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Public Co-Sponsors
- Kirk Adams, Executive Director, Healthcare Education Project
- Alister Martin MD, MPP, Founder, Vot-ER
- Stuart Altman, PhD, Chaikin Professor of National and State Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management
- Don Berwick, MD, Former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Former President/CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Akriti Bhambi, EdM, Vice President, SKDK and Former Director of Health Equity, Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association
- Heather Booth, Partner and Consultant, Democracy Partners
- Jeanette Clough, MS, MHA, RN, former CEO, Mount Auburn Hospital and Principal, Clough Consulting Group
- Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, Dean and Robert A Knox Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University
- Norbert Goldfield, MD, Executive Director, Ask Nurses and Doctors
- Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Clinical Associate Professor, Co-executive Director, National Council for Occupational Safety and Health
- Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, Former President & CEO of Partners (Mass General Brigham) HealthCare and Former CEO of Partners in Health
- Lucian Leape, MD, Patient Safety Champion and a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Quality of Care in America Committee which published “To Err is Human” (1999) and “Crossing the Quality Chasm” (2001).
- Stanley Lewis, MD, Former Chief Strategy Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health
- David Longworth, MD, Former President, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center and Chair, Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care
- John E. McDonough, DRPH, MPA, Professor of Public Health Practice, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Former Executive Director, Healthcare for All
- Ali S. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH, Deputy Chair, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor, Harvard Medical School
- Sandhya Rao, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- Christine Schuster, RN, MBA, President & CEO, Emerson Health System
- Derri Shtasel, MD, MPH, Former Associate Chief and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Public and Community Psychiatry
- Peter Slavin, MD, Former President, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Kevin Tabb, MD, President & CEO, Beth Israel Lahey Health
- Rachel Wilson, MHA, President, CIC Health
- Louis J. Woolf, MBA, President & CEO, Hebrew SeniorLife
- Mona Al-Amin, PhD, MPH, Chair and Associate Professor, Healthcare Administration and Director of the Healthcare Administration Program, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University
- Dianne Anderson, RN, MS, Former CEO, Lawrence General Hospital
- Kevin M. Ban, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Walgreens
- Maureen Banks , RN, DNP, MBA, NEA-BC, FACHE, Former Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
- Lisa Bard Levine, MD, MBA, Strategic Advisor and Former CEO, The MAVEN Project; COO, Easy CV; Founder, LBL Innovations
- Linda Battaglini, MS, Former Governance Development Advisor and Principal, Battaglini Consulting; Past President, NE Society for Healthcare Strategy
- Joni R. Beshansky, RN, MPH, LP.D., Director, Master of Healthcare Administration and Associate Professor, Boston College
- Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Winfield S. Brown, MHA , MSB, FACHE, President & CEO Heywood Healthcare
- Stuart Burstin MD, PhD, FACP, FCPP, Interim National Director of Infectious Diseases, Aids Healthcare Foundation
- Edward Butler, MD, Former CMO and Chief Academic Officer, Hallmark Health System
- Jayson C. Carr, MD, Regional Medical Director, Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
- Joe Castellana, Ph.D, MBA, Former Vice President, Medical Administration, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network/Mass General Brigham
- John Christoforo, LFACHE, MBA, Principal, Christoforo Healthcare Consulting and Former President & CEO , Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare
- Mindy Crowley, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist
- Steve Defossez, MD, Vice President, Clinical Integration, Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association and Principal, DefoSays Consulting
- Michael Durkin, Former President and CEO, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
- James Fallon, MBA, Former Senior Vice President, Hallmark Health and COO, Lawrence Memorial Hospital
- Maureen Flannery, MD, MPH, family physician
- Robert R. Fanning, Former President & CEO of Northeast Health System
- Richard Fernandez, President, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton
- Laura Garelick, MD; Chief, Family Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham
- Matthew C. Germak, MD, MPH, Chief Quality and Safety Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care
- Brent L. Henry, Member, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.
- Julie Joyal, RN, M.Ed, Executive Director, HMS MEDscience
- Jamie Katz, JD, General Counsel, Beth Israel Lahey Health
- Ann Levine, M.Ed, MBA, Former Vice President of External Affairs, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Lewis A. Lipsitz, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief Academic Officer, Hebrew SeniorLife; Chief, Division of Gerontology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Pauline Lodge, MS, Former Senior Vice President Strategic Planning and Business Development, Beth Israel Lahey Health
- Amy MacNulty, Former President, MacNulty Consulting, LLC and Senior Principal, Noblis Health Innovation
- Marsha Maurer, RN, Healthcare and Nursing Leader, Former Senior VP, Patient Care Services and CNO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Karen Moore, RN, MS, FACHE, Principal, Karen Moore Consulting and Former Sr VP Operations/CNO Lawrence General Hospital
- Suzanne O’Connor, MSN, Advanced Practice Nurse, Founder and Principal, Healthcare Satisfaction Consulting, Former Clinical Nurse Specialist, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Richard Parker, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Arcadia Healthcare Solutions and Hospice Physician, Care Dimensions
- Russell Phillips, MD, Director, Center for Primary Care and William Applebaum Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Daniel Ploof, Regional Director of Physician Relations, CareOne Management
- Amit Powar, MD, President, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic Medical Group
- Tim Quigley, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, Senior Vice President, Special Projects, South Shore Hospital
- Barbara Roberge, PhD, GNP, Former lead NP and Director of Quality, Massachusetts General Hospital, Senior Health Practice
- Julie Rosen, Principal and Leader, Not for Profit Practice, WittKieffer
- Robert Schreiber MD, AGSF, Vice President and National Medical Director, myPlace Health
- Roger Schutt, DO, Post Acute Medical Director, Beth Israel Lahey Health Performance Network and Medical Director, Extended Care Community Program, Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare
- Janet Selcer, Coordinator, MVP Volunteer Eastern MA Hub
- Geoffrey Wilkinson, Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University School of Social Work
- Ashley Yeats, MD, Vice President, Medical Operations, BCBSMA and Former CMO Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton
- Jeff Zegas, CEO and Founder ZurickDavis, Inc.