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Preview the phenomenal speakers we have in store for you this fall. Attend in person and learn from today's health care leaders, and be part of tomorrow's change.

Rohit Aiyer
MD
Mind and Brain Link
Founder and Medical Director
Sai Alahari
Hexplora
CTO
Lisa Albers
MD
CalPERS
Director, Clinical Policy & Programs
Rebecca Alicki
American Heart Association
National Director - Quality Programs
Rich Almeida
Firely
Vice President Product Strategy & Compliance
Jennifer Anglin
DHSc, PCMH CCE
NCQA
Senior Manager, Recognition Policy
Yana Ankudinova
MRO Corp
Vice President, Product Management
Gene Arnold
MS, RD, CDCES
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
DSMT Program Director
Kristen Azar
PhD, RN MSN/MPH, CPHQ, FAHA
Institute on Aging
VP Quality and Performance Excellence
Poonam Bal
MHSA, PMP
American Board of Family Medicine
Deputy Director, Clinician Measures
Michael Barr
MD, MBA, MACP, FRCP
MEDIS, LLC
President & Founder
Bahar Basseri
MPH
Department of Health Services Los Angeles
Staff Analyst
Ericka Bauman
YourHealth
Director of Quality Assurance
Berta Bennett
NCQA
Assistant Vice President
Amy Berk
DNP, MSN, APRN
Microsoft
Director, Population Health
Rebecca Best
MSHS, PCMH CCE
NCQA
Director, Operating Systems and Analytics
Smita Bhattacharya
MS
mPulse
Senior Health Engagement Strategist
Caroline Blaum
MD
NCQA
Assistant Vice President, Chronic Conditions & Complex Care
Yolanda Bowes
Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island
Senior Program Manager
Courtney Breece
Inovalon
AVP, Product Management
Danielle Brooks
JD
AmeriHealth Caritas
Corporate Director, Quality Health Equity
Bryan Buckley
DrPH, MPH, MBA
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Head of Public Health
Burke Burnett
NCQA
Director, Partnerships
Brenda Campbell
BSN, MS
Houston Methodist Coordinated Care
Senior Consultant Health Systems Innovaitons
Mike Cantor
MD, JD
ZS Associates
Executive Advisor and Fractional Chief Medical Officer
Brian Carlsen
West Coast Informatics, Inc
Chief Technology Officer
Laura Carr
PharmD, MBA
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Senior Director of Provider Performance Support
Diana Catellanos
BA
Universal Community Health Center
Lead RPM Patient Navigator
Nassib Chamoun
MS
Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI)
Founder & CEO
Girish Chavan
Astrata Inc.
Cofounder & CTO
Daniel Chavez
MBA
SCHIO
Executive Director
Michelle Congdon
MBA, CPHQ
American Heart Association
National Vice President, Healthcare Quality Development
Candice Costello
NCQA
Assistant Director, Accreditation Operations
Meghan Crane
MSW, LISW-S, CCM
CareSource
Manager, Care Management for Dual Special Needs Plans
Heather Crosby
RN,BSN
b.well Connected Health
Associate Vice President, Clinical Strategy
Bo Dagnall
Smile Digital Health
Chief Product Officer
Lindsey Darnell
MSN, RN-BC
Blue Health Intelligence
Product Manager, Quality
Janan Dave
Verifiable
VP Operations
Consuela (Coni) Dennis
DNP, RN, NE-BC
CCS Medical
VP Clinical Strategy and Innovation
Tonna Dexter
MSN RN MBA CPHQ
NCQA
Assistant Director, Recognition Operations
Adam Easterday
J.D.
Optum
Vice President, Policy & Regulatory Affairs
Tricia Elliott
DHA, MBA, FNAHQ, CPHQ
NCQA
VP, Quality Implementation
Dana Erickson
RRT, RN, BSN, CCM
Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN
President & Chief Executive Officer
Donald Erwin
MD
St. Thomas Community Health Center
CEO
Juan Espinoza
MD
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Chief Research Informatics Officer
Patricia Faraone Nogelo
PhD, LCSW
NCQA
Director, Quality Sciences and Innovation
Nicole Ferguson
BA
Centene Corporation
Senior Manager
Lori Ferguson
NCQA
Senior Vice President, Product and Customer Operations
Emily Ferguson
DNP, RN, CCM
MCG Health
Managing Editor
Jenna Fitcher
NCQA
Assistant Vice President, Product Management, Performance Programs
Peter Fournier
MBA
CloseKnit Health
Head of Product
Sonia Frazier
MPH CPHQ
Frazier Advisors & Co, LLC
NCQA Surveyor
Pete Fronte
MBA
Altura
Founder & CEO
Vivek Garg
MD, MBA
Incoming President and CEO of NCQA
Roya Ghazinouri
DPT, MS
CloseKnit
Head of Partnerships & Innovation
Melinda Giese
CHG Healthcare
SVP Client Enterprise Solutions
Pawan Gill
MPA, SHRMP-SCP, AWI-CH
Kern Health System
Health Equity Manager
Jamison Gillitzer
Cotiviti, Inc.
Senior Product Director
Terri Cox Glassen
RN, MN
The Cigna Group
Enterprise Quality & Accreditation Managing Director
Grace Glennon-Jubrey
MS, RD
NCQA
Director, Digital Quality Informatics
Mary Goble
MSN, RN
Capital Health Plan
Director Clinical Quality
Josephine Granner
PhD, BSN-RN
NCQA
Applied Research Scientist
Stacy Grundy
DrPH, MPH
NCQA
Director of Quality Sciences Innovation
Nikko Gutierrez
B.S, B.A.
NCQA
Senior Healthcare Analyst
Vanessa Guzman
MS, ME
SmartRise Health
CEO & President
Indrani Halder
PhD, MBA
Fortuna Solutions LLC
President & Strategic Healthcare Advisor
Benjamin Hanley
NCQA
Director, Product Management
Luke Hansen
MD, MHS
Arcadia Solutions
Chief Medical Officer
Melanie Hardin
Exact Sciences
Senior Director, Market Access Sales
Charlie Harp
Clinical Architecture
Founder & CEO
Rachel Harrington
PhD
NCQA
Senior Product Strategist
Laura Hart
Attest Health Care Advisors
Principal and Chief Executive Officer
Chelsea Hart-Connor
Covered California
Health Informatics Lead
Mathew Hawkins
CaryHealth
CTO
Eric Hazzard
Ph.D.
NourishedRx
Senior Director, Business Development
Ryan Heyborne
MD, MBA, FACEP
Humana
National Medical Director, Stars, Risk Adjustment & Interoperability
Maia Hightower
MD, MPH, MBA
Veritas Healthcare Insights
Consultant
Yolanda Hill Wimberly
MD, MSC, FAAP, FSAHM
Grady Memorial Hospital
SVP, Chief Health Outcomes Officer
Ryan Howells
MHA
Leavitt Partners
Principal
Katharine Iskrant
MPH, CHCA, CPHQ
Healthy People
President
Moriah Iverson
PhD, MBA
Medical College of Wisconsin
Doctoral Candidate
Bradley Jackson
MD
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Chief Medical Officer
Sachin Jain
MD, MBA
SCAN Health Plan
President & CEO
Priya Jaladi
Hexplora
Head of Sales & Marketing
Karen Johnson
PhD, MHSA
American Academy of Family Physicians
Vice-President, Division of Practice Advancement
Alexandria Johnson
MS
St Thomas Community Health Center
Director of Clinical Informatics
David C. Kendrick
MD, MPH, FACP
OU/TU School of Community Medicine
Chair, Department of Medical Informatics
Jenn Kerfoot
DUOS
Chief Strategy & Growth Officer
Mansoor Khan
Sc.D
PERSIVIA
CEO
Patrice Kingsley
MBA
CareFirst BCBS
Strategy & Operations Manager, Office of the CEO
Michelle Knopp
MD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Alan Koo
MSC
Ingenia Health (Nagnoi, LLC)
Chief Innovation Technology Officer
David Kraus
Ph.D.
Outcome Referrals, Inc.
CEO & Chief Science Officer
Jennifer Lamprecht
MS, RN, CNL, CPHQ
Sanford Health
Director Quality Strategy
Tina Launhardt
Centene Corporation
Senior Manager, Credentialing
Jennifer Lee
Alliance of Community Health Plans
Chief Medical Officer
Peter Long
PhD
Long Health Strategies
Principal
Nate Lucena
MA
Rex Wallace Consulting
President and Managing Director
Rebecca Lyons
MPH
GoMo Health
Manager, Program Strategy
Carol Macumber
MS, PMP, FAMIA
Clinical Architecture
Executive Vice President, Client Services
Janice Magno
MPA PCMH CCE
NYC Health Department
Executive Director, Community Healthcare Strategic Partnerships
Meghan Malone-Moses
MPH
NCQA
Director, Market Insights
Michael Marchant
Sutter Health
Director, Digital Applications
Melanie Matthews
PSW
CEO
Sue Matthiesen
MBA
NCQA
Vice President, Evaluation Programs
Mark McClellan
MD, PhD
Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Director
Fern McCree
MPH
NCQA
Director, Quality Informatics
Kate McEvoy
National Association of Medicaid Directors
Executive Director
Claire Mendelson
NCQA
Product Manager
Zachary Menn
MD, MHA, MBA
Houston Methodist Coordinated Care
Vice President, Population Health
Misty Milby
RN
Everlywell
VP Clinical Business Development
Elizabeth Miles
Ed.D, MPH, MSW
Behavioral Health Services
Agency Program and Operations Manager
Elizabeth Montgomery
BS
National Kidney Foundation
National Vice President, Clinical Practice Innovation & Population Health
Tiffani Morman
CPC, RN
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota
Senior Clinical Strategy Advisor RN
Stephanie Muckey
Humana
Population Health Strategy Lead, Veteran Population
Vimbai Mudimu
MBA
ZS Associates
Associate Principal
Julie Murchinson
Transformation Capital
Partner
Colleen Murtagh
RN, MHA
Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan, Inc. (CDPHP)
Director of Health Care Quality
Taylor Musser
MPH, CPHQ
NCQA
Director, Measure Collection
Caitlin Nass
MSN, CRNP
UM BWMC
Clinical Dire
Jennifer Neefus
GoMo Health
Marketing Specialist
Geoffrey Neimark
MD
Community Care Behavioral Health
Chief Medical Officer
Aaron Neinstein
MD
Notable
Chief Medical Officer
Douglas Nemecek
Evernorth Behavioral Health
Chief Medical Officer
Khanh Nguyen
PharmD
Cozeva
CEO
Viet Nguyen
MD
HL7
Chief Standards Implementation Officer
Margaret O'Kane
NCQA
President
Eliel Oliveira
MBA
Connxus
CEO
Mat Osmanski
Firely
Principal Consultant
Yesenia Osuna
J. Marc Overhage
MD, PhD
The Overhage Group
Principal
Kimberly Pauly
LPCC
County of San Diego, Health & Human Services Agency
Deputy Director
Robert Penfold
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Senior Scientific Investigator
Marisol Penuelas
PCMH CCE
San Luis Walk-In Clinic, Inc.
Clinic Operations Director
Kimberly Petit
MBA
Summit Quality Advisors
Principal Quality Consultant
Steven Phillips
University of Nevada
Geriatrician & Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine, School of Medicine
Natalie Pirkola
PharmD, MBA, MASPHM, MSIS
HAP
Vice President, Clinical Strategy & Population Health
Tsveta Polhemus
MPP
NCQA
Assistant Vice President, Product Management, Evaluation Products
Steven Pratt
MD
Magellan Health
CMO
Alice Pressman
PhD, MS
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of MEdicine
Professor
Julie Pung
MBA, FAHM
NCQA
Assistant Director, Accreditation Policy
Phuong Quach
Psy.D
County of San Diego, Health & Human Services Agency
Assistant Medical Services Administrator
Victor Quaye
MHCPM, CLSSB
HealthCare Partners
Director of Quality
Evan Raff
MD, MHA
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Director, Specialty Care
Rob Reynolds
Smile Digital Health
Vice President, Clinical Intelligence
Peter Robertson
MPA
California Quality Collaborative
Senior Director, Practice Transformation
Kathy Rowell
MS
Sellers Dorsey
Managing Director, Data Analytics & Visualization
Barbara Rubino
MD
Covered California
Associate Chief Medical Officer
Donald Rucker
MD
1upHealth
Chief Strategy Officer
Liz Ryder
NCQA
Assistant Director, Product Management
Alex Schlegel
KONZA Health
Senior Project Manager
Krista Schonrock
MD, MMM, FACP
Select Health
Associate Vice President & Medical Director
Heidi Schwarzwald
MD MPH
Signify Health
Chief Medical Officer
Joel Scott
Senior Director
Provider Data Management
Senior Director
Julie Seibert
PhD
NCQA
Assistant Vice President
Stacey Seipel
MSN, RN
Medical University of South Carolina
Director, Value Based Care Coordination
Abdul Shaikh
PhD, MHSc
Amazon Web Services
Global Leader for Population Health
Karen Sheares
MD, PhD
NCQA
Vice President, Quality Sciences
Jill Shuemaker
RN, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
American Board of Family Medicine
Director, Clinician Measures
Gregg Simonson
PhD
International Diabetes Center, HealthPartners Institute
Director
Daniela Simpson
MA, MBA
Wakely
Senior Consultant
Audrea Juny Simpson
Genentech, Inc.
Head of Population Health, Customer Engagement
Meghan Sinclair
Signify Health
VP, Product Management
Jeff Sitko
MHA
NCQA
AVP, Product Management
Jeffrey Skwarek
CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield
Vice President, Care Delivery & Clinical Operations
Monica Soni, MD
MD
Covered California
Chief Medical Officer, Chief Deputy Executive Director
Jeni Soucie
MS
NCQA
Senior Manager, Product
Steven Spencer
MD, MPH, MBA
Fidelis Care-New Jersey
Chief Medical Officer
Joseph Stankaitis
MD, MPH, FACP, FAAPL
Cornell University
Executive-in-Residence and Lecturer
Samuel Stolpe
PharmD, MPH
Johnson & Johnson
Head of Healthcare Quality Strategy
Bharat Sutariya
MD
Oracle Health
Senior Vice President & Chief Health Officer
Nichole Sutton
MS
NCQA
Assistant Director, Surveyor Management
Wendy Talbot
MPH
NCQA
Vice President, Measure & Data Operations
Melissa Talley
BSN, MBA
KONZA Health
Vice President of Clinical Data Quality
Michael Tang
MD
Cityblock Health
VP of Integrated Care
Anna Taylor
MS CIPCT
MultiCare Connected Care
Associate Vice President, Population Health & Value Based Care
Su Thet
DNP, CNM, WHNP
AltaMed Health Services
Director of Nursing, Women’s Health
Ally Thomas
UPMC Health Plan
Vice President, Quality Improvement
Tamara Thomas
MHA, RN, LSSGB, PMP, EMC
Aledade
Vice President, Population Health Impact
Jessica Thomas
DrPH
NCQA
Assistant Vice President, Evaluation Program Delivery
Cecily Thornton-Stearns
LMFT
County of San Diego, Health & Human Services Agency
Assistant Director
Sonia Tucker
MBA
San Ysidro Health Centers
VP of Population Health
Cloua Vang
Optum
Director, Product Strategy & Management
Lindsay Veillette
LICSW
Atrius Health
Social Work Manager
Vikram Wadhwani
NCQA
Chief Product & Transformation Officer
Jennifer Wagner
MPH
Hello Heart
Director, Solutions Consulting
Suzanne Wallen
MHA
NCQA
Assistant Vice President, Measure & Data Operations
Kim Walters
NCQA
Assistant Director, Accreditation Operations
Melissa Welch
MD, MPH
Sprinter Health
Chief Medical Officer
David White
Self-Employed
Patient Partner
Kaye-EIleen Willard
National Lipid Association
Will Winterer
Optum
Product Manager
Debbie Witchey
MHA
Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness
President & CEO
Jennifer Woodward
MD, MPH
American Academy of Family Physicians
Medical Director
Stephen Wuertz
MCSD
Kern Health Systems
Manager, BI Data Insights and Analytics
Josh Wymer
DNP, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, CHCIO, CDH-E, CPDHTS, FHIMSS, FACHE, FAAN
State of Missouri Health Data Consortium
Chief Health Information & Data Strategy Officer
Nick Yarker
Manifest MedEx
CIO
Nana-Hawa Yayah Jones
MD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Associate Professor
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