Sylvia Burwell
Ms. Burwell was the director of ‘Office of Management’ and ‘Budget’ and the President of Walmart Foundation. In June 2014 she took up the role of Secretary of Health and Human Services where she now manages more than 77,000 employees. During her time with OMB she worked with Congress on budget and appropriations issues and contributed to the development of the President’s second term management agenda. Ms. Burwell supports President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, and is the public face of ObamaCare, according to Business Insider. She is committed to moving the ACA forward despite hurdles from the opposition.
Bilal Hashmat
Bilal Hashmat is the president, CEO, and co-founder of CureMD, a company that pioneered SMART Cloud technology in the 1990s. Today, CureMD provides specialty electronic medical records, practice management, patient engagement and population health solutions that transform the clinical, administrative and financial operations of healthcare organizations. Over a period of two decades, Hashmat has established himself as the leading innovator in the world of Health Information Technology. Hashmat studied economics at City University New York (1988-1992). He worked with the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and managed to develop usability guidelines for patient safety (later adopted by the American Medical Informatics Association). Hashmat is on a mission to help providers deliver better care with ease. And he knows how to get there.
Judy Faulkner
Founder and CEO of Madison, Wis.-based Epic Systems. She launched the leading health IT company with $6,000 she raised from her own funds. Forbes ranked her as the most successful female technology company founder in May 2016, with her net worth totaling $2.6 billion. As head of Epic, Ms. Faulkner remains dedicated to her customer base. In March 2016, she told Becker’s Hospital Review, “I would say if I have one driving force, it is to keep commitments to our customers. When I have corporate philosophy class with all the new folks who come into Epic, we go over the philosophies behind Epic. That is the central message: To keep commitments to customers.”
Barack Obama
On March 23, 2010, the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in order to create state-based health insurance exchanges, offer subsidized coverage through the exchanges, increase coverage and expand Medicare, amongst several goals. The uninsured rate has significantly dropped from 15.7 percent in 2009 to 9.2 percent in 2015. Moreover, he also managed to remove an eight-year ban on federally funded stem cell research during his presidency.
When addressing an audience at the U.S. Department of the Interior in September 2009, President Obama said, “After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, healthcare reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.”
David Feinberg, MD
Dr. Feinberg is the president and CEO of Geisinger Health System. Triple board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry and addiction psychiatry, Dr. Feinberg previously served as CEO of UCLA Hospital Systems, where he led the efforts to improve patient care. He spearheaded his effort to revamp UCLA’s mission. Once UCLA diverted resources from marketing to focus on one patient at a time, their patient satisfaction scores placed the hospital in the 99th percentile. In November, 2015, Dr. Feinberg lead the launch of ProvenExperience, a program which offers patients refunds if hospital staff do not meet patient expectations regarding kindness and compassion.
Atul Gawande, MD
Dr. Gawande is the executive director of Ariadne Labs which is a non-profit organization aimed at making surgery safer globally by working towards health systems innovation. Dr Gawande has written New York Times bestseller books such as The Checklist Manifesto and Being Mortal Medicine and What Matters in the End. Along with these achievements, he been a staff writer for The New York since 1998 and has earned two National Magazine Awards. Currently Dr. Gawande serves as a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the department of health policy and management and is practicing general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Vivian Lee, MD
Dr. Lee is a strong believer of Lean Management and has continuously made efforts in the development of a system that cuts costs and streamlines processes.by initiating the creation of Value Driven Outcomes tool. Dr. Lee heads University of Utah Health Sciences that has five major school, a healthcare system of four hospitals along with clinical and research specialty centers. Dr. Lee is the senior vice president for health services dean and University of Utah Health Center School of Medicine CEO. More than 1,000 board certified physicians serving patients are affiliated with the center.
Bernard Tyson
Mr. Tyson has been committed to the health care industry for the last 30 years. He has worked as an assistant administrator at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center San Francisco and has been the CEO at Kaiser Foundation Hospital Santa Rosa. Mr. Tyson has also served as the executive vice president of health plans and hospital operations. As the CEO and chairman of Kaiser Permanente, a $60 billion nonprofit health plan headquartered in Oakland, Mr. Tyson spoke at the 2014 NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Annual Gala.
Karen Ignagni
Ms. Ignagni has served as the president and CEO of Health Insurance Plans and the American Association of Health Plans. She works with Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Leadership Council and the National Advisory Committee for Altarum Institute’s Center of Sustainable Health Spending. She has played a big part in the debates leading up to the Affordable Care Act’s passage along with appearing on national newscasts to share her expertise. After reporting more than $485 million net losses, EmblemHealth has appointed Ms. Ignagni as the president and CEO in September 2015.
Neal Patterson
Mr. Patterson is the co-founder and executive board member of the First Hands Foundation which is a non-profit organization that provides care to children who require critical healthcare. In 1979, Mr. Patterson co-founded Cerner which is ranked as one of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” and “World’s Most Admired Companies” in 2015. Being the CEO of Cerner, Mr. Patterson has been very successful with the company having a total revenue of $3.4 billion in 2014. Along with these achievements, Mr. Patterson owns the Sporting Kansas City soccer team.
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