The World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Supply Chain Management will present strategic solutions to the challenges of accelerating financial returns, containing costs, implementing information technology, streamlining supply chain management processes and controlling physician preference items. The conference program will convene industry leaders from hospitals, health systems and group practices and feature the most cutting edge issues through keynote addresses, executive seminars and tracks.

Leadership Summit Chairman
Eugene S. Schneller, Ph.D Professor, Director, Health Sector Supply Chain management and Policy, W.P. Carey School for Business, Arizona State University
Featured Presenters
Craig E. Samitt, MD, MBA Chief Executive Officer Dean Health System	Keith B. Pitts Vice Chairman, Vanguard Health Systems
Christopher D. McFadden, CFA Managing Director, Senior Equity Analyst Goldman, Sachs & Co.	Vance Moore President, ROi Operating Division of the Sisters of Mercy Health System
Robert E. Luby Jr. Vice President, Supply Chain Management IBM	Lisa M. Ellram Dept. Chair and Allen Professor, Department of Management, Colorado State University College of Business
Jerrold A. Maki, FACHE Chief, Network Operations Bon Secours Richmond Health System	Deborah Templeton Associate Vice President, Supply Chain Geisinger Health System
Paul S. Peabody Vice President, Chief Information Officer William Beaumont Hospitals	John C. Powers Chief Administration Officer Beth Israel Deaconess
Dean Edwards Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer Kaiser Permanente	Charles Miceli Director Materials Management Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Skip Skivington Interim Vice President of Supply Chain and Director of Operations, Procurement and Supply, Kaiser Permanente	Craig DeAtley Director, Institute for Public Health Emergency Readiness Washington Hospital
Ed Jones Vice President of Supply Chain HCA East	Lori Upton Director of Emergency Management Texas Children’s Hospital
William P. Mosser Managing Director, Supply Chain Services, Temple University Health Systems	John Roberts Director Healthcare GS1US
Frank Kilzer Vice President Material and Facility Resources St Alexius Center	Nancy Bateman Managing Director PricewaterhouseCooper
Philip Profeta Corporate Director of Purchasing, University of Rochester	Jamie Kowalski Managing Director Owens+Minor/OM Solutions
Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Vice President and Chief Quality Officer New York - Presbyterian Hospital	Kathy Bridwell Purchasing Manager, American Heart Association
Dee Donatelli, RN, BSN, MBA Vice President, Supply Chain Services, VHA	Anand Joshi, M.D., M.B.A. New York Presbyterian Hospital
Steve Christensen ERM Services Area Leader IBM Global Business Services	Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell Brew Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics for the 44th Medical Command Ft Bragg, North Carolina
Robert Lawton Burns, Ph.D Director, Center for Health Management and Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	Allen S. Caudle, MBA Vice President, Supply Chain Management Swedish Health Services
Ed Hisscock President, Appleseed Healthcare, Interim Resource Officer, St Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Trinity Health	David Klumpe Senior Vice President, Enterprise Accounts-East Broadlane
Michael Langlois Chief Supply Chain Officer, Ascension Health	Les Popiolek Senior Vice President, Purchasing Services Broadlane
Dennis Robb Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati	Thomas E. Skorup, M.B.A. Vice President of Health Technology Planning ECRI
Vicki Smith-Daniels Professor, Operations Management Arizona State University	John Strong President and CEO Consorta
Darrel Weatherford Chief Operating Officer Consorta