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Ken Coburn, MD, MPH is CEO and Medical Director for Health Quality Partners (HQP), a non-profit R&D organization dedicated to designing and testing innovative models of care to improve the health of vulnerable populations. The system of community-based advanced preventive care pioneered by HQP has been rigorously tested in the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration and found to achieve better health at lower cost for high-risk chronically ill older adults. In partnership with Aetna, Inc. the same model has proven effective in higher-risk Medicare Advantage members.

Prior to founding HQP, Dr. Coburn served in leadership positions for quality and population health in a multi-hospital health system consortium (PennCARE), disease management division of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Health Partners Plans, the AIDS Center at Montefiore Medical Center, and the outpatient AIDS Clinic at Jacobi Hospital.

He received his BA from Brown University, his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and did post-graduate training in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He earned his MPH from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and is currently a doctoral candidate in public health (DrPH) at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health where he was awarded the Arthur B. Holzworth endowed scholarship in health leadership.
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William Hagan is the Chief Growth Officer at UnitedHealthcare Community & State, the Medicaid division within UnitedHealth Group. In this role, Bill has national responsibility for Accountable Care & Payment Reform, Innovation & Product Management, Business Development & Sales, and Public Relations. He previously served as Regional President at Community & State where he managed regional Health Plan operations, national Accountable Care deployment and national Clinical Operations. Prior to that, Bill was CEO of the Arizona Health Plan and CEO of the Wisconsin Health Plan. In his 12 years with UnitedHealthcare, he also served as CEO of the company's Administrative Services Organization subsidiary, Information Network Corporation managing Claims, Member & Provider Services, Information Technology and Provider Data Management. Prior to his employment at UHC, Bill held executive positions at XMLSolutions, IBM Global Services and American Express. Bill holds a degree in business administration from St. Francis Xavier University, NS Canada.

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Ronda Christopher serves as Executive Director for Health Partners Consulting (HPC), an internal consulting and innovation arm for the largest healthcare provider, fourth largest employer and fifth largest insurer in Ohio. HPC also supports external partners pursuing the triple aim. She is committed to finding the best solutions for value-based care using ambulatory redesign principles, improvement science and patient engagement science. Ms. Christopher served as the Director for the Cincinnati Beacon diabetes project and Project Director for the Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative. She is an Occupational Therapist and holds a Master's degree in Education with extensive training in population health.

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Dr. Bill Fera is a Principal in the Advisory Services practice and serves as Health Care Provider Leader.

Bill has provided over a decade of clinical and information technology leadership at academic, community and ambulatory medical centers and has consistently worked to redefine the model of healthcare delivery through deployment of state-of-the-art information technologies to produce superb clinical and financial outcomes.

Prior to joining EY, Bill served as the Vice President of Medical Technologies at UPMC. He also helped to develop and launch the Center for Connected Medicine and served as faculty at the McGowan institute.

Bill is a board certified family practice doctor and is based in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Christopher Olivia, MD leads Continuum into the future of healthcare as the organization develops its ambulatory care service model. With nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare services and health information technology, Dr. Olivia has served as Managing Director of Navigant and as Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning and New Venture Development at Highmark/West Penn Allegheny. Dr. Olivia led the growth of Cooper Health System as President and CEO, and also helped conceive its medical school. Dr. Olivia was recognized as one of the nation's 50 most powerful physician executives in 2010 by Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician magazines.

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David B. Pryor, MD, is Executive Vice President, Ascension and President and CEO of Clinical Holdings. In this role he supports the practices of the 30,000 physicians and caregivers and the practice sites in Ascension Health to deliver improved care for populations of patients. From 2001 to 2011 he was the Chief Medical Officer of Ascension Health, the largest not-for-profit healthcare delivery system.

Prior to joining Ascension Health, Dr. Pryor was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Allina Health System in Minneapolis, Minn. Prior to Allina, Dr. Pryor was President of the New England Medical Center Hospitals in Boston, Mass.

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Jeremy is Humedica's Chief Medical Officer and is responsible for driving clinical input into Humedica's analytics. Leveraging his clinical expertise, Jeremy is leading the effort to build benefits for healthcare providers to deliver patient care, supporting product strategy, and leading a team of subject matter experts. Jeremy originally joined Humedica in 2012 as the Physician Director of Provider Solutions. Prior to Humedica, Jeremy was the founder and provider of Frontier Family Medicine, a medical practice, in Colorado. He also was an Assistant Professor and Clinical Faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he taught inpatient and outpatient practice and was selected by Residents as Teacher of the Year in 2011. Jeremy has more than 20 years of population health experience, including outcomes research, large dataset investigation, chronic disease management, and provider operations. He has lead implementations of a variety of EMRs, served as physician lead for meaningful use, and was twice named a "Top 100 Physician" by Kaiser Permanente. Jeremy received his MD from the University at Buffalo and his MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Tulane University.

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David B. Nash, MD, MBA is the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health where he is the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. He is a board certified internist and is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care. He has authored more than 100 articles in major journals, edited 22 books, and is editor-in-chief of four major national journals.

The afternoon Post Conference is dedicated to providing technical assistance for super-utilizers has been divided into two tracks -- a basic and advanced.

The basic track is targeted at sites in the initial stages of planning and establishing a super-utilizer intervention. These sessions will focus on how to utilize the resources at your disposal to form an intervention that suits your community's needs.

The advanced track is for sites with existing programs. These sessions will explore strategies for refining and evaluating your intervention, and building long-term sustainability.

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Dr. Martin works in the Lancaster General Health Family Medicine Residency Program. He attended the University of Colorado, School of Medicine graduating with honors in 1993. He graduated from the family medicine residency at Lancaster General Hospital. He began and directed Lancaster General's Superutilizer Project from 2011-2013 with a belief that patients with complex medical conditions and numerous hospitalizations need help to break the cycle of repeat admissions. He provides clinical oversight and team leadership to LG's Care Connections Clinic, which treats the highest utilizing, most complex patients in our health system.

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As the Director of Population Health, Ms. Williams is responsible for providing leadership, management, and coordination for Beebe Population Health programs and directing Beebe's Community Outreach screening teams responsible for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Education. In 2011, Ms. Williams began to develop and implement Beebe's first population care management program, with a focus on the care of high utilizer patients across the Beebe healthcare system. Ms. Williams oversees the team of care coordinators who are responsible for the work carried out through the clinically integrated organization, the Delmarva Health Network.
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Dr John C. Wood M.D. is Chair of Family and Community Medicine at Lancaster General Health. While a resident, he received the STFM resident teacher of the year award as well as serving as Chief Resident. Dr. Wood served as the inpatient medicine team lead for five years as Associate Director for the Residency. He is the Team Physician at J.P. McCaskey High School in Lancaster, PA and directs the musculoskeletal curriculum for the residency. As Chair, Dr. Wood serves as the Family Medicine eHealth Champion and focuses on transitions of care. Dr. Wood provides medical program direction and leadership to LGHealth's new high-risk, high intensity primary care clinic called Care Connections. His work with Care Connections focuses on innovative models of clinical delivery, patient risk stratification, transitions of care, novel payment methodologies and community/health system integration.
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Jason Turi is an Associate Clinical Director at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. He directs patient care activities and provides clinical oversight of the community-based multidisciplinary care management teams. Additionally he supports staff development and cross-site learning initiatives. Jason is a Registered Nurse, holds a Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in International Health, and speaks Spanish. He has served as a labor/community organizer, emergency/mental health nurse, and elementary school teacher. His interests lie in promoting healthcare equity as well as harm reduction approaches to public health.

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Nadia Ali is the Director of Clinical Redesign at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. Through her role, she leads the design, development and expansion of primary care-based programming which involves multidisciplinary outreach teams, chronic disease education and quality improvement initiatives. Nadia oversees the program's various objectives and works closely with Camden's primary care practices. Prior to joining the Coalition, Nadia worked as Project Manager for NYU School of Medicine to help develop a plan for a regional health information network across emergency departments in the greater New York region, titled the New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX). In addition, Nadia has worked on health disparities research and outreach in immigrant communities. She is passionate about promoting healthy behaviors among populations that may not seek services due to cultural stigmas, and shifting the health care dialogue from treatment to prevention. Nadia's academic background includes studies in health policy and management, public health, and Spanish. Nadia is a graduate of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Rutgers University.

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Whitney Buchmann holds a B.A. in Spanish and International Studies with a Certificate in Conflict Resolution from Kansas State University. She is a bilingual Community Organizer leading Camden Churches Organized for People's work on issues impacting poverty and powerlessness, including healthcare and immigration reform. Since joining the PICO Network in May of 2010, she has worked with community leaders to reduce fear of reporting crimes in immigrant communities, address the overwhelming number of vacant and unkept properties in blighted neighborhoods, increase access to higher education for undocumented youth, amplify residents' voices in decisions to improve their healthcare and uncover injustices in medical transportation. Whitney believes community organizing is a form of worship and ministry that allows her to put her faith into action while working to create earth as it is in heaven.
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Joshua graduated from the University of Portland with a major in Spanish and a minor in Theology in 2000. Out of College, Joshua served as a Holy Cross Associate of Notre Dame, where he worked as a Youth Minister in Coachella, California. Following his year of service, Joshua began his career as a Faith Based Community Organizer in the PICO National Network. Along the way Joshua earned his Montessori Teaching credential through the American Montessori Society. Joshua currently works as the Executive Director of Congregations United for Neighborhood Action in Lehigh, Berks, and Northampton Counties in Pennsylvania.

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Patrick McCabe is a partner with GYMR Public Relations and has more than 25 years of communications experience, focusing almost solely on health and health policy issues. Having worked as a reporter, lobbyist, industry spokesperson and PR counselor, he has a full understanding for all sides of the communications business. His work has won awards from the Public Relations Society of America, the International Business Communicators Association, the Virginia Press Association, Women in Communications, and the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives. Prior to co-founding GYMR, Patrick was a vice president in the Washington health care practice of Fleishman-Hillard. He began his career as a reporter working in the Washington metropolitan area. Patrick graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame.

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Haydn Bush is an account supervisor with GYMR Public Relations, with over a decade of experience in health care quality communications. In his tenure at the American Hospital Association, he helped develop case studies on hospital quality improvement efforts, and researched and wrote primers on specific aspects of the Affordable Care Act -- from accountable care organizations to medical homes -- following the passage of the ACA. In his role with Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, his reporting on improving care and reducing costs for the patients with the highest health care costs received honors from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation and American Business Media. Haydn holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Lauran Hardin MSN, RN CNL is the Complex Care Clinical Nurse Leader at Mercy Health Saint Mary's in Grand Rapids Michigan. She leads a Complex Care Portal Program serving more than 600 High Frequency patients cross continuum. She received her Masters in Nursing from the University of Detroit and certification in Palliative Care, Holistic Nursing and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Center facilitator training. Her past experiences include creating the first Pain and Palliative Care service in West Michigan and facilitating complex care transitions for patients in 10 different hospitals in a 5 county region.
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Ms. Orr is currently the Director Accountable Care for MaineGeneral Health and the Director of Operations for the Kennebec Valley Community Care Team. In her role she works with the Executive Vice President to execute changes to bring the system to greater integration—clinically and financially and greater accountability for both quality and costs. She provides management and operational support for strategic direction, execution and achievement.

From 2004 through 2009 she was Project Director for the Maine Youth Overweight Collaborative at the Maine Center for Public Health and other obesity projects and initiatives as part of the Maine Harvard Prevention Research Center.
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Victoria DeFiglio is an Associate Clinical Director at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. A registered nurse by training, Victoria partners with her "operational dyad," Nadia Ali, to oversee the design, development and expansion of the Coalition's clinical redesign programming. Her other buckets of work include organization-wide staff development, and sharing the Coalition's philosophy and methodologies through cross-site learning partnerships. She is a graduate of Simmons College and Goldfarb School of Nursing. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Nursing and Healthcare Administration at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Mary Ann Bates is Deputy Director of J-PAL North America, which encourages the creation and use of evidence from randomized evaluations. J-PAL North America is housed at MIT's Economics Department and is a new regional office of J-PAL, whose network of 91 affiliated professors has conducted more than 460 randomized evaluations in 54 countries.

At J-PAL North America, she connects researchers and practitioners interested in conducting innovative randomized experiments and disseminates evidence from these evaluations to inform policy decisions.

She holds a Master of Public Policy from UC Berkeley and has conducted research as a Fulbright Scholar in Switzerland.

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Ken Coburn, MD, MPH is CEO and Medical Director for Health Quality Partners (HQP), a non-profit R&D organization dedicated to designing and testing innovative models of care to improve the health of vulnerable populations. The system of community-based advanced preventive care pioneered by HQP has been rigorously tested in the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration and found to achieve better health at lower cost for high-risk chronically ill older adults. In partnership with Aetna, Inc. the same model has proven effective in higher-risk Medicare Advantage members.

Prior to founding HQP, Dr. Coburn served in leadership positions for quality and population health in a multi-hospital health system consortium (PennCARE), disease management division of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Health Partners Plans, the AIDS Center at Montefiore Medical Center, and the outpatient AIDS Clinic at Jacobi Hospital.

He received his BA from Brown University, his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and did post-graduate training in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He earned his MPH from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and is currently a doctoral candidate in public health (DrPH) at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health where he was awarded the Arthur B. Holzworth endowed scholarship in health leadership.

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Margaret Hawthorne serves as the Senior Manager for Research & Evaluation for the Coalition. Here she manages the CCHP efforts to use a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods inform, evaluate and improve programs. Prior to joining the Coalition, Maggie worked as a Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine; here she served as the data manager for the Evaluation of PEPFAR study, a congressionally mandated mix methods evaluation of U.S. global HIV/AIDS programs. Prior to this Maggie worked as an epidemiologist at the Texas Department of State Health Services and served as the HIV Incidence and Viral Resistance Surveillance Coordinator for the state-overseeing the surveillance systems used to track the leading edge of the HIV epidemic in Texas.

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Susan Mende is a Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) where she helps to manage the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative, RWJF's signature effort to lift the overall quality and value of health care in targeted communities. Susan's special focus areas include: consumer and community engagement; ambulatory and hospital quality improvement; primary care and complex populations.

Susan was formerly the Chief Operating Officer for Tsao Foundation, Singapore where she focused on community based care of older people, professional and caregiver training and regional and international aging issues for WHO and the UN . While living in Australia, she consulted with national and international organizations on successful aging and inclusion of older people. Trained as a nurse, she received her MPH from Hunter College of The City University of New York.
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R. Corey Waller MD, MS is an addiction, pain, and emergency medicine specialist. He is the Medical Director of the Spectrum Health Medical Group Center for Integrative Medicine, the Medical Staff Chief of pain medicine to the Spectrum Health Hospital System, as well as SUD Medical Director at Network 180. Dr. Waller earned a master's degree in neuromolecular biology at Southwest Texas State University and earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. Dr. Waller completed his Emergency Medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

Dr. Waller's special interests include understanding the biopsychosocial and financial impact on society of emergency department super utilizers, pregnant patients with a substance use disorder, and the complex interaction of pain and addiction.

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Patrick McCabe is a partner with GYMR Public Relations and has more than 25 years of communications experience, focusing almost solely on health and health policy issues. Having worked as a reporter, lobbyist, industry spokesperson and PR counselor, he has a full understanding for all sides of the communications business. His work has won awards from the Public Relations Society of America, the International Business Communicators Association, the Virginia Press Association, Women in Communications, and the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives. Prior to co-founding GYMR, Patrick was a vice president in the Washington health care practice of Fleishman-Hillard. He began his career as a reporter working in the Washington metropolitan area. Patrick graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame.

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Haydn Bush is an account supervisor with GYMR Public Relations, with over a decade of experience in health care quality communications. In his tenure at the American Hospital Association, he helped develop case studies on hospital quality improvement efforts, and researched and wrote primers on specific aspects of the Affordable Care Act -- from accountable care organizations to medical homes -- following the passage of the ACA. In his role with Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, his reporting on improving care and reducing costs for the patients with the highest health care costs received honors from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation and American Business Media. Haydn holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.