Expanding Our View and Zooming In: What We Can Learn About Healthcare in Our Backyard and Around the World.
Opening Remarks: Danielle Thompson, MPP, President and Executive Board Chair, BYHP

Keynote: Dr. Gary Gottlieb
From 2015 through June of 2019, he served as CEO of Partners In Health, a global NGO providing a preferential option for the poor in health care in severely resource constrained settings. He assumed this role after serving on the PIH Board of Directors for a decade.
From 2010 until February of 2015, Dr. Gottlieb was the CEO of Partners HealthCare (now MassGeneral Brigham), the parent of the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, the largest health care delivery organization in New England and among the largest biomedical research and training enterprises in the US. From 2002-2009, he was President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Previously, he served as President of North Shore Medical Center and as Chair of Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health System.
Dr. Gottlieb served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2012-2016 and as its chair from 2016-2018. From 2006-2016, he was Chair of the Boston Private Industry Council, the workforce board of the City of Boston.
Prior to coming to Boston, Dr. Gottlieb spent 15 years in positions of increasing leadership in health care in Philadelphia. He established the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center’s first program in geriatric psychiatry and developed it into a nationally recognized research, training, and clinical program. He served as executive vice-chair of psychiatry and associate dean for managed care at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, and as director and CEO of Friends Hospital, the nation’s first freestanding psychiatric hospital.
Dr. Gottlieb is currently an Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners, a Boston venture firm investing in early stage health related technology companies. He serves on the boards of health tech firms OM1, Kyruus and Cohere and hospital services company Agiliti. He is a corporate advisor to Temasek, the sovereign investment fund of Singapore.
Dr. Gottlieb received a B.Sc. cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.D. from Albany Medical College in a six-year accelerated program and he completed a psychiatry residency at New York University/Bellevue Medical Center. As a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Penn, he earned an M.B.A. with distinction from Wharton.
Panel 1 – Improving Access to Behavioral Health Care: Addressing the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), Cultural and Linguistic Needs of Individuals

Christie Hager, JD, MPH
Before joining Commonwealth Medicine, Hager was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the Regional Director of Region I of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she oversaw the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in the six New England states from 2010-2014. Prior to her service in the Obama Administration, she was Chief Health Counsel to the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives during the development, drafting, and first three years of implementation of the Massachusetts health reform law enacted in 2006. She also previously served in senior executive roles at Beacon Health Options, a national managed behavioral health organization. Christie’s first post-graduate position was Research Assistant to the editorial leadership at the New England Journal of Medicine; she has held research and operations positions at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Division of Public Health Practice, and at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School, where she was appointed the first Senior Fellow.
Hager has held appointments on the faculties of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Suffolk University Law School. Her work has appeared in such publications as the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Law and Medicine, and Journal of Legal Medicine. Hager has served as Chair of the American Public Health Association’s Health Law Forum, President of the Massachusetts Public Health Association, and Co-Chair of the Health Law Section of the Boston Bar Association.
Hager holds an A.B. from Smith College, a M.P.H. from the Boston University School of Public Health, and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Valeria Chambers, EdM, CAS, CPS

Marian Girouard-Spino, RN, MSN, CCM

Nancy Norman, MD, MPH
Prior to joining MBHP/Beacon she was the Chief Medical Officer for the Boston Public Health Commission, the health department for the City of Boston. In this capacity she oversaw the clinical functions of the Commission and developed initiatives to address emerging health problems. One of her major responsibilities was the supervision of the Infectious Disease Bureau, which included the HIV/AIDs Services Division. This division was the grantee for the Ryan White Part A dollars that continue to support the collaborative/integrated approach to care for residents of the City of Boston living with HIV. Nine years as a primary HIV care provider and Director of Women’s Health at Fenway Community Health Center in Boston, made transition to this more population-focused work with HIV an exciting challenge.
Dr. Norman was also instrumental in the restructuring of the health disparities work to realign the focus on health equity and social justice. Dr. Norman completed her internship and residency, including chief residency in internal medicine at Faulkner Hospital after receiving a BA in biology from Bowdoin College and a MD from Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Norman later received a MPH from Harvard University School of Public Health and completed a clinical fellowship in Community Oriented Primary Care/Preventive Medicine at Carney Hospital. She is currently on staff at Boston Medical Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University. Dr. Norman is tremendously effective at building coalitions, sustaining relationships, and masterfully exerting influence to effect change.

Arielle Rosner, LCSW
Previously, she directed the Mount Sinai Health Home Serving Adults and Children, a large organization comprising contracted community-based care management agencies that provide comprehensive care management services to New York State Medicaid recipients who are chronically ill and experience many social complexities in their daily lives.
Prior to this position, she worked at Mount Sinai Hospital as a Renal Transplant Social Worker, evaluating patients for transplant from a psychosocial perspective and following them through the process for all support needs. Ari has a B.A. from Brandeis University, received her M.S.W. from Columbia, and was faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and daughter. She loves to travel, eat, and has yet to meet a beach she didn’t like.
Panel 2 – Defining Success in Reimbursement Models: How to Align Incentives to Improve Outcomes in Different Healthcare Systems

Tal Gross, PhD

James Colbert, MD
Prior to joining BCBSMA, he served as the vice president of population health for Benevera Health, a joint venture between Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and four health delivery systems in New Hampshire. Other experiences include serving as senior medical director for population health at Verisk Health and serving as a core faculty member of the Brookings Institution ACO Learning Network. He was the lead author of a 2014 Brookings Institution report entitled Adopting Accountable Care: An Implementation Guide for Physician Practices.
He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and medical degree from Stanford University. He completed a primary care internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as well as a fellowship in medical research and health policy at the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Colbert maintains an active clinical practice, and he holds faculty appointments at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Ariadne Labs, and Harvard Medical School. In 2015 he was selected by MedTech Boston as one of 40 healthcare innovators under age 40. He lives in Newton, Mass. with his wife and children.

Aditya Mahalingam-Dhingra, MPH

Sarah Sabshon, MPH

Aaron Wurst, MBA
In that capacity he leads our Portfolio Optimization team, responsible for expense and capital management, disruption excellence and recently script FP&A; Strategy and Business Development, with a focus on reimbursement and real estate strategy, the Design and Innovation Lab that incubates products and acts as a shared service to turn business problems into opportunities; and our Strategic Operations and Business Insights group that provides insights across the broader pharmacy growth organization, including recently taking on the development of the pharmacy operating income infrastructure.
Aaron began his career as a management consultant in 2007. In 2009, he helped start the enterprise strategy team at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island where he developed and led a number of initiatives, including preparing the organization for the Affordable Care Act. In 2011, Aaron joined the Retail Strategic Product Development Group where he built the business case for the Unlocking Adherence initiative, resulting in the implementation of Script Sync, Multi-Dose Packaging and our innovative label solution. Aaron was the one of the first recipients of CVS’s graduate degree sponsorship program and went to business school from 2013-2015. He spent a summer in CVS’s public policy team in Washington D.C as part of that program. Upon his return, Aaron joined the Enterprise Strategy team where he helped build the initial strategic imperative for our acquisition of Aetna and led strategic work to ensure retail pharmacy’s response to new disruptive threats. He returned to the retail pharmacy business unit and began his current role in 2017.
Aaron earned a BS in Applied Physics from Cornell and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Aaron and his wife Lindsay have two daughters, Emmeline (4) and Eleanor (2).
Panel 3 – Healthcare in a Technological Era: Making Boston’s Backyard Even Bigger

Robert Schultz, MBA

Sara DeGregorio

Debbie Lin, PhD

Claire-Cecile Pierre, MD

Sue Schade, MBA
Sue has more than 30 years’ experience in healthcare information technology management and was recognized as the CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year in 2014.
Sue served as Chief Information Officer for the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers from 2012-2015, providing direction and oversight to information technology initiatives and working closely with the CIO for the U-M Medical School. Under her leadership, UMHS made the HealthCare’s Most Wired list in 2015 and achieved the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model Stage 6 in 2014.
For over 12 years, Sue served as Chief Information Officer of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Her previous experience included 12 years in positions of increasing responsibility at a large integrated delivery system in the Chicago area. She led the software division for a start-up healthcare software and outsourcing services vendor for several years and worked as a senior manager in the healthcare information technology practice at Ernst and Young.
An active member of HIMSS and CHIME, Sue served on the CHIME Board from 2004 to 2006 and chaired its Education Foundation Board from 2006 to 2009. She served on the HIMSS Advocacy and Public Policy Steering Committee from 2009-2011 as well as the CHIME Policy Steering Committee. Sue achieved fellow status with both HIMSS and CHIME. She is currently serving on the AAMI board as Vice Chair of Health IT.
She is a regular speaker and writer within the HIT industry including a weekly blog called Health IT Connect at www.sueschade.com. She holds an MBA degree from Illinois Benedictine College in Lisle, Illinois.

Keynote: Dr. Rebecca Weintraub
She has led the research and development of Cases in Global Health Delivery, a collection of over 40 Harvard Business School case studies with Harvard Business Publishing, available online at no cost to the public and taught at over 500 schools of medicine, public health, and business. Her research on value based health care delivery has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Global Fund, World Health Organization, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr. Weintraub is also the Director of Better Evidence at Ariadne Labs. Better Evidence has partnered with UpToDate, an evidence-based online clinical resource, to award free access to over 20,000 clinicians serving in resource-limited settings in more than150 countries who would not otherwise be able to afford the subscription.
In addition, Rebecca is leading the COVID-19 Global Response work stream at Ariadne Labs. Her portfolio includes new research and content development in vaccine delivery. This includes a new study on the probabilities of the Covid-19 vaccine portfolio success, developing a vaccine index and new content on the interconnectivity of vaccine literacy, allocation, distribution and verification.
Dr. Weintraub graduated from Yale University, Stanford School of Medicine, and completed her medical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Closing Remarks: Brendan Simonson, Executive Vice Board Chair, BYHP
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