GLENN D. STEELE JR., MD, PHD serves as Chairman of xG Health Solutions, an independently operated venture of Geisinger Health Systems.

He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Geisinger Health System. , an integrated health services organization nationally recognized for its innovative use of the electronic health record and the development and implementation of innovative care models.

Dr. Steele previously served as the dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at the University of Chicago, as well as the Richard T. Crane Professor in the Department of Surgery.

Dr. Steele is the recipient of the 2014 NCHL Gail L. Warden Healthcare Leadership Award.

Dr. Farzad Mostashari is the CEO of Aledade, a start-up he co-founded aimed at helping primary care doctors transform their practices and form accountable care organizations (ACOs). Prior to Aledade, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, where he focused on payment reform and delivery system transformation. He served from 2011-2013 as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology where he coordinated US efforts to build a health information technology infrastructure for healthcare reform and consumer empowerment.

Previously, Dr. Mostashari served at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as Assistant Commissioner for the Primary Care Information Project, where he co-led agile development of population health management functionality within a commercial EHR. Dr. Mostashari also led the NYC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics and an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded project focused on quality measurement at the point of care.

Dr. Basch is a practicing general internist in Washington, DC, and the Medical Director for Ambulatory EHR and Health IT Policy for MedStar Health. He is a Visiting Scholar in Health IT Policy at the Center for Health Policy at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in Health IT Policy at the Center for American Progress. Dr. Basch is the current chair of the Medical Informatics Committee for the American College of Physicians, and represents the ACP at the Physicians' EHR Coalition. Dr. Basch has been recognized as one of the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists by Modern Healthcare, is a recipient of the Physician Informatics Leadership Award by HIMSS, and was named by Beckers CIO Magazine as one the 26 Smartest People in Health IT.

Karson Mahler is an attorney and policy advisor to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He advises the National Coordinator on legislation and a variety of legal, regulatory, and economic issues at the intersection of healthcare and technology. He previously served as an attorney in the Federal Trade Commission's Health Care Division, where he conducted antitrust investigations, analyzed ACOs and other clinical integration programs, and participated in competition policy research and advocacy on healthcare and health IT issues. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Emory University School of Law.

Dr. Joel Reich is Chief Medical Officer for Eastern Connecticut Health Network. He is leading the development of the Clinically Integrated Network of Eastern Connecticut, a health system-physician integrated network. CINECT' s innovative programs include home telehealth, house calls, embedded primary care, chronic disease, and ED community care managers.

He is emergency medicine board certified and previously served as Chair of Emergency/Ambulatory Care. Dr. Reich is Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at UNE College of Medicine. He received his MD from SUNY-Buffalo, MMM from Carnegie Mellon, MS in Health Informatics from Brandeis University, and is a Certified Physician Executive.

Dr. Spencer graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin Medical School and completed his residency in Internal Medicine while in the U.S. Air Force at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Spencer joined Crystal Run as an internist in 1996 and was appointed to Chief Medical Officer and Chief Clinical Information Officer in 2008. Dr. Spencer is board certified in Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Larry Kocot is a Principal at KPMG, working within the Health Care and Life Sciences practice in the Washington, DC, office. Mr. Kocot is also the National Leader of the Center for Healthcare Regulatory Insight.

Mr. Kocot provides strategic advice and counsel to companies on regulatory matters relating to public health care programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. He has served as counsel to a wide range of corporations and associations on a variety of different matters, including investigations by the FTC, DOJ, SEC, and state attorneys general, as well as on qui tam and other litigation. Additionally, Mr. Kocot has represented companies in audits and other disputes with the federal government, advised companies on the development of business arrangements to assure compliance with federal and state fraud & abuse laws, and counseled organizations on the development and formation of accountable care organizations.

Mr. Kocot is a former Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for and Medicaid Services (CMS) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this capacity, he was involved in a wide range of health care policy issues and operations related to Medicare and Medicaid. Notably, Mr. Kocot was a key member of the management and operations team responsible for pharmaceutical, pharmacy, and pharmacy benefit management (PBM) issues, including the launch and operation of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Part D). More specifically, he led the development of pharmacy and long-term care pharmacy policy under the Part D program; guided CMS efforts to design and develop new systems functionality for providing beneficiary information to providers in real time at the point of sale; designed and launched CMS initiatives on pharmacy quality and pharmacy quality alliances; developed outreach, communications, and partnership programs with the pharmacy and pharmaceutical communities, including the creation and launch of the Web-based publication Medicare RxUpdate; and supervised pharmaceutical delivery and data management during and after Hurricane Katrina.

Prior to joining KPMG, Mr. Kocot practiced law at Epstein Becker Green, PC, and Dentons, US LLP. Kocot is currently a visiting fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where he was also Deputy Director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings from 2007-2013. Mr. Kocot was a fellow in International Security Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and an adjunct fellow at CSIS for several years thereafter. Before his government service, Mr. Kocot was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, where he was responsible for all legal matters and represented the industry before Congress, state legislatures, and state and federal regulatory agencies.

John Friend is a Managing Member of Value Stream Partners, LLC, a company organized to design and assist with the implementation of integrated health care models, with a focus on integrating participants from the extended health care value stream and redesigning clinical logistics. Previously, Friend served as CEO / Executive Director of Arizona Connected Care, LLC (AzCC), an MSSP ACO and MSSP pilot site selected by the Brookings Dartmouth collaborative. Prior to his work with AzCC, Mr. Friend served as Vice President, Business Affairs & Associate General Counsel for TMC Healthcare, and in other commercial and healthcare legal positions.

Peter Robinson is a leader in the field of risk financing in managed healthcare both in the United States and internationally. Peter has worked with analytics, decision support, data management and risk capital for leading healthcare provider groups around the country. He has extensive experience with Capitation and other forms of risk assumption in the healthcare delivery system including medical reinsurance, healthcare provider excess and medical malpractice. He has advised a variety of federal, state and local agencies on catastrophic risk issues including Medicare chronic disease programs, Medicaid waivers, disaster preparedness, catastrophic reinsurance and catastrophic risk mitigation and management.

He is based in Madison, New Jersey,and is responsible for the company's business development activities, as well as the strategy and planning process.

Previously, Mr. Shorten has been Vice President, Office of the Chairman, and Vice President, SharedService Operations. Prior to joining Quest Diagnostics in 2008, he served as Vice President, Operations Practice at Booz and Company, where he had been a strategic adviser to Quest Diagnostics for more than 10 years. Mr. Shorten was employed by Booz and Company for 18 years where he was responsible for the firm's global supply chain service offerings.

Mr. Shorten earned a master's degree in natural sciences from Cambridge University, a diploma in computer science from Cambridge University, a master's degree in operations research from Lancaster University and a master's degree in private and public management from Yale University.

Troy Trygstad is Vice President of Pharmacy Programs for Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC), an organization providing 1,862 medical homes for 1.6 million Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial and Uninsured patients. Under his direction at CCNC, multi-disciplinary medication optimization programs have grown to include many activities ranging from patient-level medication reconciliation to practice-level health information technology adoption to network-level management of pharmacy benefits. He is also the Project Director for a CMMI Round 2 Innovations award that tests new models of payment and pharmacy connectivity to primary care providers. He still practices in a community pharmacy setting on nights and weekends.

Dr. Norman Kahn serves as Executive Vice-president and Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS). CMSS represents 41 medical specialty societies with an aggregate membership of approximately 750,000 U.S. physicians.

In 2010, CMSS adopted the CMSS Code for Interaction with Companies, establishing ethical standards for relationships between professional medical associations and industry.

Dr. Kahn has served on numerous boards and committees, including the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, where he chaired the Task Force that revised the Standards for Commercial Support of CME.

Dr. Kahn represents CMSS to several quality and performance measurement and improvement agencies, including the Ambulatory Quality Alliance (AQA), the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA), the National Priorities Partnership (NPP), the National Quality Forum (NQF), and the Physicians Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI).

Dr. Durand is the Director of Accountable Care for Johns Hopkins HealthCare, LLC and serves as part of the leadership team for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Alliance for Patients, an MSSP ACO. Previously, Dr. Durand was part of the Executive Leadership Team at Evolent Health, where he held positions as Vice President of Clinical Transformation as well as Vice President of Strategy, Specialty Health and Health Plan Optimization. Prior to Evolent, he worked for McKinsey & Company advising payers, providers and government agencies on population health strategy. Dr. Durand received his M.D., internship, residency, and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins, where he continues to practice as an attending radiologist.

Patrick Twomey, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Medical Quality Officer of Essentia Health. Dr. Twomey was educated in the University of MN system, receiving a MD degree in 1991. He then served 8 years in the United States Army Medical Corps., with residency training in Pathology. Dr. Twomey returned to MN to practice medicine at Essentia Health in Duluth in 1999.

Dr. Twomey has pursued interests in laboratory medicine and quality, chairing multiple quality improvement, infection control, and peer review committees. He has served in multiple leadership positions, including Essentia Health Chair of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Hospital Chief of Staff. Dr. Twomey became Essentia Health's first Chief Medical Quality Officer in 2011, and third system Chief Medical Officer in the spring of 2013, currently serving dual roles of CMO and CMQO.

Dr. Weaver is a Past President of the American College of Cardiology and Vice President and System Medical Director of Heart and Vascular Services at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. Currently Dr. Weaver is a consultant for Navigant Consulting Inc. and provides services to facilitate physician alignment, enhance clinical operational effectiveness, and bundled payment initiatives for specialists. Dr. Weaver also is active in providing advice in the design, conduct, and monitoring of clinical trials for the development of new therapeutics.

Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH, joined the PCPCC as Chief Executive Officer in 2012. Prior to the PCPCC, Dr. Nielsen served as Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs and Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine' s Department of Health Policy and Management. She holds an MPH from the George Washington University and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Family Medicine and the Center for Health Policy Development/National Academy for State Health Policy.

Dr. Thomas Auer is the Chief Executive Officer for the Bon Secours Virginia Medical Group and has been with Bon Secours for the past two years.

Dr. Auer was the Chief Medical Officer for Kaiser Permanente in Albany, New York and merged that medical group into Community Care Physicians. There, he served as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Medical Officer for six years. After a brief stint consulting, Dr. Auer became the Chief Medical Officer at Queens Long Island Medical Group. Here he led the effort to re-engineer primary care which culminated in the first Level 3 recognized medical home in the State of New York.

Dr. James Colbert is a member of the Brigham and Women' s Hospital Division of Medical Communications as well as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and at Ariadne Labs. Dr. Colbert practices general internal medicine as a hospitalist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts. Dr. Colbert is a scholar in the Harvard Macy Institute 2014 Program for Educators in the Health Professions and is currently working with the Brookings Institution on their physician-led ACO Innovation Exchanges. Prior to his work with the Brookings Institution, he was an editorial fellow at the New England Journal of Medicine.

Cheryl Lulias is the President and Executive Director of Medical Home Network, a progressive regional Medicaid pilot in Chicago that is changing the way healthcare is delivered and financed by driving practice transformation informed by the use of innovative technology. The primary goal of MHN is to improve the care and health of the Medicaid population and ultimately serve as a framework for all vulnerable groups. Lulias has more than 20 years of experience working with complex health care systems and health plans and has held leadership positions at academic and community hospital systems in Illinois, Indiana and New York. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her Master of Public Administration from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

As President of Temm & Associates, Inc., Dr. Temm provides overall direction and expertise in the advancement of health care strategies, including the design and development of various ACOs. In conjunction with her research on Patient-Centered Medical Homes, Dr. Temm has received NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Content Expert Certification (CEC). She has assisted numerous practices in their transformation and adoption of the PCMH standards as well as the integration of PCMH standards into ACO infrastructures. Dr. Temm holds a Doctor of Science (DSc) in Health Services Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Terry McGeeney, President of Care Accountability, Inc. and visiting scholar with Brookings Institution, has thirty plus years of experience as a board-certified family physician with more than a decade in rural solo medical practice before joining a 200 physician multi-specialty group ultimately serving as medical director.

Dr. McGeeney was the founder and former President/Chief Executive Officer of TransforMED, where he pioneered the development of physician practice and organizational models for Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH). Dr. McGeeney later served as Director with BDC Advisors and Chief Medical Officer for Village MD. Dr. McGeeney received an MBA in Healthcare Administration from the University of Colorado.

David Morales is the Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Steward Health Care System.

Morales leads the Strategic Business Solutions Group, dedicated to implementing value-driven solutions across Steward, and responsible for negotiating union labor contracts for over 6,000 employees. He leads the federal and state public policy and analytics group, which oversees reimbursement and health care cost data. Morales is also the President of Steward' s "captive," medical professional liability, as well as general liability insurance company.

A key architect of Massachusetts' Health Care Reform law (Chapter 58), he previously served as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, now known as the Center for Health Information and Analysis.

Dr. Vanessa Pratomo is the Medical Director for ACO Quality Improvement and Chronic Illness Management at the Montefiore Care Management Company. She is responsible for providing clinical leadership and oversight for Montefiore' s Pioneer ACO, shared savings, and Disease Management programs, including developing strategic priorities for quality improvement, serving as co-chair for the physician quality committee meetings and mentoring and advising physicians and clinical partners for all peer related activities. Dr. Pratomo received her medical degree from Stony Brook University School of Medicine, completed her residency training in Family Medicine at Montefiore, received her MPH degree at Columbia University and a second residency in Preventive Medicine and Public health at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Christina Severin is an accomplished health care executive with more than 20 years' experience in managed care, delivery systems, health insurance, quality, public policy, and public health.

As President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization (BIDCO), a value-based, physician and hospital network and an Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Christina is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the organization, including leading strategic plans to effectively manage cost trends, optimize health care quality, and expand its network of physicians and hospitals.

Christina earned a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Health Services from Boston University School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Judith Hibbard, is a Researcher and Professor Emerita at the University of Oregon. Over the last 30 years she has focused her research on consumer choices and behavior in health care. Dr. Hibbard is the lead author of the Patient Activation Measure.

She holds a masters degree in Public Health from UCLA and her doctoral degree is from the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of over 160 peer-reviewed publications and is recognized as an international expert on consumerism in health care.

Jonathan Darer, MD, MPH is the Chief Innovation Officer for the Division of Clinical Innovation and Director of the IAA Center for Clinical Innovation at Geisinger Health System. His major areas of expertise include leveraging analytics, clinical decision support and reengineering solutions that result in improved chronic disease care and reductions in preventable harm.

Dr. Darer also serves as Clinical Director for the Clinical Decision Intelligence System (CDIS), an enterprise analytic platform designed to drive innovation in care delivery, and co-investigator for Open Notes, a Robert Wood Johnson-funded initiative to evaluate the impact of providing patients access through their electronic health record portal to their doctors' notes. He is also co-investigator on the Medicare Imaging Demonstration Program. Dr. Darer has authored numerous professional journal articles describing his clinical innovation and research activities. Prior to joining Geisinger, Dr. Darer led decision support development at Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Darer's medical practice areas include Urgent and Primary Care.

He holds a bachelor's degree (Cum Laude) in engineering from Harvard University, his MD from the University of Connecticut Medical School and a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. His residency training was performed at Oregon Health Sciences University, and he completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Originally from the Dominican Republic, Dr. Peña received his medical training at St. Barnabas Hospital in New York and was named "Resident of the Year". He has served in the capacity of Chief of Medicine, Chief of Staff and Board Member for various local hospitals. He continuously credits his great mentors and peers for the success of his learning journey. Dr. Peña, is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Medical Director, and Board Manager of RGV ACO Health Providers, LLC. His particular focus is process improvements and population health. He is board Certified in Internal Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Stacy Sanders is the Federal Policy Director at the Medicare Rights Center. Previously, she led national policy campaigns to enhance income security for older adults at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and Wider Opportunities for Women. Her experience ranges from advocacy on responsible banking for older adults to protecting and strengthening Social Security for older women. She completed her M.S.W. at the University of Michigan as a fellow of the Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education. She is an Executive Fellow of the Center for Progressive Leadership, a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and served as co-chair of the Income Security Committee of the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations in 2011.

Mark Savage is Director of Health IT Policy and Programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where he oversees the National Partnership' s strategy and work to advance electronic health information access and exchange as the backbone for delivery reform, patient engagement, quality measurement and population health. The work includes policy development throughout the Meaningful Use program and related initiatives at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and White House. It also includes initiatives to reduce health disparities and to advance person-centered health and care planning. The National Partnership also leads the Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a coalition of leading consumer, patient and labor organizations working since 2005 to advance patient-centered health IT. From 1997-2002, Savage was President and Managing Attorney of Public Advocates, a leading civil-rights law firm in California, and from 2003-2013, he was Senior Attorney at Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports.

Delos M. Cosgrove MD, is president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic. He heads a $6 billion healthcare system comprised of Cleveland Clinic, 8 community hospitals, 16 family health and surgery centers, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, Cleveland Clinic Toronto, and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Cosgrove received his medical degree from University of Virginia School of Medicine, completed clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brook General Hospital in London. He earned an undergraduate degree from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. In 1967, he was a surgeon in the U.S. Air Force, serving in Da Nang, Vietnam. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Republic of Vietnam Commendation Medal.

Dr. Cosgrove joined the Cleveland Clinic in 1975, and was named chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery in 1989. He performed over 22,000 operations and earned an international reputation in cardiac surgery valve repair before his retirement in 2006. He holds 30 patents for medical innovations.

He has received numerous awards and is ranked among Modern Healthcare' s "100 most powerful people in healthcare" and "most powerful physician executives." His book, "The Cleveland Clinic Way" was published by McGraw-Hill Education in 2014.

Dr. Fisher is Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the John E Wennberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy, Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is also Co-Director of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care.

His recent work has focused on developing and evaluating policy approaches to slowing the growth of health care spending while improving quality. He was one of the originators of the concept of "accountable care organizations" (ACOs) and worked with colleagues to carry out the research that led to their inclusion in the Affordable Care Act. His current research focuses on exploring the determinants of successful ACO formation and performance.

A doctor and economist by training, he also has a highly distinguished record in public service and in academic research. Dr. McClellan is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy. These include the Medicare prescription drug benefit, the FDA' s Critical Path Initiative, and public-private initiatives to develop better information on the quality and cost of care. Dr. McClellan chairs the FDA' s Reagan-Udall Foundation, is co-chair of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, sits on the National Quality Forum' s Board of Directors, is a member of the Institute of Medicine, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served as a member of the President' s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for health care policy at the White House, and was an associate professor of economics and medicine at Stanford University.

Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., M.P.H, MBA is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Organization Behavior at the School of Public Health and Haas School of Business at University of California-Berkeley where he also directs the Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research (CHOIR) From 2002 to 2013 he served as Dean of the School of Public Health and he also holds appointments in the Department of Sociology at UC-Berkeley and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Research, UC-San Francisco.

Dr. Shortell received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, his Masters in Public Health from UCLA and his PhD in the Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago.

A leading health care scholar, Dr. Shortell and his colleagues have received numerous awards for their research examining the performance of integrated delivery systems; the organizational factors associated with quality and outcomes of care; the development of effective hospital-physician relationships and the factors associated with the adoption of evidence-based processes for treating patients with chronic illness. He is currently conducting research on changes in physician practices overtime; on evaluation of Accountable Care Organizations; and on ACO involvement in patient activation and engagement activities. He serves on advisory boards to a number of health care organizations and is Chair of the Berkeley Forum for Improving California' s Healthcare System. In 2006-2007 he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Dr. Fisher is Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the John E Wennberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy, Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is also Co-Director of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care.

His recent work has focused on developing and evaluating policy approaches to slowing the growth of health care spending while improving quality. He was one of the originators of the concept of "accountable care organizations" (ACOs) and worked with colleagues to carry out the research that led to their inclusion in the Affordable Care Act. His current research focuses on exploring the determinants of successful ACO formation and performance.

A doctor and economist by training, he also has a highly distinguished record in public service and in academic research. Dr. McClellan is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy. These include the Medicare prescription drug benefit, the FDA' s Critical Path Initiative, and public-private initiatives to develop better information on the quality and cost of care. Dr. McClellan chairs the FDA' s Reagan-Udall Foundation, is co-chair of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, sits on the National Quality Forum' s Board of Directors, is a member of the Institute of Medicine, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served as a member of the President' s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for health care policy at the White House, and was an associate professor of economics and medicine at Stanford University.