Ramsey Abdallah is a senior population healthcare leader with experience in program development, performance improvement, project management, and data analytics. Ramsey held numerous roles overseeing quality reporting and population health programs for large health systems. Ramsey is a senior director overseeing reporting and data analytics for the Northwell ACO. Ramsey is the project leader for a system transformation project aimed at improving ACO measures and the ACO’s eCQM implementation project. Ramsey holds a master of business administration and currently pursuing a doctorate in healthcare administration. Ramsey maintains certifications in quality, project management, lean six sigma, patient safety, and data management.

Rebecca Adkins is currently serving as SVP of population health at Jefferson Health. Jefferson includes Jefferson Health Plans, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health. Jefferson Health provides over 5.6 million outpatient visits a year in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Ms. Adkins has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare working in telehealth, quality, community health and value-based care. She received her bachelors and masters of health administration from Indiana University.  

Maria Alexander is the vice president for population health operations at Mount Sinai Health System, where she is responsible for overall executive oversight for operational, administrative, clinical, and financial areas of population health and clinical integration operations. Prior to joining Mount Sinai in 2018, Ms. Alexander spent six years at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). During her time at CMS, she helped develop the Pioneer ACO Model, the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model and worked on several initiatives focused on dual eligible populations.

Paulo Andre, M.D. is a neurologist, former MIT genetics researcher, and CEO and founder of MDinteractive. He founded MDinteractive registry in 1995 to enhance patient outcomes using clinical data.  Dr. Andre is a former ACO medical director in the Boston area who achieved substantial savings in value-based commercial and Medicare contracts.  Dr. Andre's distinctive expertise in CMS value-based programs, combined with his fervor for technological innovation, has shaped MDinteractive's mission. The company excels by merging technology and expertise to advance patient health, especially in tools supporting the APM Performance Pathway. 

Anthony Ardito, MD, is Catholic Health’s chair and vice president of the primary care service line. He also serves as chief medical officer of Catholic Health Physician Partners. He oversees the system’s owned and voluntary primary care practices and focuses on growth, quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction as well as a system leader advancing valued-based care in the primary care setting.  He is expanding primary care services and patient access across Long Island and incorporating innovative technology to improve the patient experience in the Catholic Health. Dr. Ardito came to Catholic Health from ProHEALTH Care where he was one of the original founding providers and served as chief medical officer. Under his direction, ProHEALTH ACO was ranked one of the top three ACOs in the country. Dr. Ardito earned his medical degree from George Washington University, and he completed his medical residency and was chief resident at North Shore University Hospital.

Christiana Beveridge, MD, is the chief medical officer for Upperline Health. She Joined Upperline in 2022 following her time as medical director at Oak Street Health. Dr. Beveridge is an internal medicine physician, having completed her medical degree at Harvard Medical School, along with her masters of business administration from Harvard Business School. Prior to completing her residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dr. Beveridge worked as an associate for McKinsey & Company.

Henish Bhansali is a physician executive in Medicare Advantage (MA) and a practicing internist. He joined Duly Health and Care in 2021 as their SVP of MA, overseeing care model design and delivery, TCoC management, HEDIS, payor relationships, risk adjustment and MA expansion. Prior to Duly, he was Oak Street’s SMD and VP of care navigation leading clinical strategy for diagnostic and specialty care for 100K+ patients across 20 states. Prior to Oak Street, he led primary care education of over 50 internal medicine residents as an associate program director with the University of Chicago for five years. Dr. Bhansali trained in internal medicine and was chief resident at Washington University-Barnes Jewish Hospital. Post-residency, he directed BJH’s readmission reduction program and WU’s Global Health Program. His current focus is on improving the MA care model and he is pursuing a masters of public policy from the University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the AOA Medical Honor Society and is board certified in both internal and obesity medicine.

Jonathan (Jon) Blum currently serves as the principal deputy administrator and chief operating officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this dual role, Jon oversees CMS’s program policy planning and implementation and day-to-day operations of the entire agency. CMS’s programs provide health coverage to more than 147 million individuals, spending more than $1 trillion in annual benefits with an annual operating budget of more than $6 billion. This is Jon’s second time serving in a senior leadership position at CMS. He previously served as the deputy administrator and director of the Center of Medicare from 2009–2014, leading the agency’s Medicare payment and delivery reform strategies and the policy and program management of the Medicare program. 

Jon has more than 25 years of public- and private-sector experience working in health care policy and administration. In addition to his positions at CMS, he has worked as a strategy and management consultant, an Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, professional staff at the Senate Finance Committee, and a program analyst at the Office of Budget and Management. Prior to joining CMS, Jon served on several nonprofit boards with missions to improve access and equity to health care and health coverage, including Mary's Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center; the Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County; and the Medicare Rights Center. Jon earned a master of public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor of arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

Emily Brower serves as SVP of clinical integration and physician services for Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, serving more than 30 million people across 22 states. In this role, she provides leadership and strategic direction within the evolving accountable healthcare environment, with an emphasis on clinical integration and transformation under alternative payment models. Ms. Brower joined Trinity Health from Atrius Health, where she last served as VP of population health, building and executing the essential capabilities required to achieve strong financial and clinical outcomes within integrated care models under value-based reimbursement, particularly for publicly insured populations. Her Medicare ACO team delivered year over year improvement in cost and quality, and the highest per-capita savings in an independent evaluation of the Pioneer model. Prior to Atrius Health, Ms. Brower spent fifteen years in operational, financial, and contracting leadership roles at Urban Medical Group, a Massachusetts non-profit healthcare organization specializing in the care of medically complex, chronically ill populations across a community-based, long-term care continuum. She launched a PACE program and other innovative, capitated contracts for medically complex populations and served as principal investigator for a multi-year research project analyzing cost and quality outcomes to support payment reform. Ms. Brower received her BA from Smith College and MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business.

Brian Buesing, MBA, is vice president of value-based care, Labcorp, directing strategy on ever-changing care delivery models, leading provider organization contracting, pioneering the use of laboratory data in population health management and working with leading value-based care organizations to improve quality measures and financial performance through diagnostics. He is an accomplished business leader with more than 25 years in healthcare and laboratory diagnostics. Much of his career has focused on driving product innovation and leading major commercial initiatives in the market. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas and an MBA from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Kyle Campbell, risk adjustment director at Castell, brings over 18 years of coding expertise to the forefront of healthcare innovation. Castell, a leading healthcare organization, oversees multiple ACOs, including the Rocky Mountain Accountable Health Network. Castell also helps manage multiple Medicare Advantage, commercial and healthcare exchange risk contracts.

Lelin Chao is a senior medical director with Aledade where she leads a team of physician leaders helping independent primary care physicians succeed in physician-led accountable care organizations. Prior to joining Aledade, Dr. Chao was a medical director for Amerigroup, an Anthem company, where she provided clinical leadership for quality improvement programs, complex care management, provider solutions and helped pioneer bi-directional data flow between the health plan and population health software for HEDIS data capture. A graduate of the Duke University Family Medicine Residency program, Dr. Chao has served in senior clinical leadership roles for community health centers where she led her team to be early adopters of medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. She was a pioneer in approaching complex populations through an integrated behavioral health, clinical pharmacy and specialized outreach model in primary care. Dr. Chao's interest in serving marginalized and underserved populations led her to co-found the first fully integrated behavioral health home practice at the Helping Up Mission, a 500+ bed, faith-based recovery center where she continues to serve as a volunteer.

Richard Cole, MD, is the president, owner and only physician for Patrick County Family Practice, which includes a rural health clinic, urgent care center and med spa with over 35,000 charts. Dr. Cole has experienced both group and solo practice. He now practices with six family nurse practitioners and two physician assistants. His practice has evolved to meet the needs of the community since the closure of the hospital and all other medical practices in the county. His practice has been part of two ACOs since 2016. He earned his BA and MD at the University of Virginia. He did his family medicine residency in Greenville, NC where he was chief resident.

Janet Comrey is the director of payment transformation at Geisinger with oversight of the Keystone ACO and BPCIA program. She achieved her nursing diploma from Geisinger and her BSN from Bloomsburg University. She graduated from Marywood University with a health service administration master’s degree. She trained in the Institute of healthcare improvement advisory program and completed her Villanova Black Belt Six Sigma certification training. Ms. Comrey’s diverse experiences, spanning 36 years at Geisinger, include nursing, behavioral health, population health, training and education, quality and risk management, patient advocacy and value-based care programs. Passionate about patients, she was the primary investigator in a national PCORI grant (Project Achieve)that surveyed Geisinger patients and their caregivers on what matters most to them related to hospitalization communications. Her drive for value steered her to the population health realm where she participated in the Physician Group Practice  Demonstration project leading into the ACO start-up, launching the CMS-mandatory joint program and managing a successful BPCIA program and most recently the Keystone ACO. Ms. Comrey has spoken numerous times on the local and national stage related to her population health experiences and has co-authored a few articles related to process improvement and quality initiatives.

Robert Daley is the director of legislative affairs at NAACOS where he contributes to developing the association’s federal advocacy strategy on legislative, political and regulatory issues. He has over a decade of experience in government relations and advocacy. Prior to joining NAACOS he worked in the public policy practice at an Am 100 law firm consulting on a wide range of healthcare issues. He also spent six years working on Capitol Hill where he gained a thorough understanding of the legislative process and the role stakeholders play in the development and implementation of public policy. He draws on this experience to help manage relationships with lawmakers to effectively communicate the association’s priorities during the policymaking process. Since joining NAACOS, Mr. Daley has helped secure favorable policy changes on several value-based care initiatives, including the passage of legislation extending financial incentive payments for ACOs participating in Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs).

Rob Davis works to develop and execute long-term approaches to improve the cardiovascular health of the nation. He provides leadership for data-based AMA programs focused on cardiovascular disease prevention, with an emphasis on promotion of evidence-based interventions for patients and physicians. Rob has had a 25-plus year career devoted to combining expertise in data warehousing, quality, and operations to support healthcare transformation. Prior to joining AMA, he served as the executive director and board officer of the Care Coordination Institute (CCI). He also served as board appointed operations officer for NCR/Teradata with responsibilities for quality, operations, R&D, engineering, procurement, public relations, and marketing.

>Trevey Davis is the vice president of government programs at UpStream. His professional experience includes work in the public sector as part of the programs and policy group at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) as well as work in an integrated health system, Trinity Health, in Livonia, Michigan. Mr. Trevey holds a BS in biology from Mount Allison University and a master of public health degree from the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine.

Stefanie Edwards currently serves as the vice president of value-based care for the Texas market at VillageMD. The first half of her career was rooted in healthcare operations; growing and leading the ambulatory care divisions for health systems in South Texas. Participation in a Medicare Shared Savings ACO led Ms. Edwards to a passion for developing and implementing value-based care models that align payors and providers with the patient’s greatest health needs. Her operational experience includes managed care contracting, network development, population health, quality and HCC programs and organizational transformation.  

Franke Elliott is a healthcare executive with more than 25 years of experience working at the intersection of healthcare delivery, financing, and innovation.  His expertise includes strategic positioning, creating competitive advantage, and business development in order to achieve revenue growth and sustained value creation. Franke is the co-founder & chief strategy officer of Bloom Healthcare (“Bloom”), as well as the senior executive for Bloom Health Network, Bloom’s wholly owned ACO serving the high needs population in the ACO REACH Model.  Franke is responsible for helping set the overall strategic direction of the company with a particular focus on transforming the company’s revenue model; organic growth through strategic partnerships with senior living companies; service line expansion and exploring vertical integration opportunities. Previously, Franke served as the chief managed care officer of Kindred Healthcare, Inc. and served as a member of the company’s executive committee council.  Prior to joining Kindred, Mr. Elliott was a senior vice president of business development for HealthSpring, Inc. For more than 10 years, Mr. Elliott worked in various capacities for HCA Holdings, Inc.  Mr. Elliott has served on board of directors for Results Physiotherapy and Curavi Health.

Dr. Jennifer Ennis has served as a medical director of clinical and digital solutions at Labcorp since 2009. She oversees a team of clinicians who develop lab-based content and insights for Labcorp's portfolio of customer-facing technology solutions. Prior to this role, she served as medical director for value-based care solutions. Much of her career has been focused on developing lab-based programs to support providers and patients at the point of care, as well as population-level analytics to enhance care quality for provider organizations. Dr. Ennis is also a practicing nephrologist at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. She received her MD from the University of Pittsburgh and completed her internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at the University of Chicago. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Keith Fernandez is the EVP, chief clinical officer of Privia Health, and CEO of the Privia Quality Network South Texas. Privia Health is a national physician practice management and population health technology company that partners with physicians, hospitals and payers to enhance performance and reduce burden to succeed in value-based care. Keith leads the National Physician Advisory Council, clinical leadership development program, clinical research and the ACO in South Texas. Dr. Fernandez previously served as president and physician-in-chief of MHMD, the Memorial Hermann Physician Network and as chief medical officer of the Memorial Hermann ACO, the most financially successful MSPS of the time. He served as chairman of the MHMD clinical programs committee, which provided governance for quality, safety and cost effectiveness for the organization through 50 physician governed quality, safety, and supply chain committees. Dr. Keith Fernandez attended Florida State University and the University of South Florida before receiving his medical doctorate from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Ebert School of Medicine. Keith is a gastroenterologist and trained at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center.

Robert Fields, MD, MHA, is a family medicine physician and serves as the EVP, chief clinical officer at Beth Israel Lahey Health, a Harvard affiliated, 14 hospital system. Dr. Fields leads system efforts for quality and safety as well as the strategy and operations for primary care, behavioral health and post-acute service lines.  He also leads the system’s 1115 Medicaid waiver response while also advising on various population health initiatives.  Previously, he was the EVP and CPHO at Mount Sinai Health System where he led population health and managed care. Dr. Fields began his career as an independent primary care physician with a particular concentration on underserved Latino patients. He came to Mount Sinai and led the redesign of clinical operations for value, including care management, quality programs, remote monitoring and condition management, social determinants and other aspects of the system’s population health strategy. He developed the contracting and strategic pricing strategy and led Mount Sinai’s direct to employer business.  He recently joined Beth Israel Lahey Health. Dr. Fields has previously served as the board chair of NAACOS and the board of America’s Physician Groups (APG) and Healthfirst.  He is also a member or chair for various national committees on quality and measure development for the National Quality Foundation and CMS.   He earned his medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine, and completed a family medicine residency at the Mountain Area Health Education Center where he was chief resident.  Dr. Fields earned his MHA from the University of North Carolina.

Vanessa Flaherty currently serves as director of quality for Northwestern Medicine’s (NM) clinically integrated network. Her scope of work includes oversight into quality reporting for NM’s ACO. She works closely with the aligned independent practices within the network to optimize data exchange across a variety of electronic medical records to prepare NM’s ACO for eCQM reporting. Dr. Flaherty holds a bachelor’s degree in health science from Bradley University and a doctorate in physical therapy degree from Midwestern University.

Jodi Frei is a physical therapist with her master’s in innovation and information technology and certification in care management.  She has worked in healthcare leadership roles for over 30 years in the areas of rehabilitation services, information technology, quality and now, health care reform.  Ms. Frei is currently the assistant director of population health model integration at OneCare Vermont, Vermont’s ACO.  One of her responsibilities within this role is oversight and execution of the ACO skilled nursing facility three-day rule waiver.

Michele Fronckiewicz is executive director for Aledade’s New Jersey market.  Prior to joining Aledade, she served as the business operations leader in support of primary care practices, both independent, academic and/or employed in Ohio and Pennsylvania.  Michele also led population health work in hospital-owned ACOs in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  Additionally, Michele has experience supporting primary care practices in the area of revenue cycle management, electronic health record implementation and practice management.  She earned a BA in economics from Denison University and an MBA from Xavier University.  She completed her board certification from the American College of Medical Practice Executives and is working on earning a fellowship designation. 

Wilson Gabbard, FACHE, is the vice president of quality and clinical risk adjustment for Advocate Aurora Health, where he is responsible for enterprise population health and medical group quality for over 1.3M value-based lives and risk adjustment strategy for over $3 billion in system risk-based revenue. He co-leads the system’s Medicare Advantage (MA) core team that is responsible for driving performance in MA joint ventures, full risk and shared savings contracts. Previously, Mr. Gabbard spent seven years leading population health operations for UNC Health Care where he was responsible for strategy and operations during its transition from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement.

Jennifer Gasperini is the director of regulatory and quality affairs for NAACOS where she works on federal regulatory issues facing ACOs. Ms. Gasperini brings 10 years of health policy experience on both the state and national levels. She came to NAACOS from the North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) where she served as the director of health policy, working on a variety of state and federal health policy issues concerning physicians. Before joining the NCMS, she worked at the National Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) where she focused on federal legislative and regulatory issues pertaining to physician quality and payment including ACO issues, and value-based payment programs such as PQRS and the Value Based Payment Modifier. Ms. Gasperini holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism, minor in political science from the Pennsylvania State University and a master’s degree in legislative affairs from the George Washington University.

Rick Goddard is the vice president of commercialization and strategy for Lumeris, an operating partnership company that supports organizations where they are at in the journey to managing value-based care risk. Lumeris' comprehensive value-based toolkit, experienced human capital and technology services provide end-to-end support for our partners. Mr. Goddard serves in a subject matter expert and utility role across many facets of the business. His roles include leading partnership alliances and corporate development, product marketing and go-to-market commercialization. Prior to joining Lumeris, Mr. Goddard served as an executive leader at Advocate Physician Partners. He led the clinical innovation department with responsibility for population health analytics, ACO program administration (largest ACO in the U.S.), value-based payment and innovation strategy deployment. In addition, Mr. Goddard has several years of consulting leadership experience from his time at GE Healthcare Camden Group. He has also worked in a variety of healthcare provider settings, from physician groups to some of the largest health systems in the country. Mr. Goddard serves as a national thought leader in value-based healthcare strategy and frequently presents to higher education and association organizations.

Christian Gomes serves as the senior director of population health and managed care for Valley Health in Virginia where he oversees population health, value-based care, clinical integration, credentialing and payer relations functions. He is primarily responsible for leading strategy and key initiatives for managing at-risk lives across original Medicare (via Shared Savings Program ACO), Medicare Advantage and the employee health plan. Mr. Gomes also provides leadership of contracting and insurance credentialing processes. Prior to joining Valley Health, he led care transformation and value-based care programs at Frederick Health. Mr. Gomes is a graduate of Wheeling University with a BS in accountancy and holds an MS in healthcare administration from Marshall University.

Gena Graves joined Lumeris in 2022 as the vice president of clinical performance, supporting the development and implementation of innovative clinical programs through clinical advisors, quality specialists and case management teams. Ms. Graves has 20+ years of healthcare operations and experience including value-based care with direct leadership experience in ACO REACH, Next Generation ACO and MSSP. She earned her BS in exercise physiology and MA in counseling psychology from Ball State University and completed the Loyola University Quinlan School of Business Medical Group Leadership Development program. She is currently a population health doctoral student at Thomas Jefferson University.

Tim Gronniger is the chief value-based solutions officer at Signify Health and joined Signify through the acquisition of Caravan Health in 2022 and now oversees Signify Health’s value based care business. Tim joined Caravan Health in 2017 as the senior vice president for strategy and development, becoming the company president in 2018. In those roles he oversaw the company’s delivery and operations as well as marketing and its strategic growth plan. He is the former chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at CMS where he led the agency’s work on implementation of the new physician payment system created by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, creation of new payment models, drug spending issues, and other topics. He previously held roles at the White House Domestic Policy Council; the House Energy & Commerce; and the Congressional Budget Office, all spanning the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Tim holds masters degrees in public policy and health services administration from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in biochemical sciences from Harvard University.

Elizabeth Guerra has been with MDinteractive since 2014 and currently serves as its director of operations. Elizabeth’s background is in managed care, having worked for several large Massachusetts managed care companies in a variety of provider relations and strategic roles and having served as the director of operations for a large physician hospital organization where she was responsible for managing payor contracts. With an undergraduate degree in health management and policy and an MBA, Elizabeth is personally passionate and committed to the pursuit of healthcare quality improvement and serves as an integral member of MDinteractive’s APM Performance Pathway support team.

Shannon Haffey is the director of ecosystem strategies and clinic-community impact. Her work includes engaging a broad set of stakeholders such as payers, federal agencies, local governments, business leaders, policymakers, telehealth companies and medical innovation spaces, device manufacturers, community leaders, and others. Prior to her almost 10 years at AMA, Shannon worked in strategy and management consulting within Accenture’s healthcare practice, spending several years developing strategy and operations for commercial value-based care solutions and collaborations. Shannon has her masters of health services administration from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor of science in biology and philosophy, also from the University of Michigan.

Lee Handke is the CEO of the Nebraska Health Network, an ACO formed by Methodist Health System and Nebraska Medicine.  He is also the CEO of the Midwest Network Alliance, a partnership of seven health systems bringing direct-to-employer health benefit solutions to the market. Dr. Handke received a bachelor of life science from Kansas State University.  In 1999, he graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center with a doctor of pharmacy degree. He completed residency in managed care pharmacy at Walgreens Health Initiatives.  Dr. Handke graduated with his MBA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Kanav Hasija is the chief product officer and cofounder at Innovaccer, a leading San Francisco-based healthcare IT company dedicated to accelerating innovation in healthcare. Kanav has been instrumental in building the Innovaccer platform, with four weeks time-to-value. His continuous efforts to improve and update the company’s technology has resulted in more than 30 awards and 90 analyst recognitions from Gartner, KLAS, Forbes, Black Book, UCSF, Deloitte, and others. Kanav earned an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a master’s degree in patent law from the University of New Hampshire School of Law.

Kathy Harris is the ACO executive director for Equality Health Direct (EHD), a REACH ACO. Ms. Harris has over 30 years of experience in various operational and leadership roles for Medicare and Medicaid managed care plans in the Arizona market. Her ACO experience began in 2012 when she joined Banner Health Network where she oversaw a variety of alternative payment models including Pioneer ACO, MSSP in three markets, Bundled Payment Comprehensive Initiative (original and plus), Comprehensive Primary Care (original and plus), Primary Care First, Oncology Care Model, Comprehensive ESRD Care and Kidney Care First. Additionally, Ms. Harris has experience in managing the network’s success in value-based contracts with commercial payers, including Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, employer insurance and marketplace. Ms. Harris holds a bachelor’s degree in business management.

Cherie Haydock has been with MDinteractive since 2015 and contributes her rich background in government policy as its director of regulatory affairs having worked as a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives with a focus on health care policy. Cherie served as the corporate policy manager for one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, where she led strategic planning and development for corporate public policy on priority federal and state health care issues. She is a key member of MDinteractive's APM Performance Pathway team, monitoring federal regulations related to value-based programs.

Joshua Israel completed his psychiatric residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at UCSF. He was the director of inpatient and psychiatric emergency services at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and clinical professor at UCSF. Dr. Israel is currently senior medical director for quality support at Aledade, Inc.

Sam Johnmeyer is the director of actuarial services and medical economics at PSW and MultiCare Connected Care where he leads a small team of actuaries in their mission of using math to reduce the total cost of care, improve health outcomes and increase patient satisfaction. With a background in operations Mr. Johnmeyer enjoys caveats and efficiency or, as he has dubbed them, ‘Efficient Caveats’. He previously worked for a Medicare Advantage health plan and in various healthcare consulting roles. Mr. Johnmeyer is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota.

Lindsay Jubelt, MD, is the chief population health officer of Mass General Brigham and the chief medical officer for AllWays Health Plan, the health plan owned by Mass General Brigham. In this dual role, she helps design synergistic tech-enabled solutions for the health plan and the delivery system to improve the patient experience and deliver higher-value care. In her work she is passionate about designing care around the consumer and creating partnerships to enhance value for consumers and customers. More than 750,000 patients are cared for in the population health solutions served by Mass General Brigham’s clinically integrated network. Prior to Mass General Brigham, Dr. Jubelt served as a physician leader at two of New York’s largest health systems, Mount Sinai and NYU Langone, in work that spanned value-based care, quality and working directly with employers and plan sponsors to deliver healthcare solutions. Dr. Jubelt completed her residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and her fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. She completed her MD at Stony Brook University and her BA at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kevin Kearns, CEO of Millennium Health Care, has over 25 years of experience working at senior levels within medical groups, managed-care plans, and health information technology initiatives. Kevin leads a team of about 4,000 employees, including 900 physicians and advanced providers, taking care of over 680,000 patients in more than 220 sites across the Florida, Texas and North Carolina. As a primary care focused organization, MPG consists of over 600 primary care physicians and advanced providers, with 160 specialists representing 25 specialties, and 125 hospitalists.  Millennium has been participating in the ACO program since 2012, achieving significant annual savings over the past 10 years. In 2023, Millennium is currently serving over 75,000 patients in the ACO REACH program, through its partnership with Wilmington Health in the Physicians Healthcare Collaborative. Millennium also cares for an additional 100,000 patients in value-based Medicare Advantage plans.  In his prior leadership roles Kevin has been an innovator in the healthcare field while serving as CEO of Health Choice Network, a national network of community health centers, CEO of Prestige Health Choice, a 300,000+ Medicaid Managed Care Plan in Florida, and CEO of Health Choice Care, a multi-state Medicare ACO.  Kevin earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the College of William and Mary, and his MBA from the University of South Florida. 

Deepika Kewlani-Varkey serves as the lead director of strategic planning at CVS Accountable Care. Ms. Kewlani-Varkey currently leads strategic provider engagement efforts for the CVS ACO REACH partners nationally. She was most recently at Catholic Health Physician Partners serving as an accountable lead with managed care organizations and government stakeholders on provider engagement, clinical operations and value-based contract performance improvement, as well as taking on the role of resident marketing guru for her division. Prior to her time at Catholic Health, she served in health IT-related roles for several organizations including the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as well as the Community Health Care Association of NYS. Ms. Kewlani-Varkey holds a BS in business management and a MBA with a focus on executive management from St. John’s University.

David Klebonis is the chief operating officer for Palm Beach ACO, a physician owned and operated value based network of approximately 400 Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) and 300 specialist physicians in Florida. PBACO successfully operates a variety of quality care models through the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) including: ACO REACH, Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced, Primary Care First and Kidney Care First. David was a part of the original executive team that lead PBACO to save Medicare a total of $628M over 9.5 performance years, the most in program history. An aspiring entrepreneur David was a founding partner at Medical Insight Partners (healthcare consulting firm and EHR Reseller), Creative MD (digital and physical healthcare marketing firm), and Insight Realty of the Palm Beaches (Real estate brokerage). David is a former medical practice executive and consultant specializing in independent physician advocacy, value-based contracting, EHR/clinical analytics design and implementation. He has worked in physician led organizations for virtually his entire career. David graduated, with honors, with a bachelor of science, from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business. He continued in the University of Florida Warrington College of Business to receive a master of science in business administration, specializing in information technology.

Thomas Kloos, MD, is president and CEO of Optimus Healthcare Partners, a physician established ACO In Northern New Jersey with over 550 participating providers, and over 80,000 attributed patients in both federal and commercial value based contracts.  He also serves as president and MD of Vista Health System IPA.  On the payer side, he serves as VP of the Affiliated Physicians Health Plan, a self-funded Multiple Employer Welfare Association (MEWA) in NJ with 12,000 covered lives which provides health insurance to small and medium sized physician and health related practices.  Dr. Kloos is a board certified internal medicine practitioner, NCQA certified in diabetes care and a NCQA recognized level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home. He received his MD from the University of Louisville Medical School, and his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 1975.

Anthony Laflen is the senior director of solution architecture at PointClickCare (PCC), the largest provider of electronic health record software to post-acute facilities in the nation. In 2022 PCC grew rapidly through the acquisition of Collective Medical Technologies and Audacious Inquiry. This combined group is now the largest care collaboration network in the U.S. Mr. Laflen applies his working knowledge of both the acute and post-acute world to help guide his organization in growth and development. His skill sets include software design, data and predictive analysis, public speaking, simplifying complex topics, interpreting payment reform implications, negotiating with managed care organizations and healthcare management. He has over 15 years of experience in the health care space and has a thorough understanding of skilled and assisted living facility management as well as long-term-care pharmacy and Medicare Advantage plan operations.

Pauline Lapin is the director for the Seamless Care Models Group (SCMG) in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS. Ms. Lapin oversees and provides guidance in the development and implementation of innovative payment and delivery models related to advanced primary care and accountable care organizations, namely the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) and CPC Plus initiatives, the Pioneer ACO and Next Generation ACO Models and the Comprehensive ESRD Care initiative. Her group also manages Health Care Innovation Awards related to primary care redesign, "hot-spotting," and ACO-like models. She has been in federal service at CMS for over 24 years. Ms. Lapin has spoken at national conferences and written articles on health promotion and disease prevention for various journals and newsletters. She holds a master of health science degree from the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Jeff Mandel is a retired board-certified ophthalmologist with deep interest and experience in the application of healthcare information technology to improve patient outcomes. He has served a variety of healthcare initiatives at the national, state, and local level. He is a U.S. patent holder and is credited for creating one the nation’s first fully-wired college campuses, first tele-radiology systems, and first digital retinal angiography systems. Dr. Mandel has published and presented original clinical research on lasers, digital imaging and has developed several ophthalmic instruments. He founded and served as the CEO of an eyecare company and was a frequently referenced thought leader. Dr. Mandel has been an invited speaker for local chapters of HIMSS, the American College of Healthcare Executives and other healthcare organizations. He has established multiple private medical practices, was CEO for a successful primary care physician group and provided consultative services in health care management and technology. Dr. Mandel currently serves as market president for Aledade where, for the past 7 years, he has been leading several of the country’s highest performing Accountable Care Organizations.

Francoise Marvel, MD, is a cardiologist and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins with frontline experience in healthcare systems integration of digital health tools. She is also a former Johns Hopkins cardiology fellow, former Johns Hopkins patient safety and quality improvement fellow, and former Johns Hopkins HEXCITE fellow. Dr. Marvel is interested in understanding the role of digital biosensors, biomarkers and software that can generate, gather and share data in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Marvel’s research explores how cardiovascular disease could be identified earlier, proactively intervened upon and personalized to the patient to drive their empowerment to execute self-management actions with digital health.  She is core faculty of the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Advanced Lipid Disorders program and specializes in preventive cardiology. She serves as co-director of the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Digital Health Lab and director of education and scholarship for the Ciccarone Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Marvel is a section editor for digital health at the Journal of the American Heart Association, on the editorial board for Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal and the American Heart Journal Plus. Dr. Marvel is also a co-founder of Corrie Health, Inc., a company aimed at improving engagement, experience and guideline-directed care with health technology.

Melanie Matthews is the CEO at Physicians of Southwest Washington (PSW) and president at MultiCare Connected Care. She brings more than 20 years of operations, financial, human resources and product marketing experience in healthcare services for specialty populations. Since she joined the company in 2016, Ms. Matthews has maintained the core principals in which PSW was founded on and expanded business lines to include MSO services including credentialing, coding and compliance and the implementation of CMMI innovation models such as the Next Generation ACO. Prior to PSW, Ms. Matthews served for three years as vice president of operations for Prestige Care, Inc., where she was responsible for regulatory and financial operations and outcomes for 38 skilled nursing facilities and two Medicare home health agencies in a four-state northwest region. Among her other accomplishments, she serves as co-chair for APG – Risk Evolution Taskforce, was selected by the American Health Care Association as a “National Political Ambassador” in 2013 and was named a national “Future Leader” in 2012.  Ms. Matthews holds a MS, social gerontology, degree from Central Missouri State University and a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies from Pennsylvania State University.

Robert Mechanic, MBA, is executive director of the Institute for Accountable Care, where he is responsible for leading its research agenda, data analytics and health care learning and improvement activities. Mr. Mechanic is a senior fellow at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, where he serves as executive director of the Health Industry Forum. His research focuses on health care payment systems and the adaptation of organizations to new payment models. He has helped hospitals, physician groups and integrated delivery systems evaluate financial, strategic and policy considerations under risk-based payment models. He was previously senior vice president with the Massachusetts Hospital Association and vice president with the Lewin Group, a Washington D.C.-based health care consulting firm. His work has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Health Affairs. He is a trustee of Atrius Health, and he is a senior fellow of the Estes Park Institute. Mr. Mechanic earned an MBA in finance from The Wharton School and a BS in economics with distinction from the University of Wisconsin.

Simon Moody is a principal and consulting actuary with Milliman. Mr. Moody has more than 25 years of experience working with health provider organizations, insurers and a variety of other healthcare organizations.  His main areas of expertise include working with providers and payers in the design, evaluation, audit and performance monitoring of various population-based reimbursement agreements.  Mr. Moody also has extensive Medicare Advantage expertise from preparing and certifying Medicare Advantage bids for several health plans and developing Medicare Advantage feasibility analyses for new startups.

Alyssa Neumann, MPH is senior analyst of regulatory affairs at NAACOS, where she works on a variety of regulatory issues related to ACOs and value-based care. Prior to NAACOS, Alyssa served as program coordinator at the Primary Care Collaborative, writing and managing grant projects related to primary care transformation and providing support for policy work and communications. She is an active volunteer in the community, working as a mentor with the Big Brother Big Sister program and a teaching fellow with Girls Health Ed, providing vital health information to vulnerable youth. 

Other prior experiences include work as a graduate teaching assistant in Biostatistics at the George Washington University, a Federal Affairs internship with the National Association of Community Health Centers, and university research focused on topics such as behavioral health, health literacy, and the social drivers of health. Alyssa earned her Master’s in Public Health in Health Policy and Management at the GWU Milken Institute School of Public Health, and she holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Sociology and Cultural Anthropology from the University of South Florida.

Stephen Nuckolls is the chief executive officer of Coastal Carolina Health Care, PA, and its ACO, Coastal Carolina Quality Care, Inc. His responsibilities include the direct management of the 60 provider multi-specialty physician-owned medical practice and its ACO. They currently participate in the MSSP’s Enhanced Track and have value-based contracts with Medicare advantage as well as commercial plans. Mr. Nuckolls facilitated the formation of the group in 1997 and has served in his current role since that time. Prior to the formation of this organization, Mr. Nuckolls helped guide physicians and integrated hospital organizations in the formation of larger systems. Mr. Nuckolls earned his BA in economics from Davidson College and his MAC from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. He is a founding member of the National Association of ACOs and served in a number of roles on the executive committee including board chair from 2016-2017. In addition to these responsibilities, he serves on the board of Community Care of NC as well as several advisory boards and committees for the North Carolina Medical Society and is a frequent speaker on ACOs and related topics. 

Catherine Olexa-Meadors is the senior vice president for innovation and partnerships at Aledade Care Solutions. Leading a team that identifies, tests and scales care solutions, she drives success in Aledade’s physician-led ACOs by ensuring patients' well-being at home. Her rigorous testing and partnerships have yielded solutions such as comprehensive advance care planning, kidney care management and skilled nursing facility engagement, now being scaled across Aledade's network. With a decade dedicated to leveraging new payment models, Ms. Olexa-Meadors previously contributed to building the largest bundled payment participant network at Remedy Partners (now Signify Health). She holds a BA in political science from the University of Northern Iowa.

Kapil Parakh is a practicing cardiologist who serves as a senior medical lead at Google. In his time at Google, Dr. Kapil has launched products that reach a billion people and pioneered partnerships with a range of organizations including the World Health Organization and the American Heart Association. Dr. Kapil also currently sees patients part time at the VA Medical Center and serves as an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown and an adjunct assistant professor at Yale. Before Google, Dr. Kapil served as a White House Fellow and was the principal health advisor to the secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was also the co-founder of an award-winning non-profit on health innovation. He was previously director of heart failure at Johns Hopkins Bayview where he developed novel care delivery models. As a clinician-scientist he has published several papers on psychosocial factors in heart disease. Dr. Kapil is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology and advanced heart failure and holds a MD, MPH and PhD. His book, Searching for Health, was published by Johns Hopkins Press. 

Christina Pavetto is the director of population health for the Crouse Health Network and a board-certified healthcare administrator who has spent her career implementing innovative programs to engage patients in participating more actively as a member of the clinical care team. She has created infrastructures to support Medicare ACOs and clinically integrated networks that include nurse coach programs for patients with chronic conditions and support services for annual wellness and transitional care visits as well as health maintenance and quality improvement programs. Ms. Pavetto also participates in a research team studying patient-reported outcomes at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her most recent publication is “Optimizing PROM Implementation in Orthopedic Clinics for Longitudinal Outcome Monitoring: Lessons from a Multisite Study, published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.”

Jennifer Perloff, PhD, is director of research at the Institute for Accountable Care and a senior scientist at Brandeis University with over 15 years of evaluation and health services research experience. In addition to supporting ACO analytics for IAC, Dr. Perloff directs a variety of research projects analyzing population health models including beneficiary attribution, nurse practitioner/ACO staffing and low value care. She is a national expert in episode-based payment and led the design of analytic reports for health systems participating in CMMI’s bundled payment for care improvement (BPCI) model. Dr. Perloff helped lead the team that developed the Episode Grouper for Medicare (EGM), a comprehensive system with over 800 chronic, acute and treatment episodes. She has done extensive research on the cost and quality of nurse practitioner led primary care. Dr. Perloff currently sits on the National Quality Forum’s Scientific Methods Panel and the Heller School Information Security Committee. 

John Pilotte, MHPM, is the director of the Performance-based Payment Policy group (P3) within the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Mr. Pilotte manages policy development and operations teams for the Medicare Shared Savings Program, Medicare’s national ACO program with over 500 ACOs accountable for over 10.9 million Medicare beneficiaries.  He also managed the development and implementation of Medicare’s Physician Value Modifier, the predecessor to the current Merit-based Incentive Program (MIPS), as well as resource use measures for physicians, hospitals and post-acute settings. Prior to joining P3, Mr. Pilotte served as the director of the division of payment policy demonstrations in the predecessor of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation where he managed the development and implementation of the physician group practice demonstrations and care coordination demonstrations. Prior to joining CMS, he was a senior healthcare consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and part of the government relations team at the National Association of Children’s Hospitals. Mr. Pilotte has a master’s in health policy and management from Johns Hopkins University and a BS from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Aisha Pittman, MHP,  is the senior vice president of government affairs. In her role, Ms. Pittman leads NAACOS’ work to promote legislative and regulatory policies that will advance ACOs. She has 19 years of experience in healthcare payment, alternative payment models, healthcare quality measurement and health information technology. Ms. Pittman was previously vice president of policy with Premier, Inc., a group purchasing organization of more than 4,400 hospitals and 225,000 other provider organizations, since September 2019. During her eight years with Premier, she was responsible for working with policymakers, providers and other healthcare stakeholders to reduce costs and improve the quality of health care. Prior to Premier, Ms. Pittman held senior management roles with the National Quality Forum, the Maryland Health Care Commission and CenterLight Healthcare, in addition to experience at the National Committee for Quality Assurance. She holds a BS in biology, a BA in psychology, and a master’s in public health from The George Washington University. Ms. Pittman received GWU’s School of Public Health and Health Services Excellence in Health Policy Award.

David Pittman is senior policy advisor at the National Association of ACOs, where he works on various regulatory policy and legislative topics involving ACOs and CMS Innovation Center models. He also works on communications matters for NAACOS. He joined NAACOS in August 2018 as health policy and communications advisor. Before that, he worked as a healthcare journalist for nearly a dozen years, including at POLITICO where he helped launch the website’s eHealth coverage in 2014. He was a fellow of the Association of Health Care Journalists in 2014, researching how states were adopting payment and delivery system reforms as budgets struggled to recover from the recession of the late 2000s. David holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and chemistry from the University of Georgia, where he graduated in 2006.

Joel Port is the SVP of business and network development at DVACO, an ACO formed by multiple health systems in southeastern Pennsylvania, and recently acquired by Humana. In his role at DVACO, he is responsible for business planning, network development and day-to-day operational management of the ACO. Prior to his current position, he held various senior level planning, marketing and network development roles at Main Line Health. Mr. Port is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and assists the local ACHE chapter in setting up an annual educational program in memory of one of his mentors. He attained his master’s in health services administration from The University of Michigan, earned his BA from Clark University and received his CPA in 1987.

Ben Quirk is the founder and CEO of Healthly, a senior focused payvider that mixes traditional medicine and lifestyle changes to help patients live their best lives. He previously served as chief strategy officer for CareMax, scaling the senior care delivery system across 10 states and more than 250,000 Medicare beneficiaries. Mr. Quirk was voted a top 25 innovator by Modern Healthcare.

Arshad Rahim, MD, serves as CMO and SVP for Mount Sinai Health System Population Health and for the Mount Sinai Clinically Integrated Network, which includes 7,000 employed and community providers. Dr. Rahim has over 20 years of healthcare industry leadership experience at innovative organizations and companies including as VP of quality for Essence Healthcare and Lumeris, a population health and analytics company. He also served as group VP of quality improvement and innovation at Healthgrades. Dr. Rahim has a BA in economics from Duke University, an MD from the University of North Carolina and an MBA from Emory University. He completed his internal medicine residency at Yale University and Northwestern University. He is an actively practicing primary care internist and hospitalist at the Mount Sinai Hospital.

Bob Rauner, MD, MPH, splits his time between two jobs, chief medical officer of OneHealth Nebraska ACO and president of Partnership for a Heathy Nebraska, as well as serving on the board of directors Lincoln Public Schools.  Dr. Rauner received his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Creighton University, his medical degree at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, his residency training in family medicine at the Lincoln Family Medicine Program, and his master of public health degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Prior to his current roles he was a small-town family physician including obstetrics and inpatient care in Sidney, Nebraska from 1998 to 2003, then served on the faculty of the Lincoln Family Medicine Program from 2003 to 2010, and then transitioned into health leadership and policy roles after finishing his MPH in 2010. His wife Lisa is also a family physician. 

Megan Reyna is responsible for practice transformation for enterprise population health, Advocate Health. Under her leadership, Ms. Reyna’s team leads the value-based care practice transformation support, government programs, ambulatory quality improvement and condition management and documentation (clinical risk adjustment) to assist the organization in achieving national quality and value-based care outcomes across Enterprise. In her role, she oversees the performance of 2.3 million patients in value-based contracts inclusive of six MSSP ACOs, two REACH ACOs and four CINs. She has been a featured speaker and panelist on the topic of ACOs and value-based care at numerous national conferences and is the past chair of NAACOS quality committee. A registered nurse by background, Ms. Reyna received her MSN from the University of Illinois Chicago. 

Ann Roemen, MBA, FACMPE, is chief executive officer of the ACO Collaborative, a physician-led MSSP with participants in South Dakota, California, Nevada and Iowa. Ms. Roemen is responsible for strategic leadership of the ACO, including developing and managing quality improvement activities, cost reduction strategies and driving change in operational performance in support of population health efforts. Ms. Roemen has worked in positions supporting independent physician practice for nearly her entire career. She has extensive experience in healthcare leadership including payer contracting, clinic practice management, marketing, compliance, quality improvement and consulting.   Ms. Roemen has been an active volunteer in numerous organizations including Medical Group Management Association, Junior Achievement and the United Way. She holds the designation of fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives.

Josh Romney, MD, serves as medical director of population health for Castell and is a practicing primary care provider in Salt Lake City. Prior to joining Castell, Dr. Romney served in a leadership position at Intermountain as medical director for clinical informatics where he led implementation of a new enterprise EHR and developed team-based value-based care workflows. Dr Romney oversees network management and governance, risk adjustment services, home-based services, and medical expense management for Castell.

Jonathan Rubens is EVP and CMO for CVS Health’s Accountable Care Organization. He leads teams focused on practice transformation, analytics, care coordination and population health who partner with providers to optimize value-based care delivery.  Dr. Rubens is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, and a fellow of both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.  He earned his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MD from Wake Forest University.  He also holds a master’s in health professions education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.​ Dr. Rubens brings over 25 years of experience as a physician and leader in both academic and community settings to his role at CVS Health.

Tamra Ruymann is chief of digital health at PSW and brings 25 years of experience in the payer setting with comprehensive experience in claims management, medical risk adjustment and population health analytics. Tamra oversees business intelligence, technology, and clinical interfacing. As chief of digital health, Tamra oversees the information services department, including business intelligence and development teams who design and build digital solutions that provide a population health-based focus. Prior to PSW, Tamra was a technology leader for 17 years at the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. Tamra holds a bachelor’s degree in health informatics and a MBA in healthcare management. She served on the South Puget Sound Community College committee for creating a curriculum to support medical billing and coding and is currently the chair of the Oakville School district board.

Danielle Salazar is currently the assistant director of the post-acute network at RWJBarnabas Health.  In her role, she collaborates with the post-acute partners to identify opportunities that would increase communication and quality care across the continuum.  She has worked in skilled nursing facilities, acute care hospitals and value-based programs. She is well known among many post-acute care providers across New Jersey for her coordination efforts at Signify Health, formerly Remedy Partners.  She has interfaced on the post-acute side working closely with skilled nursing facilities on key performance indicators to improve patient outcomes. Ms. Salazar completed her masters in science in nursing leadership at Grand Canyon University and is a member of the American Nurses Associations, American Case Management Association and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.

Eloy Sena is the AVP of value-based care contracts and operations at Ardent Health Services. He joined the Ardent team in 2018 as the director of quality for Lovelace Medical Group and assumed the dual role as division director of managed care for Lovelace Health System. In his current role, he leads value-based contracting activities and operational performance for the enterprise portfolio of VCB contracts. Mr. Sena has a diverse background with 18 years’ experience in quality management/improvement, population health, network management, managed care contracting, provider engagement, pharmacy, value based programs, alternative payment models and medical management initiatives. Prior to joining Ardent, he led state-wide provider engagement activities for Molina Healthcare of NM and was responsible for management of the value-based care contract portfolio. Mr. Sena holds a bachelor’s degree in health and wellness promotion from New Mexico Highlands University and a MBA with a concentration in health services from Keller Graduate School of Management.

Vinod Shenai
Vinod Shenai is senior director of analytics at VillageMD and is currently responsible for cost and utilization analytics. His team provides actionable insights to help improve patient outcomes. Prior to that, Mr. Shenai's team developed and implemented the analytics capabilities at VillageMD for MSSP and ACO REACH program launch. Mr. Shenai earned an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Margaret Senese oversees Medicare and Medicaid ACO strategy and operations and all-payer medical expense oversight at Atrius Health.  Her public payer ACO portfolio currently includes MSSP, Primary Care First at 25 sites, and MassHealth ACO in partnership with Fallon Health.  Prior to joining Atrius Health in 2018, she spent five years in public service at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, managing programs investing in care delivery transformation at community hospitals.  Ms. Senese holds an MS in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health and a BS in mathematics from Tufts University.

Tiffaney Skaw is an accomplished strategic HR manager at Nebraska Furniture Mart, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway Company.  With a strong focus on direct contracting, she has successfully implemented efficient benefits strategies that support both employees and the organization.  Ms. Skaw’s skill in fostering positive relationships with vendors and healthcare partners has significantly improved the benefits experience for employees while positively impacting the company’s bottom line.

Derek Skoog is a partner at PwC and leads their health actuarial and economics practice. He focuses primarily on financial performance, value-based care and M&A due diligence. Mr. Skoog helps payers, providers and health services companies understand, design and optimize value-based care contracts. Mr. Skoogs is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries (AAA). He also chairs the AAA's health solvency sub-committee. Mr. Skoogs received his BS in mathematics, economics and philosophy from the University of Michigan.

Jason Sloan leads the strategic vision and implementation for Medicare Advantage (MA) quality improvement activities, risk adjustment procedures and value-based provider partnerships at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Under Mr. Sloan’s leadership the MA program has markedly increased quality outcomes by helping beneficiaries navigate the healthcare system and by establishing strong partnerships with local healthcare providers. He has spent his career managing local and national Medicare Advantage quality programs along with experience in medical research and physical therapy health programs. Mr. Sloan earned an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s in biomedical science from Midwestern University.

Catherine Smitas is a board-certified internal medicine physician who began her career in academic general internal medicine, then transitioned to independent practice, where she guided her group through participation in a variety of value-based care programs.  Since 2021, she has been a regional medical director with Aledade.  Dr. Smitas is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.  She has an undergraduate degree in history and science from Harvard, attended medical school at University of Rochester and completed her residency at Brown.  She volunteers at the City Mission Primary Care Clinic, attending to the needs of the homeless and undocumented members of her community.  

Amy Stevens is the general manager of provider performance & value driven transformation at Innovaccer, a healthcare platform that consolidates disparate data and applies smart analytics to drive actionable workflows for care teams, operational leaders and the patients/beneficiaries themselves.  Amy has been a provider C-suite executive in community-based not-for-profit and national for-profit health systems; president of one of the nation’s 1st CINs; and founding leader of AVIA, the vanguard network of health systems and payors focused on digital innovation.  She is a senior advisor for industry disruptors and is a frequent speaker and sought-after industry expert.

David Switzer obtained a BA in religious studies and attended medical School at the University of Virginia, and later he completed a residency in family medicine at the University of Virginia.  Immediately following training, he took a position as an employed family physician at Page Memorial Hospital, a 25 bed critical access hospital, where he continues to practice rural primary care. Dr. Switzer has served the community as a primary care provider, student preceptor, hospital board member, vice president of medical affairs of Page Memorial Hospital and, most recently, as the medical director of population health for the Valley Health System, the non-profit health system which currently owns and operates Page Memorial Hospital. Dr. Switzer is also the president of the board of directors of the Page Free Clinic, and, in this capacity, helped to bring to Page County its first remote area medical clinic, which won a Virginia Rural Health Association rural service award in 2022. Dr. Switzer has partnered with James Madison University’s Counseling and Psychological Services faculty over the last 15 years to create and sustain an interdisciplinary care model which offers behavioral health services in Page County. Dr. Switzer was appointed in 2023 to the steering committee of the Appalachian Cancer Care Alliance and has a passion for evidence-based medicine, population health and increasing care access for rural residents.

Anna Taylor is the director of operations for MultiCare Connected Care (MCC) and leads the operational team in the day-to-day functions of the MCC governance committee structure and stewards the business side of the value-based technology platforms and their interoperability functions. She oversees the performance measurement for MCC's organizational key performance indicators, strategic framework and operational program management.  Ms. Taylor has been with MultiCare Health System for the over 11 years and has held positions in the Institute for Learning and Development, information services and technology and strategic planning. She holds a BS from the UW School of Engineering in technical communication and a MS in clinical informatics and patient centered technology from the UW School of Nursing. 

Ania Wajnberg, MD, graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency in primary care/social medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. After graduating Dr. Wajnberg returned to Mount Sinai where she has held multiple leadership roles in the department of medicine, hospital operations, and ambulatory care.  Dr. Wajnberg is the president of Mount Sinai at Home and leads the Mount Sinai Health System’s Care Continuum group for all programs involved in community and home based patient support.  She has years of experience with home based primary and palliative care as part of the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors program and has won the Dr. Solomon Silver Award in clinical medicine.  She has been part of building numerous innovative programs in the Mount Sinai Health System and has done health services research evaluating models of care for high utilizers of the health system.  Dr. Wajnberg is the author of numerous publications and speaks nationally on the topics of home based primary, palliative and acute care and on team-based approaches to high-risk patient management. 

Jessica Walradt manages Northwestern Medicine’s government value-based care portfolio, which includes BPCI Advanced, the Medicare Shared Savings Program, the Oncology Care Model, and components of the Quality Payment Program. Prior to this, she led the Association of American Medical Colleges' policy, advocacy, and data analytic efforts surrounding alternative payment models.  She directly supported approximately 60 hospitals’ and provider groups’ efforts to implement Medicare bundled payment programs.  Ms. Walradt holds an MS in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health and a BA in political science from the University of Richmond.

Jill Watson is the CEO of the Kansas City Metropolitan Physician Association, LLC, an organization of independent Kansas City area physicians that is leading a transformation from volume to value.  During her career, Ms. Watson has gained an extensive understanding of health care policy, best practices in medical care and the barriers that keep physicians from achieving them.  Prior to joining KCMPA, she was executive director of the Metropolitan Medical Society of Greater Kansas City (Metro Med).  She began her career in Washington, DC in public policy for Honda North America, the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging and the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists.  Ms. Watson earned a BA in political science from Hofstra University and an executive MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Brandon Webb, MD, serves as medical director for OneHealth Nebraska ACO.  In this role, Dr. Webb supports 23 independent member primary care clinics in the Lincoln, Nebraska area to achieve quality and cost metrics over multiple value-based contracts including MSSP, commercial ACO and MA plans.  He also assists with policy and negotiations between OneHealth Nebraska and payers, health systems and other physician leaders.  His background includes 24 years as a practicing family physician and owner of his multi-site independent practice, Primary Care Partners. Dr. Webb is the president and senior partner of Primary Care Partners and serves as their lead physician for value care.  He is a fellow of the American Board of Family Medicine.  He is a proud graduate of Baylor University and McGovern Medical School.

Debbie Welle-Powell is a health care thought leader, educator, national speaker, and content expert in delivery systems models of care, population health and digital care. As the former chief population health officer at Essentia Health. She designed, built, and operationalized Essentia’s $2.5 billion dollar transition from a primarily fee-for-service model of care to one that focused on value, the patient and risk-based contracting with payers. Her twenty-five years of exceptional and national executive healthcare experience and background in multi-state, large integrated delivery systems, coupled with industry involvement and insights into emerging opportunities, trends, and challenges have been valuable to health systems and purchasers seeking to grow, diversity and promote its expertise in the development and implementation of data-driven strategies and solutions in population health and value-based care. Ms. Welle-Powell currently serves on many national and local boards including the National Association of ACOs, National Committee on Quality Assurance, Summit Community Care Clinic in Frisco, Colorado, and she teaches at the University of Colorado’s Executive MBA program. Her work has earned her many honors including being recognized as one of 58 Top Leaders in Population Health by Becker’s in 2022, Colorado’s Most Powerful and Influential Women Award, Outstanding Businesswoman Award from the Denver community, the Frances Wisebart Jacobs Award for Philanthropy from Mile High United Way, and Health Care Champion award from Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved. 

Laura Zimmermann, MD, DipABLM, MS, FACP, is a primary care internist and lifestyle medicine physician. She is division chief of general internal medicine and the medical director of value based care for primary care at Rush University Medical Center.  Dr. Zimmermann is a champion of practice transformation and team-based care.  Her division, which excels in delivering high-quality, person-centered primary care, is comprised of more than 50 general internal medicine physician faculty and advanced practice providers at ten clinic sites.  Her accomplishments include leading effective interdepartmental quality improvement initiatives in hypertension control, cancer screening and tobacco cessation. Additionally, Dr. Zimmermann has held leadership roles in multiple behavioral clinical trials and community-based participatory trials targeting cardiometabolic risk.  She is an associate professor in the departments of internal medicine and family and preventive medicine at Rush University Medical College.  

Labcorp NAACOS Breakfast

Brian Buesing, MBA, is vice president of value-based care, Labcorp, directing strategy on ever-changing care delivery models, leading provider organization contracting, pioneering the use of laboratory data in population health management and working with leading value-based care organizations to improve quality measures and financial performance through diagnostics. He is an accomplished business leader with more than 25 years in healthcare and laboratory diagnostics. Much of his career has focused on driving product innovation and leading major commercial initiatives in the market. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas and an MBA from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Juliana Hawkins is the director of operations for ACO and commercial value-based programs at Imperium Health. She oversees Imperium’s largest field operations team and flagship multi-payer value-based program market. Prior to joining Imperium, Ms. Hawkins served in key leadership roles at one of the largest multi-specialty physician-owned practices in Kentucky.  Ms. Hawkins received a BS in health care administration and a MS in health administration from Western Kentucky University. Ms. Hawkins also holds a master of business administration from Western Governor’s University and is certified by AAPC as a certified professional coder.

Yates Lennon has served as the president at CHESS Health Solutions since 2021. He previously served as the chief transformation officer, engaging physicians and their staff to drive practice transformation. Dr. Lennon is nationally known for his work in quality, having served on the American Medical Group Association quality leadership council and presently on NAACOS’ quality committee. Prior to serving as the chief quality officer for Cornerstone Health Care before joining CHESS, Dr. Lennon was a practicing OB/GYN for 23 years.

Robert Schmidt, MD, PhD, MBA is the medical director for health systems and head of population analytics at Labcorp. His work focuses on the use of laboratory data to identify and close gaps in care. Prior to joining Labcorp, Dr. Schmidt was a professor of pathology at the University of Utah where he was the director of the Center for Effective Medical Testing, conducting studies on cost-effectiveness, utilization analysis and evidence-based evaluation of diagnostic testing. Dr. Schmidt has over 160 peer-reviewed publications and frequently presents at national meetings. Dr. Schmidt received his MD and MS in clinical epidemiology, and graduate diploma in biostatistics from the University of Sydney. He also earned an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as his PhD in operations management from the University of Virginia. 

Lightbeam Breakfast

Shelley Davis, MSN, RNC, CCM serves as vice president of clinical strategy at Lightbeam Health Solutions, where she provides clinical expertise and guidance to the sales team and Lightbeam marketplace operations. Shelley is instrumental in developing strategies for new prospects, expanding additional offerings to current clients and operationalizing Lightbeam’s marketplace. She has over 27 years of experience in diverse healthcare settings, including clinical advisory, care management, pediatric critical care, flight transport and trauma. 

Nathan Moore, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician who focuses on cultivating meaningful relationships with his patients so they can work together to prevent and manage chronic conditions. “I enjoy getting to know my patients and treating a wide variety of issues they may be having,” Dr. Moore says. During his time as a medical student, Dr. Moore co-authored the widely-successful book, The Health Care Handbook: A Clear and Concise Guide to the United States Health Care System, which is a useful handbook for physicians. Dr. Moore’s practice is part of BJC Medical Group of Missouri, a well-established, multi-specialty physician group. 

Megan Guinn, MBA, BSN, RN serves as director of clinical improvement for BJC Medical Group where she provides clinical operations leadership and has oversight for ambulatory care management, quality, risk-adjustment, value-based care contracts and the BJC Medical Group post-acute care department.  Additionally, Ms. Guinn is leading efforts to expand ambulatory care management overall and to identify potential areas of opportunity for quality improvement across the BJC Medical Group. Megan’s early career as a registered nurse on a medical-surgical floor and bone marrow transplant unit helped her recognize and identify that patients consistently required more than acute clinical nursing care. These experiences, along with her background in health plan case and utilization management, led to her interest in ambulatory care management and population health.