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AGENDA: DAY 2
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2017
7:00 am
DAY 2 MORNING PLENARY SESSION
8:00 am
Welcome and Introduction
Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (Chair)
Dr. Nash is a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement.
Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American Association of Physician Leadership in Tampa, FL and leads their academic joint venture with JCPH. He serves on the NQF Task Force on Improving Population Health and the John M. Eisenberg Award Committee for The Joint Commission. He also is a founding member of the AAMC-IQ Steering Committee, the group charged with infusing the tenets of quality and safety into medical education.
Dr. Nash has governance responsibilities for organizations in the public and private sectors. He has chaired the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (HC4) for 18 years and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in the public reporting of outcomes. In the not-for-profit sector, Dr. Nash served on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners (now Mercy Partners), in Cincinnati, OH (1998–2008), where he was the inaugural chair of the board committee on Quality and Safety. Currently, he is on the board of Main Line Health, a four-hospital system in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also chairs the board committee on Quality and Safety. In the for-profit sector, Dr. Nash was named to the Board of Directors for Humana, Inc., one of the nation’s largest publically traded healthcare companies, in 2009. In October 2013 he joined the board of Vestex, a privately held advanced medical textile company in Orlando, FL. In 2014 he joined the board of InfoMC, a leading information technology company in suburban Philadelphia. He is on the health care advisory board for both Arsenal Capital Partners in NYC, and the Care Innovations Validation Institute, an Intel Company in Roseville, CA.
Dr. Nash has received many awards in recognition of his achievements. He received the top recognition award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (1995), the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award (1997), and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998. In 2006 he received the Elliot Stone Award for leadership in public accountability for health data from NAHDO. Wharton honored Dr. Nash in 2009 with the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement Award and in 2012 with the Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award. Also in 2012, he and JCPH received the Philadelphia Business Journal award for innovation in medical education.
Dr. Nash’s work is well known through his many publications, public appearances, “Nash on the Road” blog, and online column on MedPage Today. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and edited 23 books, including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution, Demand Better, and most recently Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness (2nd edition). He was the inaugural Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine (1984-1989). Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management, P&T, and American Health and Drug Benefits.
Dr. Nash received his BA in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Vassar College; his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his MBA in Health Administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a nine-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine.
8:10 am
Leadership Principles in a Changing Environment
President and Chief Executive Officer, Tivity Health; Founder, Health eVillages, Nashville, TN
In 2014, Tramuto received the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award for his commitment to social change. His philanthropic work includes Health eVillages, which he founded in 2011 to improve healthcare in challenging clinical environments, and the Tramuto Foundation, which helps individuals and organizations achieve their educational and healthcare goals.
Tramuto is the author of Life’s Bulldozer Moments: How Adversity Leads to Success in Life and Business, a Hamilton Press publication.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sharecare, Atlanta, GA
Previously, Arnold was Chairman and CEO of HowStuffWorks.com, an award-winning online resource used by millions of people each month, which he sold to Discovery Communications, where he served as Chief Digital Strategy Officer, and Chief Architect of The Curiosity Project until December 2011.
9:00 am
2016 Hearst Health Prize Panel: Lessons Learned and Insight Gained
President, Hearst Health, South San Francisco, CA (Moderator)
For more than two decades, Dorn has been focused on raising the standard of excellence for patient care across the healthcare spectrum, through clinically rigorous guidance delivered by efficient, scalable technology. He is the co-inventor of two patented healthcare software technologies that continue to be used in health systems across the U.S. His expertise is in developing and commercializing inventive and disruptive solutions that improve care quality and efficiency. Dorn has held a variety of leadership positions across Hearst, including chief operating officer of Zynx Health and president of FDB. In 2013 he was appointed an executive vice president of Hearst Business Media, and continues to serve in that role. He is also a vice president of Hearst.
Former Chief Health Information Officer and Senior Vice President for Population Health Analytics, Community Care of NC, Raleigh, NC (2016 Winner)
Vice President Population Health, Medical Director, ACO, Jersey City Medical Center, Barnabas Health, Jersey City, NJ (2016 Finalist)
Chief Executive Officer, Centering Healthcare Institute; Former Vice President, Public Policy, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Boston, MA (2016 Finalist)
Prior to CHI, Angie’s career path was addressing healthcare disparities and turning grassroots efforts into national movements for change. She spent 15 years in Washington, DC working in the national healthcare policy arena, particularly at the opposite end of the care continuum, in hospice and palliative care.
9:30 am
Award Presentation: 2017 Hearst Health Prize for Excellence in Population Health
President, Hearst Health, South San Francisco, CA
For more than two decades, Dorn has been focused on raising the standard of excellence for patient care across the healthcare spectrum, through clinically rigorous guidance delivered by efficient, scalable technology. He is the co-inventor of two patented healthcare software technologies that continue to be used in health systems across the U.S. His expertise is in developing and commercializing inventive and disruptive solutions that improve care quality and efficiency. Dorn has held a variety of leadership positions across Hearst, including chief operating officer of Zynx Health and president of FDB. In 2013 he was appointed an executive vice president of Hearst Business Media, and continues to serve in that role. He is also a vice president of Hearst.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, PA
He previously worked for University of South Florida as CEO of USF Health and Dean of the Morsani College of Medicine where he led and designed an “assessment of technical and teamwork competence” center known as CAMLS (Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation).
He serves on the corporate board and audit committee of Teleflex (TFX:NYSE), a multi-billion dollar diversified healthcare solutions corporation, and on the board of Lehigh University, the Emory University/Georgia Tech Innovation advisory board, and the Friedrich’s Ataxia Research Alliance.
Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Nash is a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement.
Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American Association of Physician Leadership in Tampa, FL and leads their academic joint venture with JCPH. He serves on the NQF Task Force on Improving Population Health and the John M. Eisenberg Award Committee for The Joint Commission. He also is a founding member of the AAMC-IQ Steering Committee, the group charged with infusing the tenets of quality and safety into medical education.
Dr. Nash has governance responsibilities for organizations in the public and private sectors. He has chaired the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (HC4) for 18 years and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in the public reporting of outcomes. In the not-for-profit sector, Dr. Nash served on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners (now Mercy Partners), in Cincinnati, OH (1998–2008), where he was the inaugural chair of the board committee on Quality and Safety. Currently, he is on the board of Main Line Health, a four-hospital system in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also chairs the board committee on Quality and Safety. In the for-profit sector, Dr. Nash was named to the Board of Directors for Humana, Inc., one of the nation’s largest publically traded healthcare companies, in 2009. In October 2013 he joined the board of Vestex, a privately held advanced medical textile company in Orlando, FL. In 2014 he joined the board of InfoMC, a leading information technology company in suburban Philadelphia. He is on the health care advisory board for both Arsenal Capital Partners in NYC, and the Care Innovations Validation Institute, an Intel Company in Roseville, CA.
Dr. Nash has received many awards in recognition of his achievements. He received the top recognition award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (1995), the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award (1997), and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998. In 2006 he received the Elliot Stone Award for leadership in public accountability for health data from NAHDO. Wharton honored Dr. Nash in 2009 with the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement Award and in 2012 with the Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award. Also in 2012, he and JCPH received the Philadelphia Business Journal award for innovation in medical education.
Dr. Nash’s work is well known through his many publications, public appearances, “Nash on the Road” blog, and online column on MedPage Today. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and edited 23 books, including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution, Demand Better, and most recently Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness (2nd edition). He was the inaugural Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine (1984-1989). Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management, P&T, and American Health and Drug Benefits.
Dr. Nash received his BA in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Vassar College; his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his MBA in Health Administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a nine-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine.
10:00 am
Networking Break in Exhibit Hall
10:45 am
Population Health Management: Treating People Not Just a Disease
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DaVita Inc., Denver, CO
11:30 am
“Stone Soup” and Other Analogies for Building Community through Collaboration
President and Chief Executive Officer, AcademyHealth, Washington, DC
Before joining AcademyHealth, Dr. Simpson spent eight years as a professor of pediatrics, first as an Endowed Chair in Child Health Policy at the University of South Florida and then as the Director of the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. She served as the Deputy Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 1996 to 2002. Dr. Simpson serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Health Policy Scholars Program National Advisory Councils, and the Editorial boards for the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research. In October 2013, Dr. Simpson was elected to the Institute of Medicine.
12:00 pm
Networking Lunch in Exhibit Hall
SPONSORED MINI SUMMITS 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
(Choose one Mini Summit only)
Sponsored Mini Summit 1: Advancing Interoperability Across Care Settings
Health care is a group effort, and having full visibility into a patient’s records is critical to improving population health. In this session, we will explore the process of creating interoperability across care settings, what challenges you might encounter, and what true interoperability looks like.
Come hear from healthcare leaders who have achieved quantifiable benefits from developing interoperability as a key component of their population health strategy.
1:00 pm
Principal Clinical Advisor, Office of Strategy Management and Marketing, Allscripts, Burlington, VT
In 2014, Dr. Bolduc joined Allscripts to help optimize the client experience with Allscripts TouchWorks® EHR, enhance patient safety and facilitate cross-product solutions. She also has provided clinical leadership for Allscripts Fusion community solution development and Meaningful Use projects.
Associate Vice President of Technology Solutions, Population Health, Allscripts, Pittsburgh, PA
3:00 pm
Sponsored Mini Summit 2: Executive Perspectives on the Transformation to Value-Based Care
This session will feature customer case studies from two providers that are thriving in the transition to value-based care through leveraging clinical, claims, and social data. Optum’s value-based care expert will lead a question and answer session as the two organizations discuss future planning and the impact of MACRA and other new programs.
1:00 pm
Chief Quality Officer, Premier Medical Associates, Murrysville, PA
Senior Vice President, Clinical Integration, The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
Vice President and Practice Lead for Value-Based Care, Optum, Washington, DC
Prior to joining Avalere, Erik Johnson was a Managing Director with Manatt Health Solutions, leading long-term customer engagements focusing on the application of health IT to clinical challenges and opportunities. He previously spent five years at the Advisory Board Company as Managing Director for its health IT and hospital finance research practices, respectively.
Erik has an BA with honors and distinction from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Regional Vice President, Optum Analytics, Syracuse, NY
Vice President, Northeast Client Region, Optum, West Chester, PA
Executive Director, Lehigh Valley Physician Hospital Organization/Valley Preferred, Allentown, PA
During his tenure with Lehigh Valley Health Network, he has been a member of the teaching faculty of the Department of Family Medicine. He helped launch a quality program in the Lehigh Valley Physician Group and served as Chair of LVPG Board of Governors for nine years. Dr. Wendling had served as Medical Director of the LVPHO and Valley Preferred for the last six years, contributing to the growth of the LVPHO and evolving LVPHO’s Achieving Clinical Excellence® (ACE) program to its current nationally recognized status. Additionally, Dr. Wendling had served as the Medical Director of the Lehigh Valley Health Network Accountable Care Organization for over two years. In that capacity, he led the LVHN ACO to a successful first year of participation in the CMS ACO program, making the LVHN ACO the only successful ACO in the state of Pennsylvania.
3:00 pm
Sponsored Mini Summit 3: The “Ultimate Game Changers” Game — How Will Healthcare Change in 2017?
Join our panel of population health experts for a game style Q&A about the future of healthcare including Technology, Medicare, Medicaid and more.
1:00 pm
Creator and Director of the Virtual Practice Project, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Former Chief Health Information Officer and Senior Vice President for Population Health Analytics, Community Care of NC, Raleigh, NC
Director, Health Policy and Population Health Programs, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Plans and Population Health Services, Inova Health Systems, Falls Church, VA
Principal of Strategy, xScion Solutions, Gaithersburg, MD
3:00 pm
Sponsored Mini Summit 4: If You Think Patient Data is About Wearable Devices, You’re Wrong
If you have spent any time thinking about using mobile apps or wearable devices with patients, you undoubtedly have a few questions…
— Will clinicians be overloaded with data?
— Is patient-generated data both accurate and useful?
— Will the patient-generated health data (PGHD) interface with the EMR and clinical workflows?
— Can I manage the liability?
— Do patients really have the technology, skills, and follow-through to make it work, or is patient-generated data just a fad?
This session will feature an extended discussion, including Q/A, with clinicians, administrators, data analysts, and technology entrepreneurs using real patient case studies and data over three years. Join us for an interactive exploration of the challenges and successes of incorporating patient generated data into a variety of patient care settings.
1:00 pm
Executive Director, Personalized Healthcare Programs, Sutter Health, San Francisco, CA
Executive Director Innovation, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, USA; August 2010 – December 2014. Focus on driving the establishment and development of a department of innovation in one of the USA’s largest integrated health systems. Created and deployed two large-scale systems, providing end-to-end patient-care programs, delivering innovative approaches to personalized healthcare and a community model for successful aging.
From April 2017 will become President of Ares Health Systems; Providing services for the design, development and deployment of large-scale solutions that deliver personalized care, drive sustained patient engagement and advance population health outcomes.
President and Managing Director, Parnassus Consulting, Ardmore, PA
Assistant Vice President, Orthopedic Service Line, AMITA Health, Chicago, IL
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Population Health, AMITA Health, Chicago, IL
President, Tapcloud, Chicago, IL
Chief Executive Officer, Tapcloud, Northbrook, IL
Managing Director, KMC Solutions, Chicago, IL
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer, SafeStart Medical Inc., Chicago, IL
3:00 pm
Sponsored Mini Summit 5: Health Systems and Pharmaceuticals: Best Practices for Population Health
In the near future, health systems will likely have their own provider-sponsored plans using preferred treatments in order to reduce total cost of care. In addition, treatment protocols and care pathways will be enforced through electronic medical record systems. This session will review the past, present, and future evolution of health systems and how preferred treatments may be used to improve population health outcomes.
1:00 pm
Health IT Lead, Kameleon Partners, Voorhees, NJ
Chief Medical Officer, The Access Group; Jefferson College of Population Health Faculty, Berkeley Heights, NJ
Senior Director of Government Policy Systems and Analytics, The Access Group, Berkeley Heights, NJ
3:00 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS 3:30 pm – 5:45 pm
(Choose one Concurrent Session only)
Concurrent Session 1: Developing and Executing a Population Health Strategy
3:30 pm
Clinical Associate Professor, School for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (Moderator)
Dr. Wilson teaches population health at ASU and at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine School. Her research focus is unique device identification for implantable medical devices.
Dr. Wilson received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Cornell University, medical degree from Georgetown University, trained in internal medicine at Vanderbilt, and earned a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Arizona.
3:45 pm
Professor, School for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
4:15 pm
Vice Chair for Clinical Practice and Quality, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
4:45 pm
Associate Provost, Associate Professor, College of Architecture and the Built Environment, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA
Director and Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture Program, Director, Lab for Urban and Social Innovation, College of Architecture and the Built Environment, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA
Upon graduation she joined Olin Partnership, an international design firm, where she worked as the lead designer on several award winning projects including the LEED certified Winter Garden and Plaza at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia.
Kim joined Philadelphia University in 2009 as full time faculty in the department of Landscape Architecture. Currently, Kim is an Associate Professor and Director of the program. She was recently awarded the Anton Germinshuzen, Stantec Term Chair in Landscape Architecture, which will allow her to continue her research on the effects of contact with nature on children.
5:15 pm
5:45 pm
Concurrent Session 2: Using Population Health to Meet Community Needs
3:30 pm
President, New Ulm Medical Center; Vice President, West Region Community Hospitals of Allina Health, New Ulm, MN (Moderator)
3:45 pm
Executive founder, Way to Wellville, New York, NY
Way to Wellville will operate for 10 years, measuring its progress both year by year and at the end, using both specific program-based metrics and the overall goals set by the 100 Million Healthier Lives Initiative.
4:15 pm
Associate Director, Center for Population Health Research, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research; Assistant Professor, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Previously, I was a Research Scientist at The New York Academy of Medicine in the Center for Health Innovation , and Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the Population Health Science and Policy Department.
My current research agenda aims to identify methodological strategies in which the use of large (open) datasets can be used to improve the design, implementation and evaluation of population health strategies for health systems. My goal is to bring together methodologies generally used in economics, data science, public health research and systems design to reduce health disparities and improve the effectiveness of health delivery models.
4:45 pm
President, 1889 Foundation; President, Conemaugh Health Foundation, Johnstown, PA
5:15 pm
5:45 pm
Concurrent Session 3: Science, Innovation and Discovery
3:30 pm
Vice President, Healthcare Insights & Analytics, ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA (Moderator)
Mr. Berkowitz also spent 16 years at Varian Medical Systems, the world’s largest manufacturer of radiation therapy technology for the treatment of cancer. At Varian he had responsibilities for managing strategic and national accounts and was Director of the Northeast Region Mr. Berkowitz holds B.S. and M.Eng Degrees in Biomedical Engineering as well as a Certificate of Clinical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
3:45 pm
Vice President, Information Services and Health Technology Assessment, ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA
4:15 pm
Chairman, The Electronic Hand Hygiene Compliance Organization (EHCO); Vice President Patient Safety Strategy, DebMed, Charlotte, NC
He led the launch of PURELL Hand Sanitizer in the North American hospital and consumer markets.
He is Chairman of the Electronic Hand Hygiene Compliance Organization (EHCO), a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating the risk of harming patients as a result of poor hand hygiene by influencing standards and guidelines at accreditation organizations, government agencies and hospitals.
Today he’ll share the latest research for how to drive sustainable change in hand hygiene and what some hospitals around the country are doing to improve their performance and safety culture.
4:45 pm
Deputy Chief Health Officer and Lead Population Health Officer, IBM Watson Health, Manchester, NH
5:15 pm
5:45 pm
Concurrent Session 4: Patient Engagement and Communication
3:30 pm
Executive Director Vice President, North America Strategy and Operations, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Houston, TX (Moderator)
The region’s current efforts center upon accelerating the volume to value transformation in health care, attending to the joy of the health care workforce, and nurturing burgeoning cross-sector partnerships that support the equitable achievement of health in the communities we serve.
Saranya received her MD from Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.
3:45 pm
Common Practice, Medical Director; Former Chief Quality Officer and Patient Safety Officer, Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA
4:15 pm
Chief Medical Officer, RedBrick Health, New York, NY
Jeff earned his M.D. from the Medical College of Pennsylvania where he received the Merck Award for Academic Excellence, and finished his specialty training at New York University where he continues to teach as a board-certified rheumatologist.
4:45 pm
Chief of Operations for Population Health, Stony Brook Medicine/Suffolk Care Collaborative, Hauppauge, NY
5:15 pm
5:45 pm
Concurrent Session 5: Predictive Analytics and Technology
3:30 pm
Chief Executive Officer, HBI Solutions, Palo Alto, CA (Moderator)
3:45 pm
Chief Science Officer, Wellth, New York, NY
4:15 pm
Senior Director of Population Health and Strategic Innovation, 3M, New York, NY
4:30 pm
President and Chief Executive Officer, Alliance Health; Medical Director, Greater Macomb Physician Hospital Organization; Regional Medical Director, Henry Ford Physician Network, Mt. Clemens, MI
Dr. Finkel has long been a strong proponent of practice transformation and physician integration.
Dr. Finkel earned his B.S. from the University of Michigan; his M.D. from Wayne State University School of Medicine; he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Sinai Hospital of Detroit and received his M.H.A from the University of Southern California.
Chief Executive Officer, EagleDream Health, Rochester, NY
While at the University of Rochester Dr. Rabinowitz’s work focused on the use of data analytics to measure clinical quality and outcomes. From 2009, Dr Rabinowitz led the development of an innovative clinical reporting system which supported multiple University quality initiatives, care management and gain sharing contracts.
5:15 pm
5:45 pm
TUESDAY EVENING DINNER PROGRAM: THE FUTURE OF CLINICALLY INTEGRATED NETWORKS
Fee: $95. Includes reception, dinner and presentation/discussion
Seating is limited. Register by March 20, 2017
In today’s market-driven society, healthcare is moving from volume to value. In order for hospitals to thrive in this economy, many have formed clinically integrated networks, linking multiple hospitals and ambulatory facilities.
Michael Dowling, President and CEO, Northwell Health and Dr. Stephen Klasko, President and CEO, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, are two leaders who have successfully been able to build a robust network.
Join them for an interactive discussion on the challenges of building a CIN and what we can expect in the future.
6:15 pm
Reception
6:45 pm
Dinner
7:15 pm
Interactive Discussion
President and Chief Executive Officer, Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY
Northwell Health is the largest integrated health care system in New York State with a total workforce of more than 61,000 employees — the state’s largest private employer. With 21 hospitals, 6,675 hospital and long-term care beds, more than 550 outpatient physician practices and a full complement of long-term care services, Northwell is one of the nation’s largest health systems, with $11 billion in annual revenue.
Prior to becoming president and CEO in 2002, Mr. Dowling was the health system’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. Before joining Northwell Health in 1995, he was a senior vice president at Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
Mr. Dowling served in New York State government for 12 years, including seven years as state director of Health, Education and Human Services and deputy secretary to the governor. He was also commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services.
Before his public service career, Mr. Dowling was a professor of social policy and assistant dean at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services, and director of the Fordham campus in Westchester County.
Mr. Dowling has been honored with many awards over the years. They include: his selection as the Grand Marshal of the 2017 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City; induction into the Irish America Hall of Fame; the 2012 B’nai B’rith National Healthcare Award, the 2011 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award from the National Center for Healthcare Leadership, the 2011 CEO Information Technology Award from Modern Healthcare magazine and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the National Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Public Service Award from the State University of New York’s Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, an Outstanding Public Service Award from the Mental Health Association of New York State, an Outstanding Public Service Award from the Mental Health Association of Nassau County, the Alfred E. Smith Award from the American Society for Public Administration, and the Gold Medal from the American Irish Historical Society. For 10 consecutive years, Modern Healthcare has ranked Mr. Dowling on its annual list of the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.” In March 2016, Mr. Dowling was also listed No. 1 on Long Island Press‘ 2015 “Power List” recognizing the 50 most-influential Long Islanders.
Mr. Dowling is chair of the Healthcare Institute. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences and the North American Board of the Smurfit School of Business at University College, Dublin, Ireland. He also serves as a board member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the Long Island Association. He is past chair and a current board member of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL), the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) and the League of Voluntary Hospitals of New York. Mr. Dowling was an instructor at the Center for Continuing Professional Education at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Mr. Dowling grew up in Limerick, Ireland. He earned his undergraduate degree from University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, and his master’s degree from Fordham University. He also has honorary doctorates from University College Dublin, Hofstra University and Dowling College.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, PA
He previously worked for University of South Florida as CEO of USF Health and Dean of the Morsani College of Medicine where he led and designed an “assessment of technical and teamwork competence” center known as CAMLS (Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation).
He serves on the corporate board and audit committee of Teleflex (TFX:NYSE), a multi-billion dollar diversified healthcare solutions corporation, and on the board of Lehigh University, the Emory University/Georgia Tech Innovation advisory board, and the Friedrich’s Ataxia Research Alliance.
Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (Moderator)
Dr. Nash is a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement.
Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American Association of Physician Leadership in Tampa, FL and leads their academic joint venture with JCPH. He serves on the NQF Task Force on Improving Population Health and the John M. Eisenberg Award Committee for The Joint Commission. He also is a founding member of the AAMC-IQ Steering Committee, the group charged with infusing the tenets of quality and safety into medical education.
Dr. Nash has governance responsibilities for organizations in the public and private sectors. He has chaired the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (HC4) for 18 years and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in the public reporting of outcomes. In the not-for-profit sector, Dr. Nash served on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners (now Mercy Partners), in Cincinnati, OH (1998–2008), where he was the inaugural chair of the board committee on Quality and Safety. Currently, he is on the board of Main Line Health, a four-hospital system in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also chairs the board committee on Quality and Safety. In the for-profit sector, Dr. Nash was named to the Board of Directors for Humana, Inc., one of the nation’s largest publically traded healthcare companies, in 2009. In October 2013 he joined the board of Vestex, a privately held advanced medical textile company in Orlando, FL. In 2014 he joined the board of InfoMC, a leading information technology company in suburban Philadelphia. He is on the health care advisory board for both Arsenal Capital Partners in NYC, and the Care Innovations Validation Institute, an Intel Company in Roseville, CA.
Dr. Nash has received many awards in recognition of his achievements. He received the top recognition award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (1995), the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award (1997), and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998. In 2006 he received the Elliot Stone Award for leadership in public accountability for health data from NAHDO. Wharton honored Dr. Nash in 2009 with the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement Award and in 2012 with the Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award. Also in 2012, he and JCPH received the Philadelphia Business Journal award for innovation in medical education.
Dr. Nash’s work is well known through his many publications, public appearances, “Nash on the Road” blog, and online column on MedPage Today. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and edited 23 books, including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution, Demand Better, and most recently Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness (2nd edition). He was the inaugural Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine (1984-1989). Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management, P&T, and American Health and Drug Benefits.
Dr. Nash received his BA in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Vassar College; his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his MBA in Health Administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a nine-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine.
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