With over 16 years in healthcare innovation and operations, Dr. Banerjee has provided outstanding leadership in areas of quality management, performance improvement, patient safety, risk mitigation, infection control, employee safety, and analytics. He utilizes lean and six-sigma strategies, predictive learning methodologies and open analytics to facilitate informed decisions in optimizing patient care outcomes. Dr. Banerjee believes in Open Innovation Analytics by strengthening data, information capabilities and centralizing workflows, with a focus on solving problems in healthcare.

He was awarded The Becker’s Hospital Review “Rising Stars in Healthcare 2017”. Some of the other awards received but not limited to were the “Siemens Innovator Award”. These awards and more achievements manifest in research facilitated through contributing on health care panels, and contributions which have earned global health field recognition. He has shown outstanding skills in designing infrastructure for innovative technology and implementing new workflows to holistically improve healthcare.

His employment with reputable and influential healthcare companies reveals his dedication to the healthcare field and persistence to enact change and improve the infrastructure in healthcare. With his drive towards research, he continues to publish, review, and present his reviews and findings in top journals and article sources.

As Chief Quality and Innovation Officer of the healthcare system, his vision and strategy is to provide best practice initiatives to provide cost efficient and preventing adverse events towards a safe and quality based care to our patients and community. He believes sharing is caring, and healthcare goes beyond one organization or one system.

His latest interest in the field of quality innovation through machine learning and pattern recognition is worth following.

Recent national conferences chaired and or presented at include the ACO and Payer Leadership Summits in Braselton, GA – April 2019 and in San Diego, CA – September 2019 in addition to the iOT Healthcare Summit in Toronto, Canada – June 2019.

Eric D. Hargan is the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS is dedicated to promote and enhance the health and well-being of the American people and as the largest department in the federal government has an annual budget in excess of 1.3 Trillion dollars and over 80,000 employees across 26 divisions. As Deputy Secretary, he is the Chief Operating Officer is a responsible for day-to-day operations and management of the department in addition to leading policy and strategy development.

Mr. Hargan was sworn into office as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on October. 6, 2017. He immediately served as Acting Secretary of HHS from October 2017 to January 2018.

From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Hargan served at HHS in a variety of capacities, ultimately holding the position of Acting Deputy Secretary. During his tenure at HHS, Mr. Hargan also served as the Department’s Regulatory Policy Officer, overseeing the development and approval of all HHS, CMS, and FDA regulations and significant guidances.

He received his B.A. cum laude from Harvard University, and his J.D. from Columbia University Law School, where he was Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review. In between his tours of duty at HHS Mr. Hargan taught at Loyola Law School in Chicago, focusing on administrative law and healthcare regulations.

Mr. Hargan was born and raised in Mounds, Illinois, a small town of approximately 800 located in the southern county of Pulaski. He currently lives in Virginia with his wife and their two sons.

Dr. Wild received his MD degree from the University of Vermont, College of Medicine. Heis board certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. His internship and residency training were at Letterman Army Medical Center, San Francisco; San Francisco General Hospital; and Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. He served five years as an active duty officer with the US Army Medical Corps and also served as a Department of Defense civilian emergency medicine specialist at Martin Army Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia. Dr Wild earned his BA in Biology from Dartmouth College, his JD degree from George Washington University National Law Center in Washington, DC, and his MBA from the Columbia University Graduate Business School, in New York City.

Dr. Wild has 30 years of experience as a practicing emergency physician ranging from small rural Georgia hospitals to large university teaching centers. He has served on the Medical School faculties of Boston University, University of Massachusetts, and Brown University and was Chairman of the department of Emergency Medicine and Chief of Emergency Services at a teaching hospital of Brown University Medical School. He has taught emergency medicine, health policy, and legal medicine to resident physicians and medical students. Dr. Wild hasserved as President of the Rhode Island College of Emergency Physicians and as chairman or member of several American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and American Medical Association (AMA) national committees dealing with government affairs, coding, and physician reimbursement.

Dr. Wild is an active member of the Massachusetts and U.S. Federal Bar. He has practiced asa health care attorney with a large Boston law firm representing hospitals, physicians, skilled nursing facilities and a major Boston teaching hospital. He was medical director of Medicare’s direct fiscal intermediary in Baltimore and also CMS (then HCFA) Chief Medical Officer for reimbursement policy during the initial implementation the Hospital Prospective Payment (DRG) system. He subsequently served on the Medicare Prospective Payment Assessment Commission staff (now MedPac).

Dr. Wiefling is a practicing internal medicine physician at Rochester Regional Health. In her current role as senior vice president, she is responsible for building a robust primary care network that is adaptive to new challenges and opportunities in health care. She plays a critical role leading the Rochester Regional delivery system transformation under the evolution of new payment models. She spearheads innovative strategies and technology to redesign delivery of medical services in a way that reduces cost and improves quality while integrating care across the continuum. Dr Wiefling has served in multiple leadership roles for the system, including chief quality officer and senior vice president and executive director of the Rochester General Medical Group. Prior to joining Rochester Regional, she was the CEO of the Anthony L. Jordan Community Center.

Dr. Wiefling earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Medical School and completed her dual residency at the University of Rochester. She held a clinical faculty position at the U of R and has worked as an FDA Pediatric Advisory Committee consultant. Dr. Wiefling’s career accomplishments also include being a founder in the creation of multiple health service organizations in the region, including Rochester Integrated Health Network, the Greater Rochester Health Home, and Finger Lake Performing Provider System. She volunteers on the boards of the Greater Rochester Health Foundation, SUNY Brockport College, and the Al Sigl Community of Agencies.