Executive Program Speakers

Michael Ash

Chief Technical Officer

Nebraska Medicine

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Michael Ash

Chief Technical Officer
Nebraska Medicine

Dr. Michael Ash is the Chief Transformation Officer for Nebraska Medical Center. He graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in pharmacy and earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City in 1998.  Following an internal medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, he joined an internal medicine practice. In 2003, he joined Cerner in Kansas City, Missouri working in health information technology to make healthcare safer, more efficient, and of higher quality. “I’ve had the unique opportunity to see how health systems operate all over the world.   The way in which we access, administer and reimburse care is changing rapidly. More care will be delivered at nursing facilities, clinics and within the patient’s home and all of it needs to be coordinated. As Chief Transformation Officer, the question is how do you pull all of this together to ensure high-quality efficient healthcare?”

Lloyd H. Dean

Lloyd H. Dean

President, CEO

Dignity Health

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Lloyd H. Dean

President, CEO
Dignity Health
Lloyd H. Dean is President/CEO of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s five largest health care. He has led Dignity Health through significant strategic, operational, and financial transformations and has brought the organization to its current status as a leading health care organization.
 
Mr. Dean is a member of the Board of Directors of Wells Fargo & Company, chairperson for its Board Human Resources Committee, and serves its Board Corporate Responsibility Committee, Board Risk Committee and Board Governance and Nominating Committee.  He is a member of the Board of Navigant Consulting, Inc. and serves on its Board Nominating and Governance Committee and Board Audit Committee.  As of August 2015, Mr. Dean was appointed to the McDonalds Corporation Board and serves on its Board Audit Committee and Board Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committee. 
 
Darren Dworkin

Darren Dworkin

Chief Information Officer

Cedars-Sinai Health System

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Darren Dworkin

Chief Information Officer
Cedars-Sinai Health System
Randy Gaboriault

Randy Gaboriault

CIO & SVP, Innovation and Strategic Development

Christiana Care Health System

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Randy Gaboriault

CIO & SVP, Innovation and Strategic Development
Christiana Care Health System

 

Randy Gaboriault, is CIO and Senior Vice President of Innovation and Strategic Development at Christiana Care Health System. He chairs the Delaware Health Information Network, the nation’s first health information exchange. With global experience spanning high-reliability industries from aviation to automotive, industrial and medical devices, Gaboriault is a non-profit director for Tech Impact and advisor to Safeguard Scientifics. Distinctions for innovation include recognition from CIO magazine, Computerworld; Information Week “Twenty Great Ideas to Steal”; HealthTech Research Alliance & Council, nominated as Healthcare Innovator of the Year; and Becker’s Hospital ReviewCIO Magazine, Editor in Chief identified Randy as, “an exceedingly rare triple threat CIO: equally talented at creating, managing and selling.” Gaboriault holds degrees from Temple University and Dartmouth College.

 
Rodney Hochman

Rodney Hochman

President & CEO

Providence Health & Services

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Rodney Hochman

President & CEO
Providence Health & Services
Frans van Houten

Frans van Houten

CEO and Chairman

Royal Philips

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Frans van Houten

CEO and Chairman
Royal Philips

Frans van Houten is CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee and the Board of Management of Royal Philips, a position he has held since 2011. His team is leading the company into the next decisive phase of its transformation: the creation of two world-leading companies in HealthTech (Royal Philips) and Lighting (Philips Lighting), due to be effectuated in the first half of 2016. Royal Philips will be uniquely positioned to help reshape and optimize population health management using big data to deliver care across the health continuum, from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis, treatment and home care.

David Jaffray

David Jaffray

Executive Vice President, Technology and Innovation

University Health Network

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David Jaffray

Executive Vice President, Technology and Innovation
University Health Network
Dennis Laraway

Dennis Laraway

EVP and Chief Financial Officer

Memorial Hermann Health System

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Dennis Laraway

EVP and Chief Financial Officer
Memorial Hermann Health System
In September 2011, Mr. Laraway was appointed as Executive Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer for Memorial Hermann Health System, Houston Texas. Memorial Hermann owns and operates thirteen (13) hospitals, soon to be fifteen (15), across the greater-Houston area, including the nationally-renowned Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, and The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR). Memorial Hermann, one of the largest comprehensive health systems in the nation, operates an annual budget approximating $5 Billion, and is widely acclaimed for operating one of the nation’s largest clinically-integrated physician networks (CIN) and industry-leading Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Memorial Hermann holds a long-term clinical and teaching affiliation with the University of Texas Health Science Center – Medical School: Houston.
Prior to joining Memorial Hermann, Mr. Laraway served as Chief Financial Officer for Scott & White Healthcare, Temple Texas. Scott & White then owned, operated, or partnered in a network of twelve (12) hospitals, anchored by Scott & White Memorial Hospital (one of the state’s largest academic medical centers), owned and operated the Scott & White Clinic (one of the nation’s largest organized clinic), and operated Scott & White Health Plan. Scott & White, today – Baylor Scott & White Health, is the primary teaching affiliate to Texas A&M University Health Science Center – Medical Schools: Temple and College Station.
Prior to joining Scott & White Healthcare, Mr. Laraway served as Chief Financial Officer for Catholic Healthcare West – St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center, Phoenix Arizona (now part of Dignity Health based in San Francisco, California). St Joseph’s operates Arizona’s largest academic medical center, and is home to the Barrow Neuroscience Institute – a world renowned center of excellence and holder of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson’s Research Center. Prior to joining Dignity Health, Mr. Laraway served as Chief Financial Officer for Seton Health, a multi-hospital health system located in Troy, New York (then part of Ascension Health based in St. Louis, Missouri).
Mr. Laraway holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Accounting from King’s College, Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. He also served as adjunct faculty for RPI in its’ health administration program, and as an affiliate faculty lecturer with Arizona State University – W.P. Carey School of Business. Mr. Laraway presently holds an adjunct faculty appointment at Rice University – Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Houston Texas.
Aaron Martin

Aaron Martin

SVP of Strategy and Innovation

Providence Health Services

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Aaron Martin

SVP of Strategy and Innovation
Providence Health Services
Aaron Martin is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Providence Health Services (PHS). Mr. Martin leads early stage technology investments, commercialization of PHS intellectual property, and digital alliances. Mr. Martin also manages PHS’s health care venture fund. 
 
Prior to PHS, he worked for Amazon, McKinsey & Company, and was a founder of two early-stage venture-backed technology companies funded by NEA and Mayfield. 
 
Mr. Martin holds a BA from Austin College in Music/Economics and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with majors in Finance and Health Care Management.
 
Virginia McFerran

Virginia McFerran

Director, Board of Directors

Trinity Health

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Virginia McFerran

Director, Board of Directors
Trinity Health
Ian Morrison

Ian Morrison

Founding Partner

Harris Corporation

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Ian Morrison

Founding Partner
Harris Corporation
Janice Nevin

Janice Nevin

President and CEO

Christiana Care Health System

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Janice Nevin

President and CEO
Christiana Care Health System

Appointed in 2014, Dr. Nevin is dedicated to advancing The Christiana Care Way, the health system’s promise to serve its community with expert, respectful care in partnership with patients and their families in ways they value and can afford. Under her leadership, Christiana Care was one of only 17 U.S. hospitals to receive the 2015 Truven 100 Top Hospitals Everest Award for the greatest rate of improvement over five years. Christiana Care was also one of only 15 major teaching hospitals in the U.S. with a 2015 Truven Top 100 Hospital ranking.

In 2015, Christiana Care earned redesignation as a Magnet organization for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and was named among the nation’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report.

Dr. Nevin has established a clinical service line structure at Christiana Care to support the consistent delivery of safe, affordable, high-quality, high-value care across the continuum. Each service line develops clinical pathways to address the needs of people with specific conditions or diseases before, during or after they seek treatment. This can reduce variations in care – which in turn can reduce cost – while ensuring that patients are getting the optimal, evidence-based care, at the right time, with the right team.

As leader of the largest health system in Delaware, Dr. Nevin is pioneering care in a population health model to ensure optimal health outcomes for the people Christiana Care serves. To meet this objective, Christiana Care Quality Partners, a clinically integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other health care providers, aims to improve collaboration of care, clinical quality and value.

Dr. Nevin was named among 100 Physician Leaders to Know in 2015 by Becker’s Hospital Review.

Since joining the faculty at Christiana Care in 2002, Dr. Nevin has advanced the health system’s commitment to optimal health and exceptional experience through her leadership positions, including Chief Medical Officer, Chief Patient Safety Officer and Chair of Family and Community Medicine. She led the transformative and strategic shift in care processes at Christiana Care, improving quality, safety and patient experience by directly involving patients and families as partners in their care. Through her leadership, patient- and family-centered care is a central tenet of Christiana Care’s culture. Today, more than 150 patient and family advisors are active participants in Christiana Care programs and projects.

A native Delawarean, Dr. Nevin serves on the Board of Directors of the United Way of Delaware and the Delaware Community Foundation and is a member of the Delaware Health Care Commission, Delaware Public Policy Institute, Delaware Business Roundtable Executive Committee, and Delaware Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors and she is a founding member of the Wilmington Leaders Alliance.

Dr. Nevin has numerous publications and national presentations to her credit, with focus on medical education and family medicine.

She is a former president of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors and was a member of the Project Leadership Committee for the Future of Family Medicine Project. She chaired the Family Medicine Review Committee for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and was a member of the landmark 2010 ACGME Duty Hours Task Force, which recommended workplace standards for medical residents to ensure excellence in medical education and safe, high-quality patient care.

Dr. Nevin graduated from Harvard University in 1981 and earned her medical degree with honors from Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in 1987. She completed her family medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in 1990 and received her master’s degree in public health in community health services from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health in 1992. She also completed a two-year faculty-development fellowship in family medicine at St. Margaret Hospital in Pittsburgh, a program in executive education at Harvard Business School in 2010, and a fellowship in physician executive leadership at the Health Management Academy in 2009.

Scott Nordlund

Scott Nordlund

Executive Vice President, Growth, Strategy & Innovation

Trinity Health

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Scott Nordlund

Executive Vice President, Growth, Strategy & Innovation
Trinity Health
Scott Nordlund is responsible for setting strategic direction for the system, creating new partnerships in the acute and non-acute spaces,
building a pipeline of innovation projects that promote new business models and all merger, joint venture and acquisition work. Prior to
joining Trinity Health, Nordlund served in executive leadership positions at Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West), where he was the Senior Vice President for Strategic Growth, Network and New Venture Development. He held several executive roles in strategic planning, physician strategy
and integration, marketing and business development during his 11 years at Dignity Health. Prior to this, he held executive positions with Navvis Consulting Group, BJC Health System in St. Louis and Baxter Healthcare in Chicago.
Dr. Peter Pisters

Dr. Peter Pisters

President and CEO

University Health Network

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Dr. Peter Pisters

President and CEO
University Health Network
Dr. Peter Pisters is President and CEO of University Health. In his previous role at The University of Texas MD Anderson Center, Dr. Pisters held a number of clinical, administrative and leadership positions from 1994 to 2014 with his most recent executive responsibilities as a Vice President with leadership over MD Anderson’s regional expansion strategy. 
 
Previously, Dr. Pisters was Medical Director of MD Anderson’s regional cancer centers, Clinical Consultant for the Center for Global Oncology, and section Chief for Sarcoma Surgery.  Dr. Pisters was also with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer, serving as Chief Administrative Fellow in the Department of Surgical Oncology.
 
Dr. Pisters completed internship and residency at New York University School of Medicine Center – Bellevue Hospital.  Dr. Pisters is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and holds an M.SC. in Health Care Management from Harvard University. He is a 2015 Executive Fellow in the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology agency.
 
Thomas M. Priselac

Thomas M. Priselac

President and CEO

Cedars-Sinai Health System

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Thomas M. Priselac

President and CEO
Cedars-Sinai Health System
Thomas Priselac has been associated with Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles since 1979 and has served as President and CEO since 1994. He has been recognized for the development of strategic and operational innovations to foster high quality, safe and efficient healthcare as well as being actively involved in healthcare delivery and finance policy development. 
 
Mr. Priselac is a former member of American Hospital Association Board of Trustees which he chaired in 2009 and also served as Chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges in 2006.
 
James Rogers

James Rogers

Chair

Mayo Clinic

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James Rogers

Chair
Mayo Clinic
Rich Roth

Rich Roth

Chief Strategic Innovation Officer

Dignity Health

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Rich Roth

Chief Strategic Innovation Officer
Dignity Health
Mr. Roth helps design, develop and lead Dignity Health’s strategic innovation programs.  His efforts focus on developing built-for-purpose companies, realizing intellectual property from employees and physicians and providing investment capital to novel entrepreneurial companies.
 
Most recently, Mr. Roth led Dignity Health’s achievements in forming SharedClarity, a novel new venture focused on creating transparency into medical device performance in an effort to improve patient outcomes and lower the cost of care.  
 
Mr. Roth holds a Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor’s degree in Public Health from West Chester University.  
 
Amir Rubin

Amir Rubin

Executive Vice President

Optum Healthcare

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Amir Rubin

Executive Vice President
Optum Healthcare
Kevin Schoeplein

Kevin Schoeplein

CEO

OSF Healthcare System

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Kevin Schoeplein

CEO
OSF Healthcare System
Kevin Schoeplein began his career with The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in 1978.  Kevin previously served as executive vice president until February 2011 when he was named the CEO of OSF Healthcare System.  He also serves as vice-chairman for the OSF Healthcare System joint board of directors. 
 
Kevin is a current member of the Illinois Hospital Association board of trustees, the IHA Executive Committee, the Health Care Transformation Task Force, and the board of Illinois Catholic Health Association. 
 
Kevin has a B.S.B.A. degree from St. Louis University and two masters’ degrees from Xavier University in Cincinnati.
 
Chuck Stokes

Chuck Stokes

EVP and COO

Memorial Hermann Health System

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Chuck Stokes

EVP and COO
Memorial Hermann Health System
Charles (Chuck) D. Stokes is a nationally recognized health care leader with more than 35 years of health care leadership experience. He began his career as a critical care nurse and nurse executive before completing his Masters in Hospital and Healthcare Administration from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama.
 
Chuck is the executive vice president (EVP) and chief operating officer (COO) of Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas. He has served as system COO for three different health care systems. As president of North Mississippi Medical Center, the organization was a 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient. 
 
Andrew Thompson

Andrew Thompson

Co-Founder, President and CEO

Proteus Digital Health

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Andrew Thompson

Co-Founder, President and CEO
Proteus Digital Health
Andrew Thompson is Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Proteus Digital Health. He is also a Co-Founder and Board Member of Summit Schools, a leading Charter School organization with an acclaimed track record and unique digital platform.
 
Thompson is active in digital humanities innovation as a Member of the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources Council and with Cambridge University. He is a Co-Founder of Parker Library Online - a leading destination for digital medieval studies.
 
He holds master’s degrees in Engineering (Cambridge), Education (Stanford) and Business (Stanford GSB) and has a successful 25 year track record starting and building technology based healthcare companies in Silicon Valley.
 
Kate Walsh

Kate Walsh

CEO

Boston Medical Center

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Kate Walsh

CEO
Boston Medical Center
Dan Wolterman

Dan Wolterman

President and CEO

Memorial Hermann Health System

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Dan Wolterman

President and CEO
Memorial Hermann Health System

Dan Wolterman joined Memorial Hermann Health System in 1999 and was named president and CEO in 2002.  Under Mr. Wolterman’s inspired and strategic leadership, Memorial Hermann has experienced robust year-over-year double digit growth, resulting in its ascent to the largest not-for-profit health system in Southeast Texas. Mr. Wolterman’s stewardship of Memorial Hermann saw the system grow to 13 hospitals and 201 outpatient care sites, more than 24,000 employees and 5,000 affiliated physicians, and garner numerous national quality and patient safety awards. The system annually generates $4.5 billion of revenue; has more than 2 million patient visits; and, in 2014, provided $438 million of free services to the community’s indigent population.

Mr. Wolterman has more than 35 years of experience in health care, and is perennially recognized as one of the industry’s most influential leaders and policy experts. His career has seen him hold a range of senior managerial positions in hospitals from Florida and Indiana to Utah and Texas.

Mr. Wolterman’s leadership of Memorial Hermann has been adept and visionary, and has transcended just building a fiscally sound health system.

Mr. Wolterman also has been a prolific community servant volunteering his time to chair numerous organizations, including: the Greater Houston Partnership, Texas Hospital Association Board of Directors, and Voluntary Hospitals of America-Texas Board of Directors, American Heart Association-Houston Board of Directors, Air Quality Task Force (at the request of a former Houston mayor) and the 2011 National Senior Olympic Games.

He is also a board member of the 2017 Houston Super Bowl Host Committee and past board member of the American Heart Association Houston Region and the Greater Gulf Coast Chapter of United Way. He has also served on many national committees. Mr. Wolterman is also an adjunct professor at The University of Texas School of Public Health, and serves on the University of Houston – Clear Lake Healthcare Administration Program Advisory Council. 

Mr. Wolterman has received numerous recognitions, including: the Texas Hospital Association’s Earl M. Collier Award for Distinguished Heath Care Administration; American Hospital Association Grassroots Champion Award; Health Access Texas Public Health Award, for a leader who has a strong belief in prevention and better access to healthcare; the InterFaith CarePartners Sustaining Presence Award, for activities that constitute an exemplary contribution to the creation of caring communities; Xavier University Distinguished Alumni Award; and a past recipient of Community Partners Father of the Year Award. He has also been annually voted one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine.

Mr. Wolterman is married to Lori Genitempo Wolterman, and they have three children: Daniel, Savannah and Linleigh.  In addition to his commitment to his family, Dan is an avid golfer with a scratch handicap.