JOHN B. BULGER, DO, MBA is the Chief Medical Officer of Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) and the Chief Medical Officer for Population Health for Geisinger. The Geisinger Health System has a clinical presence spanning central Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey. GHP serves over 500,000 members throughout central Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maine. He is tasked with improving the quality of care and adding value for the people and populations that Geisinger serves.

Dr. Bulger served as the Chief Quality Officer for Geisinger from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, Dr. Bulger founded Geisinger Medical Center’s hospitalist program with six physicians and lead the program’s development to include six hospitals and over 100 physicians and advanced practitioners.

Dr. Bulger is a lifelong resident of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Juniata College, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Pennsylvania State University. His wife Michele is a pediatrician and member of Geisinger’s faculty. They reside in Danville with their children Ethan, Ben, and Ava.

Alexandra “Alex” Castillo, MPH is a dynamic population health leader and researcher with experience improving population health outcomes by using data and analytics to drive improvements and transformation. Ms. Castillo is the Executive Director for the Center for Informatics and Analytics (CIA) and Graduate Faculty in the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). In her current position, Ms. Castillo provides strategic leadership in the administration and governance of UMMC’s data and analytics, and is an innovator in statewide analytics efforts.

Ms. Castillo received her B.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics and a Master’s in Public Health with an emphasis in Public Health Policy and Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi. Under her leadership, the CIA received the AAMC Learning Healthcare System Pioneer Award. Ms. Castillo is also the 2018 recipient of the Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS) Innovation Award.

Kevin Cook is the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Health System. In this role, Kevin is responsible for UMMC’s Adult Hospital, Wiser Woman’s Hospital, Children’s of Mississippi, Holmes County Hospital, and UMMC Grenada. Prior to this role he spent 8 years with Mercy Health based in Cincinnati. While with Mercy Health, Kevin was a Regional CEO, Market CEO, and Hospital Chief Operating Officer serving in both Ohio and Pennsylvania. His prior experience also includes working for Triad Hospitals in Mississippi. Before his career in hospital operations, Kevin worked with Caldwell Butler and Associates as a Six Sigma Engineer, and as Director of Operations at the Premier Innovation Institute.

Kevin holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Hobart College, and a Master’s Degree in Business from Boston University. He served in the U. S. Marine Corps from 1991 to 1999 rising to the rank of Major. Kevin is currently Faculty for ACHE on two ACHE Cluster Courses, has been a Featured Speaker on the use of Six Sigma in Healthcare for Pfizer’s Quality Forums Series, and has been recognized by the Jackson Business Journal as one of Mississippi’s top CEOs.

Mark Green is currently Ochsner Health Systems Assistant Vice President of Transitions of Care, and their Post-acute network. This includes their Care Coordination Center (C3), . Mark holds credentials as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, a certified project manager, and a MBA / MHA Mark presents nationally on a variety of relevant healthcare topics including, Post-acute network development, right sizing utilization in the post-acute space through innovative programs, building and scaling readmission reduction programs, optimizing care coordination / transition management efforts, and defining social determinants role in new care management efforts.

I am an internist/hospitalist/palliative care physician. I went to medical school and did my residency at The University of Pennsylvania. I spent a year in Hawaii as one of the first hospitalists at Kaiser Permanente, then spent a couple years as a teaching attending at SUNY Syracuse. In 1998 I moved to Atlanta, Georgia and joined Kaiser Permanente there. I started as a primary care doc and hospitalist and grew into administrative roles including Associate Medical Director for Primary Care, Specialty Care, Acute Care and Resource Stewardship-building and managing programs in Palliative Care, Hospital Medicine, Urgent Care and Population Health. In 2013 I joined WellStar Health System as VP for Population Health and spent 3 years building the pop health program in support of the their MSSP ACO, building a clinically integrated network and launching a comprehensive care clinic to support our patients with severe CHF and COPD. I came to Memorial Hermann in 2016 to be the Chief Medical Officer for the MH Health Plan and in late 2017 I became the CMO for Accountable Care and Population Health for the system. I am responsible for the health plan clinical strategic planning, ambulatory care and case management, wellness and health navigation, clinical cost and quality analytics, ambulatory quality and population health.

Tanvir Hussain, MD, MSc, MHS, FACP, is an internist, quality executive, and national policy expert, who has dedicated his career to identifying systems strategies that can improve the quality, safety, and value of patient care.

Dr. Hussain’s clinical work as a general internist has focused on the inpatient and outpatient care of socially and medically complex patients in disenfranchised communities domestically and internationally. His quality career started at Johns Hopkins as a physician champion in ambulatory care and in high-risk chronic disease management for Baltimore communities. As Deputy Chief Quality & Outcomes Officer for Nebraska Medicine, he served as physician lead of quality and population health for an academic medical center comprised of two hospitals, a comprehensive cancer center, and over forty ambulatory clinics, which rose from 63rd on Vizient’s national quality and safety scorecard to 10th among all academic medical centers in the U.S., and remained five stars during his entire stay.

In his current position as VP of Quality for Alameda Health System (AHS), an integrated public health care system of five hospitals (including a rehabilitation facility and psychiatric hospital) and four wellness centers with over 800 beds and 1,000 physicians, he oversees quality & outcomes, analytics, patient safety, regulatory affairs, infection prevention & control, environmental health services, patient experience, clinical education, and policy & procedure. AHS serves the most vulnerable in the community and as an advocate for equitable, compassionate and culturally sensitive care regardless of social and financial barriers.

Marla is the Chief Actuary and Vice President of Analytics at Ascension Care Management, a division of Ascension, the largest not for profit health system in the US and largest Catholic health care system internationally. Ascension Care Management is responsible for the development of the enablement platform for Ascension to take on full population health management and risk based contracts. Marla and her team provide actuarial analysis of insurance and value based contracts as well as providing detailed medical cost analysis and population health analytics to drive profitable performance.

Prior to joining Ascension, Marla spent over 25 years working of health insurance payers including Aetna. While at Aetna, Marla led their Medical Analytic organization as well as co-lead their health care reform PMO after the passage of the ACA.

Marla is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the Academy of Actuaries.

Dr. Harry Saag was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He received an Economics Degree from The University of Georgia and subsequently returned to his native Alabama where he received his medical degree from The University of Alabama – Birmingham before moving to New York where he completed his residency training in internal medicine at NYU School of Medicine and subsequently served as a Chief Resident.

He now practices as a hospitalist at NYU Langone Health and serves as the Medical Director for Network Integration and Ambulatory Quality across NYULH’s 190 practices made up of academic faculty group practices and 9 Federally Qualified Health Centers working to improve quality, reduce costs, and increase patient and staff satisfaction. In this role, he helps design ambulatory quality metrics for the enterprise as well as assists in strategizing how NYULH will optimize its performance in a hybrid value-based and fee-for service environment.

BHARAT SUTARIYA, MD, FACEP, vice president and chief medical officer, population health, is responsible for leading population health innovation strategy, and strategic client advancement. He collaborates with leaders across the company, strategic clients and industry to enhance Cerner’s industry leading Population Health Platform, intelligence and solutions.

These capabilities enable Cerner to provide comprehensive set of solutions to health care delivery systems, employers, government and sponsors of healthcare across the globe to meet diverse needs in this dynamic era of health care transformation. Dr. Sutariya is a thought leader within Cerner and across broader health care industry on population health management and shared accountability between consumers, providers and payers.

Dr. Sutariya is a strong advocate of big data driven innovation in healthcare with special interest in advanced clinical intelligence and healthcare economics. He leads internal Cerner and client collaboration teams to develop solutions in population health management by integrating near real-time analytics, risk and impactability predictions.

Dr. Sutariya has played a key role in Cerner’s Lighthouse and Executable Knowledge® strategy, including designing clinical content and process improvement solutions that enable physicians, nurses and other clinicians in delivering evidence-based care.

Dr. Sutariya joined Cerner in 2004. Prior roles include the physician executive for acute care strategy, as well as managing director responsible for Cerner’s emergency medicine enterprise.

Prior to joining Cerner, Dr. Sutariya was at Detroit Medical Center (DMC), leading healthcare information technology implementation and clinical transformation across this integrated delivery network. He was also on faculty as clinical assistant profession at Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Dr. Sutariya earned his medical degree from Wayne State University. He also has bachelors and master’s degrees in biology from Wayne State. He trained in Emergency Medicine at the residency program of Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan.