Julie L. Mirkin, DNP, MA, RN, is currently the Chief Nursing Officer for Stony Brook Medicine, a 623 Academic Medical Center located in eastern Long Island. In this role, Dr. Mirkin leads strategic planning, development, and implementation of best practices for Nursing and Hospital Operations. Dr. Mirkin also has oversight for two Community Hospitals as well as Ambulatory Care for the Stony Brook Health System.

Dr. Mirkin has received several leadership awards and has presented at numerous regional and national conferences on the subjects of leadership, team building, change management, emotional intelligence, leveraging IT to achieve exceptional organization results and patient outcomes, and care coordination. She has recently published articles in AONE Nurse Leader and Collaborative Case Management.

Dr. Mirkin is an active member of the American Case Management Association (ACMA) and has facilitated the formation of the first New York Chapter for ACMA. She is currently serving as the President of the New York ACMA Chapter.

Dr. Mirkin received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from State University of New York at Stony Brook, Master of Arts in Nursing Administration from Columbia University Teacher’s College, Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Case Western Reserve University, and a Wharton Fellowship in the Nursing Executive Program from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Omar Fernandez is the VP of Payer Relations and Market Development for My Home Doctor (MHD). Omar is responsible for leading the efforts to expand the geographical footprint outside the current markets MHD serves. His primary focus is to collaborate and contract with Health Plans across the country in Value-Based partnerships for their Medicare Advantage and Managed Medicaid memberships.

Omar has 20 years of consumer-facing healthcare experience leading physician engagement, payer relations, and specialty pharmacy teams. Prior to joining My Home Doctor, Omar gained valuable patient-centric expertise working at Accredo Health, Medco, and Express Scripts over a 15-year career. He is a graduate of Florida State University with a Marketing degree. He currently lives in Marietta, Georgia with his wife and is the father of 3 boys, and is an avid fisherman.

MJ Tran currently serves as the Sr. Vice President of Clinical Development for Physicians Accountable Care of Utah and the Strategic Director of Post-Acute Partnerships for Granger Medical Clinic. Throughout her experience in care management and clinical operations, she envisioned a robust community-based Transitional Care Management (TCM) program that has helped to reduce readmission rates and enhance patient outcomes by establishing communication links between various healthcare settings that did not previously exists. Due to her efforts, she was recognized as the 2017 Utah Business Healthcare Hero for Community Outreach and is the recipient of the Noorda Geriatric Scholar and the 2018 Jonas Veteran Healthcare Scholar for Community-Based Care. Ms. Tran holds a Bachelor’s in Biology from Utah State University, a Bachelor’s in Nursing from Creighton University, an MBA from Westminster College, and is a PhD student at the University of Utah College of Nursing. She is passionate about researching the complexities of the healthcare system, challenging the status quo of standardized care and advocating for innovative care models focused on patient-centered initiatives.

Dr. Mary McLaughlin Davis became a certified care manager in 1993. She has provided care coordination services for inpatients, outpatients, and health care plans.

As a Clinical nurse specialist, Dr. McLaughlin Davis has worked extensively with patients having chronic disease, notably congestive heart failure and stroke. She is a Senior Director of Care Management for three of the Cleveland Clinic‘s community hospitals and a guest lecturer at Ursuline College.

Dr. McLaughlin Davis serves as national immediate past president for the Case Management Society of America (CMSA). She is on The Public Policy Committee for CMSA and for the Nursing Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. She speaks on care coordination topics across the country. She recently published the Case Management Guide to Population Health through HCPro.

Crissie is a Complex Case Manager for the Duke University Health System. She received her BSW from North Carolina State University and her MSW from the University of Central Florida. She maintains her Certified Case Management Certification and her License for Clinical Social Work. She has worked as a Case Manager for the past fourteen years in the Duke Health System, with a concentration on the complex cases for the past three years. Prior to coming to DUHS she worked as a Care Coordinator in Mother Baby and Pediatrics at Tampa General Hospital. She was the recipient of the 2019 NC ACMA Crystal Redding Memorial Award for innovative practice of Case Management, courage in the face of challenges, and Humor in the workplace and Teamwork.

Vanessa Roshell-Stacks is the VP of Hospital Operations and Care Transitions at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Vanessa has over 20 years of healthcare experience in areas that include finance, revenue cycle, patient flow, and operations. She is a proven leader with a focus on process improvement that optimizes performance and outcomes. Under her current leadership, Ms. Stacks has worked to transform the Rush Medical Center care management delivery model and patient flow performance through the establishment of R-Path (Rush Path). An innovative approach to patient flow that addresses care management redesign, bed aggregation, multi-disciplinary communication and enhanced analytics. Ms. Stacks has a master’s degree in Health Administration from the University Of South Carolina School Of Public Health and is Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt Certified.

Emily F. Peters has spent the last decade working with founders, physicians, patients, and policy leaders to bring bold new ideas to healthcare. As the founder of Uncommon Bold, her expertise in healthcare transformation is sought out by organizations around the world.

A survivor of a near-fatal postpartum hemorrhage in 2016, Emily is personally passionate about maternal health and is an advocate for blood donation. Her experiences in the healthcare sector, and her competing feelings of love and outrage as a patient, mother, and woman in medicine, inspired her to launch Procedure Press, an independent publishing house dedicated to amplifying bold, bright voices in medicine. She simultaneously published her first book, Procedure Volume 1: Women Remaking Medicine.

Through true stories of women starting companies, building empires of kindness, fighting good fights, going to space, saving themselves, and working to make healthcare healthier, her book beautifully profiles diverse voices from across medicine and inspires action. Emily has spoken at Cornell Weill Medical School, NYU Langone Medical School, Google, Genentech, and other prestigious organizations on the topic of authentic leadership and reclaiming the soul of healthcare.