Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc, FACP, is a board-certified internal medicine physician and the Associate Medical Director for Contracting and Value-Based Care at UW Medicine, where he is also the Director of the UW Medicine Value and Systems Science Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Health Services at the University of Washington. His expertise includes policy analysis and organizational strategy related to value-based care transformation, and his scholarly work focuses on evaluating and testing the impact of value-based payment and delivery reforms on patients, physicians, and health care organizations. Dr. Liao received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry and cell biology from Rice University and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital where he was also a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics located at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his training in health policy research.

Jenni Knittig is currently a resident of Arlington, Virginia

Ms. Knittig has been a Sibley Memorial Hospital employee since 2007, and is the Stroke Program Coordinator, until 2011 she worked in the Sibley Emergency Department as a RN.

Jenni graduated from Carinus Nursing College, University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1991, Immigrated to the United States in 1994, since coming to America she has worked as a ED nurse at Memorial Medical Center, Savannah Georgia, and Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas Texas.

Ms. Knittig is currently licensed in DC as a registered nurse and has certifications in Stroke and Geriatric nursing.

Mariam is a Senior Project Manager at Johns Hopkins HealthCare who is skilled in Lean Six Sigma and has experience in bringing together and leading multidisciplinary teams to manage various population health and value-based care programs for both the public and private sectors. This experience has prepared her to direct the BPCI Advanced program, the first of its kind for a Johns Hopkins entity, at Sibley Memorial Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Mariam is a IASSC Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and holds a MPH in Health Policy and Management from Boston University.

Maria Hill is the Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Care Management for Intermountain Healthcare. Her primary responsibility in this role is oversight of care management functions across all divisions including Hospitals, Medical Group, and SelectHealth. Maria has more than 30 years’ experience with corporate, academic, and community based health systems, where she was instrumental in the development and implementation of care management methodologies. Her work in the continuum of health care service is focused on delivering the best practice and results in value based payment arrangements including Bundled Payment, Accountable Care Organizations and Medicare Advantage Plans. She is trained as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Chronic Care. Her work in Lean Design and 6 Sigma assists her in achieving excellent results in quality, cost of care and service excellence. Her staff and peers appreciate her insight into their business and personal needs and clear communication, which complements her technical background in Case Coordination and Care Management.

Amy Ellis is the Director of Quality and Value Based Care at Northwest Medical Specialties, who oversees their Value Based Care initiatives and works to continually transform the way care is provided to patients by utilizing innovative tools such as artificial intelligence, continual process improvement and data analysis.

Ellis brings 14 years of health care experience to the NWMS team including outpatient radiology and clinical oncology research. Her primary focus is to support practice transformation by meeting the quality and cost metrics put into place by the various Value Based Care programs at the practice.

Jeff Hunnicutt is in his second year as CEO of Highlands Oncology in NW Arkansas. Prior to his time with Highlands, Jeff served as the COO for Northwest Medical Specialties in the south Puget Sound in Washington state. He also served as the Executive Director of the Quality Cancer Care Alliance (QCCA), participated on the CMMI OCM Redesign team with the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) and the Value Based Care Reform group with Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI).

With a strong background in technology and analytics, Jeff brings a unique perspective to oncology that marries real-world oncology issues with innovative technological solutions.

In his personal life, Jeff is married with 4 children. He and his family are deeply involved in projects to bring quality education to the remote areas of Senegal, Africa and raise awareness for foster care here in the United States.

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.