Anthony Rizzo
World Series Champion and Three-Time MLB All-Star
Speakers
200+ Speakers — The Leaders Running ASCs Today
The lineup at Becker’s 32nd Annual: The Business and Operations of ASCs reflects the people making decisions inside leading ASCs right now. It includes CEOs, administrators, COOs, and physician leaders responsible for growth, operations, and financial performance. This is one of the few events where more ASC executives are in the room than at any other conference. The same leaders you benchmark against are the ones on stage.
About the Conference
Speakers come to be part of the conversations you need to be in
The roster is built around one question: who does this audience need in the conversation? Speakers are selected based on the decisions they own, the systems they run, and the peers they work alongside.
Featured Speakers
Celebrity Keynotes
Leadership looks the same at the top
Select sessions bring in leaders from outside healthcare who have performed at the highest level under pressure. Their perspective sits alongside a program built around hospital and health system executives.
Kevin O'Leary
Star of ABC’s 'Shark Tank', Top Business Speaker, Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and Investor Featured in Harvard Business Review Case Study in 2023
Speaker Lineup
Explore the full 2026 speaker lineup
Browse and explore all 200+ confirmed speakers across the program.
| Full Name | Job Title | Company |
|---|---|---|
| Abdul Aadam | Director, Interventional Endoscopy and Medical Director, Global Services | Northwestern Medicine |
| Alaa Abd-Elsayed | Medical Director | UW Pain Clinic |
| Jason Acevedo | President | Elm Place Ambulatory Surgery Center |
| Stacy Acketz | Chief Executive Officer | Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute Surgery Center |
| Gaurav Aggarwala | Chief Executive Officer | Pulse Healthcare System |
| Kaled Alhanafi | Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder | Basata |
| JC Alvarez | Medical Director | Bone and joint Surgical suites |
| Anish Amin | System Medical Chief, Cardiac Electrophysiology | OhioHealth Heart and Vascular Physicians |
| Mitesh Amin | President | Southpark Heart & Rhythm Center |
| Leon Anijar | Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer | Flagler Health |
| Magdalena Anitescu | President-elect, North American Neuromodulation Society; Pain Management Division Chief and Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Professor | University of Chicago Medicine |
| Marco Araujo | Executive Director | Elite Hormones & The A Clinics |
| Solomon Aronson | Associate Chief Medical Officer | Somnia Anesthesia |
| Elisa Auguste | Administrator | Precision Care Surgery Center |
| Ruben J. Azocar | Professor and the Merryl and Sam Israel Chair, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine | Tulane University School of Medicine |
| Vijay Bachani | President and Chief Growth Officer | Strive Surgical |
| Lauren Baker | Vice President, Strategy - Strategic Partnerships | Ascension Texas |
| Ravi K. Bashyal | Vice-Chairman, Patient and Provider Experience; Director, Outpatient Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery, Endeavor Health; Clinical Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery | Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago |
| Braden Batkoff | Senior Vice President, Service Line Development and Strategic Partnerships | Constitution Surgery Alliance |
| Linda Bedwell | Director | Powder River Surgery Center |
| Curtis Bernstein | Partner | Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting |
| Adam Berry | Chief Executive Officer | Summit Orthopedics |
| Basil R. Besh | Founder | Farwell Surgical Partners |
| John Brady | Chief Executive Officer | Fox Valley Orthopedics |
| Peter Bravos | Division Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Sutter Health Surgery Center Division; Chief Medical Officer | Sutter North Medical Group |
| Ray Brown | Chief Executive Officer and Director, Business Development | Lake Lucien Surgery Center |
| Beverly Bryant | Administrator | Bluffton-Okatie Surgery Center |
| Kendra Budziszewski | Perioperative Supervisor | Orthopaedic Associates of Wisconsin |
| Lori Callahan | Director, ASC Regional | OrthoIllinois |
| Kenneth Candido | Professor, Clinical Surgery and Anesthesia, University of Illinois College of Medicine; President, Chicago Anesthesia Associates; President | Chicago Anesthesia Pain Specialists |
| Kayla Carey | Chief Operating Officer | Ambulatory Anesthesia Care |
| Janet Carlson | Chief Executive Officer and Founder | Vertex Surgical Solutions |
| Jaclyn Carney | Senior Vice President, Health System Partnerships and and De Novos | Surgery Partners, Inc |
| Clinton Cerreta | Clinical Nurse Manager | Surgery Center at TGH Brandon Healthplex |
| Bipan Chand | Chair, Department of Surgery, St. Joseph Medical Center; Professor, Surgery | University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Charlene Cioe | CNO | Summit Center for Surgery LLC |
| Andrew Colbert | Senior Managing Director | Ziegler |
| Trina Cole | Administrator | St Luke's Surgicenter - Lee's Summit |
| Amy Coletti | Principal | ECG Management Consultants |
| Elizabeth Coombes | Regional Administrator, Edmonds, Fremont, and Kirkland | Gastro Health Endoscopy |
| Lisa Cooper | Chief Executive Officer | Santa Cruz Surgery Center |
| Jacob Corbell | Chief Executive Officer | Midwest Cardiovascular Institute |
| Dan Cosentino | Senior Manager | ECG Management Consultants |
| Brenna Couch | Purchasing and Operations Manager | Surgery Center of Athens |
| Whitney Courser | Chief Operating Officer | NueHealth |
| Rena Courtay | Vice President | Trinity Health |
| Yesenia Cuevas | Service Line Business Manager, Cardiac Services | St. Joseph's Health, Trinity Health of New York |
| Brian Cunningham | Vice Chair and Director, Inpatient Orthopaedics, Methodist Hospital; Director, Ambulatory Surgery | TRIA Orthopedic Center |
| Todd Currier | Chief Executive Officer and Administrator | Bend Surgery Center |
| George Cybulski | Chief of Neurosurgery | Humboldt Park Health |
October 29–31, 2026 · Swissotel Chicago
See the Speakers Live And Continue the Conversation After
Every session is open to every attendee. After the session, speakers are in the hallway, at receptions, and at roundtables. That's where the real conversations happen.