A talented supply chain leader stands behind the scenes of every seamless surgery, every stocked supply room and every piece of critical equipment.
These are the strategists who keep hospitals and health systems running. Armed with deep expertise and an intimate understanding of healthcare’s operational demands, they deliver meaningful cost savings, forge strategic partnerships, and ensure that the supplies and equipment clinicians depend on are never in doubt.
Note: Becker’s Healthcare developed this list based on nominations and editorial research. This list is not exhaustive, nor is it an endorsement of included leaders, organizations or associated healthcare providers. Leaders cannot pay for inclusion on this list. Leaders are presented in alphabetical order.
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Debora Alessi. Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Buffalo, N.Y.). Ms. Alessi first joined Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center as director of procurement and contracting, and has since reorganized supply chain operations to ensure alignment with strategic goals. Responsible for the procurement of over $700 million in supplies and services annually, she helped lead Roswell Park’s transition to a new end-to-end supply chain and procurement system. Working closely with clinical personnel, she brought standardization and rationalization to supply use. Promoted to her current role in 2023, Ms. Alessi is a certified purchasing manager, as well as a past president and board member for the Western New York chapter of the Institute of Supply Management. She applies decades of experience gleaned from resource-management roles with Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health and Kaleida Health, as well as with Premier Inc., both in her executive role and as an adjunct professor and lecturer for Niagara University.
Ravikumar “Ravi” Reddy Alla. Executive Vice President of Shared Services at Prime Healthcare (Ontario, Calif.). Mr. Alla oversees $1 billion in annual spend for Prime Healthcare, driving operational efficiency, cost savings and standardization across the enterprise. His leadership has centralized key functions, including supply chain, procurement, capital leasing, biomedical engineering and medical records digitization, resulting in significant systemwide efficiencies. Notably, he transformed biomedical engineering into a centralized, patient safety–focused program, achieving more than $28 million in annual cost reductions. Mr. Alla has also implemented compliance processes for implant charge capture and contract alignment, improved labor cost management through strategic staffing, and developed advanced business intelligence tools to guide operational decision-making. In recognition of his impact, he received a HealthTrust award for operational excellence.
Mark Anway. Vice President of Supply Chain Services at OU Health (Oklahoma City, Okla.). Mr. Anway has spent more than a decade in healthcare supply chain leadership, including other roles at OU Health and positions at UChicago Medicine. He now oversees enterprise supply chain, environmental services, food and nutrition, patient transport and linen strategy for Oklahoma’s only comprehensive academic health system. Under his leadership, OU Health’s sourcing and supply chain informatics team exceeded its fiscal year 2026 cost savings goal by 43%, while modernizing more than 4,700 contracts across 16 spend categories and more than 400 stakeholders. Mr. Anway has also rebuilt the system’s strategic sourcing program and strengthened its financial performance, work he has shared with peers as a speaker. His efforts have deepened supplier partnerships and elevated operational performance across OU Health’s hospitals, clinics and outpatient settings. In 2017, he received the Vizient “Supply Chain Management Excellence Award.” Mr. Anway’s approach combines disciplined cost management with a focus on strengthening clinician support across the system.
Joshua Bakelaar. Vice President of Supply Chain at Prisma Health (Greenville, S.C.). Mr. Bakelaar has over 20 years of experience in supply chain leadership, specializing in leadership, team development, integration, process improvement, automation and analytics. He is also experienced in planning and executing strategies to increase stakeholder satisfaction. He took on his current role as vice president of supply chain at Prisma Health in March 2025. Prior, he held the same role at Oklahoma City, Okla.-based OU Health, where he restructured and integrated the entire supply chain into a system structure, reduced the department turnover rate by 50%, implemented a strategic supply plan with 125 process improvements, helped the chain realize $25 million in cost savings and supported the integration of a new EHR system.
Karl Blomback. Senior Vice President of Purchasing and Materials Management at Hackensack Meridian Health (Edison, N.J.). For 18 years, Mr. Blomback has overseen purchasing and materials management at Hackensack Meridian Health, the largest, most comprehensive integrated healthcare network in New Jersey with 18 hospitals, more than 500 patient care locations and over 40,000 team members. Under his leadership, the network’s purchasing team has reached a cumulative $1.1 billion in savings by identifying reliable vendors, negotiating pricing, and training a team of about 15 colleagues to conduct additional vendor negotiations. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Mr. Blomback added 150,000 square feet of storage capacity, stockpiled more than $100 million worth of products facing market disruption, and completed more than 1,000 supply and equipment deliveries to Hackensack Meridian facilities from supplemental warehouses. He also led a team that built its own operating room packs after a sterilization issue compromised outside kits, ensuring no surgery at the network went without supplies. Hackensack Meridian Health has received Global Healthcare Exchange’s “GHXcellence Award” for healthcare provider of the year under his leadership. Mr. Blomback’s approach centers on transparency with vendors and hands-on problem-solving during supply disruptions.
Michael P. Brown. Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Texas Children’s (Houston). Since joining Texas Children’s in 2018, Mr. Brown has applied more than three decades of experience from the automotive industry to drive cost reduction and standardization across the hospital’s supply chain. His leadership included the virtual implementation of a new cloud enterprise resource planning system during the Covid-19 pandemic, the rollout of a radio frequency identification inventory system and the development of a shared services center. Mr. Brown’s team earned the “Friend of Nursing” award from Texas Children’s nursing leadership in recognition of its work supporting caregivers and improving patient outcomes. He collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to build patient-centered supply chain frameworks focused on efficiency and reliability, using a data-driven approach to support long-term performance and talent development. Mr. Brown has also served as a speaker and panelist sharing about resiliency and stability in the global supply chain.
Mark Campbell. Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital. Mr. Campbell directs Tampa General Hospital’s $800 million supply chain operations, overseeing strategic sourcing, supply distribution, minority business development and sterile processing. He was a key architect of the system’s five-year strategic plan and $550 million master facility plan, which includes transformative projects such as the Taneja Surgical, Neuroscience & Transplant Tower and the Tampa General Hospital Behavioral Health Hospital. Mr. Campbell spearheaded the integration of supply chain platforms for acquisitions such as Tampa General Hospital North, expanding the academic health system’s reach. His initiatives have reduced medical and surgical supply costs year-over-year, significantly boosted minority business participation, and earned Tampa General Hospital’s supply chain system national recognition from Vizient and Global Healthcare Exchange. He has modernized operations with new materials and contract management systems, lean delivery models and automation strategies. A recognized industry leader, Mr. Campbell serves on the Florida Association for Health Care Resource and Materials Management board and the Institute of Healthcare Executives and Suppliers council of supply chain executives.
Joseph Carr, RN. Vice President of Supply Chain and Support Services at Akron (Ohio) Children’s. Mr. Carr, as the first supply chain vice president at Akron Children’s, transformed the department from a materials management model into a strategic, performance-driven operation guided by a six-pillar plan. He led critical logistics initiatives, including the creation of a supply assurance dashboard during a national intravenous solution shortage, the development of par optimization tools and the establishment of a direct distribution model for more than 50 offsite locations. Under his leadership, the department implemented a digital roadmap with value analysis automation, enterprise resource planning system upgrades, and new voice-of-customer-driven initiatives. Mr. Carr’s sustainability efforts have yielded “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” certification, an energy-saving steam condensate recycling loop and community engagement programs that strengthen local supplier relationships. He has expanded sourcing control, launching a multimillion-dollar roadmap while enhancing clinical integration and staff development through a custom “supply chain essentials” curriculum.
Jim Churchman. Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Jefferson (Philadelphia). With a 40-year career spanning higher education, healthcare, high-tech electronics, telecommunications and automotive industries, Mr. Churchman oversees all supply chain functions at Jefferson, an enterprise that includes a healthcare delivery system, a nonprofit health plan, and a major teaching university and medical school serving 8,300 students, 65,000 employees, 77,000 alumni and 360,000 insurance members across 32 hospitals and over 700 sites of care. Under his leadership, Jefferson championed a clinical and non-clinical labor aggregation platform that generated $6 million in economic value over two years, delivered an economic value model worth more than $162 million in 15 months to bring the supply chain’s return on investment to 7.5%, and implemented a contract audit and recovery process that returned $11 million in cash in 10 months. Mr. Churchman also oversaw an automated electronic enterprise payment platform, in partnership with the treasury and accounts payable departments, that generated more than $4.5 million in annualized cash rebates. As Jefferson has grown through acquisitions, he has championed the integration of supply chain operations into a single “One Jefferson Supply Chain” of more than 700 full-time employees. Before joining Jefferson, Mr. Churchman held supply chain leadership roles at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System, Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health, Ford Motor Company, Sprint, Garmin International, Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health Care and Olathe (Kan.) Health System.
Steven Chyung. Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain and Procurement Executive for Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.). Mr. Chyung leads Kaiser’s supply chain services as senior vice president and chief supply chain and procurement executive. He oversees the end-to-end supply chain management processes, encompassing strategic sourcing and contract management, procurement and order management, receiving, warehousing, distribution, inventory management, demand forecasting and supply planning, vendor management, accounts payable and travel expense reimbursements.
Shaun Clinton. Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Texas Health Resources (Arlington). Since 2011, Mr. Clinton has led a team of more than 100 employees responsible for procurement, item and vendor master data, courier services, equipment planning and clinical engineering at Texas Health Resources. Texas Health is the largest nonprofit health system in North Texas, serving more than 1.7 million patients annually across 16 counties and more than 420 access points, including 29 hospital locations. He oversees strategic planning and executive leadership related to career paths, organizational structure, long-range capital planning, expense reduction and revenue generation across the supply chain division, and has implemented processes that drive standardization across the system’s entities. Mr. Clinton has advanced affordability and cost stewardship at Texas Health through group purchasing organization participation and supplier relationships that have secured competitive pricing for critical supplies amid rising costs, shortages and weather-related disruptions. He was recognized as one of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting‘s “Top 10 to Watch” list in 2017, the same year he led the supply chain team to its first top 25 ranking by Gartner. In 2019, he was named a “Diversity and Inclusion Champion” by the US Pan Asian Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Clinton is a member of the Association of Healthcare Resource & Materials Management and the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Ronald Colaguori. Chief Supply Chain Officer at BayCare Health System (Clearwater, Fla.). Mr. Colaguori leads a team of 280 supply chain professionals across BayCare’s 16 hospitals and more than 200 access points in West Central Florida, applying an approach that treats supply chain as an integrated partner in care delivery rather than a purely transactional function. He led BayCare’s transition to a new 250,000-square-foot consolidated service center, a move that drove a 103% increase in self-distribution sales to $442 million in 2025 while maintaining a 99.3% fill rate. Mr. Colaguori also supported the implementation of robotics within the distribution center, more than doubling pick module productivity, and advanced a direct contracting strategy through the BayCare Purchasing Partners group purchasing organization that grew spend on agreement by 92%. Through enhancements to BayCare’s value analysis program, he and his team generated $74 million in savings over the last five years by focusing on product standardization and appropriate supply utilization. Under his leadership, BayCare has ranked among Fortune‘s “Best Workplaces in Health Care” and received the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s “Financial Stewardship Excellence Award,” among other national recognitions.
David Davis. Vice President of Supply Chain at VCU Health (Richmond, Va.). Mr. Davis has rebuilt VCU Health’s supply chain into a clinically integrated, data-driven operation, enhancing sourcing, operations and data management teams to deliver measurable savings across the enterprise. His leadership has earned the organization the 2023 Global Healthcare Exchange “Clinical Integrated Supply Chain Award” and a place on the 2024 GHX “Top Integrated Supply Chains” list. Mr. Davis serves on the GHX advisory board, Workday advisory board and the Premier strategic advisory board, as well as the VCU Supply Chain Business School advisory board. He is a frequent speaker at major industry events, including Premier Breakthroughs, the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management and the Richmond Diversity Council.
Paul Dereadt. Vice President of Supply Chain Operations at Valleywise Health (Phoenix). Mr. Dereadt implemented a contract compliance program at Valleywise Health that maximized group purchasing organization shareback revenue, generating more than $2.5 million within a 12-month period. The total was enough to fully cover the health system’s annual supply chain labor expenses up through the manager level. In 2025, that work also produced $2.2 million in savings through group purchasing organization contracts and more than $2.3 million through Vizient’s Captis network contracts, on top of the shareback revenue. Working with a cross-functional team of architects and consultants, Mr. Dereadt directed a multiyear supply chain initiative to design new facilities, including a warehouse, hospital supply points and 11 federally qualified health center clinic supply rooms. He created the plan to outfit a new nine-floor hospital tower with two-bin kanban supply rooms without disrupting the existing warehouse’s operational inventory or space, hiring Valleywise Health’s primary distribution partner to build 363 metro-carts using more than 46,000 Akro-bins. Because every supply room was fully stocked before the patient transfer, the tower’s go-live and 24-hour transfer activity generated zero calls to the command center. Mr. Dereadt is part of the 2026–2027 class of Siegel Fellows, a program associated with America’s Essential Hospitals.
Danielle DiBari, PharmD. Senior Vice President of Business Operations, Chief Pharmacy Officer and Chief Procurement Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals (New York City). Dr. DiBari simultaneously leads business operations, pharmacy and supply chain at NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal health system in the country, drawing on experience from each of those pillars earlier in her career. She builds multifunctional teams and executes complex implementations with precision, work that during the Covid-19 pandemic helped the health system bolster supply chain resiliency and avoid disruptions while keeping providers protected. Her teams are currently executing a systemwide hospital bed and IV pump replacement, installing new medication management technology, implementing a fully integrated pharmacy management system in outpatient pharmacies and rolling out a new enterprise resource planning system. Several of these projects have already generated millions of dollars in cost savings or new revenue streams for the health system. Dr. DiBari was named one of the Journal of Healthcare Contracting‘s 2023 “Women Leaders in Supply Chain,” and she was included on the 2025 “Women to Watch in STEAM” list by Profiles in Leadership Journal. Under her leadership, NYC Health + Hospitals’ supply chain team was ranked a “Top Performer, Large Provider” by Global Healthcare Exchange in 2023 and 2024 and inducted into the GHX “Millennium Club” for its use of hyper-automation.
Shane Doherty. Vice President of Operations at Heywood Healthcare (Gardner, Mass.). Mr. Doherty took charge of supply chain operations for Heywood Healthcare in November 2020, navigating the organization through the pandemic’s peak and a challenging chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring. His leadership ensured the creation of strategic stockpiles of personal protective equipment and essential supplies, guaranteeing uninterrupted patient care during critical shortages. Mr. Doherty’s initiatives included a significant overhaul of the hospital warehouse, the introduction of automated inventory management systems, and the implementation of Global Healthcare Exchange to streamline purchasing processes. These efforts not only enhanced supply chain resilience but also delivered substantial cost savings.
Steve Downey. Chief Supply Chain and Support Services Officer at Cleveland Clinic. Mr. Downey has more than 30 years of experience spanning providers, group purchasing organizations, pharmaceuticals, distribution and medical devices. At Cleveland Clinic, he leads procurement operations across hundreds of supply categories, ensuring supply continuity and value in the face of market shortages and financial pressures. His leadership has helped the organization earn recognition from Gartner as a “Master-Level Healthcare Supply Chain” several times. A recognized industry expert, Mr. Downey frequently shares best practices through national speaking engagements and media interviews. He is also the 2026 chair of the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management.
Sylvester DuPree. Vice President of Supply Chain Management and Food and Nutrition Services at Cincinnati Children’s. As vice president of supply chain management and food and nutrition services at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Mr. DuPree leads more than 450 team members responsible for supply chain and nutrition services across one of the nation’s leading pediatric health systems. Under his leadership, Cincinnati Children’s implemented a systemwide supply chain centralization strategy that generated more than $18 million in annualized savings while strengthening service consistency. Mr. DuPree established the Cincinnati Children’s Distribution Center, transforming a pandemic-era warehouse into a centralized distribution hub whose resilience was demonstrated during the 2024 IV fluid disruption, when Cincinnati Children’s experienced no patient-care disruption despite shortages affecting hospitals nationwide. He also initiated a caregiver-focused hunger program that has provided more than 60,000 meals to families, all while reducing organizational costs by more than $350,000 annually. Earlier in his career, Mr. DuPree served on Merck’s Keytruda executive leadership team, helping build the global manufacturing and supply chain network for one of the world’s most transformative oncology immunotherapies. He was recognized as The STEMmy’s “Greater Cincinnati Engineer of the Year” in 2024.
Conrad Emmerich. Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer at Advocate Health (Charlotte, N.C.). Mr. Emmerich is senior vice president and chief procurement officer for Advocate Health. In his role, has streamlined implant procurement, standardized care and improved quality at the health system. He has held his current position since January 2023. Prior, he was senior vice president of supply chain, lab, imaging and chief product officer for Atrium Health.
Jacqueline Epright. Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health. Ms. Epright has been with Yale New Haven Health for more than 12 years, including as a founding member of its internal consulting group and corporate supply chain, and now oversees a department of approximately 400 full-time employees handling contracting, procurement, logistics, clinical value, project management and analytics. She built a non-labor collaborative team, including a systemwide resource pool, that has driven sustainable expense reductions of more than $35 million per year. Ms. Epright implemented a new enterprise resource planning platform across the health system and rolled out a clinically integrated supply chain model that includes a medical director role, value analysis nurses and clinical stakeholders from primary surgical, perioperative and specialty areas. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she converted the health system’s primary distributor to ensure supply resiliency and opened a 160,000-square-foot regional operation center warehouse servicing medical-surgical distribution, emergency stockpile management and clinical engineering equipment for the entire system. Her team’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts extend into sourcing, with vendor proposals evaluated in part on minority- and women-owned business qualifications. Ms. Epright is a certified public accountant, was recognized by Vizient as a “Woman to Watch,” and co-authored published research on hydrogen peroxide vapor decontamination of N95 respirators for reuse.
James Francis. Division Chair, Chief Supply Chain Officer and Assistant Treasurer at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.). As division chair and chief supply chain officer at Mayo Clinic, Mr. Francis has been instrumental in advancing the healthcare supply chain for the organization. He has over 25 years of experience in leading supply chain organizations, and first joined Mayo in 1999. Mr. Francis and his team have helped launch or have collaborated on the creation of eight commercial businesses. These businesses now offset 73% of the system’s supply chain operation expenses, increasing the system’s self-sufficiency and eliminating the need for headcount reductions. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, he was vice president of material services at St. Louis-based BJC Healthcare.
Justin Freed. Vice President of Supply Chain for Adventist Health (Roseville, Calif.). Mr. Freed leads supply chain initiatives for Adventist Health, with an ultimate goal of providing the right product at the right time for the right cost. His primary focus is on affordability in healthcare, and he aims to transform the supply chain from a contracting, procurement and distribution function to a supply cost innovator. Mr. Freed led the system’s group purchasing organization conversion, resulting in more than $35 million in annual value for the system and reducing the cost of care in its communities. He improved the system’s largest implant contracts, including ortho, spine and customer relationship management, with large savings. He implemented a new supply chain organization and leadership model, improving service and performance and lowering cost to service. He also created governing councils in nursing, ortho, spine and purchase service, allowing the system to enable saving projects by stakeholder engagement.
Mark French. Chief Supply Chain Officer for Ochsner Health (New Orleans). As chief supply chain for Ochsner Health, Mr. French is responsible for the overall operations and performance of the sourcing, procurement, logistics and support services divisions of the system supply chain. He took on the expanded role in March 2026 after serving as the system’s COO of supply chain and support services previously. Viewing disruptions as an opportunity to build supply chain resilience, he works closely with the assistant vice president of supply chain finance and strategy and the senior vice president and chief supply chain and support services officer. He played a key role in launching the SafeSource Direct medical supply company, transforming day-to-day operations using AI and automation, and switching the mindset around supply chain from a cost center to an enabler of operational continuity and revenue generation.
Greg Goddard. Division Vice President of Supply Chain at ScionHealth (Louisville, Ky.). Mr. Goddard brings extensive expertise in supply chain operations, inventory management and supplier partnerships to his leadership of ScionHealth’s procurement strategy. He focuses on building enduring relationships between providers and distributors, ensuring competitive pricing and consistent quality across all supply categories. His work has strengthened operational efficiency and enhanced value delivery across the organization. Mr. Goddard’s thought leadership has been featured in publications including The Journal of Healthcare Contracting and Supply Chain Brain, influencing industry best practices. In 2024, he shared his expertise as a panelist at the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management conference, contributing to national conversations on innovation and value in healthcare supply chains.
George Godfrey. Chief Supply Chain Officer and Corporate Vice President of Shared Services at Baptist Health South Florida (Coral Gables). With more than 30 years of experience in operations and supply chain leadership, Mr. Godfrey oversees the team responsible for sourcing through payment for goods and services supporting Baptist Health South Florida’s 12 hospitals and more than 200 outpatient centers and physician practices, which together provide more than 1.8 million patient visits per year. He built a custom customer relationship management-based communication management system, which was adapted from a sales tool and supports bidirectional communication, escalation and status tracking between internal teams and vendors. In its first year implementing this, the system resolved nearly 37,000 match exceptions, managed 98,000 emails and cut resolution time from 60 days to 11 days, avoiding $2.9 million in overcharges and cutting pending contracts by 28%. That tool, known as “HealthChain,” has since led to a partnership with Salesforce to market it more broadly. Mr. Godfrey has also made sustainability a priority, hiring a dedicated sustainability project manager, deploying more than 190 electric vehicle charging units, converting more than 10% of Baptist Health’s fleet to electric vehicles and diverting 3,000 pounds of single-use device waste. He was named one of the “10 People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting” by The Journal of Healthcare Contracting and serves as an advisory board member for Florida Atlantic University’s supply chain program.
Kevin Gordon. Vice President of Supply Chain for Grady Health System (Atlanta). Since joining Grady Health System, Mr. Gordon has driven significant cultural and operational transformations within the supply chain, leading to significant cost savings. His efforts have resulted in improved engagement results within the finance division. He also established an undergraduate leadership internship program, creating a strong talent pipeline while implementing sustainable, systemwide processes. His work in enhancing supplier diversity has garnered national recognition, further solidifying his impact on the organization.
Cindy Gueltzow. Vice President of Supply Chain Services at Baptist Health (Louisville, Ky.). Ms. Gueltzow oversees the supply chain for Baptist Health’s hospitals and points of care in her role as vice president of supply chain services for Baptist Health. In addition to spearheading personal protective equipment and vaccine supply chain efforts during the pandemic, Ms. Gueltzow was also instrumental in supporting communities of Western Kentucky after the violent tornado disaster in December 2021. Among other Baptist Health efforts, she and her staff arranged for an entire warehouse of bottled water and other essential supplies to be sent to the area to support hospitals, staff and community members. In 2020, Ms. Gueltzow was one of eight female supply chain leaders profiled by the national Journal of Healthcare Contracting.
Jorge Hernandez. Vice President of Supply Chain Services and Chief Procurement Officer at Broward Health (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.). With more than 20 years of experience in healthcare supply chain leadership, Mr. Hernandez oversees approximately $1 billion in annual expenditures for Broward Health, one of the nation’s largest public healthcare systems with more than 50 locations. Under his leadership, Broward Health earned the ECRI “National Healthcare Supply Chain Excellence Award” for the third consecutive year in 2025 and received Vizient’s “Executive Savings Award” and “Participation Leader Award.” Mr. Hernandez’s emphasis on value analysis, bringing together purchasing, sourcing and clinical teams, generated approximately $7.6 million in financial value in 2025, following $7.4 million in 2024. He also led Broward Health’s participation in Partners Cooperative, a national purchasing aggregation organization representing more than $12 billion in annual member spending, generating nearly $1.6 million in annual cost reductions. Mr. Hernandez mentors emerging suppliers and helped launch Broward Health’s mentor/protégé program, which gave diverse contractors experience on healthcare construction projects, including a million-dollar cardiac catheterization lab completed entirely by diverse vendors. He received the South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association’s “Master of Healthcare Logistics Award” in 2025.
Kevin M. Hines. Vice President of Materials Management at St. Luke’s University Health Network (Bethlehem, Pa.). Mr. Hines brings more than three decades of progressive materials management leadership to St. Luke’s University Health Network, with prior senior roles at various hospitals and health systems. In his current position, he leads supply chain operations across a large, integrated health system with 23,000 employees, 16 hospital campuses and more than 350 outpatient sites. Previously, at Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care, he was responsible for all aspects of supply chain operations across eight hospitals, 2,052 beds and approximately 150 satellite facilities. His background also includes operational, marketing and physician-relations responsibility for a multidisciplinary oral-facial health center and additional primary care practices, giving him experience across both clinical operations and administrative leadership. That breadth allows Mr. Hines to draw on lessons from large integrated systems and smaller specialty practices alike in shaping St. Luke’s supply chain strategy. Over his career, he has advanced through vice president, director and corporate director positions across multiple healthcare systems, reflecting more than 30 years of continuous leadership in healthcare materials management and operations.
Angela Neal Hobgood. Vice President of Supply Chain Management at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, Tenn.). Ms. Hobgood brings a wealth of experience in healthcare supply chain management, with deep expertise in capital equipment, contract management and enterprise resource planning systems. Ms. Hobgood’s leadership has been instrumental in integrating enterprise platforms, which have significantly enhanced strategic sourcing, procurement, logistics and reverse logistics operations. She takes an innovative approach to global sourcing, supplier management and business process automation. In 2022, she was selected as the program director overseeing the deployment of new financial, human capital management and supply chain modules. In fiscal year 2025, she led a series of transformative changes, including the streamlining of business processes and the implementation of competitive procurement practices. Under her guidance, the supply chain team developed a real-time operations dashboard, enhancing visibility and decision-making.
Cecile Hozouri. Corporate Vice President of Supply Chain at Scripps Health (San Diego). Ms. Hozouri oversees contracting, supply chain systems, purchasing, clinical value analysis and logistics operations across Scripps Health’s five hospitals and more than 30 outpatient centers and clinics. She led the transformation of Scripps’ supply chain from a siloed, site-based model into a centralized, systemwide operation, a redesign that required building trust across long-established local operations and creating standardized processes to improve service and coordination. Ms. Hozouri has also built a physician-partnered clinical value analysis model in which physicians and clinicians directly evaluate evidence and current practice patterns to reduce unnecessary cost and unwarranted variation in products. In 2026, she was named “Contracting Professional of the Year” by the Journal of Healthcare Contracting, and in 2024 Reuters recognized her among “20 Trailblazing Women in Supply Chain.” Ms. Hozouri has also earned Global Healthcare Exchange’s “Supply Chain of Distinction Award” in 2023 and 2024, as well as its “Millennium Club” recognition in 2024 and 2025. In addition, she was named to Supply Chain Digital‘s “Top 100 Women in Supply Chain” and “Top 100 Chief Supply Chain Officers” lists in 2023. Under her leadership, Scripps Health ranked among Gartner’s “Top 25 Healthcare Supply Chains” in the country from 2017 through 2023.
Daniel Hurry. Chief Supply Chain Officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health (Cincinnati). With more than 25 years of experience, Mr. Hurry leads a highly integrated, multistate and international supply chain function at Bon Secours Mercy Health, aligning performance with the ministry’s clinical, financial and mission-driven priorities. He played a central role in integrating supply chain operations following the 2018 merger of Bon Secours and Mercy Health, establishing a unified operating model that delivered results quickly. Mr. Hurry has developed an enterprisewide supply chain model built around a narrow supplier base with best-in-class pricing, spearheading strategic sourcing and supplier partnerships to enhance cost efficiency while maintaining quality of care. Under his leadership, the system earned a top-three ranking in Gartner’s “Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25” for both 2024 and 2025, and the health system has recognized measurable, sustained cost savings from his technology-enabled supply chain initiatives. Mr. Hurry received the Global Healthcare Exchange “Supply Chain Leadership Award” in 2023 and the Cincinnati Business Courier‘s “C-Suite Award” for CEO the same year.
Ryan Kirane. Vice President of Supply Chain Services and Sustainability Officer at HonorHealth (Scottsdale, Ariz.). Mr. Kirane oversees sourcing, procurement and sustainability initiatives across HonorHealth, working closely with clinical, operational, finance and technology leaders to strengthen resilience and efficiency. Under his leadership, annual spending with minority-owned businesses grew from $37 million to $70 million in three years, a supplier diversity effort that earned HonorHealth the 2024 “Large Corporation of the Year” award from the Healthcare Supplier Diversity Alliance and Owens & Minor. Mr. Kirane led the modernization of supply chain operations across nine hospitals and more than 270 outpatient locations, standardizing and centralizing practices to reduce variation and strengthen contract compliance. He also led the supply chain components of a new enterprise resource planning platform implementation and the integration of newly acquired hospitals into the HonorHealth network. As sustainability officer, Mr. Kirane launched HonorHealth’s sustainability committee and helped establish the Southwest Healthcare Sustainability Collaborative, bringing together healthcare systems, municipalities and universities around responsible resource management. He serves on a group purchasing organization’s strategic advisory council, founded and later served as president of the Arizona Healthcare Materials Management Association chapter, and was part of the team that earned a 2021 Gartner “Top 25 Healthcare Supply Chain” ranking.
Ryan Koos. Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Banner Health (Phoenix). With more than two decades of leadership experience in healthcare supply chain management, Mr. Koos joined Banner Health as senior vice president and chief supply chain officer in 2025. He oversees all aspects of Banner Health’s $3 billion supply chain, including the system’s consolidated service centers, inventory management and procurement, as well as sourcing and contracting. Mr. Koos is also collaborating with clinical and operational teams to identify opportunities for innovation, automation and leading-edge technology to improve quality, safety and supply costs, including implementing enterprise resource planning cloud technology. Mr. Koos uses his extensive experience to educate others as an active advisor on several national healthcare supply chain councils. Prior to joining Banner Health, he was chief supply chain officer at Sharp Healthcare in San Diego.
Nalin Kulasekara. System Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Hospital Sisters Health System (Springfield, Ill.). Mr. Kulasekara oversees supply chain management, pharmacy, laboratory and radiology operations for Hospital Sisters Health System’s hospitals and integrated physician network. He was promoted from hospital COO to system vice president in under two years. Leading a team of more than 1,600 colleagues, he manages $750 million in annual supply chain and non-labor expenses and is executing a strategic plan to transform supply chain management. Since joining Hospital Sisters Health System in 2022, he has spearheaded major systemwide initiatives, including transitioning anesthesia services to Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia, implementing IV fluid conservation measures during shortages and deploying “OneRecall” for product recall management. Mr. Kulasekara previously served as COO for a hospital and CFO for a social service agency, and currently serves as an adjunct lecturer at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Christine L’Heureux. Senior Director of Supply Chain Administration at Boston Children’s Hospital. Ms. L’Heureux brings 27 years of healthcare supply chain experience to her role providing strategic oversight of purchasing, contracts, materials management information system, value analysis, equipment planning and supplier diversity at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her responsibilities include purchasing strategy, contract review, vendor engagement, sourcing decisions and product evaluation, and she partners with clinical and operational stakeholders to promote standardization and cost-effective sourcing while keeping patient outcomes central. Ms. L’Heureux reviews, negotiates and manages contracts such as equipment purchases and lease agreements, ensuring purchasing activities align with institutional policy, compliance and budget discipline. She also oversees Boston Children’s supplier diversity program, which uses procurement as a tool to expand opportunities within the hospital’s supplier base. She also participates in industry supply chain councils, contributing her knowledge on capital processes, new technologies and supply chain improvement.
Nancy Ling. Executive Director of Corporate Supply Chain Services at East Alabama Health (Opelika, Ala.). Ms. Ling brings nearly three decades of healthcare supply chain and operations experience to her current role as executive director of corporate supply chain services for East Alabama Health. She takes a profitability-driven approach to supply chain management, which has helped improve inventory management and tracking. She is a member of the Alabama Society for Healthcare Materials Management and the Association for Healthcare Resources and Materials Management.
Candace Long. Supply Chain Management Director at UNC Health Southeastern (Lumberton, N.C.). Ms. Long has led her organization through two major supply chain system implementations during UNC Health Southeastern’s integration with Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health, ensuring operational stability during times of transition. In her role, Ms. Long chairs the UNC Health supply chain guidelines and procedures committee, serves on the systemwide supply chain leadership team and represents her community hospital on the value analysis team. She works closely with the group purchasing organization to identify programs that improve contract utilization and drive cost savings. Ms. Long was promoted to director in May 2022 after serving as interim director for more than six months.
Luis Martinez. Vice President of Procurement at Oceans Healthcare (Plano, Texas). With more than 20 years of experience building procurement infrastructure, Mr. Martinez leads a procurement transformation at Oceans Healthcare focused on building a centralized, enterprisewide supply chain function across the organization’s multisite behavioral health system. His work spans capital equipment, purchased services and indirect spend, with an emphasis on scalable procurement systems, improved spend visibility, and stronger controls and compliance that align with clinical, operational and financial priorities. Earlier in his career, Mr. Martinez negotiated a $22 million enterprisewide biomedical request for proposal that consolidated three vendors into one solution, achieving a 10% run-rate reduction, a 6% rebate above group purchasing organization terms, more than $2 million in capital purchase credits and $500,000 in annual performance guarantees, while also securing three embedded vendor-employed staff. He delivered $12 million in savings by consolidating lab vendors across 85 hospitals, securing a no-cost equipment agreement and negotiating extended warranties. Following Louisville, Ky.-based ScionHealth’s acquisition of Dallas-based Cornerstone Healthcare Group, Mr. Martinez led the post-acquisition integration of 15 Cornerstone sites, including the group purchasing organization transition, accounts payable and materials management information system migrations, and enterprise contract consolidation. His earlier work implementing centralized purchasing and standardization at Cornerstone Healthcare Group generated more than $500,000 in annual savings and earned the “Best Practice Award” for the fourth quarter of 2018 from Inventory Optimization Solutions.
Phyllis McCready. Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer at Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.). With more than 26 years of management experience, Ms. McCready oversees $2.6 billion in annual spending as vice president and chief procurement officer at Northwell Health. She was central to creating and managing Northwell’s Integrated Distribution Center, which streamlined product delivery logistics to the health system’s hospitals, and she has helped standardize medical-surgical products and improve emergency preparedness capabilities. Ms. McCready also serves as president and CEO of the North Shore-LIJ Alliance, Northwell’s group purchasing organization, bringing operational and financial efficiencies to the health system and its affiliate network. Under her leadership, Northwell’s Center for Advanced Medicine became the first surgical site to pioneer a recycling program aiming to eliminate 30% to 50% of clean, recyclable operating room materials from the waste stream, a move that is expected to recycle more than 20,000 pounds of common operating room materials annually. She is also implementing an AI-powered computer vision platform to address gaps in tracking high-cost surgical supplies left by traditional barcode, radio frequency identification, EHR and paper-based systems.
Milrose Mercado. Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Support Services and Chief Procurement Officer at Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare. Ms. Mercado has built a collaborative, data-driven supply chain operating model at Hartford HealthCare that supports more than 500 locations, uniting clinicians, finance leaders and operational teams to standardize processes and strengthen transparency. Under her leadership, the health system’s supply chain has driven $91.4 million in cost reductions, along with substantial price decreases across key categories and near-perfect inventory accuracy rates in procedural and consolidated service environments. Her leadership has been recognized with Healthcare Purchasing News naming Hartford HealthCare its “2026 Supply Chain Department of the Year,” an honor highlighting the system’s integration of supply chain across clinical care, analytics, operations, capital planning and governance. Ms. Mercado has directed significant investment toward community-based suppliers, strengthening regional economies while aligning with Hartford HealthCare’s commitment to access and affordability. She has also advanced a long-term collaboration with GE HealthCare to continuously modernize imaging technology across the system, including AI-enabled diagnostics, while reducing equipment obsolescence and downtime.
Kim Moon. Associate Vice President of Supply Chain and Contracting at TMC Health (Tucson, Ariz.). Ms. Moon leads supply chain operations across all TMC Health hospitals and care sites, elevating the function from a transactional role to a core driver of enterprise strategy. Under her leadership, medical supply rebates exceeded budget by $1.09 million through the first quarter of the fiscal year and by $4.2 million for fiscal year 2025, results achieved while maintaining service levels rather than deferring care or creating shortages. Ms. Moon’s scope extends beyond purchasing and logistics to enterprise oversight of non-labor spend across IT, facilities and revenue cycle, ensuring decisions align with systemwide financial strategy. Supply chain now plays a central role in capital governance and cash management under her direction, partnering with finance and executive leadership to evaluate capital structure, financing alternatives and cash preservation options that support days cash on hand. She has also strengthened governance over contract labor, vendor risk and spend control while advancing analytics linking clinical practice, supply utilization and cost transparency. Under Ms. Moon’s leadership, TMC Health ranked No. 10 out of 77 systems in Vizient peer benchmarking and third of 30 for price index among Vizient peers with similar spend. The system earned the Global Healthcare Exchange “Supply Chain of Distinction” award for top-25 performance two years in a row.
Brian Murray. System Vice President of Supply Chain Management for Endeavor Health (Evanston, Ill.). For Endeavor Health’s hospitals and clinics, Mr. Murray oversees supply chain strategy, logistics and procurement. With a responsibility for $1.6 billion in supply and service contract spending, he leads the organization toward aligning and centralizing the corporate supply chain. Mr. Murray’s leadership style is characterized by passion, empathy and a relentless drive for improvement.
Brad Ouellet. Vice President of Supply Chain and Support Services at UW Health (Madison, Wis.). As system vice president for supply chain, culinary and clinical nutrition services, and healthcare technology management, Mr. Ouellet leads a team of more than 750 professionals supporting care across UW Health’s system in Wisconsin and northern Illinois. He executes a clinically integrated strategy for support services through data, physician and clinician engagement, and by building relationships across his team, taking a system-first approach that lets UW Health leverage enterprise scale to lower the cost of care across community-based primary care and academic medical center settings alike. In his first 18 months with UW Health, Mr. Ouellet led major system integration efforts, including an enterprise resource planning implementation, medical supply standardization and process improvement initiatives that produced multimillion-dollar savings. He also led the relaunch of the value analysis program, shifting its priority toward how supplies are used and reducing variation in practice rather than primarily introducing new products. Under his leadership, UW Health has earned more than a dozen national Practice Greenhealth honors over the past 18 months, including multiple “Circle of Excellence” awards for its sustainable food services program. In 2025, UW Health won the grand prize in Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth’s national “Health Care Culinary Contest,” a recognition for excellence in both culinary innovation and sustainable, plant-forward care.
Don Parks. Director of Procurement Strategy and Sourcing at UCLA Health (Los Angeles). Mr. Parks is the director of procurement strategy and sourcing at UCLA Health. His current focus is vendor relations, with the ultimate goal of increasing supply assuredness and decreasing chance of inflation. Under his guidance, the system is using a new distribution center where the team can stock greater inventory of higher priority items. He first joined UCLA Health in 1998 and has worked in roles related to distribution and supply chain ever since.
Kate Polczynski. Vice President of Enterprise Supply Chain Services at Geisinger (Danville, Pa.). Ms. Polczynski leads Geisinger’s enterprise supply chain strategy, driving innovation, resilience and digital transformation across the system. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she guided the organization through unprecedented disruption while maintaining access to critical supplies. Under her leadership, Geisinger implemented a multiyear enterprise resource planning modernization, strengthened supplier and clinical alignment, and built a more data-driven supply chain. Her work has also strengthened Geisinger’s strategic collaboration with nonprofit Risant Health and helped the system earn a spot on Gartner’s “Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25” list for three consecutive years. Ms. Polczynski serves on the Association for Health Care Resources & Materials Management education committee, and is a published author and national speaker on supply chain leadership and AI in healthcare. She has been recognized by Healthcare Purchasing News, The Journal of Healthcare Contracting and Bellwether for her leadership and rising industry impact.
James Poullard. President of Enterprise Support Services and Chief Procurement Officer at ScionHealth (Louisville, Ky.). Mr. Poullard has leveraged his clinical and operational background to break down traditional silos between clinical service lines, corporate services and supply chain at ScionHealth. He has created supply chain interfaces that drive high compliance with supply chain initiatives by putting quality, efficacy and safety at the forefront of decision-making, resulting in significant cost savings and cost avoidance for the organization. Under his leadership, ScionHealth has achieved 95th-percentile compliance with group purchasing organization contracting initiatives. Mr. Poullard led the implementation of an indirect category procurement team that captured savings in categories of vendor spend that had previously gone unaddressed, and the organization has seen a year-over-year decline in medical supply and pharmaceutical expenses under his direction. Mr. Poullard has received the “Military Veteran Business Leadership Award” from Louisville Business First.
Andrea Poulopoulos. Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at Corewell Health (Grand Rapids, Mich.). Ms. Poulopoulos leads all aspects of supply chain at Corewell Health, including procurement, operations, clinical supply chain, supplier performance management, and technology and analytics. She sponsors large-scale, systemwide initiatives that improve workflows for frontline caregivers, including its unit optimization project, a three-year process improvement effort that reorganized product storage across 16 hospitals and more than 2,300 storage locations. Under her leadership, Corewell Health’s supply chain consistently delivers more than $200 million annually in cost savings and cost avoidance, all while advancing outcomes-based partnerships with suppliers. Ms. Poulopoulos is leading the system’s long-term transformation of distribution and warehousing operations through a highly automated consolidated service center expected to begin operations at some point this year. Corewell Health ranked in the top five of the Gartner Healthcare “Supply Chain Top 25” for four consecutive years under her leadership. In 2024, she was named a “Women Leader in Supply Chain” by the Journal of Healthcare Contracting, and in 2025 she received the Bellwether “Future Famer Award.”
Jeffrey T. Raup. Vice President of Corporate Supply Chain at the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Philadelphia). Mr. Raup leads supply chain for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, the clinical enterprise of Penn Medicine, with direct responsibility for strategic sourcing, purchasing, value analysis, supply chain technology, and analytics, as well as contracting for supplies, devices, capital, pharmaceuticals and purchased services. He works across boundaries, building relationships inside the organization and with external partners and champions data-informed decisions that strengthen performance throughout a system spanning seven hospitals, more than a dozen multispecialty centers, and hundreds of outpatient facilities. Before joining Penn Medicine in 2026, Mr. Raup was assistant vice president of supply chain, sourcing, contracting, and procurement at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he led large, complex teams across a multi-hospital and ambulatory network, delivering sustained cost savings, deepening supplier partnerships, and advancing supplier diversity initiatives. Earlier in his career, he spent 11 years at ECRI Institute in various roles, providing supply chain advisory services for hundreds of ECRI Institute member hospitals.
Brian Riemer. Vice President of Supply Chain at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Mr. Riemer oversees a $34 million annual budget and drives reduction in distribution expenses at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, producing lasting financial benefits for the organization. He has built a resilient and responsive supply chain that supports both patient care and community needs. His proactive supplier relationships ensured uninterrupted personal protective equipment access during the Covid-19 pandemic, avoiding delays and shortages. Under his leadership, Greater Baltimore Medical Center earned the 2020 “Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award” for organizational performance and patient care. Mr. Riemer applies disciplined process improvement to strengthen procurement and logistics functions, making the supply chain a strategic asset to both the hospital and its surrounding community.
Michael L. Rinker. Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. As vice president and chief supply chain officer, Mr. Rinker collaborates with leaders across Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s $5.2-billion enterprise to develop and execute the overall supply chain strategy and vision surrounding procurement, strategic sourcing, logistics, inventory management, value analysis, enterprise resource planning technology enablement and central sterile processing. He is committed to ensuring the system has the right access to the services and supplies needed to conduct innovative research and world-class care for patients. Mr. Rinker and his team oversee a 175,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art consolidated services center, which provides essential support to the network. He is committed to implementing network strategies to enhance value and unlock financial stewardship through the adoption of new technologies, advanced analytics, AI and strategic supplier relationship management.
Susanna Rustad. Chief Procurement Officer and Vice President of Supply Chain Management and Care at Home Platform at UCI Health (Orange, Calif.). Ms. Rustad is redefining the role of chief procurement and chief supply chain officer by integrating system strategy, digital transformation and clinical alignment into the supply chain. She led sourcing and contracting strategy for UCI Health’s new medical center and multi-hospital integration in collaboration with clinical, IT and finance leaders. Her work includes negotiating major Epic and infrastructure agreements, implementing contract lifecycle management, radio frequency identification, Kanban and procure-to-pay systems to enhance automation, visibility and efficiency. Under her guidance, procurement has evolved into a strategic, enterprise-level function embedded in mission execution. Ms. Rustad has built a nationally recognized team that has earned “Best in Class” and “Best 50” distinctions from Global Healthcare Exchange.
Ana Victoria Sanchez. Vice President of Supply Chain and Support Services at Virtua Health (Marlton, N.J.). Ms. Sanchez leads a clinically driven supply chain at Virtua Health, building an experienced team with clinical and logistical expertise. She regularly visits perioperative and other clinical areas to observe firsthand how Virtua’s supply chain can improve value and efficiency while reducing the time clinicians spend on supply-related matters. Ms. Sanchez has launched a comprehensive multiyear strategic plan that is transforming the supply chain, including enhancing her team’s structure and expertise, updating the centralized distribution center, expanding the products and locations the supply chain supports, modernizing equipment, and implementing a warehouse inventory management system and a new enterprise resource planning system now in its second year of use. That technology has supported the automation of the contracting and procurement process and a transition from paper-based to system-driven workflows, along with a migration of the supplier data exchange platform to cloud-based functionality that will enable automated ordering confirmation, price verification and contract management. Ms. Sanchez has transformed the organization’s view of supply chain from a transactional function to a strategic one, quickly establishing herself as a valued leader at the senior executive level after joining Virtua. She was named “Woman of the Year” by Professional Women in Healthcare in 2013 and 2014.
Lisa Scannell. Vice President of Supply Chain at Mass General Brigham (Boston). Ms. Scannell leads efforts to advance financial sustainability, resiliency and operational efficiency across the Mass General Brigham healthcare system. Under her leadership, the organization has established a dedicated resiliency team focused on ensuring agility and continuity in the face of global disruptions, natural disasters and events such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Under her leadership, the team plays a critical role in identifying supply chain risks, developing contingency plans and maintaining uninterrupted operations during crises. Ms. Scannell has also championed the successful implementation of new digital supply chain tools to streamline workflows and enhance systemwide integration. Her strategic initiatives improve performance, drive cost control and align the supply chain operations with the broader organizational mission.
Eddie Sharp. Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at PeaceHealth (Vancouver, Wash.). As system vice president of supply chain at PeaceHealth, Mr. Sharp has initiated the development of a fulfillment center to streamline supply management across the system and upgraded the distribution system for PeaceHealth’s ambulatory services supply chain. A spirited collaborator, Mr. Sharp also developed a reporting system that credits savings to his internal customers as well as the supply chain. While doing so, he generated over $35 million in savings for PeaceHealth.
Stephanie Shattuck. Associate Administrator for Support Services at Upstate University Hospital (Syracuse, N.Y.). Ms. Shattuck provides strategic leadership for enterprise support services across Upstate University Hospital, a level 1 trauma center that includes a children’s hospital, burn center, cancer center and more than 30 ambulatory locations. There, she leads more than 200 staff across purchasing, equipment and asset management, supply chain analytics, distribution, mail services, receiving, operating room materials, value analysis and an 80,000-square-foot supply chain distribution center. Ms. Shattuck directed a top-to-bottom inventory and real-time location system tagging initiative for more than 8,000 pieces of mobile equipment, establishing a new inventory baseline and improving asset visibility, and advanced procure-to-pay automation so that 95% of invoices are now paid within 30 days. She launched the “Req to Check” initiative to fully automate scanning, ordering, receiving and invoice payment, and implemented robotic process automation to streamline hospital purchasing operations. Ms. Shattuck also redesigned the supply chain service delivery model by embedding personnel within inpatient nursing units, emergency departments and ambulatory locations to manage supply levels, returning more than 9,000 nursing hours to patient care and helping deliver more than $4.5 million in combined 2025 savings. During the 2025 IV fluid crisis, she proactively managed inventory for more than 60 impacted products, and the hospital has maintained zero product stock-outs since December 2020 despite recalls and national supply disruptions. In 2025, the hospital’s supply chain management department was honored for excellence in cost management and innovation by United Iroquois Shared Services, a Premier group purchasing organization. Ms. Shattuck is president-elect of the Healthcare Supply Chain Association of Upstate New York.
Andrew Singer. Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Boston Children’s Hospital. Mr. Singer leads Boston Children’s Hospital’s supply chain strategy, operations and performance, overseeing sourcing, contracting, purchasing strategy, supply expense management, vendor relationships, analytics and process improvement for the pediatric academic medical center. He led the hospital’s efforts to redefine and optimize supply spend through its strategic partnership with Premier, gaining access to group purchasing services, contract portfolios and supply chain analytics aimed at securing best pricing and reinvesting savings in the hospital’s mission. Mr. Singer also played a leadership role in Boston Children’s transformation of its sterile processing department, working with executive and operational leaders to improve customer service, quality assurance, productivity, teamwork and training. That initiative was recognized by Surgical Directions in naming Boston Children’s its “Client of the Year” in 2024 for creating a world-class central sterile processing function. Mr. Singer combines financial discipline with mission orientation, emphasizing the use of data, contract leverage and analytics to create savings that can be reinvested in patient care.
Phil Smith. Executive Director of Supply Chain for Saint Francis Health System (Tulsa, Okla.). Mr. Smith, a seasoned supply chain leader, has significantly improved operations at Saint Francis Health System since his arrival in 2022. Buoyed by extensive experience gleaned from prior roles at health systems across the East Coast and Midwest, he successfully relocated Saint Francis Health System’s supply and distribution department to a new 200,000-square-foot offsite warehouse, expanding its capacity and efficiency. This move allows the system to maintain a larger inventory, reducing the risk of supply shortages and improving cost management. Additionally, Mr. Smith is currently overseeing the relocation of the hospital’s laundry facility to the same warehouse, doubling its capacity. His efforts have also centralized the contracting and purchasing processes, leading to substantial cost savings systemwide.
Kyle Snider. Vice President of Supply Chain at MemorialCare (Fountain Valley, Calif.). A retired U.S. Air Force senior master sergeant with more than 30 years of experience in supply chain, distribution, logistics and operations, Mr. Snider has been with MemorialCare Health System for three years and was promoted to vice president in October 2024. He oversees a team of more than 100 professionals in materials management, purchasing, analytics, project management, supply chain information systems and program management, and has focused the team on “system-ness” by centralizing key materials management leadership positions across the organization. Mr. Snider designed and is implementing a consolidated service center model to improve supply resiliency through critical supply and personal protective equipment self-distribution, centralizing mailroom operations and capital asset and mobile medical equipment receiving within it. He drove a 75% increase in perpetual inventory by installing Par Excellence Systems across the organization, while right-sizing inventory on hand to reduce its overall value by more than 40%. Mr. Snider has implemented visibility dashboards tracking key performance indicators for MemorialCare senior leaders, and has driven initiatives around supply chain organizational maturity, including a semiannual bench-strength review and a monthly and annual recognition program.
Jesse Stanton. Vice President of Supply Chain at Parkview Health (Fort Wayne, Ind.). At Parkview, Mr. Stanton has served in multiple supply chain positions, including supervisor of purchased services, manager of purchasing and contracting, and director of supply chain integration. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he secured critical supplies by engaging local, nontraditional and international vendors, ensuring Parkview Health never experienced stockouts. Mr. Stanton expanded the centralized distribution center to double its capacity, mitigating supply disruptions and creating processes to manage substitute products effectively. He has also created a way to manage substitute products that offset backorders and lessen waste. His strategic initiatives, including group purchasing organization maximization and aggregation group partnerships, have generated more than $65 million in contract savings and cost avoidance over the past five years. He also plays a key role in onboarding new facilities and joint ventures into the supply chain network while actively supporting Parkview’s veterans co-worker resource group. He has been employed with Parkview Health for more than two decades, and is a U.S. Army veteran. He is also a certified materials and resource professional through the American Hospital Association.
Jeremy E. Strong. System Vice President of Supply Chain at Rush University System for Health (Chicago). Mr. Strong is the vice president of supply chain for Rush, where his main focus is eradicating any barriers between medical supplies and caregivers. In order to make the system more efficient, he has helped reduce inventory backlog and has prompted the system to reevaluate the relationship between product price and product care. He is also passionate about empowering the future generation of supply chain leaders. Mr. Strong first joined Rush in 2001.
Bob Taylor. Chief Supply Chain Officer and Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.). With more than 38 years of experience, Mr. Taylor leads the supply chain team at RWJBarnabas Health, the largest, most comprehensive academic healthcare system in New Jersey with 12 acute care facilities, a behavioral health hospital, a children’s specialty hospital and more than 400 medical group locations. His team of more than 400 oversees strategic sourcing and contracting, clinical value analysis, procure-to-pay, final-mile logistics, and master file management and analytics. Mr. Taylor takes a highly strategic, data-driven approach to procurement to enhance quality and patient outcomes in the most fiscally responsible way possible, and he recently added responsibility for IT contracting to his team’s portfolio, partnering with IT business owners to maximize value and rigor in the contracting process. As RWJBarnabas transitions to value-based care amid ongoing global supply chain disruption, Mr. Taylor and his team take a proactive approach to mitigating risk, integrating strategies to optimize scarce resources, alleviate shortages and expand capacity quickly. His team was recognized by the Health Industry Resilience Collaborative for “Distinguished Recognition for a Provider Partnership.”
Rick Tresmond. Vice President and Supply Chain Officer for Coastal Community Health (Jacksonville, Fla.). As vice president and supply chain officer for coastal community health, Mr. Tresmond oversees the supply chain operations for Jacksonville-based Baptist Health and Brunswick, Ga.-based Southeast Georgia Health System, ensuring quality and cost-effective care across eight hospitals. Leveraging over 30 years of healthcare experience, Mr. Tresmond’s leadership has driven strategic supply chain initiatives, including the implementation of new technologies and a robust value analysis process. Mr. Tresmond also expanded Baptist Health’s supplier diversity program, fostering relationships with minority-owned and local businesses, and led efforts to donate $500,000 worth of medical supplies to Ukraine in 2022.
Eric Tritch. Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Support Services and Chief Supply Chain Officer at UChicago Medicine. Mr. Tritch directs one of the most complex academic medical center supply chains and support operations in the country, with a portfolio that extends beyond procurement to enterprisewide strategy, contracting and vendor partnerships. He also handles environmental services, patient transportation, public safety and parking, and indirect leadership of more than 1,000 employees. His team drove more than $10 million out of supply expenses in the most recent fiscal year despite challenging market conditions and product disruptions. Mr. Tritch launched “Team EAR3TH,” a cross-functional initiative that embedded sustainable purchasing and waste-reduction practices into UChicago Medicine’s daily operations. Within a single year, the program diverted 25,000 single-use products and 7,000 pounds of waste from landfills, earning recognition from Practice GreenHealth, Stryker and ENERGY STAR. He has also developed system-level governance and controls around all categories of purchased services to manage that dynamic spend category effectively. Mr. Tritch serves as a board member of the Strategic Marketplace Initiative and is a past chair of Vizient’s supply chain strategy Council. He was named a Crain’s Chicago Business “Notable Leader in Sustainability” in 2025, received the Governor of Illinois’ “Unsung Hero” designation for procurement strategies that stabilized critical health system supplies, and was inducted into the Bellwether League Foundation’s “Future Famers Award” as an early-career honoree.
Erik Walerius. Chief Supply Chain Officer at UW Medicine (Seattle). Mr. Walerius is responsible for providing operational, strategic and financial oversight of the key supply chain operations across the UW health system. He leads a team of more than 200 people and an annual supply chain spend of $1.6 billion. Since becoming chief supply chain officer in 2014, Mr. Walerius has strengthened the internal functions of the department, with a focus on employee engagement and rigorous quality and project management programs. He has also established partnerships with clinical and operational leaders to prioritize the purchase of medical services, supplies and equipment that help to improve patient care outcomes.
Cairo Wasfy. Vice President of Supply Chain Services and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Orlando (Fla.) Health. As chief supply chain officer, Mr. Wasfy develops and executes strategic initiatives across Orlando Health’s enterprise supply chain, partnering with clinical, hospital and ambulatory leaders to reduce the cost of care while improving clinical outcomes and the patient experience. He has led Orlando Health’s integration of multiple newly acquired facilities into the system’s supply chain network while maintaining operational continuity. Mr. Wasfy recently led the health system’s transition to a prime distributor model for medical and surgical supplies, moving away from self-distribution across acute care, non-acute care and laboratory services with minimal disruption to patient care. He also completed physician preference item initiatives across orthopedic spine, large joints, cardiology and related service lines, building trust with surgeons through consistent engagement and transparent data sharing to generate savings while increasing physician satisfaction. Mr. Wasfy is overseeing the consolidation of multiple pharmaceutical distributors into a single strategic partnership and redesigned his leadership structure across pharmacy procurement, supply chain services and food and nutrition to better support Orlando Health’s growth.
Mark Welch. Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at Novant Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.). Mr. Welch is the senior vice president of supply chain at Novant Health, where he is responsible for managing enterprisewide non-labor spend, supply chain logistics, operations, procurement, sourcing, and clinical supply chain engagement. He has encouraged supplier diversity amongst his division, which contributed to Novant Health’s increase in spend with minority and women-owned suppliers. His leadership also led to the system’s reduction of contracted supply chain general ledger expenses.
Ben Wingfield. Vice President of Supply Chain Operations at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (Little Rock). Mr. Wingfield manages inventory and contracts for the children’s hospital, focusing on increasing equity and diversity with suppliers. He is also focused on improving communication and access between the supply chain and clinical departments, bringing the supply chain conversation to the table when it comes to discussing organizational challenges. He was promoted to his current position in June 2026 after serving as director of supply chain operations.
Chuck Wright. Vice President of Supply Chain for Tanner Health System (Carrollton, Ga.). Mr. Wright, leveraging over 30 years of supply chain management experience, demonstrates exceptional analytical skills and strong relationships with his peers at Tanner Health System. His leadership has kept the supply chain team fully engaged in their mission, even during the challenging pandemic period. His ability to stay on top of issues and communicate effectively has been crucial in resolving problems swiftly. Under his guidance, Tanner Health System has been recognized multiple times for its exceptional utilization of group purchasing organization offerings, earning numerous awards for high engagement and maximizing rebates.
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