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Seema Verma was sworn in as the 15th Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on March 14, 2017. She brings deep experience in healthcare policy, Medicaid, insurance, and public health to her role at CMS. Administrator Verma is committed to empowering patients to take ownership of their healthcare and ensuring they have access to the resources they need to make informed decisions.

For more than two decades, Administrator Verma has guided healthcare policy in the public and private sector. She has worked with states to build flexibility into their Medicaid programs to help them meet the diverse needs of their unique populations. As the architect of the historic Healthy Indiana Plan, she helped create and implement the Nation’s first consumer-directed Medicaid program.

Continuing her efforts to improve health outcomes for all Americans, Administrator Verma is working toward a new era of state flexibility and local leadership at CMS. She aims to reduce burdensome regulations so doctors and providers can focus on providing high quality healthcare to patients. She also supports implementing innovative solutions that will improve healthcare quality, accessibility, and outcomes for states, while driving down costs. Administrator Verma completed a Master’s degree in Public Health with a concentration in health policy and management from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences from the University of Maryland. Previously she was the President, CEO, and founder of SVC, Inc., a national health policy consulting company.

Dr. Sarika Aggarwal is a board-certified internist with extensive experience developing population health management strategies and programs, redesigning health care delivery systems, and improving quality and efficiency of patient services.

As Chief Medical Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization (BIDCO), an Accountable Care Organization, Sarika leads the organization’s clinical vision. In this role, she provides medical oversight, expertise, and leadership to ensure BIDCO delivers high-quality health care services and innovative population health management and quality programs and tools to its diverse physician and hospital network.

Sarika is a practicing internist with more than 20 years’ experience and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Medical School. She has also served as Medical Director of the Office of Clinical Integration at UMass Memorial Health Care where she worked to help UMass attain the capabilities of an Accountable Care Organization. She is a Board Member for the Health Foundation of Massachusetts, and has served as a mentor for entrepreneurial start-up companies with Village Capital VentureWell, a Member of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Quality Committee, a Member of the Health Plan Counsel for Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, and a Board Member for Myers Primary Care.

Prior to joining BIDCO, Sarika was Senior Vice President of Population Health and Chief Medical Officer at xG Health Solutions, a subsidiary of Geisinger Health System. At xG Health Solutions, she led a team of clinicians who leveraged Geisinger Health System best practices to work with clients on clinical delivery redesign. She helped design and implement clinical models in Medicaid, Medicare, and Commercial populations at health systems and health plans to improve care management and coordination across the continuum. Sarika previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Fallon Health where she led medical management for all lines of business. During her tenure at Fallon Health, Sarika worked with the clinical team to create innovative models for the senior and under-65 dual eligible populations.

Sarika completed her medical residency in internal medicine at UMass Memorial, earned her medical degree from Grant Medical College of Bombay University, and received her Master’s in Healthcare Management from Harvard University. In 2014, she was named one of the Worcester Business Journal’s “Business Women of the Year.”

Arthur Allen is the eHealth editor for POLITICO Pro. Arthur created a health IT policy beat at POLITICO and leads a small team of reporters who write about the subject for subscribers and general audiences. His focus is on the federal program to incentivize physicians and hospitals to use electronic health records, FDA regulation of medical devices and software, and the spread of mobile apps and telemedicine.

Mark Caron is the Chief Executive Officer of Geneia and Executive Vice-President of Business Platforms and Systems at Capital BlueCross. He has more than 30 years of business and technology expertise with more than 25 years in health care traversing both health care delivery systems and health insurers.

His experience also includes senior leadership roles as the CIO of the Collaborative Care division of OptumHealth, Senior Vice President & CIO at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin, Senior Vice President & CIO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Chief Technology Officer at Catholic Health Initiatives (a 78 hospital system), and Vice President of Information Systems at Healthsource.

He earned a bachelor‘s degree in Computer Science from Franklin Pierce College and has a MBA and a master’s degree in Computer Information Systems from Southern New Hampshire University. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), certified as a Healthcare Chief Information Officer through the College of Healthcare Information Executives, and is a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS).

Ms. Wendy Cofran has been Chief Information Officer for Natick Visiting Nurse Association (Natick VNA) for over two decades. A passionate advocate for the importance of treating patients in the home, Cofran utilizes a “why can’t we” approach to designing and executing a technology strategy that places Natick VNA in the top 3% of Agencies in the country to receive the 5 Star rating for both Clinical Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction.

As the national conversation turns to using technology to solve the challenges of improving health care outcomes, providing a 360-degree patient experience and driving down escalating costs, Ms. Cofran’s innovative, collaborative and “out-of-the-box” approach has set Natick VNA apart from the crowd. In 2012 she developed and launched a Referral Management/Care Transition application wholly built on the Salesforce® platform. This application allows Care Transition Coordinators to update critical referral information, track patients as they are cared for across the healthcare team spectrum, and work closely with family members on coordinating care for their loved ones.

Following her passion of identifying, developing and executing solutions that improve both patient and clinician experience, Ms. Cofran partnered with Natick VNA’s EMR vendor, Brightree® to launch the homecare industry’s first disconnected iPad EMR application that allows clinicians to document care in the home regardless of the presence of an internet connection. This application increases clinical staff efficiency, provides timely clinical documentation, and leads to improved patient outcomes and experience with the homecare agency. As the federal government moves to Value Based Payment for all health care providers, these positive results are also helping decrease the overall cost of providing care. These technology innovations, coupled with a strong Telehealth solution are major factors in Natick VNA’s continued recognition for both Clinical Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction.

A frequent and engaging presenter at industry related conferences, Ms. Cofran’s recent presentations include:

• 15th Annual World Health Care Congress-Women Leaders in Health Care: Candid Conversations on Culture, Performance, and Path to Care Transformation
• World Congress-Post-Acute Care Integration Summit- Evolve the past-Acute Care Value Proposition
• mHealth + Telehealth World, Boston-Discuss Strategies to Overcome Operational Challenges Associated with Telehealth and Strengthen the Bottom Line
• CIO Healthcare Summit, Chicago- Facilitating Technology-Enabled Business Transformation; Diversity in IT
• Congressional Home Health Caucus- Innovations in Home Health Care
• SINC Health IT Leaders Forum-Technology Advancements for Improved Patient Outcomes
• Boston Premier CIO Forum-Disruptive Technologies: An Innovator’s Dilemma
• Salesforce®- HealthForce Boston –“Innovation in Post-Acute Healthcare”
• CDM CIO Boston Summit- Technology-Enabled Business Transformation
• Featured in the Remington Report

In addition to her day to day responsibilities Ms. Cofran serves in leadership roles in the following organizations:

• Health & Human Services (HHS) – Cybersecurity Task Force 405(d)
• Visiting Nurse Association of New England (VNANE)- Technology consultant
• Brightree, LLC Executive Advisory Committee- Home care product consultant
• Providence College- A member of the Boston President’s Council

Ms. Cofran is a graduate of Providence College holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science.

As Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Dr. Cuddeback leads AMGA Analytics, bringing together AMGA member organizations to improve population health through comparative clinical analytics. AMGA’s advocacy has long focused on moving health care from volume to value. Our collaboratives enable members to learn from each other about the practical realities of transforming their delivery systems.

Dr. Cuddeback previously served as CMIO at MedStar Health, the largest health care provider in the Baltimore-DC region, and prior to that as CIO and then VP for Health Policy at Shands HealthCare at the University of Florida. He has led the implementation of many point-of-care clinical systems, including advanced CPOE and clinical documentation for high-risk areas such as obstetrics and oncology, as well as an ambulatory EHR. He also led MedStar’s HIPAA initiative. Dr. Cuddeback has worked with front-line care teams on clinical process redesign and has developed meaningful board-level quality oversight mechanisms. He led a community health care needs assessment and has led IT strategic planning for academic medical centers and integrated delivery systems. At Shands, he created one of the earliest integrated clinical-financial data warehouses, along with true cost accounting and a clinically driven budgeting process. He also led a statewide effort to develop the risk adjustment model for Florida’s first “hospital report cards.”

Dr. Cuddeback received a bachelor of science in Physics from Case Western Reserve University, his doctorate from Indiana University, Bloomington and his medical degree from Indiana University, Indianapolis.

James Grana is the Chief Analytics Officer at Rush Health and the President of Accelerated Business Analytics, LLC.

James Grana was the Divisional Vice President for the Health Services and Outcomes Research Department within the Clinical Office at the Walgreens Corporate Office. He is responsible for research and advanced analytical activities that center on specialty drug, infusion, retail drug, health clinic, immunization, and digital health. He has a Ph.D. in Health Policy with a concentration in applied statistics and health economics.

Prior to joining Walgreens, Dr. Grana served as the Vice President of Enterprise Analytics at Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) . In this role, he led teams that focused on advanced analytics, pharmacy analytics, consumer analytics, government programs reporting, case mix adjusted provider performance measurement, medical management analytics, and value based care analytics. Members of these teams were trained in advanced quantitative methods, actuarial science, and data manipulation. They conducted forecasting, program evaluations, predictive modeling, risk adjusted provider performance measurement, risk adjuster optimization, risk evaluation, and other analytical activities.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Grana served as the VP of Business Data and Informatics at Assurant, a Fortune 300 Company. Preceding that role, he was the Director of Research and Quantitative Business Analytics at Aetna Inc. where he facilitated the mergers of (and subsequently led) analytical teams from Aetna, Prudential Health, New York Life Healthcare, and U.S. Healthcare. Previous to that, he was a Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps, the president of a consulting company, and taught health services research courses at Penn State University and The University of Scranton.

Dr. Grana’s work has focused on predictive modeling, provider performance measurement, medical management, risk stratification, risk adjusters, retail marketing, pharmacoeconomic studies, market research, intervention analyses, and P4P compensation systems.

Emily Griese, PhD is the Director of Collaborative Research, Health Services at Sanford Health. In this role, she works across Sanford’s Research, Enterprise Data and Analytics, and Quality arms to provide coordinated population health strategies throughout the enterprise. She has worked to establish and currently directs the Sanford Data Collaborative, a first of its kind data sharing initiative with academic partners to innovate and improve the way healthcare is provided to the patients and communities Sanford serves.

Dr. Griese is also a NIH-funded scientist in the Population Health Research Group at Sanford Research and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. She received her PhD in psychological research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Population Health at Sanford Health. Her research focuses on social determinants of health and their impact on health trajectories over time, working specifically with rural communities.

Mark Hagland became Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Informatics in January 2010. Prior to that, he had been a Contributing Editor, then Senior Contributing Editor, to the magazine for over a decade. He has spent over two decades in healthcare publishing, and in the course of his healthcare publishing career, has won numerous national and regional journalism awards, and is the author of two books on healthcare quality and efficiency, and is a sought-after speaker. His blogs span a broad range of topics, from healthcare policy and healthcare reform to quality improvement, clinical information systems and imaging systems topics, to vendor and industry topics.

Kenneth Hill, MD, COO and Manager of WonderHealth, LLC, was born in Lancaster, PA. Kenneth attended Lincoln University where he majored in Chemistry, receiving his Bachelor degree in Chemistry in 1999. Kenneth studied Medicine at Pennsylvania State University, receiving his medical degree in 2003. He remained at the Pennsylvania State University for his residency in neurological surgery and obtained additional specialty training at Emory University. He remained on staff there from 2009 through 2015 after which he returned to Pennsylvania to join the staff at Penn State Health – St. Joseph.

John has dedicated his career to improving the health of all communities through clinical practice, public policy and health information technology. He has had extensive clinical practice in both fee-for-service (Scripps Clinic) and integrated care (Kaiser Permanente), led the largest civilian deployment of an EHR in the US, and co-founded the XML standard for interoperability (CDA, CCDA, CCD). He served on numerous policy committees at state, federal (FACA), and international levels, and is active globally as a keynote speaker and consultant in Health IT Policy. He currently co-chairs the eHealth Workgroup of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), and is a senior advisor to the X-Prize for the Tricorder, and for the Rock Health incubator for digital startups. He has published extensively, including “Perspectives” in Nature Medicine, and written book chapters on issues as diverse as ‘Privacy and Genomics’, ‘Innovation and IOT’, ‘Future Roles in Healthcare’, and ‘Future Innovation in Health IT’. He is co-editor of the second edition of the textbook, Health Information Technology. He has received various national awards for his work. He is a vocal advocate for person-centered care, patient engagement, and has contributed extensively to eight landmark reports.

Tom McGuinness is the Chief Strategy & Commercial Officer for GE Healthcare, an $18 billion business unit of General Electric that provides transformational medical technologies and solutions to the global healthcare industry. GE Healthcare supports customers in more than 100 countries with a broad range of services and systems, from diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT through molecular diagnostics and life sciences. Tom is based at GE Healthcare’s headquarters in Chicago and joined GE in his current role in August, 2016.

Tom has more than 23 years of healthcare leadership experience across all aspects of the industry, from medical technology and pharma/biotech to providers, payers, clinical research, patient engagement, and digital health. In his role at GE Healthcare, Tom is responsible for strategy, marketing, commercial, and communication functions and works with the rest of the leadership team to deliver on GE Healthcare’s mission to be the leader of outcomes-based solutions in healthcare.

Prior to joining GE, Tom was the CEO of PatientPoint, a PE-owned healthcare technology firm focused on care coordination and physician and patient engagement with a network of more than 750 hospitals and 30,000 physician practices. Before that, Tom led Medtronic’s global Biologics business, a ~$1 billion business unit focused on musculoskeletal regenerative therapies across spine, orthopedics, and oral maxillofacial care areas. During his tenure, the business was awarded the 2008 Prix Galien Award for best biotech product in the industry as well as recognized for the Medtronic Marketing Excellence Award. Prior to that, Tom was a partner at McKinsey & Company and a leader in its Healthcare Practice based in Chicago for 13 years. At McKinsey, he was also a core leader in its Strategy & Growth Practice as well as its Marketing & Sales Practice.

He holds an MBA with distinction from Kellogg Business School, a master’s degree from Stanford University, and bachelor's degree from Northwestern University.

Mark H. Michalski, MD, is the Executive Director of the MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science, which is focused on the application and translation of novel machine learning techniques into clinical practice. Previous to this role, Dr. Michalski held leadership and operational roles at early-stage companies in the medical software and device domain, including Butterfly Network and Hyperfine Research. Dr. Michalski held additional strategic roles in healthcare-focused efforts at Google and Genentech. Dr. Michalski completed his radiology residency training as a Holman Fellow at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He graduated with a degree in Cybernetics from the University of California at Los Angeles with multiple honors and received his medical degree from Stanford University.

Derek Novak serves as the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Mercy ACO an accountable care organization headquartered in Des Moines Iowa. As a subsidiary of Mercy Health Network, Mercy ACO consists of 190+ participant organizations with over 3,500 providers across Iowa, NE-Nebraska and, SW-Wisconsin.

Mr. Novak has been with Mercy ACO since its inception in 2012. Most recently, his work has focused on the deployment of DataShop, InnovAccer’s Clinical Intelligence Software. Allowing Mercy ACO to improve patient engagement and drive performance under value-based-care.

Derek is a graduate of Upper Iowa University in Fayette Iowa where he also received his MBA.

As the Managing Director for Healthcare at Google, Ryan Olohan leads the teams responsible for developing and managing Google's relationships with pharmaceutical and consumer health companies. Ryan and his teams partner with the largest companies in the world to leverage Google's consumer platforms while connecting the vast health resources and innovation at Google in an effort to push the industry forward. His relentless push is why he was selected by MM&M; as a “Top 40 Healthcare Transformer of 2016” and PRWeek’s 2017 Top 50 Healthcare Influencer.

Before Healthcare, Ryan spent the first half of his 11 years at Google overseeing the CPG industry as the Head of Consumer Packaged Goods. Prior to Google, Ryan was a consultant for Hewitt Associates and a Vice President at Bank of NY Mellon before getting the itch to lead Business Development at two prominent startups. Outside of his day job, he is a frequent speaker at industry events and is a Board member for the Chopra Foundation, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association Foundation, and the Digital Health Coalition. He is also the founder of the Google Healthcare Advisory Board and the co-author of the widely acclaimed "Pharma 3D" (www.Pharma3D.com) in partnership with Google, McKinsey, and Wharton. When not at Google, Ryan "relaxes" at home in New Jersey with his wife and seven children.

Pamela Peele, Ph.D., is the Chief Analytics Officer at UPMC Insurance Services Division and UPMC Enterprises Dr. Peele brings 13 years of direct patient care experience along with 12 years of academic research experience to her position as a leader of health care analytics at UPMC. She is responsible for creating innovative analytics that drive financial and clinical performance including economic modeling, predictive modeling, statistical analysis and machine learning. Prior to joining the UPMC in 2006, Dr. Peele was the Vice Chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management at the University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health. She currently holds faculty appointments in the Graduate School of Public Health and the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is core faculty at the Center for Research on Health Care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and an elected fellow of the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations in Montreal, Canada. She has numerous published articles and book chapters. She was the first person chosen by IBM as an IBM Big Data Hero and was voted the 2014 IT News Men & Women of the Year as a top innovator in health care analytics.

Dr. Peele has a BA in economics from Roanoke College in Salem, VA, and a MA and a PhD in economics from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.

Corbin Petro is President and CEO of Benevera Health, a technology-enabled health services company focused on population health and person-centric healthcare. Created from a payer/provider joint venture, Benevera Health provides tools and resources to support value-based care including analytics, risk and insurance strategy, and locally-based care coordination and patient engagement services. One of the early and most successful collaborations between a health insurer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and four hospital systems, including highly regarded Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Benevera Health has created a new model of care. In her role as President and CEO of Benevera Health, Petro also co-leads Harvard Pilgrim’s New Hampshire business.

Previously, Petro was Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Massachusetts Department of Medicaid (MassHealth), a $13 billion agency providing health care to 1.4 million Massachusetts residents. In her role as COO, she oversaw operations, IT functions, several program areas and helped develop new value-based payment and delivery models. Petro has an extensive background in healthcare including advising a US Senator on health reform, and roles at Bain and Company, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte Consulting, and American Management Systems.

Petro received a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is married, has two sons, and resides in the greater Boston area.

Dr Nikhil Pooviah is the Co-Founder & CEO of an early-stage health-tech startup: CancerAid. He has a background as a Radiation Oncologist from Sydney, Australia. The Company has developed the number 1 cancer app in the US, UK and Australia. 3 years ago, he made the bold decision to quit his position in clinical medicine to work in the new field of digital medicine and is proud to be helping even more cancer patients than ever before.

Dr. Thomas E. Price, an Orthopedic surgeon, most recently served as the 23rd Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). He brought to the Department a lifetime of service and a dedication to advancing the quality of health care in America – both as a physician and policymaker. Dr. Price is excited about opportunities to use his vast experience and unique expertise in healthcare and public policy to help actively shape improvements in technology and throughout the financing and delivery systems.

His first calling was to care for patients. Dr. Price received his Bachelor and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of Michigan and completed his General Surgery Internship and Orthopedic Surgery Residency at Emory University. After his training, Dr. Price – a third generation physician following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather – began a solo medical practice in Atlanta, Georgia, which would eventually grow to be one of the largest, non-academic orthopedic practices in the country, which he led as Chairman of the Board. During his 20+ years as a practicing physician, he also served as Medical Director of the Orthopedic Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital as well as an Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine.

As with many physicians and health care providers, Dr. Price’s experience caring for patients gave him a unique perspective about the impact of public policy on the practice of medicine. Eager to broaden the impact he could have on improving access to quality health care, Dr. Price ran for public office and was elected to four terms in the Georgia State Senate – during which time he was chosen by his colleagues to serve as Senate Minority Whip and later as the first Republican Senate Majority Leader in the history of Georgia.

Dr. Price also served as the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District from northern suburban Atlanta. He held this office from 2005-2017 and earned a reputation amongst his colleagues for being a tireless problem solver and the go-to expert on health care matters. During his congressional career, Dr. Price served in various leadership roles including Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee and Chairman of the Republican Study Committee.

Committed to promoting positive solutions under principled leadership, Dr. Price remains a fierce advocate for a patient-centered health care system that adheres to six key principles: affordability, accessibility, quality, choices, innovation, and responsiveness.

Dr. Price and his wife, Betty, have lived in the Metro-Atlanta area for nearly 40 years. They have one adult son.

Dr. Betty Rabinowitz is one of the founders and the former CEO of EagleDream Health, the software analytics solutions company acquired by NextGen Healthcare in August, 2017. EagleDream Health comprises cloud-based analytics and population health management solutions that drive meaningful insights across clinical, financial, and administrative data to optimize ambulatory practice performance.

Dr. Rabinowitz leads a team of NextGen® solutions specialists to enable NextGen Healthcare clients to achieve increased quality of care, reduced costs, and greater patient access and engagement by supporting advanced analytics and Population Health Management workflows.

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dr. Rabinowitz graduated from Ben Gurion University Medical School in Israel, where she also completed a residency in Internal Medicine. She came to the United States in 1990 for a fellowship in Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine where she became a Professor of Clinical Medicine. In addition, Dr. Rabinowitz served as Medical Director of the University of Rochester’s Center for Primary Care, overseeing clinical operations and population health management for a network of 28 practices and 130 primary care physicians.

Since joining Dignity Health in 2013, Dr. Gurmeet Sran has worked closely with leadership and IT staff to ensure proper deployment of EMRs, governance oversight, and ongoing innovation in the health IT space. Currently he is the Associate Enterprise Chief Medical Information Officer, overseeing a team of physicians and statisticians who are aggregating and analyzing clinical information across the organization to enable reduced variation of care, decreased cost, and improved outcomes. By leveraging machine learning techniques, text analytics, and “big data” computing architectures, his team has developed and implemented models to improve sepsis detection and help risk segment patient populations for ongoing interventions. Prior to Dignity Health, Dr. Sran completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford Hospitals and Clinics where he was active with members of the administration in trying to analyze and reduce expenditures in the hospital setting. In addition, he holds a Masters in Computational Biology from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a Bachelor’s of Science in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley.

Dr. David Vawdrey is Vice President of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s Value Institute. NewYork-Presbyterian is an integrated academic health care delivery system partnered with two renowned medical schools, Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In his role, Dr. Vawdrey has responsibility for enterprise analytics and performance improvement. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, with research interests involving the use of health information technology and patient engagement to enhance safety and quality. Dr. Vawdrey studied computer engineering and computer science at Brigham Young University and earned a doctorate in biomedical informatics from the University of Utah.

As the Chief Data Officer for Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH), Vijay Venkatesan is accountable for the creation of a next generation data and analytics strategy that accelerates the use of data, analytics, mobile-ready apps and machine learning to advance PSJH mission and strategies.

Prior to joining PSJH, Vijay served as vice president of enterprise data management for Sutter Health. Under Vijay’s leadership, Sutter Health made great strides advancing its capabilities around data, reporting and analytics. He was instrumental in advancing several regional and system wide strategic priorities in support of the shared savings program, advanced illness management, Epic clarity reporting and other quality-related initiatives. Vijay also served as vice president of analytics and business intelligence for Sutter’s physician services.

Before joining Sutter, he was VP of management information and analysis with Kaiser Permanente for four years. While there, Vijay helped lead Kaiser’s data transformation.

Vijay holds a bachelor of science degree in computer and information science from Cleveland State University and an MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

Matt Wallaert is a behavioral scientist working at the intersection of technology and human behavior, designing products and programs that help people live happier, healthier lives and teaching others to do the same. An advocate for behavior change as the outcome of everything, he has a checkered past: academia, building and selling two successful startups, Microsoft's first behavioral scientist, director at Microsoft Ventures. He is currently the industry's first Chief Behavioral Officer at Clover Health, an insurance company focused on health outcomes. Wallaert sits on the board of a variety of startups and non-profits, prioritizes underrepresented founders and audiences, and continues to build side products like GetRaised.com, which has helped underpaid women ask for and earn over $2.3B in salary increases. And more important than all of that, he's a proud dad to a son named Bear.

Debbie Welle-Powell was recently promoted to Chief Population Health Officer in May, 2017. In this role, she is responsible for working with market leaders and community stakeholders to develop a community-based population health and risk sharing model focused on early interventions, strong community and payer partnerships, better health outcomes and new ways to improve health – with focus given to the most vulnerable and needy populations. Prior to her new appointment, she served as the Senior Vice-President of Accountable Care for Essentia Health. Essentia Health is a 17 hospital, 1500 provider health system spanning the states of Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho and Wisconsin. Essentia is certified as an ACO Level III by NCQA. In 2016 they launched two co-owned health plan products and are generating surpluses in Track 3 for 30,000 lives in the MSSP.

As the SVP of Accountable Care, she leads the Accountable Care Division with strategic and operational responsibilities for population health, system quality, and system strategy and performance excellence/six sigma. Currently they manage 150,000 at-risk Commercial, Medicaid and Medicare lives via seven payer contracts. Additionally, she has oversight for the balanced scorecard and strategic activities to help position Essentia Health as the preferred provider of care within the communities they serve.

Prior to Essentia, Debbie was the Vice President of Accountable Care and Payer Strategy for SCL Health System, a $3B health care system with operations in the states of Colorado, Kansas, and Montana. As a seasoned executive, she led the strategic and market activities for Accountable Health readiness while developing innovative products, services, and technologies. Additional focus was on developing a vision, strategy and key tactics to support e-health business.

Welle-Powell has more than twenty years-experience in executive healthcare positions within multi-state regions and integrated provider delivery system. She has extensive experience leading mergers and acquisitions and developing reimbursement and network development strategies supporting full global capitation, professional services risk, PCMH, and bundled payments contracts with employers, carriers and state and federal agencies. She led the efforts at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado to be selected as one of four Demonstration Sites across the country with CMS to test the bundled payment in cardiology services. This work led to being chosen by CMS to test bundled orthopedic services across five care sites in several states.

She is often asked to speak at national, state and local conferences, chambers, businesses, brokers, hospitals, physicians and employer groups.

Debbie is extremely active in the community and has served on many for profit/non-profit national and local boards including several committee appointments by the Governor of Colorado. She taught for the past ten years at both Denver University and Regis in Colorado. This reputation for community service earned her recognitions including Women of Distinction 2014, Colorado’s Most Powerful and Influential Women Award from the National Diversity Council 2014, Outstanding Businesswoman Award from the Denver Business Journal, the Frances Wisebart Jacobs Award for Philanthropy from Mile High United Way, Health Care Champion award from Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved, and Inspiring Leadership award from CampExperience.