Contributors

The CCM’s community of health care leaders and innovators participate as speakers at our events and subject matter experts for our resources. These contributors generously lend their insights and perspectives on a range of issues vital to the future of health systems via our reports, videos, webinars, articles, and in-person functions. Learn more about who we’ve collaborated with and view the resources in which they’ve participated by clicking on their pictures below.

Feby Abraham, PhD

Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Memorial Hermann Health System
Head of IP and Optical Networks Marketing
Nokia Enterprise
Chief Strategy Officer and Vice President of Business Development
Nicklaus Children’s Health System

Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh

Steven Altschuler

Managing Director-Healthcare Venture
Ziff Capital Partners

Aseem Anand

Vice President, Digital Imaging Biomarker
Lantheus
Chief Healthcare Innovation Officer
UPMC

Michael Annichine

CEO
Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation

Nicole Ansani

Senior Vice President, New Development Initiatives
UPMC Enterprises

Madison Arenchild, MPH

Manager of Equitable Policy and Payer Engagement
Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine

Elisa Arespacochaga, MBA

Vice President, Clinical Affairs & Workforce,
American Hospital Association

Kelly JB Athman, MS, CGC

Director of Thought Leadership at the Institute for Genomics Education, Workforce & Leadership
Sarah Lawrence College

Sunita Badola

Senior Director, Head of Oncology Data Strategy and Partnerships
Takeda

Khalil Barrage

Managing Director
Invus Group
Chief Medical Information Officer
UPMC

James Bauersmith, JD, MS

Vice President, Translational Sciences
UPMC Enterprises

Alison Beam

Senior Vice President and Chief Government Affairs Officer
UPMC

Ellen Beckjord, PhD

Vice President, Population Health and Clinical Optimization
UPMC Health Plan

Richard H. Beigi, MD, MSc

President
UPMC Magee-Womens and UPMC Mercy
Strategy and Technology Marketing, Senior Content Strategist
Nokia Bell Labs

Katie Berlacher, MD

Director, Chief of Medicine
Magee-Womens Heart Program, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital

Timothy Billiar, MD

Executive Vice President, UPMC, and Chief Scientific Officer
Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Clinical Academics, University of Pittsburgh
President
The Commonwealth Fund

Gaye Bok

Partner, AI and Digital Innovation Fund
Mass General Brigham
President
UPMC Innovative Homecare Solutions
Vice President, Portfolio and Business Strategy
Nokia

Beth Brooks

Head, Patient Insights and Behavioral Sciences
Sanofi

Tullia Bruno, PhD

Assistant Professor of Immunology
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and University of Pittsburgh

Virginie Buggia-Prevot, PhD

Senior Director, Drug Discovery
Valo Health
Executive Vice President
UPMC Enterprises

Leah Byrne, PhD

Founder and Chief Scientific Officer
Avista Therapeutics
Head of Clinical Policy and Strategy
Verily and Google Health
Chief Technology Officer
UPMC
General Partner
Lightstone Ventures

Eli Casdin

Chief Investment Officer and Founder
Casdin Capital
Senior Research Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alicia Chong Rodriguez

Founder and CEO
Bloomer Tech
President
CareJourney
Executive Director of Translational Research
Optum Health
President and CEO
Alliance of Community Health Plans
President and CEO
Dartmouth Health

Jessie H. Conta, MS, CGC

Owner
Pickhandle Consulting LLC
Chair, Family Medicine,
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
CEO
Children’s Hospital Association

James Coons

Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy

Jennifer Coppola

U.S. Women's Health Franchise Lead
Pfizer

Jeanne Cunicelli

Executive Vice President, UPMC and President
UPMC Enterprises

Simon Dagenais

Senior Director, Real World Evidence
Pfizer

Brian Davis

Genomics Implementation Lead
Epic

Marijn Dekkers, PhD

Chairman
Novalis Capital Partners

Mike Diem, MD, MBA

Chief Business Officer
Century Therapeutics

Dillan DiNardo

CEO
Mindstate Design Labs

Henry “Mark” Dunnenberger, PharmD

Assistant Vice President, Personalized Medicine, Center for Personalized Medicine
NorthShore University HealthSystem
Executive Director
John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital

Robert Edwards, MD

Chair, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh and Chief Medical Officer
UPMC Community and Ambulatory Services
Chief Medical Officer
Realyze Intelligence
Associate Director, Pharmacogenomics, Institute for Precision Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC
Institute for Precision Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC

Andrew Epstein

Special Counsel
Cooley

Jessica Federer

Board Member
Sage Therapeutics
Partner
Health Velocity Capital
Medical Staff President
UPMC

Toren Finkel, MD, PhD

Director of the Aging Institute
UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh

Jocelyn Fitzgerald, MD

Assistant Professor of OB/Gyn and Reproductive Sciences
Division of Urogynecology, University of Pittsburgh/UPMC

Lori Frank, PhD

President
Women’s Health Access Matters (WHAM)

Kaigham (Ken) J. Gabriel

President and CEO
Pitt BioForge
CEO
KLAS Research

Pamela Ganschow, MD

Director, Cancer Prevention and Survivorship Clinical Programs, and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Illinois Cancer Center

Caroline Gaynor

Partner
Lightstone Ventures
Co-Leader of Global Health Care & Life Sciences Practice
Jones Day

Nina Goodheart

Senior Vice President & President Structural Heart & Aortic
Medtronic
Chief Marketing Officer
Optum
Senior Director, Translational Sciences
UPMC Enterprises

Martial Hebert, PhD

Dean, School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
CEO of MedExpress & Optum Virtual Care; SVP, Optum Center for Digital Health
Optum
Chief Nursing Informatics Officer
HCA Healthcare

Sonja Hess

Senior Director, Centre of Genomics Research, Discovery Sciences, R&D BioPharmaceuticals
AstraZeneca

Colin Hill, MS

CEO and Co-Founder
Aitia

Sean Hofherr

Chief of Clinical Strategy and Product Development
Broad Clinical Labs
Executive Vice President, UPMC
CEO, UPMC Health Plan
Vice President, Privacy and Information Security, and Associate Counsel
UPMC
Head of Clinical Informatics
Verily
Managing Director and Cyber Strategy Lead
Accenture Federal Services

Christina Isacson, PhD

Partner
Lightstone Ventures
Optical Product Marketing
Nokia

Mary Beth Jenkins

Executive Vice President, UPMC
Chief Operating Officer, UPMC Health PlanExecutive Vice President, UPMC
Chief Information Officer
Teladoc Health

Frances L. Johnson, MD

Chief Innovation Officer
Perspective Therapeutics
Senior Vice President, Product Development
UPMC Enterprises
Director, Virtual Access
Boston Children's Hospital

Milind Kamkolkar

Venture Partner
RA Capital Management

Ketki Karanam

Vice President
UPMC Enterprises
SVP, Chief Digital Innovation and Transformation
Northwell Health

Ben Kerman, MD, MS, SFHM

Clinical Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Physician,
Brigham & Womens Hospital
Executive Vice President/Chief Executive, Providence Clinical Network
Providence
Founder and CEO
Nuna
President and CEO, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Kevin Kip, PhD, FAAAS, FAHA

Vice President of Clinical Analytics
UPMC

Sahil Kirpekar, MD

Chief Business Officer
atai Life Sciences
Executive Vice President
UPMC Enterprises
Chief Health Information Officer
Inova Health System
Senior Advisor, Chair of the Board, Editor-in-Chief, Professor of Dermatology
Virtual Care, Mass General Brigham, American Telemedicine Association (ATA), npj Digital Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief Information and Digital Innovation Officer
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Adrian V. Lee, PhD

Director, Institute for Precision Medicine
University of Pittsburgh and UPMC

Carolee Lee

CEO & Founder
Women's Health Access Matters
Executive Fellow
Harvard Business School

Joseph Lehár, PhD

Senior Vice President, R&D Strategy
Owkin

Niall Lennon

Chief Scientific Officer and Chair of the Board of Broad Clinical Laboratories
Broad Institute
Chief Information Officer
US Radiology Specialists

Nita Limdi, PharmD, PhD, MSPH

Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology, Director of the Translational Pharmacogenomics Program, and Associate Director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Rob Lin, PhD

CEO
Avista Therapeutics
Intermountain Connect Services Administrator
Intermountain

Keir Loiacono, Esq.

Chief Executive Officer
BlueSphere Bio
Deputy Director
CMS Innovation Center

Annmarie Lyons

Vice President
Women’s Health Service Line, UPMC

Ankit Malhotra, PhD

Global Genomics Lead, Public Sector and Healthcare
Amazon Web Services
Chief Pharmacy Officer
UPMC Health Plan

Yuri Maricich, MD

Venture Partner
Angelini Ventures

Peter Marks MD, PhD

Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Senior Vice President, UPMC
President, UPMC Physician Services Division
Head of Strategic Marketing & Ecosystems
Nokia
Associate Director, Clinical Services
Institute for Precision Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC

Theresa Mayer, PhD

Vice President for Research
Carnegie Mellon University
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
UPMC

Alyson J. McGregor, MD

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development
University of South Carolina
Enterprise Lead, Services and Integration, Optum
UnitedHealth Group
President, Technology
Arkos Health
Senior Vice President
UPMC and President, UPMC Community and Ambulatory Services
Vice President, Digital Solutions
UPMC Enterprises

Heather Meyers

Director of Virtual Care
Boston Children's Hospital

Abby Miller Levy

Managing Partner
Primetime Partners

Sandra Milligan

President of Clinical and Commercial Operations
Aspira Women's Health
Chief Quality Officer
UPMC
Marketing Leader
Nokia

Mani Mohindru

CEO
Novasenta
Chief Executive Officer
American Telemedicine Association

Etienne Montagut

President
PharmaLogic

David Moore

Executive vice president, Corporate Development
Novo Nordisk
Healthcare Futurist
Author
Regional Vice President
Mayo Clinic Health System

Mary Beth Navarra-Sirio, MBA, RN

Vice President, Product Management and Market Development
UPMC Enterprises

Anne Newman, MD, MPH

Clinical Director
Aging Institute of UPMC and University of Pittsburgh
Chief Executive Officer
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Shauna Overgaard, PhD

Co-Director of AI Validation and Stewardship Program
Mayo Clinic

Mike Paglia

Chief Technology Officer
ElevateBio

Deborah Palestrant, PhD

Partner
5AM Ventures

Dolly A. Parasrampuria

Head, Clinical Pharmacology for Biopharma, Cell & Gene Therapy
Astellas Pharma

Jonathan Peacock

Chairman
Bluesphere Bio (a UPMC Portfolio company), UCB, and Avantor
Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Institutes of Health
Vice President, Research
Gartner

Christopher Pickard

Business Development Leader
Nokia
Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor, University of California San Francisco
Chief of Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
CEO
Ochsner Ventures
CEO and Co-Founder
Abridge AI
Vice President, Pharmacy Service Line
UPMC

Heidi L. Rehm, PhD, FACMG

Chief Genomics Officer, Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital

Sam Reiman

Director
Richard King Mellon Foundation

Kyle Retterer

Chief Data Science Officer
Geisinger

James Rogers

Chief Business Development Officer
Mayo Clinic
Medical Director for Population Health
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Managing Director and Founder
Healthier Capital
Chief Strategy Officer
1upHealth
Senior Director of Network Strategy and Innovation
UnitedHealth Group
Vice President of Research
Gartner
Chief Growth Officer
NCQA

Tracey Ryan

Vice President, Patient Access Service Line
UPMC
Chief Medical Officer of the UPMC ICU Service Center and Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at University of Pittsburgh and UPMC
UPMC

Hank Safferstein, PhD, JD, MBA

CEO
Generian

José-Alain Sahel, MD

Chair and Distinguished Professor
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Tay Salimullah

Vice President, Global Head Value & Access
Novartis Gene Therapies
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

Tarek Samad, PhD

Head of Global Research and Corporate Patent & Trademark
Lundbeck
John C. Malone Associate Professor of Engineering and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
CEO, Bayesian Health
Chief Digital Health Officer and Associate Dean, Digital Strategy and Transformation
Yale New Haven System and Yale School of Medicine
Principal
TNT Health Enterprises, critical care physician, and expert in digital health and workforce issues.

Megan Shaw

CEO
Pittsburgh Life Sciences Alliance
Group President
Centura Health

Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD

Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations, Humana Home Solutions
Humana

Rick Siger

Secretary of Community and Economic Development
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Hy Simhan, MD

Director, Clinical Innovation
Women’s Health Service Line, University of Pittsburgh/UPMC

Ed Smith

Senior Director, Clinical Genomics Service
UPMC Genome Center

Jeffrey M. Solomon

President
TD Cowen

Luba Soskin, MD

Global Clinical Lead
Bayer Pharmaceuticals

Thijs Spoor

CEO
Perspective Therapeutics
Clinical Associate Professor
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville

Ganapati (Gans) Srinivasa

Founder and Chief Technology Officer
datma

Matthew Steinhauser, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine and Deputy Director of the Aging Institute
University of Pittsburgh
SVP, Chief Information & Digital Transformation Officer
Yale New Haven Health System
Chief Information Officer
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Mayank Taneja

Vice President, Venture Investments
OSF Ventures
Chief Information Officer
Indiana University Health

Craig Thompson

CEO
Cerevance
Chief Quality Officer
Teladoc Health

Sarah Ann Tilstra, MD

Section Chief, Women’s Health, Director, Women’s Health Track, Internal Medicine Residency Program
University of Pittsburgh/UPMC

Khue Ton, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Mass General Brigham
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
HSS

Sony Tuteja, PharmD, MS

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Medical Director of MyUPMC, Medical Director of Clinical Informatics for the Women’s Health Service Line
UPMC
EVP, Chief Strategy and Digital Officer
Providence
Clinical Lead for Health Informatics
Verily
President
Mayo Clinic Health System

Jannine Versi

Co-founder and CEO
Elektra Health

Johanna Vidal-Phelan, MD, MBA, FAAP, CHIE

Chief Medical Officer for Quality and Pediatrics, UPMC Insurance Services
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Chief Technology Officer, IP and Optical Networks
Nokia

Deneen Vojta, MD

President
Arctos Foundation
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Psychiatry
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
UPMC
Past-President, American Telemedicine Association
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
Emory University School of Medicine
Chief Medical Information Officer
IU Health and Riley Children’s Health
Chief Digital Officer
Sutter Health
Director, Translational Medicine
Prelude Therapeutics

Don Yealy, MD

Chief Medical Officer, UPMC, and Senior Vice President of UPMC Health Services Division
UPMC

Michael A. Young

President and CEO
Temple University Health System
Chief Innovation Officer
Office of Healthcare Innovation and Learning, Veterans Health Administration

Tanya Joseph

Managing Director
Health Care

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