena Seshamani
Deputy Administrator and Director
Center for Medicare, CMS
Meghan Sinclair
VP, Product Management - Diagnostics and Preventive Services
Signify Health
Nadine Smith
Co-Founder and CEO
Equality Florida
Anne Smith
AVP, Digital Measure Architecture
NCQA
Julie Smith
Senior Clinical Product Manager
InterSystems
Liz Sperr
Disease Management Manager, Quality Management & Population Health
UCare
Unmesh Srivastava
Chief Digital and Technology Officer
Clever Care Health Plan
Assistant Director, Behavioral Health
NCQA
Brett Talbot
Chief Clinical Officer, Co-Founder
Videra Health
Wendy Talbot
Assistant Vice President
NCQA
Robert Taylor
Co-Founder and Senior Medical Director
REACH Kidney Care
Anna Taylor
Associate Vice President
MultiCare Connected Care
James Tcheng
Professor
Duke University
Christie Teigland
Vice President, Research Science & Advanced Analytics
Inovalon
Sam Thompson
Sam.Thompson@dhhs.nc.gov
NC Medicaid
Anthony Tran
Director, Quality Measurement
UPMC Health Plan
Courtney Walker
Health Outcomes Director - MM Health Equity
Novo Nordisk
Pat Wang
President & CEO
Healthfirst
Tracy Wang
Digital Solutions Director
Elevance Health
Mo Weitnauer
Chief Product Officer
MRO Corp.
Jamie Wiseman
Medical Director, Virtual Primary Care
Oscar Medical Group
Amy Wittig
Quality Improvement Director
Centene - Health Net of California
Shekinah Wright
Senior Manager, Quality
Health Net/Centene
Beth Wrobel
CEO
HealthLInc
Ronald Wyatt
Founder and CEO
Achieving Health Equity. LLC.
Elizabeth Younger
Director, Quality Improvement
WellSpan Health
Edward Yurcisin
Chief Technology Officer
NCQA
Sabrina Zecher
Manager, HEDIS
Commonwealth Care Alliance
Rachel Zetts
Senior Officer, Antibiotic Resistance Project
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Jon Zimmerman
Chief Executive Officer
Holon Solutions