Dr. Luella Toni Lewis pursued a career in social justice through medicine and earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology and a Medical Doctorate from Georgetown University. In 2004, Dr. Lewis became a family medicine resident and a member of the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU)–the largest physician’s union in the Service Employees International Union. Dr. Lewis became very active...
Gabriela Rowe is an experienced business leader and innovation strategist, currently serving as the CEO of Station Houston – a growing hub for startup technology companies, corporate innovation and entrepreneurship. Prior to Station Houston, Rowe was the Director of Project Management and Corporate Development at Nord Anglia Education. Beyond education, Rowe is a champion of the growth and success of...
Jay Bhatt serves as chief medical officer of the American Hospital Association and president of HRET. Most recently, he was the first chief health officer at the Illinois Health & Hospital Association. In this role, he led large improvement projects including the Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), which is aimed at reducing readmissions and hospital-acquired conditions. He has launched several improvement...
Dr. Susan Hutfless is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She holds a joint appointment in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She earned her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and her S.M. in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She also...
Dr. Shah earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University and M.D. from the University of Toledo Health Science Center. He completed Internal Medicine residency, General Medicine/Primary Care fellowship, and an MPH in Management & Policy Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center. During his training, he also completed an international health policy internship at World Health Organization headquarters in Switzerland. Dr. Shah has...
Claudia Q. Perez is the Chief Xperience Officer and Sr. Consultant at BB Imaging and Consulting. Claudia ensures that business operations and customer experience are aligned and consistently meeting basic client needs. As a Sr. Consultant, she assures value-based results for clients focusing on experience, efficiency, profits and structures of the organization. Prior to joining BB Imaging in 2017, Claudia...
Dr. Siddiqui is the Chief Data Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services where she is driving the strategy to connect the nation’s healthcare data. She is leading an effort to implement the first HHS enterprise wide data sharing platform and governance structure. Prior to this role, Dr. Siddiqui was at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation...
With over 18 years of extensive experience in large-scale data environments, Matthew joined the Data & Insights Division to follow his passion of helping public sector organizations deliver on their complex missions and make an impact with data. Matthew leads the Data & Insight efforts in fighting the Opioid Epidemic and currently serves on the Amazon Web Services Opioid Crisis...
Michael Mackert, Ph.D., is the Director of The University of Texas at Austin Center for Health Communication and Professor in the Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations and Department of Population Health. His research focuses primarily on the strategies that can be used in traditional and new digital media to provide effective health communication to low health literate...
Chris McCarthy is the VP of Strategy & Design at Hopelab and the Executive Director and Founder of the Innovation Learning Network. At Hopelab his main focus is at the intersection of design and science in the service of young people’s health. Currently he is guiding work with young cancer survivors, teen moms, and emotional well-being of young people. In...