NCQA Health Innovation Summit 2023 | National Committee for Quality Assurance | 23 October 2023 | Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, 6000 W Osceola Pkwy, Kissimmee, FL 34746, USA

This Summit is the place to inspire and accelerate health care quality by connecting with and showcasing innovators in care delivery. Bringing together leaders across the health care ecosystem, the Summit will focus on all aspects of quality, including digital solutions, health equity, value-based care and more. It will feature thought-provoking speakers, one-of-a-kind education and an exhibit floor showcasing the latest in innovation.

Join us for interactive learning, networking, and designing for the future.

2023 Speakers

Ramsey Abdallah MBA, CPHQ, PMP, FACHDM
Sr. Director Quality & Performance Improvement, Northwell Health

Oluseyi Aliu MD
Director, Outcomes/Health Services Research, Allegheny Health Network/Highmark Health

Faseeha Altaf MPH
Digital Data and Quality Strategy Lead , Yale/Yale New Haven Health, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

Thomasina Anane MBA, BA Public Health, BA Sociology
Associate Director of Data Analytics, The Alliance of Community Health Plans

Tyler Barnett MHSA
Manager, Population Health Data Science & Analytics, University Hospitals

Michael Barr MD, MBA, MACP, FRCP
President & Founder, MEDIS, LLC

Nisha Basu MP, MPH
VP, Clinical, Firefly Health

Lauren Baumeister Baumeister BSN, RN, CPHQ
Network Quality Strategy Program Manager, Commonwealth Care Alliance

Kate Beck
AVP, Health Information Exchange, Healthfirst

Brooke Benton MS, RD, CDCES
Vice President, Clinical Services, Cecelia Health

Joseph Betancourt MD, MPH
President, Commonwealth Fund

Nina Birnbaum MD
Medical Director, Blue Shield of California

Asaf Bitton MD, MPH
Executive Director, Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Caroline Blaum MD, MS
Senior Research Scientist, NCQA

Jon Blum
Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer, Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Kaitlin Boger
Director of Integrated Care, Hunter Health

Shoshanah Brown MS, MBA
Head of Social Care, Cityblock Health

Bryan Buckley
Director, Health Equity Initiatives, NCQA

Sepheen Byron DrPH, MHS
Assistant Vice President, Performance Measurement, NCQA

Caitlin Chiles MD
Director of Primary Care, Hunter Health

Aneesh Chopra
CEO, Care Journey

Mark Clements MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital

Robert Cleric
Director of Engineering, Astrata

Janis Coffin DO, FAAFP, FACMPE
Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Medical College of Georgia/ AU Health

Rebecca Croft
Manager, Business Process Automation, Commonwealth Care Alliance

Alina Czekai MPH
Vice President, Value-Based Care Strategy, Cohere Health

Matt D'Ambrosia
President & CEO, Vital Data Technology

Carol Darden MPH
Director of Quality Programs, Vituity

Linda DeCherrie MD
VP, Clinical Strategy and Implementation, Medically Home

Maria Dionicio
Training Specialist, Planned Parenthood California Central Coast

Sarah Douglass RN
Nurse Manager, Firefly Health

Rachel DuPre Brodie
Senior Director, PBGH

Osagie Ebekozien MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, T1D Exchange

Leslie Eiland MD
Medical Director of Patient Experience and Digital Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Juan Espinoza MD
Chief Research Informatics Officer, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Robert Fields MD MHA
EVP Chief Clinical Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health

Carol Flores
Senior Manager, Equity and Transformation, Purchase Business Group on Health

Kathleen Fortier PT, DPT, MBA
Assistant Professor of Practice, RecoveryOne

Matt Fox MPP
Senior Director of Health Policy and Value-Based Payment Strategy, UPMC Insurance Services Division

Durrell Fox BS, CHW
CHW Consultant, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.

Reynaldy Gabriel PCMH-CCE
Sr. Strategic Project Specialist, NYC DOHM/NYC REACH

Claire Gallion B.S.
Medical Student, Medical College of Georgia

Matthew Gannon
Director, Community Healthcare Partnerships, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene

Robert Garnett MBA, CHIE
Vice President, GBD Analytics, Elevance Health

Jessica Gaske CPNP, MSN
Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Bassett Healthcare Network

Lora Giacomoni RN, MSN
Vice President, Quality & Performance Improvement, Northwell

John Glaser PhD
Executive in Residence, Harvard Medical School

Eric Glasnapp BS
Consultant - Business Support, Florida Blue

William Golden MD
Medical Director, Arkansas Medicaid

John Gorman
Founder, Nightingale Partners LLC

Vanessa Guzman MS, ME
President, SmartRise Health, LLC

Mandy Halford MD
Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO), Covenant Health

Jane Hamilton
Practice Manager III, Bassett Healthcare Network

Ben Hamlin DrPH
Senior Research Informaticist, NCQA

Eric Harker MD
CMO, NuvoAir Medical PC

Cindy Hartig LCS Black Belt 2A, ES, ACP
Spec IIIb Business Support, Florida Blue

Sinsi Hernández-Cancio JD
Vice President for Health Justice, National Partnership for Women & Families

Parker Holcomb
Chief AI Engineer, Elevance Health

Jenny Hyun PhD
Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Analytics, Vituity

Lydia Isaac PhD, MSc
Vice President, Health Equity and Policy, National Urban League

Jenna Jansen MPH, FACHE, CPHQ
Senior Director, Quality, WellSpan Health

Mark Jansen
Chief Medical Officer, Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield

Troy Jelinek PhD, MHA, CCO, Icario
CCO, Icario

Carolyn Jones
Award Winning Photographer & Filmmaker, Carolyn Jones Productions

Suneksha KC HIM
Director or Operations & Technology, Netrin Health

Autumn Kerr
AVP, Clinical Quality, Healthfirst

Joneigh Khaldun MD
Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer, CVS Health

Jacob Kilgore MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine

Christopher King PhD, MHSc, FACHE
Dean, School of Health, Georgetown University

Sean Kinsman PT, DPT, OCS
Chief Clinical Officer, RecoveryOne

Reid Kiser MS
Director, Division of Quality Measurement, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Terri Kitchen
Division Vice President, Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC)

Wendy Kiuber PCMH CCE; PMP
PCMH Program Manager, Bassett Healthcare Network

Michael Klotz
Founder & CEO, Velox Health Metadata, Inc.

Laurel Koester MPH
Program Officer, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Scott Kornhauser
Executive Vice President, KlearTrust

Heidi Kriz MPH, RD
Director of Medical Policy and Medical Management, Regence Health Plans

Nivan Lakshman
Medical Student, Medical College of Georgia

Jennifer Lamprecht
Director Quality Strategy, Sanford Health

Arthur "Abbie" Leibowitz MD, F.A.A.P.
Chief Medical Officer, Co-founder and President Emeritus, Health Advocate

Tyler Lopez-Ziemann MBA
Sr. Director, Blue Shield of California

Taraneh Lucas Ph.D.
Population Health Consultant, Netrin Health

Sai Ma PhD, MPA
Director, Enterprise Clinical Quality at Elevance Health

Carol Macumber MS, PMP, FAMIA
Executive Vice President, Services, Clinical Architecture

Janice Magno MPA, PCMH CCE
Executive Director of Community Healthcare Strategic Partnerships, NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene

Arumani Manisundaram B.S.
Founder & CEO, Netrin Health

Aletha Maybank MD, MPH
Chief Health Equity Officer, American Medical Association

Bianca Mayes-Davis MPH, CHES
Director of Health Equity, Health Care Division; Advocacy Chair of PRIDE ERG, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Tonyka McKinney DrPH, MPH
VP, Health Equity + Justice, Real Chemistry

David Meyer
Chief Solutions Officer, Cozeva

Frank Micciche
VP, Public Policy & External Relations, National Committee for Quality Assurance

Linda Michaelsen
Director, Healthcare Interoperability Standards, Optum

Cathrine Misquitta
Vice President, Quality Management at Health Net

Sandi Mitchell
Healthcare Data Quality Team Lead, SME, VA Veterans Health Information Exchange

Rick Moore
Founder/CEO, MTC Group LLC

Navi Mudahar MHA
Director, Virtual Care Innovation, Blue Shield of California

Eric Musser MPH
Assistant Vice President, Federal Affairs, NCQA

Khanh Nguyen PharmD
CEO, Cozeva

Matthew Nichols PhD, MPH, MBA
ACO Data and Reporting Analyst, University Hospitals

Mike Noshay
Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Verinovum

Margaret O'Kane
President, NCQA

Jose Ordonez
Manager, Data Analytics, Purchaser Business Group on Health

Marcus Osborne MBA
CEO, RightMove Health

Andrey Ostrovsky
Managing Partner, Social Innovation Ventures

Minalkumar Patel MD MPH
CEO and Founder, Abacus Insights

Upendra Patel
CEO, AaNeel

Yasin Patel MPH, CPHQ
Director Clinical Quality, Signify Health

Ria Paul MD
Associate Chief Quality Officer Population Health and Ambulatory Quality, Stanford Health Care

Brenda Peterson RN
TeleCritical Care Director, Kaiser Permanente

Jolene Rasmussen MS
Chief Strategy Officer, Texas Council of Community Centers

Bryn Rhodes
Director of Standards Strategy, Smile Digital Health

Tonya Roberson PhD, MPH, DTR
Community Psychologist, Helping Communities Help Themselves

Peter Robertson MPA
Senior Director, Practice Transformation, Purchaser Business Group on Health

Yolanda Robles
Chief Operating Officer, Planned Parenthood California Central Coast

Marc Rothman MD, CMD
Chief Medical Officer, Signify Health

Barbara Rubino MD
Sr. Medical Director, Oscar Care / Oscar Health

Jaewon Ryu MD, JD
President and CEO, Geisinger

Iqbal Saini
Sr IT Manager, Florida Blue

Thadeo Salido MD, MBA, FACHE
VP/Medical Director of Clinical Strategy and Innovation, Cohere Health

Craig Samitt MD, MBA
CEO and Founder, ITO Advisors

Teresa Saxon MS, BSN, RN
Health Systems Specialist, VA Veterans Health Information Exchange

William Scanlon PhD
Consultant, West Health

Stefanie Scari
Senior Director, Virtual Care, Oscar Health

Theresa Schmidt MA, CSPO
Vice President, Real Chemistry

Eric Schneider MD, M.Sc.
Executive Vice President, Quality Measurement and Research Group, NCQA

Sarah Hudson Scholle MPH, DrPH
Principal, Leavitt Partners

NFN Scout PhD
Executive Director, National LGBT Cancer Network

Elizabeth Scruth PhD, MPH, RN, CCNS, CCRN-K, CPHQ
Executive Director NCAL KP Clinical Quality Programs, Data Analytics and Tele Critical Care, Kaiser Permanente NCAL

Meena Seshamani MD, PhD
Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicare, CMS

Nadine Smith
Co-Founder and CEO, Equality Florida

Anne Smith MHA, ACHIP
Assistant Vice President – Performance Measurement, NCQA

Julie Smith
Senior Clinical Product Manager, InterSystems

Liz Sperr
Disease Management Manager, Quality Management & Population Health, UCare

Unmesh Srivastava MS in Engineering Management
Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Clever Care Health Plan

Brett Talbot Psychology PhD
Chief Clinical Officer, Co-Founder, Videra Health

Wendy Talbot MPH
Assistant Vice President, NCQA

Robert Taylor MD
Co-Founder and Senior Medical Director, REACH Kidney Care

Anna Taylor
Associate Vice President, MultiCare Connected Care

James Tcheng MD
Professor at Duke University

Christie Teigland PhD
Vice President, Research Science & Advanced Analytics, Inovalon

Anthony Tran MBA
Director, Quality Measurement, UPMC Health Plan

Francie Kalunde Wambua BA Legal Studies, Mpaff
SVP Medicaid Whole Health, Elevance Health

Pat Wang
President & CEO, Healthfirst

Tracy Wang MPH
Digital Solutions Director, Elevance Health

Debbie Welle-Powell MPA
Former Chief Population Health Officer, Essentia Health

Jamie Wiseman MD
Medical Director, Virtual Primary Care, Oscar Medical Group

Amy Wittig MBA
Quality Improvement Director, Centene - Health Net of California

Shekinah Wright MBA
Senior Manager, Quality, Health Net/Centene

Beth Wrobel
CEO, HealthLinc

Ronald Wyatt MD
Founder and CEO, Achieving Health Equity. LLC.

Elizabeth Younger MPA
Director, Quality Improvement, WellSpan Health

Edward Yurcisin
Chief Technology Officer, NCQA

Sabrina Zecher
Manager, HEDIS, Commonwealth Care Alliance

Rachel Zetts MPH
Senior Officer, Antibiotic Resistance Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts

2023 Sponsors

• Bristol-Myers Squibb
• The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley • Charitable Trust
• Inovalon
• MCG Health
• athenahealth
• Axuall
• Bayer Healthcare
• Cognizant
• Cotiviti, Inc.
• DataLink Software
• Healthmine
• Icario
• Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems
• Nomi Health
• Pfizer
• Phreesia
• Scene Health