System Vice President, Chief Quality and Innovation Officer
Arnot Health
Anu Banerjee
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Anu Banerjee, PhD, MS, MHM, FACHE
System Vice President, Chief Quality and Innovation Officer Arnot Health |
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.
- Gain an update on CMS priorities, requirements, and resources to help you in your efforts to improve care coordination
Chief Medical Officer
Atlanta and Boston Regional Offices
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Richard E. Wild
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Richard E. Wild, MD, JD, MBA, FACEP
Chief Medical Officer Atlanta and Boston Regional Offices Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) |
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).
- Learn how national leaders are addressing admissions and readmissions to limit wasteful spending and ensure care coordination efforts are both effective and fiscally viable
- Understand how value-based payment models are impacting their care coordination efforts
Chief Medical Officer, Care Continuum Service Line, Director, Value-Based Care, Community Practice Service Line
Geisinger
Richard Martin
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Richard Martin, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Care Continuum Service Line, Director, Value-Based Care, Community Practice Service Line Geisinger |
Richard A. Martin, M.D., FAAFP is a board certified Family Physician with more than thirty years of practice experience.
He is Chief Medical Officer for the Care Continuum service line and Director of Value based Care for the Community Practice service line of the Geisinger Health System. As such he is responsible for initiatives in value re-engineering of the Care Continuum and other population health initiatives at Geisinger including primary care delivery transformation and post-acute efficiencies.
Dr Martin has served in a number of administrative roles during his 30-year tenure with Geisinger including Department Director in the community practice service line, CMO of the Keystone ACO and clinical lead of Proven Health Navigator (Geisinger's patient centered medical home), leader of the community practice division's participation in the Physician's Group Demonstration project, and the Pennsylvania Department of Health's Chronic Care initiative project.
Additionally, he partners with the leadership of the Geisinger Health Plan on system wide population health delivery with a primary focus on facilitating improved service and value and increasing the connectivity between payer and provider in the continuum of care.
He has coordinated population health related activities across 22 counties in Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania for Geisinger.
He also serves as a Subject Matter Expert for patient centered medical home, practice transformation, and analytical redesign strategies for xG Health Solutions. He is recognized as a national expert on Patient Centered Medical home and primary care practice re-design.
Dr Martin is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College and completed his Family medicine residency at Geisinger Medical Canter.
Helen Ward
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Helen Ward, MD
AMD, Care Continuum The Southeast Permanente Medical Group |
Helen Ward, MD, serves as Associate Medical Director of Care Continuum for The Southeast Permanente Medical Group (TSPMG). TSPMG is one of Georgia’s largest multi-specialty medical groups, with over 800 clinicians caring for more than 300,000 Kaiser Permanente members. Services are delivered through a network of 26 medical offices and specialty centers, as well as four contracted hospitals — Emory University Hospital Midtown, Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Northside Hospital, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Dr. Ward is responsible for improving the quality and efficiency of care through maximization of care delivery across multiple settings, including hospital, ER, ACC/CDU, skilled nursing facilities, home care, and other venues. She works closely with outside partners and TSPMG’s primary care, specialty care, and hospitalist clinicians to ensure the delivery of affordable, high-quality care in a productive, collaborative environment.
Dr. Ward received her medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Emory University. She joined TSPMG in 2009 and has served in numerous leadership roles.
- Identify avenues your organization can take to expand care reach outside of the hospital
- Establish sustainable community health goals to implement within your geographic regions
- Discuss ways to determine the effectiveness of community initiatives and develop measurable ROI objectives
Bechara Choucair
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Bechara Choucair, MD
Senior Vice President and Chief Community Health Officer Kaiser Permanente |
- Identify how all aspects of the care continuum connect and affect one another
- Examine innovative ways to reduce gaps in care between different stakeholders
Senior Vice President, Primary Care & Ambulatory Specialties Institute, Chief Innovation Officer
Rochester Regional Health
Bridgette Wiefling
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Bridgette Wiefling, MD
Senior Vice President, Primary Care & Ambulatory Specialties Institute, Chief Innovation Officer Rochester Regional Health |
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.