Spring 2026 Conference Speaker Bios
Ramsey Abdallah
Ramsey Abdallah is the assistant vice president of performance improvement and quality management for the Northwell Health ACO. His career has focused on quality improvement and population health management in large health systems. Currently, Ramsey leads the ACO data aggregation initiative seeking to meet CMS quality reporting requirements. He also serves as the project leader of the Ambulatory Quality Improvement Collaborative, a change management improvement framework transforming practices to achieve quality metric success. Ramsey holds an MBA in healthcare administration, is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and holds certifications in quality, project management, and patient safety.
Rebecca Adkins
Rebecca Adkins is currently serving as senior vice president 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. Rebecca has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare working in telehealth, quality, community health and value based care. Rebecca received her bachelors and masters of health administration from Indiana University.
Mark Angelo
Mark Angelo is a practicing palliative medicine physician, professor of clinical medicine, and the inaugural chief medical officer of Population Health for Penn Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. In this role, Dr. Angelo creates and implements strategy for improving population-based outcomes in quality, patient experience, and efficiency for over 500,000 patients in value-based arrangements of all levels. Along with his team of collaborators at Penn Medicine, Dr. Angelo is currently implementing a novel, data-driven population health strategy using informatics and operational aspects of care in academic and community practices to create a successful platform for managing both ambulatory and inpatient value-based care programs. Dr. Angelo joined Penn Medicine from Delaware Valley ACO where he served as the president and CEO. In this role, Dr. Angelo helped to create a novel and durable strategy for value-based care, network management, payer relations, care coordination, and other clinical aspects of value-based care within Jefferson Health and Main Line Health Systems in collaboration with Humana. Prior to joining DVACO, Dr. Angelo was a physician leader within the Cooper University Health System where he served as the CEO and founder of the AllCare Health Alliance ACO and medical director for Population Health. At Cooper, Dr. Angelo maintained oversight of General Internal Medicine and Family Medicine while leading activities for the network of primary care providers surrounding strategy, growth, operations, and innovative models of care delivery.
Laura Balsamini
Laura Balsamini, PharmD, BCPS is the chief pharmacy officer at Summit Health and leads the strategic planning, design, operation, and improvement of enterprise-wide clinical and operational pharmacy management services for all SH clients. Dr. Balsamini has been paving the way for advancing clinical pharmacy practice in all markets by embedding clinical & oncology pharmacists to work in collaborative practice with physicians. Prior to joining Summit Medical Group NJ, she was a clinical pharmacy specialist with the Veteran’s Administration Healthcare System of New Jersey; a drug safety scientist with Novartis Consumer Health; and a clinical safety manager with Medco (now Express Scripts). She received her bachelor of science degree from Rutgers University Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy and completed a doctorate at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She is a board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist.
Era Bani
Era Bani is vice president of solutions management at Wellsky. She is a product and healthcare executive with a track record of successfully leading multi-disciplinary teams through strategic initiatives, technology transformation, product management, solution architecture and implementation, and innovation management activities. With over 15 years of experience at provider organizations like Memorial Sloan Kettering, Mount Sinai, Summit Health, and most recently, Value Based Care champions like VillageMD, she has both led the scoping and designing of collaborative activities with technology leaders, startups, and design strategy agencies and has built several digital platforms and applications for patients, VBC providers, and large employers. While healthcare will always be her turf, she finds inspiration for a lot of the solutions outside of healthcare and prides herself on drawing talent to healthcare from other industries.
Lisa Bari
Lisa Bari is the vice president of policy and partnerships at Innovaccer, where she leads policy strategy, government affairs, and strategic partnerships and alliances. Previously, she served as CEO of Civitas Networks for Health, a national nonprofit focused on data-driven health improvement and health information exchange, and led health IT, interoperability, and AI initiatives at the CMS Innovation Center. Lisa holds an MBA from Purdue University and an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has spoken at HIMSS, ViVE, and CMS conferences and is a frequent commentator on health AI policy, interoperability, and value-based care transformation.
James Barr
James Barr, MD, serves at Atlantic Health in northern New Jersey as chief medical officer of the Atlantic Health ACO and Optimus Healthcare Partners ACO. Expertise includes clinical data aggregation & mastering, AI analytics, delivering actionable patient insights at the point of care, precision patient care plans, performance improvement, and member & provider retention/growth. Dr. Barr has a long track record of success in managing physician engagement, clinical integration, patient-facing technologies, collaborative care models, and overall performance for 3,500 providers and 570,000 patients in value-based risk and non-risk arrangements. Special interests include behavioral, social, and spiritual health interventions, along with guiding change for providers, care teams, and patients.
Travis Broome
Travis Broome is the senior vice-president of policy and economics at Aledade, Inc. He guides Aledade and partner physicians through the policy, strategy and economics of value based health care. Joining Aledade shortly after its start, he worked on nearly every aspect from business development for both practices and payers, to early analytics, to serving as an ACO executive director for Aledade Louisiana ACO. Prior to Aledade, he spent seven years at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in roles ranging from regulation writing to quality improvement to management. Mr. Broome earned his masters of public health and business administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Henish Bhansali
Dr. Henish Bhansali is a leader in value-based care (VBC), and most recently served as the chief medical officer of Medical Home Network (MHN), where he lead VBC transformation for 350,000+ Medicaid and Medicare patients at FQHCs across eight states. Previously as VP and senior medical director of care navigation at Oak Street Health, he developed specialty and diagnostic care strategies including network sculpting and integrating e-consults for 100,000+ Medicare Advantage (MA) patients, across 22 states. In 2021, he joined Duly as senior VP of MA, managing a $840M budget for 90,000 full-risk MA and REACH patients, focusing on total cost of care, HEDIS/STARS performance, care model design and delivery, population health, and payor relationships. Dr. Bhansali has formal training in VBC from HBS, serves on the NAACOS Education Committee, is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, is a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and holds board certification in internal and obesity medicine. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois, teaching population health in their MHA program.
Richard Bitting
Richard Bitting, FAHM, CHIE is the vice president, actuarial informatics at Jefferson Health where he has been a member of the team since June of 2015. Prior to joining Jefferson Rich served the Geisinger Health System in a variety of capacities for 29 years. Mr. Bitting has extensive experience and understanding of both the provider and health insurance segments of health care. He has led multiple start-up decision support and informatics teams and currently leads a multi-disciplinary team of 40 analysts. Areas of support include quality reporting, medical cost analytics, disease burden capture, leakage/keepage analytics, population risk stratification and regulatory reporting. Mr. Bitting leads and/or serves a variety of teams at Jefferson Health. The groups include payor specific joint operations committees, value-based contracting, disease burden capture, network performance and IT steering. Together these teams assure we have everything needed to assure desired achievement of KPI targets including strategy development and performance management of our VBP contracts.
Tori Bratcher
Tori Bratcher serves as vice president of population health operations for Trinity Health. In this role, Tori has accountability for Trinity Health’s national alternative payment models encompassing $11B of medical expense for 2M lives in Medicare ACOs, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and Commercial Alternative Payment Models. She also serves as the president for Trinity Integrated Care, one of the nation’s largest Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs. She serves as the primary leader responsible for designing and delivering the critical services and operational activities required for performance in APMs. Trinity Health has been a top performer on quality and affordability in its MSSP and Next Generation ACOs. Tori joined Trinity Health from Indiana University Health, the largest academic health system in the state of Indiana, where she last served as executive director of population health services. In this role, she managed a portfolio of risk contracts while building and operating the capabilities required to achieve strong financial and clinical outcomes within population health for over 7 years. Tori received her BS from Indiana Wesleyan University and MHA from University of Illinois Chicago.
Wade Brosius
Wade A. Brosius, D.O. is the chief medical officer for PMSI, a vertically integrated multi-specialty group in suburban Philadelphia. He has held this position for the past several years. He is also a family physician at Springford Family Practice, a division of PMSI, located in Royersford, PA. He has been in practice for 30 years at this location. Dr. Brosius is also medical director for Accurate Coding and Education for Tandigm Health in Conshohocken, PA. Dr. Brosius serves as medical director of Suncrest Hospice, Philadelphia. He is also a regional medical director for his Aledade ACO. Dr. Brosius earned his bachelor of arts degree in Biology at La Salle University. Dr. Brosius received his medical degree at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his internship and family medicine residency at the hospital of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine where he served as chief resident. Dr. Brosius has expertise in risk adjustment coding and documentation as well as population health management. Dr. Brosius is very active in the medical community. He sits on the executive committee of PMSI. He also serves as the chairperson of the quality committee as well as diabetes committee and sits on the medical records committee for PMSI. Dr. Brosius is the past chairperson for the department of family medicine at Pottstown Memorial Medical Center where he also served on the medical executive committee for many years.
Emily Brower
Emily Brower is the CEO of NAACOS. Previously, she served as senior vice president 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 provided 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 vice president of population health. 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. Ms. Brower received her BA from Smith College and MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business.
Magen Calland
Magen Calland brings over 25 years of clinical and operational expertise to her role as senior manager of A+ Solutions Engagement at Aledade. Her unique career trajectory—working her way from CNA and RN to Nurse Practitioner—has provided her with a 360-degree view of the healthcare system and established her as a dedicated advocate for patients facing chronic, life-limiting illnesses. Notably, Magen spent 11 years of her inpatient career pioneering the growth and success of a premier Palliative Care team, where she specialized in scaling clinical services and navigating the complexities of goals-of-care conversations. Since joining Aledade in 2017, Magen has held multiple leadership roles, focusing on the strategic development and expansion of high-touch clinical programs. As a subject matter expert in both clinical practice and platform optimization, she excels at bridging the gap between complex business needs and “white-glove” patient care. Magen is a passionate people manager who takes pride in coaching her teams toward professional growth and ensuring that “clinical heart” remains at the center of scalable digital solutions.
FJ Campbell
FJ Campbell, MD, works closely with Ardent leadership as well as medical staff and physician organizations to improve quality through system-wide outcomes measurement and performance improvement initiatives. He brings significant experience developing local and national quality programs across a variety of care settings. Prior to joining Ardent, Dr. Campbell was vice president of clinical services for Community Health Systems, where he led quality improvement and value-based purchasing activities for the company’s 130 acute-care hospitals. Previously, he served as chief medical officer of CareSpot Express Healthcare, an urgent care and occupational outpatient services organization, and 657-bed TriStar Centennial Medical Center. A board-certified emergency medicine physician, Dr. Campbell holds a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and an MBA from Temple University. He completed his residency at Cooper Hospital.
Genevieve Caruncho-Simpson
Genevieve Caruncho-Simpson is a national leader in Medicare and Medicaid strategy, value-based care transformation, and caregiver-inclusive models for high-need populations. A former Medicaid and D-SNP health plan CEO, she has led growth, margin performance, Stars strategy, and model-of-care innovation across major payer-provider organizations, including UnitedHealthcare, Humana, Texas Health Aetna, and Ascension Health. She currently serves as senior advisor to Family Caregiver Alliance and as co-architect of Dyad Health, a new dyadic care coordination operating layer powered by an FHIR-native dyadic case record and licensed home- and community-based navigation infrastructure. She holds an MPA in health policy and management from NYU.
Noah Champagne
Noah Champagne is a principal and consulting actuary with extensive experience working directly with providers to facilitate risk arrangements, contracting discussions, and benchmarking analyses. Additionally, Noah works closely with ACOs (MSSPs, REACH ACOs, High Needs REACH ACOs, LEAD ACOs and others), MAPD plans, and individual Exchange clients to facilitate their pricing, projections, and budgeting.
Chaitanya Dahagam
Chaitanya Dahagam, MD is a licensed physician and the medical director of health care solutions at Navina AI. With a diverse academic and professional background spanning general surgery, computer science, healthcare consulting, and health IT product development, Chaitanya brings a unique blend of clinical insight and technical expertise to value-based care organizations. In his role Chaitanya leverages deep experience in both medicine and technology to guide organizations in improving operational efficiency, mission alignment, and service delivery. Passionate about innovation, Chaitanya is committed to providing leadership and knowledge across healthcare, business, and technology sectors.
Diwen Chen
As the senior director of payer policy, Diwen leads NAACOS’ work around accountable care arrangements across payers, identifying policy and sharing operational solutions that encourage adoption, growth, and success in value-based contracts across various lines of business. Diwen has 15 years of experience in value-based care and payment model design & implementation. Previously on the payer side, Diwen served as the staff VP of payment innovation, value-based solutions for Elevance Health and senior director of payment model development at Aetna/CVS. During her tenure on the provider side, Diwen served as the executive director, payment innovation at Dignity Health (now CommonSpirit Health) responsible for large-scale adoption of CMS Innovation demonstrations such as bundled payments, MSSP, and CA Medi-Cal program execution. Diwen currently serves as a managing director/advisor for Monarch Advisory Services, a boutique consulting firm supporting community-based organizations and risk-bearing entities focused on social health innovation for vulnerable populations. Diwen received her MPH in health care management from Yale School of Public Health and BS in biology from Texas A&M University.
BJ Dempsey
BJ Dempsey has over 15 years of experience in value‑based care. She began this journey supporting clinics in practice transformation initiatives and pilots, including implementation of the Patient‑Centered Medical Home model and alternative payment models such as the Colorado Multi‑Payer PCMH Pilot, CPCi, and CPC+. Since 2023, she has focused on supporting Carina Health Network members in strengthening value‑based care processes, delivering measurable benefits for patients, payers, FQHCs, FQHC Look‑Alikes, and Urban Indian Health Centers.
Lance Donkerbrook
Lance Donkerbrook has over twenty-five years of healthcare experience ranging from consulting, business planning, financial management and contracting within national health insurers, hospital delivery networks, physician practices and healthcare technology companies. As the CEO, of the Commonwealth Primary Care Accountable Care Organization, he has most recently added responsibilities as the executive director of the P3 Commonwealth Innovation MSO, a joint venture managing the Commonwealth and the P3 Health Partners ACO. He has a BS in economics from Arizona State University and an MBA from Texas Christian University. Lance serves as an advisor for two healthcare technology companies, and volunteers on the Men’s Arts Council with the Phoenix Art Museum and as a board member of the Arizona Diabetes Coalition.
Theresa Dreyer
Theresa Dreyer is the chief executive officer of the Health Care Transformation Task Force. Prior to joining the Task Force, Theresa led the Value-Based Care (VBC) portfolio at the Association of American Medical Colleges. She draws on previous experience with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, where she led the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model, and has also worked in health care consulting. Based on her range of public and private sector expertise, Theresa has developed deep knowledge of how VBC works from a policy perspective, as well as how it plays out on the ground for payers, providers, and patients. Theresa holds a master of public health from the University of Michigan.
Seth Edwards
Seth Edwards is a managing director and vice president of strategy, innovation and population health with Premier. In this role, he is responsible for the strategy, management and operations of Premier’s Strategic and Performance Improvement Collaboratives: the Population Health Management Collaborative, the CONNECT Collaborative, and 100 Top Hospitals (fka, QUEST®: High Performing Hospitals) Collaborative, as well as the Strategic Collaborative Services division. These Collaboratives have won numerous awards, from Best In KLAS, to Modern Healthcare’s Best In Business to the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety & Quality Award.
Franke Elliott
Franke Elliott is an accomplished healthcare executive with a diverse background across various healthcare industry segments (Physician services, Acute, Post-Acute, Payer). He works primarily at the intersection of healthcare delivery, financing, and innovation. His expertise is in strategic positioning, creating competitive advantage, and business development to achieve revenue growth and sustained value creation. Franke is a co-founder of Bloom Healthcare, where he serves as the company’s chief strategy officer, as well as the president for Bloom Health Network, Bloom’s wholly owned High Needs Population Accountable Care Organization participating in the ACO REACH Model. Franke is responsible for helping set the overall strategic direction of the company with a particular focus on revenue model transformation, growth, and sustainable value creation. Previously, Franke served as the chief managed care officer of Kindred Healthcare, Inc., senior vice president of business development for HealthSpring, Inc. (acquired by Cigna), and HCA Healthcare (NYSE:HCA). Franke also served on Board of Directors for Results Physiotherapy, and Curavi Health.
Robert Fields
Robert Fields, MD, MHA, is a family medicine physician and serves as the EVP, chief clinical officer at Beth Israel Lahey Health. In this role, Dr. Fields leads system efforts for quality and safety as well as the strategy and operations for primary care, behavioral health, system lab, pharmacy and home health including hospital at home. He also leads the 1115 Medicaid waiver response as well as all the system’s managed care and population health strategy. Dr. Fields began his career as an independent primary care physician with a particular emphasis on the care of underserved Latino patients in Western North Carolina. He was then recruited to Mount Sinai and ultimately became the chief population health officer with accountability over population health and managed care for the New York-based $9B health system. Dr. Fields serves on several boards including the boards of the Institute for Accountable Care and the Wake Forest Baptist Center for Healthcare Innovation. He has previously served as the Board Chair of the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS), the Board of America’s Physician Groups (APG) and Healthfirst. He has also been 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 in Asheville, NC where he was Chief Resident. Dr. Fields earned his master of health administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Anna Flattau
Anna Flattau MD, MS, MSc, FAAFP, is the system chief for Primary Care at Jefferson Health and the chair of Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. In this role, she leads a primary care system serving approximately a million patients across 150 diverse practice sites, as well as a portfolio of programs including virtual primary care, lifestyle medicine, weight management, palliative care, home-based primary care, and transitions of care. Dr. Flattau also oversees the university’s academic family medicine department, including undergraduate and graduate medical education programs, clinical innovations, and research programs. Her prior experience includes leadership roles at Montefiore Medical Center and at NYC Health + Hospitals, where she served as chief clinical officer for a $1.2 billion Medicaid care redesign initiative. Dr. Flattau is a recognized leader in health systems innovation, community medicine, and primary care transformation.
John Fryer
John Fryer serves as the chief growth and corporate development officer at Lumeris, where he leads the organization’s strategic partnerships, market expansion, and the commercialization of Tom™, an AI-enabled Primary Care as a Service (PCaaS) platform. A recognized industry voice on value-based care, AI governance, and primary care transformation, John partners with health systems, payers, and provider groups to execute business model transformations that drive long-term sustainability. In 2025, he was central in establishing the Collaborative for Healthy Rural America (CHRA), designed to support states and provider organizations pursuing CMS’ Rural Health Transformation Program. Beyond his executive role, John actively shapes the future of healthcare leadership as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. John holds a master of science in healthcare leadership from Brown University and a bachelor of science in economics with a minor in entrepreneurship from Wake Forest University. In addition to his work at Lumeris, he is an active angel investor focused on early-stage healthcare companies.
Wilson Gabbard
Wilson Gabbard is the vice president of Quality and Condition Management for Advocate Health, the 3rd largest not-for-profit, integrated health system in the United States and a national leader in population health. Mr. Gabbard joined Advocate in 2020 where he is responsible for CIN and medical group quality across over 2.3M value based lives and risk adjustment strategy for over $5 billion in system risk-based revenue. This includes responsibility for operationalizing programs for a portfolio of joint-ventures, fully delegated capitation, upside/downside risk, shared savings, and pay for performance contracts. Previously, Wilson spent seven years leading population health operations for UNC Health Care where he was responsible for strategy and operations during their transition from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement. The UNC population health services team grew from two to over 200 team members during his seven-year tenure. Prior to joining UNC, he led regional operations for primary and specialty care practices and regional emergency and hospitalist service lines for Vidant Medical Group. Mr. Gabbard received his bachelor and master of business administration degrees from Morehead State University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and serves on the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOs) Quality Committee.
Rick Goddard
Rick Goddard is the vice president, head 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. As the Head of Commercialization and Strategy, Mr. Goddard serves in a subject matter expert and utility role across many facets of the business. His current role includes leading partnership strategic alliances, business model expansion, 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. Rick serves as a national thought leader in value-based healthcare strategy and frequently presents to higher education and association organizations.
Jennifer Goldsack
Jennifer C. Goldsack founded and serves as the CEO of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), a global non-profit organization dedicated to advancing digital medicine to optimize human health. Jennifer’s research focuses on applied approaches to the safe, effective, and equitable use of digital technologies to improve health, healthcare, and health research. She is a member of the Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine and serves on the World Economic Forum Global Leadership Council on mental health. Previously, Jennifer spent several years at the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), a public-private partnership co-founded by Duke University and the FDA. Jennifer spent five years working in research at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, first in outcomes research in the department of surgery and later in the department of medicine. More recently, she helped launch the Value Institute, a pragmatic research and innovation center embedded in a large academic medical center in Delaware. Jennifer earned her master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford, England, her masters in the history and sociology of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, and her MBA from the George Washington University. Additionally, she is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality.
Matt Greeley
Matt Greeley is the director of population health management tools at Epic. He leads product development and roadmap strategy for Epic’s Healthy Planet functionality, which combines data analytics and user workflows to support value-based care. He is passionate about building technical solutions to real-world problems that promote healthier populations and better patient experiences at a lower cost.
Marcus Gross
Marcus Gross is a managing director of new markets at Mosaic Health, a private equity–backed platform formed through a partnership between Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) and Elevance Health. In this role, he is a founding member of the business development team, leading strategic expansion efforts and partnerships across providers, payors, employers, and health systems. Prior to Mosaic Health, Marcus served as vice president of growth at Imagen Technologies, where he led enterprise go-to-market strategy for a diagnostic AI platform integrating imaging directly into primary care. As vice president of growth, he drove national expansion, recruited physician, and led initiatives across Medicare Advantage, MSSP, and other value-based care models.
Mark Gwynne
Mark Gwynne is the president of UNC Health Alliance and UNC Senior Alliance. UNC Health Alliance is UNC Health Care’s statewide, physician-led clinically integrated network, and is the primary vehicle created to transform health care delivery and alternative payment models on behalf of more than 5,000 providers, including community-based providers along with those employed by UNC Health Care’s affiliate entities. UNC Senior Alliance is UNC Health Care’s physician-led Medicare accountable care organization (ACO). Dr. Gwynne is also an associate professor of family medicine at the UNC School of Medicine. He is interested in new models of healthcare delivery in the primary care setting, transitions of care between health care settings, quality improvement and innovative models of care within the Patient Centered Medical Home.
Francesca Hammerstrom
Francesca Hammerstrom is general manager of provider solutions at Milliman MedInsight. In this role she is responsible for ensuring MedInsight continues to lead in the value-based care analytics space. This includes understanding clients’ current and future goals and priorities in value-based care, as well as broader national market trends and turning that into products, support, and insights. Prior to coming to Milliman MedInsight, she lead analytics and consulting teams at Evolent Health, Inova Health System, and The Advisory Board; helping clients take action based on population health data.
Luke Hansen
Luke Hansen, MD, MHS, is the chief medical officer at Arcadia, a healthcare data platform company. He provides clinical and healthcare operational expertise to the company’s internal teams and builds relationships with external stakeholders, particularly clinical executives and clinicians at Arcadia’s customers. He also contributes to strategic planning efforts and the company’s product roadmap by integrating emerging clinical evidence and technologies. Before joining Arcadia, Dr. Hansen served at United Health Group as the Illinois Market Medicare Advantage chief medical officer and a senior medical director for population health at Optum. Dr. Hansen has also held health system roles as a population health chief medical officer, including medical directorship over capitated risk-based contracts and a MSSP ACO. Throughout his career, he has maintained an active clinical practice and teaching positions at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois.
Adam Hearn
Adam Hearn is a data scientist at Milliman specializing in explainable AI solutions. With deep expertise in Medicare and Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) detection, Adam was the lead scientist behind the winning solution for the CMS “Crushing Fraud Chili Cook-Off Competition.” Adam works closely with agencies and healthcare organizations to build transparent, auditable, and compliant AI solutions that support program integrity efforts.
Steve Houghland
Steve Houghland, MD, joined the Kentucky Primary Care Association in 2022 as the chief medical officer. In 2023 he also became the CMO of the clinically integrated network for which the KPCA is the organizing member. Dr. Houghland is a general internal medicine physician by training, having completed medical school and residency training at the University of Louisville. Upon completion of residency training, Dr. Houghland joined the faculty as an instructor and chief medical resident. Steve was subsequently recruited as an associate training program director. While at UofL in addition to academic duties, Dr. Houghland had the opportunity to take on additional administrative leadership roles for the academic medical center including as CMO of the faculty practice plan and achieving the academic appointment of Associate Professor. After more than 10 years at UofL, Steve became the CMO of a provider sponsored non-profit health plan, Passport Health Plan, for which the University was the primary sponsor.
Erin Hurlburt
Erin Hurlburt, MD, serves Lumeris as the chief medical officer for Population Health Services. In this role, Dr. Hurlburt uses her passion for clinical transformation to help health systems and physician groups across the country deliver on the promise of value-based care for their patients and providers. Prior to joining Lumeris, Dr. Hurlburt held a series of progressive executive leadership roles at Bon Secours Mercy Health, one of the largest health systems in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Kaitlyn Huttman
Kaitlyn Huttman is the director of education at NAACOS. Previously, she served as the senior practice transformation coordinator at Keystone ACO. She specialized in streamlining operations, implementing best-practice workflows, and delivering data-driven insights to improve care delivery. At Keystone, Kaitlyn led initiatives to reduce avoidable ED visits, enhance provider engagement, and support compliance with CMS regulations, including oversight of the 3-Day Waiver program. She also co-chaired the operations and compliance committees where she played a key role in staff education, through training materials and resource development, to support continuous improvement. Previously, she was the director of admissions and marketing for Skilled Nursing Facilities. Kaitlyn holds a B.S. in business administration with a minor in marketing from Misericordia University.
Jeneen Iwugo
Jeneen Iwugo drives strategic program integrity operations as acting director of the Center for Program Integrity at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Leveraging 20+ years of government leadership expertise, she architects policy frameworks and orchestrates transformative change management initiatives across the nation’s largest healthcare programs. As acting director of CPI, Jeneen commands executive oversight of fraud, waste, and abuse prevention across Medicare, Medicaid, and the Marketplace. Prior to this role, Jeneen commanded operational excellence as deputy director of the CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ), directing 800 FTEs, managing 200 contracts, and executing a $1.5 billion annual budget. Throughout her distinguished career, Jeneen has championed innovation and executed large-scale transformation initiatives across national quality programs, medical case review operations, and beneficiary protection services. Jeneen has a master’s degree in public administration, University of Baltimore and a bachelor’s degree in speech communication, Temple University.
Brent Jensen
Brent Jensen is a principal and consulting actuary with Milliman. He is a trusted advisor to ACO leaders and specializes in value-based care strategy, risk-sharing arrangements, and financial modeling for ACOs. He is an expert in CMS accountable care programs, having advised ACOs on MSSP, ACO REACH, and other emerging CMMI models. His strategic, data-driven approach has helped ACO senior leadership confidently navigate model transitions, optimize performance, and achieve sustainable shared savings.
Lyell K. Jones
Lyell K. Jones, Jr., MD is president of the Mayo Clinic Community ACO, a large MSSP ACO spanning more than 2000 clinicians and 60,000 beneficiaries in the upper Midwest. Helping clinicians deliver innovative, high value care has been a core focus of his healthcare leadership roles. Dr. Jones has led innovation and clinician engagement initiatives in the ACO and delivered industry-leading performance. Previously Dr. Jones has served as Mayo Clinic medical director for commercial and strategic contracting, government program strategy, and patient experience. A professor of neurology, he currently serves as dean of the Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, editor-in-chief of Continuum, and president-elect of the American Academy of Neurology.
Anjali Kakwani
Anjali Kakwani, Pharm.D., BCPS, CACP, is a clinical pharmacy specialist and manager of pharmacy services at Atlantic Accountable Care Organization. She earned her doctor of pharmacy degree from Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University and completed a pharmacy practice residency at Mount Sinai, Morningside & West. Dr. Kakwani has initiated inpatient, transitions of care and population health comprehensive medication management services, implemented key strategies to improve quality metrics and shared savings in value-based contracts, and is currently leading artificial intelligence technology solutions to improve patient outcomes. Dr. Kakwani is certified in pharmacotherapy, anticoagulation, pharmacogenomics, and medication therapy management.
Gregg Kimmer
Gregg Kimmer is a highly adaptive healthcare executive and 2x CEO with 15+ years of experience driving strategic growth in managed care, Medicare Advantage, and Value-Based Care. Throughout his career, he has held prominent leadership roles across Fortune 5 payers, PE-backed health plans, and startups. Gregg’s notable positions include CEO of Circadian Health and ATRIO Health Plans, chief Medicare officer at CVS Health/Aetna, Divisional CFO at Humana, and SVP at Duly Health & Care. He has a proven track record of successfully scaling health plans, implementing risk-based contracts, and managing full P&L responsibilities for multi-state markets to transform healthcare delivery.
Brian Kresge
Brian Kresge is the vice president of information management at NAACOS, where he leads software development of NAACOS information systems. Brian was previously director of software engineering and integrations at Monogram Health, where he was responsible for development of software supporting clinical operations, population health analysis, and implementing artificial intelligence solutions that augmented care for patients with chronic kidney disease and its comorbidities. He pioneered work in remote biomedical device integrations, be it pacemakers, ICDs, VADs, or hearth rhythm monitors. He has close to three decades of work with HL7 integrations and patient data analytics. Brian retired from the U.S. Army and Army National Guard after service spanning 30 years and 3 years overseas. He has a BA from Southwest Texas State, an MBA from Capella University, and is presently a rabbinical student.
Tara Lagu
Tara Lagu, MD, is the medical director of Alliant’s VBHS. Prior to joining VBHS, she served in a number of academic and health system leadership roles at UMASS/Baystate and the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. She holds a dual degree MD/MPH from the Yale University School of Medicine, completed general internal medicine residency at Brown University and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lagu also earned a degree in pharmacy from Purdue University and is a licensed pharmacist.
Amanda Larschan
Amanda Larschan serves as the chief performance officer at Palm Beach Accountable Care Organization (PBACO), where she oversees enterprise-wide performance, quality, and practice improvement across all value-based care contracts. With nearly 12 years of experience in the ACO space, she joined PBACO as a data analyst and progressed into senior executive leadership. In her current role, Amanda leads quality reporting and performance analytics across Medicare and commercial programs, translating complex regulatory requirements into actionable insights that support providers, improve outcomes, and strengthen financial performance. She is recognized for bridging data, operations, and provider engagement. Amanda holds degrees from the University of Florida and Florida Atlantic University and is a certified project management professional.
Mark Llorente
Mark Llorente serves as chief operating officer at InnovaCare Health, overseeing day-to-day operations across all medical centers in Florida and Texas. He brings deep expertise in team development, strategic growth, and operational leadership, building high-performing teams and fostering collaboration across both internal and external stakeholders. Prior to joining InnovaCare, Mark held senior leadership roles at CareMax, Inc., including chief administrative officer and head of MSO Operations, where he led center operations and managed multiple shared services departments. He also oversaw CareMax’s Management Services Organization, a network of ~1,800 affiliated providers caring for ~200,000 Medicare members nationwide. Mark earned his MBA with a concentration in international business from the University of Miami and holds a BA in business administration from the University of Florida.
Brian Machut
Brian Machut is an experienced health actuary with expertise in value-based payment models, healthcare care analytics and actuarial consulting. Mr. Machut is a leader within Alliant’s Value-Based Healthcare Services practice, providing actuarial and strategic support services for dozens of provider organizations and ACOs participating in value-based contracts. He also supports organizations with actuarial evaluations and strategic recommendations for commercial and Medicaid-based risk contracts. He is a frequent author of industry whitepapers and briefs. Mr. Machut earned his bachelor’s degrees in actuarial science, finance, and risk management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries.
Brian McDonough
Dr. Brian McDonough is widely recognized for his long-standing roles as medical editor for 1010 WINS (New York) and KYW (Philadelphia), where his daily health reports have aired for more than 25 years. In his clinical work, he serves as chairman of the Graduate Medical Education Committee for the Department of Family Medicine at St. Francis Hospital. In various roles over three decades, he has trained more than 175 board-certified family physicians. As an informaticist, he has also served as vice president and chief health informatics officer for Trinity Health. His work reflects a strong focus on digital patient engagement and innovation in care delivery. Most recently, he has joined forces with Reach MD to host “The Convergence Podcast” which focuses on artificial intelligence and its growing impact on healthcare.
Natalie McGann
Natalie McGann, DO, is a board-certified family physician with a longstanding commitment to community-based care and clinical leadership. She currently practices at TriValley Primary Care in Telford, PA, where she also serves as a shareholder and holds key leadership roles, including executive committee member and clinical chair of strategy & operations. Dr. McGann earned her Doctor of Osteopathy from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her Family Practice Residency at Abington Memorial Hospital, where she was named Chief Resident. Following her residency, she joined the Abington Family Medicine Residency Program as a faculty member, contributing to resident education from 2010 to 2014. Her leadership extends beyond clinical practice. Dr. McGann serves as Chairperson of the Grand View Healthcare Partnership and as Medical Director for Tandigm Value Partners. In these roles, she focuses on value-based care initiatives and population health management, consistently demonstrating a deep commitment to improving care delivery, fostering physician collaboration, and driving strategic improvements across the healthcare continuum.
Kevin McNeill
Kevin McNeill, MD, is a board-certified family physician with extensive experience in clinical practice and medical education. He earned his medical degree from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and completed his residency at Overlook Family Medicine Residency Program in Summit, New Jersey. He earned his MHA degree from Seton Hall University this past August. Dr. McNeill has worked with medical students and residents throughout his career and currently serves as a continuity care site preceptor for the LVPG Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. McNeill is an assistant clinical professor at USF Morsani College of Medicine and was a faculty coach for the USF SELECT Program. His professional roles at LVHN include membership on the Medical Executive Committee, co-chairing the Opioid Stewardship and Linkage to Treatment Committee, and participating in the Advanced Care Planning Steering Committee. He is the medical director of the LVHN ACO and serves as chair of the quality committee. He is an associate medical director for Valley Preferred/LV PHO. His work with the LVPHO includes supporting clinician members on population health and value-based care performance where he organizes educational sessions, conducts outreach, and chairs the Provider Communication Committee.
Raymond Metzger
Raymond Metzger, MD, serves as president of the TriHealth Population Health Organization, leading systemwide value‑based care initiatives since 2021. TriHealth is an early adopter in shifting from fee‑for‑service to value‑based care, advancing this work for more than a decade. Dr. Metzger oversees more than 1,700 physicians and APPs in delivering coordinated, outcome‑driven care that improves quality and reduces unnecessary costs. A board‑certified internist with over 25 years of experience, he has been a physician leader at TriHealth since 2001. He earned his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati.
Robert Millette
Robert Millette is a healthcare executive, board partner, in enterprise level transformation. Focused on Population Health, Primary and Specialty Care Integrated Services, High Performance Network Building, and Payor Contracting. Robert’s passion is aligning healthcare organizations operations, clinical integration, capital investments, and payor relationships in a value-based approach, to drive quality and affordability throughout the system. He is an expert in Direct to Employer, DSNP, Medicare Advantage, ACO’s, Medicaid and Commercial 2-sided risk/capitated model contracts, implementing strategies, MSO services, and clinical tactics leading to performance in patient outcomes and quality-based reimbursement. Finance lead by training, with deep analytics, hospital and medical group operations, technology integration, lean process improvement, and contract negotiation experience.
Steve Neorr
Steve Neorr is strategic advisor at Community Care Physician Network. He is a healthcare executive specializing in the transformation of care delivery systems and the advancement of value-based care models. With over twenty years of leadership experience, he has built and scaled physician groups, ACOs, Medicare Advantage plans, and population health organizations across multiple states. He currently advises healthcare organizations on achieving operational excellence, physician enablement and alignment, care model redesign, and market expansion – with particular expertise in taking concepts from idea to launch. Steve holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington and a BS in health care administration from the University of Alabama.
Stephen Nuckolls
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. The group has a large primary care base and their operations include an ambulatory surgery center (GI endoscopy), sleep lab, urgent care, and imaging center and 13 other practice locations. 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.
Gabe Orthous
Gabe Orthous, MBA, serves as the director of value-based services performance and analytics at Health Choice Network, where he champions the mission of federally qualified health centers. With over 25 years of progressive experience in HIT, he specializes in scaling value-based care initiatives and optimizing complex HIT solutions to maximize impact. A dedicated educator, Gabe is an adjunct professor in the informatics department at Georgia State University and a former adjunct faculty member at Sacred Heart University. Additionally, he contributes as a subject matter expert for the Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies.
Ashish Parikh
Ashish Parikh, MD, is the chief population health officer at Village MD-Summit Health. Ashish is responsible for developing strategies for delivery of the highest quality of care with a focus on value through reduction in practice variation, evidence-based clinical care delivery, population health management, as well as provider and patient engagement across all VillageMD and Summit Health practices. Prior to joining Summit Health, Ashish was the senior health and quality advisor at IBM and the internal medicine residency program director at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.
Kim Phan
Kim Phan is the founder and CEO of CareConnectMD, a multi-state Accountable Care Organization (ACO) dedicated to providing compassionate, patient-centered care for frail and medically complex seniors. A lifelong healthcare entrepreneur, she co-founded GeriNet Medical Associates (GNMA) in 1996, Southern California’s first SNFist medical group, which later expanded into hospice, palliative, pharmacy, and DME services under Health Essentials until its separation in 2018. Under her leadership, CareConnectMD has grown from a post-acute provider into a full continuum of services, including palliative care, enhanced care management, and value-based care programs. Kim began her career as a healthcare administrator in hospital and skilled nursing settings and holds an MBA and BA in economics from the University of California.
Joseph Pierle
Joseph E. Pierle, MPA is the chief executive officer of the Missouri Primary Care Association. The Association serves as a voice for the medically underserved and represents Missouri’s community health centers, or FQHCs. Prior to this appointment, he worked for United States Senator Christopher S. Bond in Washington D.C., serving as an advisor on issues concerning health, children, the elderly, and veterans. Mr. Pierle also serves as CEO of Missouri Health Plus, a value-based care focused clinically integrated network and the Missouri Health Center ACO. Mr. Pierle has shared his experience as a member of the National Advisory Committee on the National Health Service Corps, Missouri HITECH Advisory Board, Community Advisory Council to the Missouri Foundation for Health, and as a board member of the National Association of Community Health Centers. Mr. Pierle received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and a master’s in public administration from George Mason University. He also received certificates from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for completing health care executive programs.
Aisha Pittman
Aisha Pittman, MPH, is the senior vice president of government affairs at the National Association of ACOs. In this role, Ms. Pittman leads NAACOS’ advocacy and thought leadership, promoting policies that will accelerate the adoption of value and highlighting the importance of provider-led transformation through value-based. She has over 20 years of experience in health care with a focus on payment, alternative payment models, and quality. Ms. Pittman was previously vice president of policy with Premier, Inc., a group purchasing organization representing health systems. She was responsible for working with policymakers, providers, and other health care stakeholders to reduce costs and improve the quality of health care. Prior to Premier, Pittman held senior management roles with the National Quality Forum, the Maryland Health Care Commission and CenterLight Healthcare, in addition to experience at the NCQA She holds a bachelor of science in biology, a bachelor of arts in psychology, and a master of public health from The George Washington University. Ms. Pittman received GWU’s School of Public Health and Health Services Excellence in Health Policy Award.
Rachel Pryor
Rachel Pryor, JD, MSW is chief growth officer for Jefferson Health Plans, a part of the Jefferson Health Enterprise. In her role, Rachel is responsible for the overall growth and revenue across all lines of business for the company, including Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act Plans. Prior to her joining Jefferson, Rachel served as the senior counselor to United States Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Rachel was also previously deputy director of the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services. Rachel spent nearly a decade on Capitol Hill, starting with Senator John D. Rockefeller IV for the duration of the Affordable Care Act debate in the Senate, and ending as the senior health counsel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Prior to her time on Capitol Hill, Rachel worked with Ascension Health. Rachel earned a master’s in social work from the University of Maryland with a dual clinical/policy focus, and a juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.
Timothy Puri
Timothy Puri, MD, is the chief medical officer for Population Health at Curana, a healthcare services and technology organization supporting over 200,000 seniors annually across more than 2,000 communities in over 30 states. Curana operates at enterprise scale across complex, multi-vendor healthcare environments and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing healthcare companies in the country. Dr. Puri is a practicing physician and clinical operator, alumni of Stanford Graduate School of Business, with hands-on experience leading large-scale population health and value-based care programs. His work sits at the intersection of clinical care, data, and operations, with a focus on translating analytics and AI into trusted, in-workflow action that clinicians actually adopt at scale.
Gene Quinn
Gene Quinn is a practicing cardiologist and the chief executive officer of Envoy Integrated Health – a clinically integrated network of independent Alaskan physicians and the first locally-based ACO in Alaska. Dr. Quinn received his medical degree from the University of Washington, completed internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco, then completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease, advanced cardiovascular imaging, and patient safety and quality at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He holds a master of public health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health with a concentration in public health leadership. Dr. Quinn also currently serves as a board member for healtheConnect, Alaska’s statewide health information exchange, and on the Board of Governors for MIEC, a multi-state professional liability and malpractice insurance company that serves the majority of Alaska’s physicians. His work has focused on building the infrastructure to support coordinated, high quality, value-based care in Alaska.
Arshad Rahim
Arshad Rahim is the chief medical officer and senior vice president for population health for Mount Sinai Health System and the Mount Sinai Clinically Integrated Network. He has spent the last 9 years driving value-based care transformation and contract success in greater New York City for 500K managed lives, including 200K with downside financial risk, and 6000 providers in the CIN. He oversees clinical operations to drive value-based care outcomes and contracting with public and private payers. He is a practicing primary care internist and hospitalist at Mount Sinai Health System. He is also on the board of directors for America’s Physician Groups (APG) and NAACOS. Dr. Rahim has over 25 years of healthcare industry leadership experience at innovative organizations including as vice president of quality improvement and UM for Lumeris; a group vice president of quality improvement and innovation at Healthgrades; and a director at Sg2 (now part of Vizient).
Megan Reyna
Megan Reyna, MSN, RN, ACRN serves as chief operating officer, Population Health, at Bon Secours Mercy Health. In this role, she is responsible for the performance of our Accountable Care Organizations/Clinically Integrated Networks, recruiting participating primary care providers and increasing new Medicare lives into our value-based programs. Megan is an established clinical health care executive with over 18 years of experience in operations and value-based care. She joined BSMH from Advocate Health (previously known as Advocate Aurora Health), where she served as the group vice president in Population Health. Megan was accountable for assisting her organization in achieving national quality and value-based care outcomes. Her work and influence has spanned many states, services lines, hospital sites, and more. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing with honors from Marquette University and a master’s degree in nursing administration with honors from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Megan has been a speaker and panelist at numerous national conferences, and featured in various trade publications, discussing topics including ACOs, value-based care, digital quality reporting, the primary care landscape and health equity. She currently serves on the board of directors for the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) and is a pre-rule making committee member on the Partnership for Quality Measurement (Battelle).
Mindy Riley
Mindy Riley is currently the deputy group director for the information systems group within the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality. Mindy previously implemented the Quality Payment Program at CMS. Mindy has 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, 26 being within the field of information technology, including analytics, reporting, data warehousing, and system support, development, and implementation. Mindy received her bachelor of arts in health science and policy from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and received her master of arts in information systems management from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.
Tamra Ruymann
Tamra Ruymann currently serves as the chief of digital health for PSW (Physicians of SW Washington). Tamra brings 30 years of experience in the payer setting with comprehensive experience in claims management, medical risk adjustment, quality data reporting and project management. In her 15 years at PSW she has overseen data management, analytics and business intelligence and clinical interfacing as well as led the development of PSW’s customized population health platform. Early in her career, Tamra worked at the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries where she was responsible for the implementation of a comprehensive imaging system that supported multiple business units with both internal and external facing applications. Her tenure at PSW has included overseeing the Claims team, the Information Technology department, which included data management and analytics and the Quality and Risk Adjustment team. Tamra holds a master of business administration in healthcare management and a bachelor of Science in health informatics. Tamra also serves as the treasurer of Valley View Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Washington State.
Dana Rye
Dana Rye serves as chief value-based care officer at Duly Health and Care. She leads our value-based care strategy and program management, including analytics, care management and population health management. She joins Duly Health and Care from US Renal Care, a national provider of kidney and dialysis services. She served as senior vice president, value-based care operations. She began her USRC tenure supporting growth and operations for home therapies. Prior to US Renal Care, Ms. Rye held business development and operations roles at One Oncology. She joined the private-equity backed healthcare services space from McKinsey & Company, where she worked in the healthcare systems and services practice. Ms. Rye holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from Middlebury College. She serves on the board of Fight Colorectal Cancer.
Brittany Sachdeva
Brittany Sachdeva is a transformational healthcare executive with more than twenty years of experience spanning frontline clinical practice and senior executive leadership. She began her career as a registered nurse, spending a decade in high-acuity environments, primarily in the emergency department of a major academic medical center. She is recognized for aligning operational strategy with clinical innovation, improving quality outcomes, and building high-performing leadership teams that drive measurable results. Brittany’s professional passion centers on advancing the sustainability of rural healthcare through operational excellence, strong nursing leadership pipelines, and rigorous patient safety frameworks. She brings a systems-thinking approach to network development, scaling infrastructure and care models that support independent rural hospitals in thriving within value-based environments. She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) with an emphasis in leadership development. Brittany currently serves as chief operating officer of Cibolo Health, where she leads strategic operations in support of rural healthcare network development nationwide.
Ken Schellhase
Ken Schellhase, MD MPH, learned Russian in college and was educated for the diplomatic corps, and instead briefly served as an artillery officer in (then) West Germany. He then pivoted briefly towards philosophy (MA in Ethical Theory) and then to medicine, and spent the first 25 years of his medical career between academia and the health insurance industry. In 2025, he joined Ascension Wisconsin as Medical Director for Population Health and Quality, and also sees patients and teaches at an Ascension family medicine residency. Ken has served on numerous national and state expert panels, including for NIH, CMS, PCORI, the National Quality Forum, and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Chris Shank
Chris Shank joined the North Carolina Community Health Center Association (NCCHCA) in April 2017 and has served as chief executive officer since April 2020. Chris directs the association in providing training, technical assistance, and resource development for all federally qualified health centers in North Carolina and supports the efforts of the Carolina Medical Home Network CIN and ACO. Chris’s career spans over 30 years with work from working as an ER, Urgent Care, and Community Health Center nurse to regional administrator with Duke University Primary Care System.
Brian Sikora
Brian Sikora is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience in healthcare data analytics, specializing in value-based care, integrated care delivery, and healthcare quality improvement. Brian currently serves as the vice president of value-based care analytics at Duly Health and Care. In this role, he focuses on leveraging data analytics to enhance VBC quality of care, care management programs, membership retention, and financial outcomes. An active leader in the healthcare community, Brian serves as the treasurer of the board of directors for Comagine Health. He is also an advisor to HealthyInsights.ai. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Pittsburgh and a master of healthcare administration from Portland State University.
Tesha Simpson
Tesha Simpson is a seasoned healthcare executive with more than two decades of experience leading complex healthcare delivery organizations. She currently serves as chief executive officer of Millennium Healthcare, a role she has held for the past year, guiding the organization through a period of growth, integration, and strategic transformation. Prior to joining Millennium, Tesha most recently served as chief executive officer of Guidelight Health, a national mental health provider she co-founded in 2023. Before that, she was chief operating officer of AMSURG, a nationally recognized organization specializing in ambulatory surgery center services. Earlier in her career, Tesha led enterprise strategy and operations across multiple care delivery channels as chief operating officer for both JSA Healthcare (a DaVita Medical Group company) and Optum Florida. She also held several clinical quality and performance improvement leadership roles with Morton Plant Mease and Evergreen Manor, grounding her executive leadership in hands-on clinical and operational experience. Tesha earned her doctor of nursing practice, master of science in nursing, and bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Florida.
Chris Smith
Chris Smith, an actuary at Milliman, helps Medicare ACOs forecast, monitor, and improve financial performance in CMS/CMMI models (e.g., MSSP and REACH). His clients ask for support in understanding the nitty gritty details of benchmarking methodology, creating a clear participation strategy across all their participants and ACOs, and identifying performance drivers. Chris helps lead Milliman’s ACO Builder products, which replicate CMS/CMMI models (including MSSP and REACH) on 100% of Medicare FFS claims data for all providers nationwide.
Leslie Southworth
Leslie Southworth is currently the director of Montana Health Plus. She graduated from Montana State University with a bachelor of science in community health. Leslie started her career at a not-for-profit Medicaid managed care organization in Southern California. After returning to Montana, she served as the CEO at the Central Montana Community Health Center in Lewistown, MT and then the Community Health Care Center in Great Falls, MT. In 2017, she joined the Montana Primary Care Association on the Health Center Controlled Network Team. She served as the HCCN project director in 2018 followed by the director of Montana Health Plus in 2023. She graduated with a masters in healthcare administration from The George Washington University.
Kevin Spencer
Kevin Spencer, MD, is the national chief medical officer for Millennium Physician Group, a national, primary care–focused organization, and a nationally recognized physician executive in value- based care. He has served as both CEO and lead physician of a 60-provider primary care organization and founded the first physician-owned, physician-led Medicare ACO in Austin, Texas. Dr. Spencer led his organization’s transition into Millennium Physician Group as its first acquisition outside of Florida, helping establish the model for national growth. Previously, as chief clinical officer at agilonhealth, he played a pivotal role in launching 35 markets nationwide, leading physician engagement and driving clinical and financial performance at scale. Dr. Spencer is passionate about building physician-led organizations that deliver better outcomes, sustainable economics, and meaningful transformation across the healthcare ecosystem.
John Supra
John Supra is the chief digital health and analytics officer at Cone Health. In this role, Mr. Supra connects the work of Cone Health’s information technology team and its Value-Based Care Institute. Prior to joining Cone Health, Mr. Supra served as chief digital health and analytics officer at Upstream, where he led the organization’s data and analytics capabilities to accelerate success in transforming senior care. He also previously worked as vice president and chief data officer at Prisma Health and as deputy director and chief information officer for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Supra holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Fred Taweel
Fred Taweel is the chief medical officer of Brilliant Care. He is the former chief medical officer of Privia Medical Group—Mid-Atlantic and he chairs the Board of Governors for Privia Quality Network—Mid-Atlantic. He has been an internist with Virginia-based Internal Medicine Associates of Reston since 1991 where, in 2001, he also became a managing partner. Additionally, Dr. Taweel served on the Board of Trustees at HCA Reston Hospital Center from 2001 to 2009. Dr. Taweel earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Maryland in 1983, his medical doctorate from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1988, and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan Hospitals in 1991.
Anna Taylor
Anna Taylor is the associate vice president of population health and value-based care for MultiCare Connected Care (MCC). She leads the portfolio team for value-based products and strategic initiatives, as well as oversees the Digital Health Ecosystem that enables the work of population health. Anna has been with MultiCare for 16+ years and has held positions in the Institute for Learning and Development, information services & technology, strategy, and population health. She holds a B.S. from the UW School of Engineering in technical communication and an M.S. in clinical informatics and patient centered technology from the UW School of Nursing & Medicine. She sits on the DaVinci Steering Committee, the Joint Commission Task Force for Digital Quality and in the past has served as a senior examiner for the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program for 5 years.
Johnston Thayer
Johnston Thayer is a nurse by background and VP of health informatics at Epic Systems. He works closely with Epic’s Cognitive Computing team to bring machine learning and AI agents into clinical practice, and partners with health systems and governments worldwide on population health, precision medicine, and value-based care. He holds an MBA in healthcare management from Johns Hopkins University.
Tina-Ann Thompson
Tina-Ann Thompson is a physician-leader with extensive experience spanning clinical practice, practice ownership, and executive leadership in primary care. She serves as senior vice president of the Primary Care Service Line, executive director of the Emory Healthcare Population Health Collaborative, and the division director of Family Medicine. Her professional experience as a clinician, director, and change agent uniquely positions her to drive initiatives that enhance prevention-focused practices and improve outcomes for both patients and clinicians. Dr. Thompson’s clinical focus includes adolescent mental health, addiction, and chronic disease management, and she has maintained her practice at Emory at Rockbridge in Stone Mountain for over 20 years. Her educational background includes a bachelor of science from Yale University, a medical degree from Boston University, completion of the Emory Family Medicine residency program, and an MBA from Emory Goizueta Business School.
Tyler Tracewski
Tyler Tracewski is vice president, value based programs at Astrana Health. In this role, he is responsible for the centralized operations, strategy, and growth of Astrana’s ACO business, including 5 ACOs, 75k lives, $1.3B of at-risk medical expense, and $60M in shared savings annually. Previously, he led the National operations team at Collaborative Health Systems, a Centene Company focused on Value Based Care. Prior to that, he had a 15-year career in management consulting, assisting clients with strategic, financial, and operational strategy and execution. He served an array of provider side clients including hospitals, physician groups and networks, accountable care organizations, the federal government (e.g. Veteran Health Administration), and academic medical centers and faculty practices, among others. Tyler earned his MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts and his undergraduate degree in healthcare management from the University of Connecticut.
Brandon Webb
Brandon Webb, MD, serves as chief medical officer for OneHealth Nebraska ACO. In this role, Brandon supports 29 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. Brandon’s background includes 26 years as a practicing family physician and owner of his multi-site independent practice, Primary Care Partners. Brandon 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 and serves on the Nebraska Medical Association Board of Directors. He was also appointed by the governor to the Nebraska Primary Care Investment Council in 2024. Brandon is a proud graduate of Baylor University in Waco, TX and McGovern Medical School in Houston, TX.
Zachary Yoder
Zachary Yoder MHA, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE serves as president at OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s Health Center in directing all internal operations in continuing to ensure that high quality and cost-effective health care is delivered to patients in the Riverbend region. Prior to joining OSF Saint Anthony’s, Zach rose through the executive ranks at SIHF Healthcare first serving as vice president of Business Development and Strategy, then ascending to the chief operating officer role. His first stint in an executive-level leadership position came during his time as chief nursing officer at HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital. Zach believes in taking active community service roles and does so by currently serving on the Board of Directors for Caritas Family Solutions and is an adjunct instructor at McKendree University. Zach earned a bachelor of science in nursing from Southern Illinois University and a master of health administration from Webster University in St. Louis. He then went on to earn a master of healthcare operational excellence from Washington University in St. Louis.