Wayne Gretzky
NHL Legend
Speakers
50+ Speakers — The Leaders Running Perioperative Services Today
The lineup at Becker’s 2026 Perioperative Summit reflects the people making decisions inside ORs right now. It includes VPs, directors, and perioperative leaders responsible for OR efficiency, workforce, and cost performance. This is one of the few events where more perioperative 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.
Over 90% of the speaker lineup is health system leaders and executives.
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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.
Jimmy Johnson
NFL Hall of Fame Coach and Two Time Super Bowl Champion
Speaker Lineup
Explore the full 2026 speaker lineup
Browse and explore all 50+ confirmed speakers across the program.
| Full Name | Job Title | Company |
|---|---|---|
| Sunitha Abraham | Associate Vice President, Perioperative and Procedural Services | Jackson Health System |
| John Alm | Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, WVU Health System and WVU Medicine; Medical Director, Rehabilitation Services | WVU Medicine and J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital |
| Jesus Angulo | Director, Procedural Services | University of Chicago Ingalls Memorial Hospital |
| Laurie Antonik | Associate Chief Medical Officer & Medical Director of Perioperative Services | Johns Hopkins Hospital |
| Clavio Ascari | Chief Clinical Officer | North American Partners in Anesthesia |
| Adam Becker | Vice President, Regional Perioperative Strategy and Operations | Northwell Health |
| Joshua Bedwell | Chief Surgical Quality Officer | Texas Children's Hospital |
| Jared Bement | Vice President, Perioperative, Endoscopy and Women's Health | St. Elizabeth Healthcare |
| Trevor Bennett | Chief Administrative Officer| Perioperative Services | UCSD Health |
| Michelle Bishop | Director, Surgical Services | UW Health |
| Tammy Boyd | Director of Nursing, Surgical Services | AdventHealth Tampa |
| Veronica Busso | Vice Chief, Clinical Affairs & Operations Associate Perioperative Staff Chief | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center |
| Lisa Case | Vice President, Perioperative and Procedural Services | OU Health |
| Bipan Chand | Chair, Department of Surgery, St. Joseph Medical Center; Professor, Surgery | University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Charlene Cioe | CNO | Summit Center for Surgery LLC |
| Marisa M. Clifton | Chief Medical Officer and Vice President, Medical Affairs | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center |
| Jill Cohen | Vice President, Perioperative Services | Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health |
| Eric Coyle | Regional Vice President, Perioperative Services | Hackensack Meridian Health |
| Melissa Croad | Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist | Heywood Hospital |
| Sam Davis | Associate Vice President of Perioperative & Interventional Services | Rush Health |
| Tony DeDominico | Vice President, Operations | Houston Methodist Hospital |
| Lisa Devane | Administrative Director, Perioperative Services | Harris Health |
| Mary Anne Douglas | Associate Vice President, Surgical Servcies | Intermountain Health |
| Jennifer Drudy | Vice President, Perioperative Services | Centra |
| Stephen Esper | Director | UPMC Center for Perioperative Care |
| Stephen Estime | Associate Chair, Anesthesiology and Critical Care | UChicago Medicine |
| Lani Garris | Director, Perioperative Services | NYC Health & Hospitals |
| Bruce Gelb | Surgical Director, Perioperative Services | NYU Langone Health |
| Robert Glasgow | Associate Chief Medical Officer and Senior Medical Director, Surgical Services | Intermountain Health |
| Chris Glover | Associate Chief, Anesthesiology | Texas Children's Hospital |
| Wayne Gretzky | NHL Legend | — |
| Michael Guertin | Chief Perioperative Medical Director and Professor, Anesthesiology | Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center |
| Christopher Hart | Vice President, Perioperative Services | Peconic Bay Medical Center |
| Jarrett A. Heard | Medical Director, Ambulatory Perioperative Services and Director, Executive Leadership and Business | The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center |
| Shannon Holley | Vice President, Surgical Services | ProMedica |
| Brittany Holston | Unit Director, Operating Room | Emory Healthcare |
| Chris Hunt | Senior Vice President | Kaufman Hall |
| Scott James | Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Growth Markets Provider Network | Parkview Health |
| Jimmy Johnson | NFL Hall of Fame Coach and Two Time Super Bowl Champion | — |
| Mamatha Kadiyala | Medical Director, Utilization Review | University of Minnesota |
| Brian R. Kann | Surgeon-in-Chief and Chair, Department, Colon and Rectal Surgery | Ochsner Medical Center |
| Sandeep Kashyap | Clinical Director | CAMC Vandalia health |
| Adam Kopelan | Chief, General Surgical Services North | RWJBarnabas Health |
| April Kranz | Vice President, Procedural Areas | Emory Healthcare |
| Adam Krisby | Director, Surgical and Cardiovascular Services | OSF HealthCare |
| Alice M. Krumm | Faculty | Vanderbilt Health |
| David. J. Kwak | Director, Surgical Services | Northwest Health |
| Michael C. Lewis | Chair, Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine Department, Henry Ford Health System; Professor and Chair, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine | Anesthesiology Professor, Wayne State University |
| Grace Lim | Chair, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Department | University of Utah Health |
| Jeffrey B. Matthews | Chair, Department of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief, Dallas B. Phemister Distinguished Service Professor | The University of Chicago Health System |
September 14–15, 2026 · Hilton 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.